Alien Romance, the daily comic strip

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"Do you have your costume yet?" Jon asks Maurice.

"Probably just the spider mask," Maurice figures.

From off-screen, Ella howls, "Noooo, no spider mask, Arzy! Be a mummy instead!" His friends call him Arzy because it's short for Arzamastsev.

But Maurice doesn't want a high-effort costume.

Ella howls again. "My bat dress! It doesn't fit! It musta shrunk. Can Cathy take it out for me?" She's holding a fancy, lacy black dress with sleeves so big they look like bat wings when the wearer raises her arms. It has appeared before.

"Take it out? Is that possible?" Maurice wonders.

"Or I can lend it to her," Ella muses.