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No. 729: Calvin Joins Alien Tales

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Calvin Joins Alien Tales

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/itoons/?comic=729

Strip by: Max

Caption: Our hero, the valiant Spaceman Spiff, is marooned on a strange world…
Spaceman Spiff: I’ll set my fertilizer on deep fat fry
Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, you’re not paying attention!
Caption: We join Spaceman Spiff on the distant planet zorg
Graknil: Gronk! Argh!
Spaceman Spiff: Zounds!
Caption: Trapped by a hideous Graknil, Spiff draws his atomic napalm neutralizer
Spaceman Spiff: Chew electric death, snarling cur!
Caption: But the weapon is useless! Spiff is doomed!!
Caption: Our hero males a break and ducks into a nearby cave!
Spaceman Spiff: Weeoo! What’s that awful smell?
{Calvin sees 15 celebrity plagiarists}
Spaceman Spiff: Eep!
{Calvin runs out the door}
Yer Yout: Who was that?
Flaak: Beats me, Yer Yout!
{Cut to Alien Tales.}
Sal of deCenturi: Hi Calvin, ready to take on the celebrity plagiarists?

The author writes:

Ever heard of Reading Galaxy: Alien Tales?
It’s an obscure Broderbund game that teaches the player that an alien did not write a book, a human wrote it.
So, I did a comic!

Original Calvin and Hobbes strip: 1985-12-08.