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Ideas for Comic Strips With Planets

Three comic strip premises per press, with the planets as the cast and a true trait in every panel.

Ideas for Comic Strips With Planets

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  1. Four neighbors on the street nearest the Sun4 panels. Mercury: the smallest house, at number one, right beside the Sun. Venus: number two, hidden in thick cloud and the hottest house on the street. Earth: number three, the only one with liquid water in the yard. Mars: number four, a cold, dusty desert, waving from the far end.
  2. Four planets named long ago, and one named at breakfast5 panels. Jupiter: was named for the king of the Roman gods. Saturn: for the Roman god of farming, who was Jupiter's father. Uranus: for the Greek god of the sky. Neptune: for the Roman god of the sea. Pluto: for the Roman god of the underworld. The name was suggested in 1930 by a schoolgirl in England, over breakfast.
  3. Pluto finds a new club with four members waiting4 panels. Pluto: walks out of the planet club and finds another door, marked Dwarf Planets. Ceres: "I was called a planet once too. I live in the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter." Eris: "I am the one whose discovery started the argument." Haumea and Makemake: pull up a fifth chair.

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The four gas planets 12

  • A lander asks each giant for a place to set down 4 panels. Jupiter: "I have no true surface. I am mostly hydrogen and helium." Saturn: "Same here. That makes the two of us the gas giants." Uranus: "No ground on me either. I am mostly a hot, dense fluid of water, methane and ammonia. They call me an ice giant." Neptune: "So am I." The lander folds its legs and looks toward the inner planets.
  • A posture check finds who spins upright and who rolls 4 panels. Jupiter: stands almost straight, tilted just 3 degrees. Saturn: leans about as much as Earth does, and has seasons to show for it. Uranus: lies on its side and goes around the Sun like a rolling ball. Neptune: leans 28 degrees and has seasons too. Each one lasts more than 40 years.
  • A sleepover where nobody agrees when it is morning 4 panels. Jupiter: up first, as always. Its day is about 10 hours long, the shortest of any planet. Saturn: up a little later, after a day of about 10.7 hours. Neptune: yawns after about 16 hours. Uranus: last out of the sleeping bag, at about 17 hours, and wants to know who ate the breakfast.
  • At bath time only one giant floats 4 panels. Saturn: bobs on top of the water. It is the only planet less dense than water. Uranus: is the next least dense and wants that written down. Neptune: is the densest of the giants and stays out of the tub. Jupiter: holds more than twice the material of every other planet put together. Nobody has built the bathtub.
  • Four giants and Earth try to share one bench 4 panels. Jupiter: takes most of the bench. It is 11 times as wide as Earth. Saturn: is 9 times as wide as Earth, and its rings hang off the end. Uranus: is four times as wide as Earth and a little wider than Neptune. Neptune: is about four times as wide as Earth too. Earth gives up and sits on the armrest.
  • The four giants argue about whose rings are best 4 panels. Jupiter: "Mine are faint and dark. Nobody knew I had any until a spacecraft flew past in 1979." Saturn: "Mine are billions of chunks of ice and rock. You can see them from the back of the room." Uranus: "Thirteen. Count them." Neptune: "Five main ones, and the outer one has strange clumps in it called arcs."
  • Four giants brag about their worst weather 4 panels. Jupiter: "My Great Red Spot is a storm bigger than Earth. It has been going for hundreds of years." Saturn: "I keep a six-sided jet stream at my north pole." Uranus: "My winds reach 560 miles an hour." Neptune: "More than 1,200. I am the windiest world there is." The other three hold on to their rings.
  • Four giants choose crayons for a self-portrait 4 panels. Jupiter: takes two and draws stripes, dark belts and light zones. Saturn: takes yellow, brown and gray. Uranus: takes blue-green and says the methane in its air gives it the color. Neptune: takes blue, says "Same reason," and gets a look from Uranus.
  • Four giants wait for the same sunrise 4 panels. Jupiter: the light that left the Sun arrives after 43 minutes. Saturn: still waiting. It takes 80 minutes to get here. Uranus: checks a watch at 2 hours and 40 minutes. Neptune: gets its sunrise after 4 hours and says it was worth it.
  • The giants compare moons, and Saturn keeps winning 4 panels. Jupiter: "My largest moon is the biggest in the whole solar system. It is bigger than the planet Mercury." Saturn: "I have more moons than any other planet," said for the fourth time today. Uranus: "Mine are named for characters in the works of Shakespeare and Pope." Neptune: "My largest moon goes around me backward. Top that."
  • How each giant was found, by eye, by telescope or by a sum 4 panels. Jupiter: one of the bright lights people watched in the sky in ancient times. Saturn: another, and the farthest planet ever discovered with the unaided eye. Uranus: the first planet found with a telescope, in 1781. Neptune: the first one found by mathematics. Someone worked out where it had to be, and in 1846 a telescope was pointed there.
  • New Year comes late for the four giants 4 panels. Jupiter: "Happy New Year. Mine comes once in about 12 Earth years." Saturn: "Mine comes about every 29." Uranus: "Every 84. I make the party worth the wait." Neptune: "Every 165. I have had exactly one New Year since I was discovered in 1846."

