Many people have asked why it took the Martians so long to encounter comic books, when comic books had been in existence for more than fifty years before 1972. There are certain people who claim they have actually asked actual Martians, and have received dozens of different answers in several different languages. Henry F. S. Little and Nicholas P. Dooren, in Martian Oratory Principles (Beanfield Press, Seattle, 1998) insist that only three of these answers are significant, usually translated as "They were in the stack." "We were not ready." "We were taking a nap." My personal favorite is: "We were distracted by albatrosses eating Fig Newtons."
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