The Martian Confederacy by Paige Braddock and Jason McNamara for July 04, 2014

And he means “run down” in the literal sense.Nice blunt he is smoking, apparently a personal oxygen supply wont implode on Mars. Pity.

Well the dummy sent the professor aloft without first asking“WHO else knows about this?”AND run down any one who may made contact…..first talk to them THEN run them down.Dead folk can’t give information.Its got to be those mutton chops that make him so stupid.

I wonder if Teresa Burritt from Frog Applause was one of the ones who has a sample. That might be why we haven’t heard from her in a while. She might be hiding.

I’m still trying to figure out how the buildings burning in a low to zero atmosphere. Unless it must be the samples that went missing. In that case they have nothing to worry about. I R now confused.

Apologies for being a scold yesterday, choosing not to be a scold today, just withdrawing from the field. All the best in your future endeavors.

Why does this strip remind me of “Total Recall”? The version with Swartznegger in it?

Smoking in an oxygen deficient atmosphere? Hmm…

Mystery, mayhem and murder. I like it.

So Mars has enough oxygen to support combustion, but not enough to support life unassisted?

We’ve met some bad guys now, and a victim. Time to meet the good guys pretty soon.

Beg to differ about never killing one off. In the Endtown story a very good and beautiful villain was killed off.Probably the hardest thing I have ever seen an author pull off.

Low pressure atmosphere. Not NO pressure atmosphere. Besides, the Doogie Howser Threshold of acceptance applies here.