View Part 1 Here Yesterday at a press conference at the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting, members of the SAM* team reported on their initial findings. This is the moment we had all been waiting for. The verdict? The instruments work, and the dirt on Mars is very similar to other dirt on Mars. Good night, [...]
The Martians are back! If you recall, their first appearance was in a flash-forward comic—a fever dream of what manned explorations of Mars could become. So today there are more of them, but their grasp of English is a bit flawed (Or is it, held-up-mirror-to-popular-culture?). I know there are many questions, plot holes, inconsistencies, and [...]
A Vision of the End I apologize in advance for the stream-of-consciousness/surrealism of today’s comic. Given the source material, it actually makes perfect sense, and I already cut out a whole section involving theoretical physicist Gerard ‘t Hooft windsurfing in Oakley’s and nobel prize bling—which would have only confused things further. Instead I chose to give [...]