Comic #3021: 2013-08-25

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Panel 1:

• Character 1: "I'm sorry, but the engines can't be fixed. There's no way to get you back from Mars. This is it, Sally."
• Character 2: "We here on Earth can only imagine the sense of isolation you must be feeling."

Panel 2:

• Character 2: "I’ve been on two planets."

Panel 3:

• Character 1: "Every other human has only ever been on one. And you're too old for rockets, John. So you'll die on the little rock where every other human has died."

Panel 4:

• Character 2: "I am buried in the twinkles in your darkness! I am the great traveler!"
• Character 2: "If a single microbe from my body survives, the entire ecology of this world will descend from my DNA."

Panel 5:

• Character 1 (in a spacesuit): "Eat my isolated ass, Earthling!"

Panel 6:

• Character 2 (on the radio): "Eat my isolated ass, Earthling!"