It’s up to these idiots to save the universe

Cartoon character sitting on a bench, smiling, wearing glasses, with blonde hair and a red shirt.

Two cartoon characters, an alien and a dog, hide from an onslaught of arrows. The dog comments on how they' were almost hit and another alien suggests to the shooter to aim a little to the left for next time.

A comic strip featuring a character sitting at a table, complaining about the terrible taste of his coffee and then drinks it anyway.

A four-panel comic strip featuring two aliens with a black cat. The boy presents the cat with a lasagna, claiming he made the cat's favorite food. The girl criticizes the boy for feeding the cat lasagna, calling it ridiculous, and pointing out that t

A comic strip featuring an alien and a dog. The alien is anxious about a breakup, and the dog suggest he just be himself. The alien is frustrated, claiming he talked about Star Trek on a date for over three hours. In the last panel, the dog suggests

Comic strip featuring two aliens. One is pouring himself coffee while the other waits patiently, then asks about the end of the break.

Comic strip featuring three characters, two aliens and Lyman from 'Garfield.' One alien mentions his involvement in solving mysteries and jokes about his disappearance without explanation. Lyman reflects on his past and the taste of Sprite soda, sayi

Comic strip featuring an alien and a woman discussing a device with a second pad and teleporters. Discovered, the alien kisses the girl with a loud "SMACKING" sound.

Comic strip with a dog tied a tree, thinking about nobody untying him, going to the bathroom, and others wanting to look the other way.

Comic strip with four panels: a duck in space in the first panel, a cat holding with a globe in the second, the cat hitting the duck with the globe in the third, and the cat and duck laughing about the spaceship always crashing on Earth.

Two aliens discuss the relative ease of writing a hit song as compared to getting a newspaper syndication deal.

A comic strip featuring two animals, likely from the 'Zinobap' series. The character, Zinobap, is excited to see Ralph, a dog, and talks about their plans. Ralph recognizes Zinobap as himself, and they discuss being aware of who they are and their pl

In the first panel, two characters discuss Rasputin and Star Trek. In the second panel, a character named Spock is mentioned. The third panel shows one character confronting another about ears, with humorous dialogue. The fourth panel depicts a char

Comic strip featuring three characters talking about their lives and a dead duck. One character is saying that their life depends on the duck because it moves, while another comments that it's a dead duck, and the third looks surprised.

A comic strip featuring two dogs. The first dog is worried about a nail, bolt, or screw touching a chair while it's gone, and the other dog reassures it not to worry. The second dog sits peacefully in the chair. In the last panel, a toy or mini boat

A black cat and a white duck are talking, with the cat meowing and the duck quacking. The duck laughs loudly, while a child sitting nearby expresses frustration about being out of the loop, saying 'I hate being out of the loop.'

Comic strip featuring a cat and a dog. In the first panel, the cat is sleeping. In the second panel, the dog says 'MEOW' and the cat wakes up. In the third panel, the dog scratches the wall and the cat observes. In the fourth panel, the cat is sittin

Comic strip featuring Snoopy and such. In the first panel, a character asks if they can go back to the ship because they want a job to do. In the second panel, a character excitedly suggests they have a job to do, implying they want to rescue Raldap.

Comic strip featuring two characters, a girl and a boy, sitting in a spaceship. The girl comments on a planet called Mollusca, run by the Slime Lord. The boy questions if she looks like a slime ghost, and she asks if she looks like a slime ghost to h

Comic strip featuring two characters, with one advising the other on the pronunciation of 'Star Trek.' The conversation discusses the name and the importance of correct pronunciation, ending with a humorous comment about being 'nitpicky and insane.'

Children sitting on the ground, discussing decision-making, with a bird flying at night on a starry background. One child expresses difficulty in making a decision and mentions enjoying making. Another child doubts a belief about a man.

A four-panel comic strip featuring a dog and a cat. In the first panel, the dog complains to the cat about being treated like an animal. In the second panel, the cat scratches the dog. In the third panel, the dog responds indifferently, saying 'Yeah,

A comic strip of a character with bat wings and messy hair, drinking from a mug. In the last panel, the character says, 'Time to change that fluber.'

A comic strip with a dog and a giant hamster sitting by the water. The hamster catches a fish, yells 'Yippee!', and remarks that it was hoping it would already be breaded, indicating it was expecting to be cooked as food.

