Episode 24

Author’s note: I’ve been sitting on this strip for several days, because it’s in somewhat poor taste to joke about mass casualties in the wake of so many mass casualties.

Unfortunately, give the racist troll currently squatting in the White House who gets a tiny little tangerine-colored chubby every time he fans the flames of hatred before professing to be the “least racist person on the planet,” I’ve lost track of the last time that we DIDN’T have a mass shooting or other shamefully preventable national tragedy casting a shadow over the country I live in.

At any rate, I apologize for posting such a bleak and depressing strip, though it is based on real data collected from the NASA Twin Study of astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly. Well worth checking out if you’re interested in the long-term effects of life outside of Earth. The good news is, that while extended space flight does have a detrimental effect on the human body, most of the ill effects Scott experienced during his one-year stay on the ISS, normalized fairly soon after he returned to Earth. A not-so-gentle reminder, that while it’s important to reach for the stars, the human race has one, and only one, home.

P.S. – I promise the next one will be sillier.