Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 29, 2018

That briefcase is now an historical artifact for the role it played in the trip to Mars.

This sounds fishy eh dad!

Well they need to find that photo from the Viking spacecraft.

and so ends “Weirdos from Another Planet”

Calvin and Hobbes did the trip, but Dad ends up getting de-briefed!

Uh oh…they forgot to bring back a souvenir!

Kids getting into your nice things? You need to keep them under lock and key. And your things as well.

It smells like that because they didn’t take any chicken bird or beef mammal.

So if Calvin took the GOOD briefcase, Dad has a crappy one given by the company?

Martian poop smells like tuna fish.

It is always someone else’s fault, right Calvin?

Main point he has found the tuna and eaten it!!

Any why does it look like it’s been mauled by a tiger?

This morning I read on Twitter that we’re probably going to wreck the climate completely within a few decades. One can hardly expect the Martians to welcome us then.

Come on Hobbes, you’re going to let Calvin talk about you like that? Pounce on him… or something.

As a child I took things literally. Now I have an imagination like Calvin’s: what a gift!

Calvin himself once said that the surest sign of intelligent life existing elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Leave it to Hobbes to forget the rations he packed.

In fact, Hobbes already gets blamed for everything!

The “Good” briefcase?The concept of more than one briefcase baffles me. But then I’m just an old retired plumber. NO, you cannot borrow my ‘good’ pipe wrench. Here, use my old one. OK, Now I get it.

I wonder what the pictures would reveal if they did bring the camera.