TITLE The Bastich By Hart
PANEL 1 (HACKER-LAD greets BASTICH, who is carrying a filled sack over his shoulder.) HACKER-LAD: Hey, Stich! Starting your Spring cleaning a little early this year, eh? BASTICH: Yup.
PANEL 2 (HACKER-LAD and BASTICH look at a device sitting on a table.) HACKER-LAD: Hey, what's that thing you're throwing out? BASTICH: Oh, this..?
PANEL 3 (Close-up on the device, which looks a bit like an old 8-bit game console with a small multi-pronged satellite dish on top.) BASTICH: This is my old Coleco Home Interstellar Messaging Kit. It sends a signal into the depths of space in anticipation for possible extra-terrestrial contact. HACKER-LAD: Cool!
PANEL 4 (Close-up on BASTICH speaking.) BASTICH: Yeah, but I've been running it for eight years, and I've never gotten a reply. I doubt it even works, so I'm trashing it.
PANEL 5 (HACKER-LAD holds up a pamphlet as BASTICH waves his finger in the air.) HACKER-LAD: What's this? BASTICH: Hey, those are the instructions to change the return address of the signal. I could have used this when we moved here.
PANEL 6 (An old woman nervously looks out of a window as a group of aliens gather in front of her house. The aliens consist of ALF, E.T., a generic Grey and a snail-like alien in a space suit.) CAPTION: Elsewhere... ALF: Well, this is the place. SNAIL-LIKE ALIEN: The earthling had better not be deceiving us about owning the expanded director's cut of LOGAN'S RUN.
CREDITS (c) 1996 Joshua Adam Hart
Commentary
Here, we have cameos from a hodge-podge of classic aliens, including ALF, E.T., a generic Grey. Hopefully the snail-like alien hoping for a LOGAN'S RUN director's cut brought its LaserDisc player because DVDs wouldn't hit the market for another year.