These are translations of the "alien language" used by Prospero in the comic book PS238. They are complete through the end of Volume IV: Not Another Learning Experience. The pages that are available online are marked with the date upon which they appear in the archive.
2007-02-09--Issue 2, page 3, panel 5: [Prospero] If you can read this, it means you've discovered what font I've used for our little alien friend's language. Sadly, it would spoil a lot of the story for you to know what's going on, so I can't type what he's really saying.
2007-02-12--Issue 2, page 4, panel 3: [Prospero] Hee hee hee hee!
2007-02-16--Issue 2, page 6, panel 5: [Prospero] Hee hee hee hee!
2007-02-23--Issue 2, page 9, panel 1: [Prospero] Dis is da mighty Favog. How many in your party? [Translator's Note: This is a Saturday Night Live Muppets reference.]
2007-03-19--Issue 2, page 19, panel 3: [Prospero] You're still translating this stuff? Well, I might as well give you something useful in the future. Maybe I'll do a recipe or something.
2007-03-19--Issue 2, page 19, panel 4: [Mech] We are the Knights Who Say Ni.
2007-03-19--Issue 2, page 19, panel 5: [Prospero] I'm looking for a shrubbery.
2007-03-19--Issue 2, page 19, panel 6: [Mech] Spam.
2007-03-26--Issue 2, page 22, panel 2: [Prospero] And now the Top Secret Recipes version of great American cooking, or snickerdoodles.
2007-03-26--Issue 2, page 22, panel 3: [Prospero] One half cup butter--softened, one half cup granulated sugar, one third cup brown sugar, one egg, one half teaspoon vanilla, one and one hlaf cups flour, one quarter teaspoon salt, one half teaspoon baking soda, one quarter teaspoon cream of tartar. Topping: two tablespoons granulated sugar, one teaspoon cinnamon.
2007-03-26--Issue 2, page 22, panel 4: [Prospero] In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugars with an electric mixer on high speed. Add the egg and vanilla and beat until smooth. In another bowl, combie the flour, salt, baking soda, and cream of tartar. Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix well. Preheat oven to three hundred degrees while you let the dough rest for [blank] to [blank] minutes in the refrigerator.
2007-03-26--Issue 2, page 22, panel 5: [Prospero] In a small bowl, combine the sugar with the cinnamon for the topping. Take about two and a half tablespoons of the dough and roll it into a ball. Roll this dough in the cinnamon/sugar mixture and press it onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Repeat for the remaining cookies. Bake the cookies for twelve to fourteen minutes and no more. The cookies may seem undercooked, but will continue to develop after they are removed from the oven. When the cookies have cooled, they should be soft and chewy in the middle.
2007-03-26--Issue 2, page 22, panel 6: [Prospero] BOOM!
2007-05-11--Issue 3, page 19, panel 4: [Prospero (disguised)] Hee hee hee hee!
2007-05-30--Issue 4, page 4, panel 1: [Prospero] Please accept my humble offering of pulped fibrous material.
2008-02-27--Issue 9, page 2, panel 3: [Prospero (disguised)] Miss Angela has challenged me to a combat ritual called "miniature golf". We are playing for the honor of our homeworlds. Wish me luck.
2008-04-25--Issue 10, page 4, panel 6: [Prospero] I used this primitive display adaptation device to create a holographic generator that projects imagery via heat waves distorting the air molecules above this metal box's inefficient electrical coil.
2007-04-28--Issue 10, page 5, panel 1: [Prospero] This is a sample of DNA that came from what you call a "cafeteria". It has evolved several times since I constructed this device. I have concerns for those consuming it.
2007-04-28--Issue 10, page 5, panel 3: [Prospero] I would also recommend a better material for the heat sinks. These organic ones don't last very long.
2007-04-30--Issue 10, page 6, panel 7: [Prospero] This is even more amazing than your lava lamp technology.
2007-05-02--Issue 10, page 7, panel 6: [Prospero] It is. We will need several chemicals to make it work, but [blank] believe they serve them at meal times here.
