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Mike: You’re positive you’re not an alien?

Catastrophe: Do aliens frequently speak fluent English?

Mike: Decryption programs applied to radio transmissions can do surprising things.

Catastrophe: I was checking football club rankings when you found me. Unless aliens are frequently interested in football…

Mike: You’d be surprised. You follow football?

Catastrophe: Sometimes. There aren’t any good teams around here.

Mike: Name three.

Catastrophe: Good teams? Arsenal, Man U and Newcastle.

Mike: Please. If you ever need to make up sports teams in the future, I recommend going with animal names, not randomly selected adjectives and nouns. “New castle?” “Man you?” That doesn’t even make sense!

Catastrophe: …

Catastrophe: You don’t get out much, do you?

This is the final part of a four part series. You can see part 1 here.

Mike: To make a long story short, he’s not an extraterrestrial, he’s just British.

Agent Orange: Kind of British.

Captain Carnage: Kind of British?

Orange: Born in Britain to two American expatriates. The family returned when he was five.

Captain Carnage: He’s an American from Britain that’s been turned into a Japanese cartoon character?

Orange: That’s globalization for you.