Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for February 19, 2023

Yes, just like a cat.

Sure. I used to be 10 feet tall.

Mars is smaller than Earth, and its gravity is only 37% as strong as Earth’s. That means you could jump about four feet up off the ground.

Silly Earthlings. To make that jump it has to be head first.

Glad you had a smooth landing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLkyDp_cGlk

Too close to be believed!

one heck of a jump… :J

Well, if a cow can jump over the moon.

and floated ever so gently down to earth. almost missed and went past to Venus, but was able to catch a shooting star that corrected my trajectory

Did Go Comics decide to stop showing Sunday editions of the early Peanuts comics? They had been appearing on Fridays. The last Sunday edition of Peanuts Begins was almost 2 months ago.

After the infamous 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, an editorial cartoon showed Martians watching Earth with all of its problems, crazes and foibles. Their conclusion? Ah, we wouldn’t go down there on a bet.

Of course…..

In Frederic Brown’s hilarious 1955 sci-fi classic, Martians, Go Home, the Martians arrived here by kwimming. It was never quite satisfactorily explained what that was, except that it didn’t involve machinery; apparently it was more of a mental process.