I’m frightened by the idea of frightening an alien life form. It frightens me just to think of the prospect of being frightened. By frightening things. That frighten you. Or aliens.
In The Killing Star, we frighten a species of aliens so much that they obliterate the whole human race (save for a few clever and/or lucky survivors) without warning.
What scares them? Michael Jackson et al. with the broadcast of “We Are the World” on the one hand and the various incarnations of Star Trek on the other.
Come on now, that “separate but equal” stuff just doesn’t fly anymore.
When I was in music school, there was a janitor’s closet between the men’s and women’s restrooms… and some enterprising soul replaced the door sign with one reading “Tenors”… it stayed up for years… might still be there in fact.
No, rdh288, the aliens were told to lay low. These are the humans they they were told to lay low from (so to speak). Some of us (myself included) mistook the intent at the beginning, but we recanted. Go back and re-read the strips, and the intent will become clear.
That symbol doesn’t mean “alien,” it means that’s where they store the germs they clean out of the two bathrooms. As long as no one opens the door, everyone gets out alive.
@Guy looking at the door (in strip): keep your mouth shut, buddy you’ve just put yourself on Fed radar. Agent X is one of the men in black and they don’t like having their cover-ups exposed as we all know…
ejcapulet over 15 years ago
Should’ve covered it up with a “broom closet” sign.
margueritem over 15 years ago
ejcapulet: You’ve got that right.
Rakkav, you didn’t ask the question tonight.
corpuskevin over 15 years ago
At least no one (thing) came out the door.
rayannina over 15 years ago
Yeah, THAT would’ve been awkward.
Jml58 over 15 years ago
They are not aliens. They are mutants.
zero over 15 years ago
I am a different life form—and humans do frighten me. That’s why I’m here reading comics & not CNN or the NY Times.
Rakkav over 15 years ago
Marg: How do you know I didn’t ask the question? (Although *my* guess would’ve been one of the pair in front.)
My doppleganger’s idiotic grin is beginning to annoy even me. Believe me, I don’t smile that much, let alone all the time.
marktrail: That is the premise behind Monsters, Inc. on the one hand and the SF novel The Killing Star on the other.
dkalloch over 15 years ago
I’m frightened by the idea of frightening an alien life form. It frightens me just to think of the prospect of being frightened. By frightening things. That frighten you. Or aliens.
Varnes over 15 years ago
They had to give aliens their own separate Bathroom. It just takes them sooo long…
Rakkav over 15 years ago
In The Killing Star, we frighten a species of aliens so much that they obliterate the whole human race (save for a few clever and/or lucky survivors) without warning.
What scares them? Michael Jackson et al. with the broadcast of “We Are the World” on the one hand and the various incarnations of Star Trek on the other.
3hourtour Premium Member over 15 years ago
..you don’t want to go in there when they go #3…
rdh288 over 15 years ago
Uh, he’s talking to a bunch of aliens, remember?
GeeDee Premium Member over 15 years ago
Hurry along , folks……..nothing to see here.
carmy over 15 years ago
Maybe that’s where you go when you’re feeling freaky.
ChiehHsia over 15 years ago
Come on now, that “separate but equal” stuff just doesn’t fly anymore.
When I was in music school, there was a janitor’s closet between the men’s and women’s restrooms… and some enterprising soul replaced the door sign with one reading “Tenors”… it stayed up for years… might still be there in fact.
Rakkav over 15 years ago
No, rdh288, the aliens were told to lay low. These are the humans they they were told to lay low from (so to speak). Some of us (myself included) mistook the intent at the beginning, but we recanted. Go back and re-read the strips, and the intent will become clear.
mrsullenbeauty over 15 years ago
Funny, dkalloch & 3hourtour.
Well, I don’t know about anybody else, but I would just HAVTA take a peek.
GoodQuestion Premium Member over 15 years ago
Aliens are unisexed??? No “sitters” or “pointers”?
carsc23 Premium Member over 15 years ago
It is SO difficult to pull paper towels down when your tentacles don’t have opposable thumbs.
Nighthawks Premium Member over 15 years ago
yeah! dig those crazy urinals!
Sherlock Watson over 15 years ago
That symbol doesn’t mean “alien,” it means that’s where they store the germs they clean out of the two bathrooms. As long as no one opens the door, everyone gets out alive.
cwreenactor over 15 years ago
Just call it a hunch.
The_Floodhunter over 15 years ago
@Guy looking at the door (in strip): keep your mouth shut, buddy you’ve just put yourself on Fed radar. Agent X is one of the men in black and they don’t like having their cover-ups exposed as we all know…
Trebor39 over 15 years ago
Then ET walked out of that restroom, and the guy staring became a mutant because he needed to use it so badly.
alan.gurka over 15 years ago
It’s the baby changing station. But what do the babies change into?
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace almost 6 years ago
Segregationist space station. As I recall that used to produce traces of resentment.