Comic strip with cartoon dogs talking about a slime lord and a dumb luck saving them near the airlock.

Comic strip featuring a young boy sitting next to a TV. In the first panel, he discusses finding a ship on an uncharted desert island. In the second panel, he mentions Gilligan, a millionaire, and his skipper. The third panel shows the TV making a 'r

Two dogs and a cat talking, with a male dog showing a needle, and a woman in a coat hanging from a tree with some pipes or wires.

A four-panel black-and-white comic strip featuring an alien and a dog. The dog asks if the alien grew up on another planet how does he have so many Earth toys. The alien shouts 'Santa!'

A comic strip with three panels showing two children and their dog talking to a giant snail. The snail declares "Silence! Your actions warrant only one outcome: Death!" The children look surprised, and in the last panel, one child asks the other how

Comic strip showing a dog and a cat as they deal with panel borders.

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Melonpool follows the adventures of several aliens as they explore the galaxy, dabble in time travel and try to blend into Earth society. Ranging in diverse personalities from pop culture-obsessed superfans to coffee-addicted meglomaniacs, pop star robots, telepathic dogs and a 220-lb, five-foot-tall hamster, they slowly have to learn to work together just to survive — and still find time to save the galaxy. It’s Star Trek meets Gilligan’s Island for geeks of all ages.

Join the crew of the Steel Duck as they get a crash course in Earth culture (literally), discover time travel, Internet dating, the “grey” side of the Force, cloning, mind swapping and try to blast off Earth before being discovered.

Join the crew of the Steel Duck as they delve into their past, save Christmas, avoid being captured by humans and (other) aliens, try to put Microsoft out of business, go to a convention, actually manage to blast off Earth and battle a giant space amoeba.

Join the crew of the Steel Duck as they lose their ship in a Los Angeles landmark, hang out with Star Wars refugees, create a comic strip to earn money, deal with the battle of the sexes, meet their guardian angels, get a cat and deal with a 102-year time loop.

Join the crew of the Steel Duck as they build a pop-star robot, are invaded by their Mirror Universe counterparts (as drawn by Paul Southworth), refit the ship, cross over with David Willis’ It’s Walky and blast off Earth (again — this time, for sure).

Join the crew of the Steel Duck as they find themselves stranded on a rogue asteroid, blow up their pop-star robot, create a more evil clone of their engineer and answer the biggest question in the universe: whatever happened to Lyman from Garfield?

Join the crew of the Steel Duck as they visit a few friends in Comic Limbo, go on more time travel adventures, hijack the ship from Ralph, staff an alien theme park on Earth, deal with an office romance, clone more of the crew and finally get home — sort of.

Join the crew of the Steel Duck as they battle their most deadly adversaries in an epic space battle, cross over with Mark Mekkes’ Zortic, learn that one of their crew is dying, and deal with infinite timelines — a side effect of too many time travel adventures.

A Captain without a spaceship.
A Pilot without thumbs.
An Engineer without patience.
An Engine without food.

Steve Troop reboots his Melonpool webcomic with all-new adventures set in an all-new universe. Whether you're a fan of the old Internet comi — A Captain without a spaceship. A Pilot without thumbs. An Engineer without patience. An Engine without food. Steve Troop reboots his Melonpool webcomic with all-new adventures set in an all-new universe. Whether you're a fan of the old Internet comic Melonpool or if you've never heard of it -- Melonpool Re-Ducks is a great book for you!

Quote by Mark Evanier about Gilligan's Island and Star Trek, comparing it to Shatner's comedic role on stage, and mentioning Steve Troop with a humorous comment about Melonpool.

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Funny characters, zany situations and science fiction… MELONPOOL has all my favorite ingredients and tastes great! - Jerry Beck

Joyful work! Grand Fun - Ray Bradbury, Sci-Fi/Fantasy Writer

Quote by Mike Kunkel about Melpool, emphasizing fun, sincerity, caring, and investing in creations, attributed to Hero Bear and The Kid.

Cartoon girl with brown hair tied in a ponytail, holding a pencil, smiling, with a pink heart above her head.

A black cat with pink ears and a green duck with a collar sitting next to each other on a black background.

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