Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 17, 1988

A map for interplanetary travel with a wagon?

Better check with Rand McNally.

No, they are headed for Mars! If they’re going the right way, that is. A map is really part of navigation, not supplies, and Calvin should have been responsible!

Comic strip characters are virtually indestructible and rarely lose consciousness, so that’s unlikely.

Great drawing of Earth.

“Second to the right, and straight on till morning.”

Wait, that’s how to get to Never Land. Nevermind.

This is, what? His third time running away?

Going where no boy or tiger has gone before.

they lok kind of like a bird together in that wagon

I like the art in this comic

I have faint memories of a picture-book titled You Will Go to the Moon. (That was well before Apollo 7.) On the last page was a view of the sky from the Moon, with a red dot and text about someday maybe going to Mars.

I took some kind of assessment test which included the question “What is Mars?” I confidently answered, “A red dot.” Though the examiner sympathized, that was not one of the accepted answers.

(Hm, I must have been younger than Calvin. Dad took me to the Chicago planetarium to see a show about Mars, and afterward we had a Mars Bar. I was five when we moved away from Chicago.)

Yeah I might be done here