The gas planets and Pluto 12

  • A height chart where Pluto barely shows 4 panels. Jupiter: is marked at 11 Earths wide. Saturn: is marked at 9. Uranus: shares a line near 4 with Neptune. Pluto: is about one fifth as wide as Earth. Its mark is so low that someone draws a map beside it, and Pluto is about half the width of the United States.
  • A running track with four round lanes and one tilted oval 4 panels. Jupiter: finishes a lap in about 12 Earth years. Saturn: takes about 29. Uranus: takes 84, and Neptune 165. Pluto: has a lane that is oval, tilted against the others and 248 years around. It crosses inside Neptune's lane and back out.
  • Four planets named long ago, and one named at breakfast 5 panels. Jupiter: was named for the king of the Roman gods. Saturn: for the Roman god of farming, who was Jupiter's father. Uranus: for the Greek god of the sky. Neptune: for the Roman god of the sea. Pluto: for the Roman god of the underworld. The name was suggested in 1930 by a schoolgirl in England, over breakfast.
  • Neptune and Pluto swap places for twenty years 4 panels. Neptune: is the farthest planet from the Sun, and proud of it. Pluto: swings inside Neptune's orbit on its long oval path. From 1979 to 1999 it is the closer of the two. Neptune: worries about a crash. Pluto: "Never. For every three laps you take, I take two."
  • Neptune walks Pluto home to the Kuiper Belt 4 panels. Neptune: stops at the edge of its orbit. "This is as far as the planets go." Pluto: keeps walking, into a wide ring of space beyond. Kuiper Belt: thousands of small icy worlds turn to look. Pluto: "These are my neighbors. With this many of us out here, none of us has cleared the path."
  • Noon on Pluto 3 panels. Neptune: "High noon on me would look like dim twilight to you." Pluto: "On me the Sun at noon is about one nine-hundredth as bright as it is on Earth." Earth: visits, looks around and says "We get this light for a moment every day, near sunset."
  • Pluto brings a heart to show and tell 5 panels. Jupiter: shows its Great Red Spot. Saturn: shows the hexagon at its north pole. Neptune: had a Great Dark Spot in 1989 and admits it has since disappeared. Uranus: tips over and shows how it spins on its side. Pluto: turns around. A spacecraft photographed a heart shape on its surface in 2015.
  • Pluto finds a new club with four members waiting 4 panels. Pluto: walks out of the planet club and finds another door, marked Dwarf Planets. Ceres: "I was called a planet once too. I live in the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter." Eris: "I am the one whose discovery started the argument." Haumea and Makemake: pull up a fifth chair.
  • Pluto has a place to stand, which no giant has 4 panels. Jupiter: has no true surface. Saturn: has none either. Nor do Uranus and Neptune. Pluto: has mountains, valleys, plains, craters and glaciers. Pluto: points at one of the mountains. It is a block of water ice, 6,500 to 9,800 feet tall.
  • Pluto introduces Charon, the moon that never looks away 4 panels. Pluto: bows to the giants. It has five moons, and the largest has come along. Charon: is about half as wide as Pluto, so large a moon that the pair is often called a double planet. Pluto: turns once in 153 hours. Charon circles once in the same time, always over the same spot, always showing the same face. The giants: clap. None of them has a moon half its own size.
  • Pluto is read the three rules of the planet club 5 panels. Jupiter: reads out rule one, which is to go around the Sun. Pluto does. Saturn: reads out rule two, which is to be big enough to pull yourself nearly round. Pluto is. Uranus: reads out rule three, which is to clear the neighborhood around your orbit. Neptune: looks at the icy objects that share Pluto's part of space and shakes its head. Pluto: leaves in 2006 with a new badge that says Dwarf Planet.
  • Uranus and Pluto, two worlds that roll 4 panels. Uranus: "Everyone stares because I spin on my side." Pluto: "I spin almost on my side too. My axis is tilted 57 degrees." Uranus: "And I turn the opposite way from most planets." Pluto: "East to west. So do I." They roll off together, and Neptune watches them go.

