Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for September 25, 2018

Perhaps they should’ve just settled for a really big shelf on Mercury.

Lookin’ for the sun spots did them in.

Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You.

CATS, not moths?

It’s the moon they sit and stare at.

Talk about a cat-astrophe!

would have been better if they were going for a red dwarf

If only Poncho and the crew at the Pooch Cafe had thought of this instead of the catapult.

So that’s what happened after they left the Red Dwarf….

KITTY VS THE FLYING SAUCER!

https://i.postimg.cc/P56rz9pG/Kitty_Vs_UFOs-O-Test2.gif

Took me a minute. Clever.

I assumed that they’d all be sleeping in the sunshine.

Wait, what about that red dot, Mars?

Maybe they should have left at night.

And they always make like they’re so intellectually superior!

I checked at Amazon and they have reissued(?) at least some of the Space Cat children’s books. Not to be confused with Space Cats. I read these books from the school library in grade school, and I think that these are the same ones.

About the Author

Scottish poet, novelist, and artist Ruthven Todd (1914–78) is best known as an editor of William Blake’s works and an author of children’s stories, including four Space Cat adventures. He also wrote detective fiction under the pseudonym R. T. Campbell.

It should be moths being vaporized by the sun. Also what happened to the planets?