The four rocky planets 12

  • A day on Venus outlasts its year 4 panels. Mercury: turns once in 59 Earth days. Venus: turns once in 243, which is longer than its year of 225. It also spins backward, so its Sun rises in the west. Earth: has finished hundreds of days and is tired of waiting. Mars: has a day of 24.6 hours and keeps almost the same bedtime as Earth.
  • A lander tries the four planets that have ground 5 panels. Lander: it wants a solid surface, and all four rocky planets have one. Mercury: offers craters, 800 degrees by day. Venus: offers ground hot enough to melt lead. The lander backs away. Earth: is mostly water, so the lander has to aim. Mars: offers a dusty desert, and the lander sets down.
  • Earth and Mars compare seasons 4 panels. Earth: "I am tilted, so I get seasons." Mars: "I have seasons too, and polar ice caps." Earth: "Mine last about three months each." Mars: "Mine last longer. I take 687 days to go around the Sun."
  • Four neighbors on the street nearest the Sun 4 panels. Mercury: the smallest house, at number one, right beside the Sun. Venus: number two, hidden in thick cloud and the hottest house on the street. Earth: number three, the only one with liquid water in the yard. Mars: number four, a cold, dusty desert, waving from the far end.
  • Four rocky planets paint their own welcome signs 4 panels. Mercury: "See the Sun three times as large as it looks from Earth." Venus: "Sunrise in the west." Earth: "Liquid water, and the only place known to have living things." Mars: "The largest canyon in the solar system, long enough to reach from California to New York."
  • Mars is not blushing, it is rusting 4 panels. Mercury: is covered in craters, like Earth's Moon. Venus: is wrapped in thick cloud. Earth: is mostly covered in water. Mars: is red, and everyone asks if it is embarrassed. It is rust. The iron in its dirt has rusted.
  • Mercury runs laps while the others jog 4 panels. Mercury: the fastest planet, around the Sun in 88 Earth days. Venus: in 225. Earth: in 365, and counts it as one year. Mars: in 687. By then Mercury has been around more than seven times and is not even out of breath.
  • The neighbors count their moons 4 panels. Mercury: none. Venus: none. Earth: one, and it is the only planet with exactly one. Mars: two small ones, Phobos and Deimos. They may be asteroids that Mars caught. Mercury and Venus ask how to catch one.
  • The other three ask Earth what all the fuss is 4 panels. Mercury: "Why is something moving on you?" Earth: "Living things. I am the only place anyone knows of that has them." Venus: "And the wet part?" Earth: "Liquid water. I am the only planet with that on the surface too." Mars takes notes.
  • The rocky street measures up 4 panels. Earth: is the biggest of the four. Venus: is nearly as big around as Earth. Mars: is about half the size of Earth. Mercury: is the smallest planet of all, only a little larger than Earth's Moon. The Moon, standing next to it, says nothing.
  • Venus is introduced as Earth's twin 4 panels. Earth: "This is my twin. We are nearly the same size." Venus: steps forward with clouds of sulfuric acid. Venus: adds an air of carbon dioxide and a surface hot enough to melt lead. Earth: "Twins do not have to be alike."
  • Who is hottest? Not the one next door to the Sun 4 panels. Mercury: "I reach 800 degrees Fahrenheit by day. But I have no air to hold the heat, and at night I fall to 290 below." Venus: "My thick air traps the heat. I am the hottest planet, hot enough to melt lead." Earth: "I stay mild enough for water to be liquid." Mars: "I am cold, and my air is very thin."

How it works

These ideas for comic strips with planets make each planet a character, and every trait it shows off is a true one. Choose The four gas planets, The gas planets and Pluto or The four rocky planets.

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Who is in the cast

Many classes call Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune the four gas planets. NASA calls Jupiter and Saturn gas giants, made mostly of hydrogen and helium, and Uranus and Neptune ice giants. None of the four has a true surface. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are the rocky planets, with solid ground.

Where Pluto fits

Pluto was discovered in 1930 and counted as the ninth planet until 2006, when the International Astronomical Union reclassified it as a dwarf planet.

  • Draw the sizes roughly true. Jupiter is 11 times as wide as Earth, so Earth can fit inside a speech bubble.

Questions and answers

What are some ideas for comic strips with planets?

Give each planet one true thing to brag about. The four giants argue about rings, the rocky four count their moons, or Mars explains that it is not blushing, it is rusting.

What are comic ideas for all four gas planets?

One is a sleepover where nobody agrees when it is morning. A day on Jupiter lasts about 10 hours, on Saturn 10.7, on Neptune 16 and on Uranus 17, so each one wakes at a different time.

What are comic ideas for the gas planets and Pluto?

In one, the four giants read Pluto the three rules of the planet club. It goes around the Sun and is nearly round, but it has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, so it leaves with a badge that says Dwarf Planet.

Why is Pluto not a planet?

In 2006 the International Astronomical Union defined a planet as a body that orbits the Sun, is nearly round and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit. Pluto shares its region with other icy objects, so it is classed as a dwarf planet.

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