2007-05-09--Issue 10, page 10, panel 1: [Prospero] Please brace your internal organs for sudden gravitational forces.
2007-05-09--Issue 10, page 10, panel 4: [Prospero] Your lung capacity is most impressive.
2007-05-12--Issue 10, page 11, panel 4: [Prospero] Ready. This will likely make the yellow-headed human moisten his synthetic coverings.
2007-05-14--Issue 10, page 12, panel 6: [Prospero] It's for the best. I've analyzed that stuff.
2007-05-19--Issue 10, page 14, panel 2: [Prospero] Our perversion of science is going well.
2007-05-28--Issue 10, page 18, panel 4: [Prospero] We should fire now if we want to live.
2007-06-02--Issue 10, page 20, panel 4: [Prospero] PUTTY HO!
Issue 18, page 15, panel 4: [Prospero] Great Elders!The first sign is here!
Issue 18, page 16, panel 1: [Prospero] They come! You must attend! Hurry!
Issue 18, page 17, panel 1: [Prospero's Device] Ninety-five percent chance of Shub Sothoth activity.
Issue 18, page 17, panel 1: [Prospero's Device] Incoming very bad thing. Might be major plot device.
Issue 18, page 17, panel 1: [Prospero's Device] Target planet in System One One Three Eight mostly harmless.
Issue 21, page 6, panel 1: [Prospero] Someone might want to inform Food TV to move their satellite. It comes very close to the descent trajectory.
Issue 21, page 6, panel 2: [Prospero] It would probably be healthier than that pizza substance you ingest.
Issue 21, page 6, panel 3: [Prospero] It will impact the water spewing unit aboveground tonight, after David Letterman has made you bark.
Issue 21, page 7, panel 1: [Prospero] I do wish my robotic battle chassis hadn't been destroyed.
Issue 21, page 7, panel 2: [Prospero] If you mean the herald of the possible end of life on your planet, then yes.
Issue 21, page 10, panel 5: [Prospero] I hope I look as good in ten thousand years.
Issue 21, page 11, panel 5: [Prospero] Behold that which will either maximize what you call "bling" or make your power source explode.
2007-02-09--Issue 2, page 3, panel 5: [Prospero] If you can read this, it means you've discovered what font I've used for our little alien friend's language. Sadly, it would spoil a lot of the story for you to know what's going on, so I can't type what he's really saying.
2007-02-12--Issue 2, page 4, panel 3: [Prospero] Hee hee hee hee!
2007-02-16--Issue 2, page 6, panel 5: [Prospero] Hee hee hee hee!
2007-02-23--Issue 2, page 9, panel 1: [Prospero] Dis is da mighty Favog. How many in your party? [Translator's Note: This is a Saturday Night Live Muppets reference.]
2007-03-19--Issue 2, page 19, panel 3: [Prospero] You're still translating this stuff? Well, I might as well give you something useful in the future. Maybe I'll do a recipe or something.
2007-03-19--Issue 2, page 19, panel 4: [Mech] We are the Knights Who Say Ni.
2007-03-19--Issue 2, page 19, panel 5: [Prospero] I'm looking for a shrubbery.
2007-03-19--Issue 2, page 19, panel 6: [Mech] Spam.
2007-03-26--Issue 2, page 22, panel 2: [Prospero] And now the Top Secret Recipes version of great American cooking, or snickerdoodles.
2007-03-26--Issue 2, page 22, panel 3: [Prospero] One half cup butter--softened, one half cup granulated sugar, one third cup brown sugar, one egg, one half teaspoon vanilla, one and one hlaf cups flour, one quarter teaspoon salt, one half teaspoon baking soda, one quarter teaspoon cream of tartar. Topping: two tablespoons granulated sugar, one teaspoon cinnamon.
2007-03-26--Issue 2, page 22, panel 4: [Prospero] In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugars with an electric mixer on high speed. Add the egg and vanilla and beat until smooth. In another bowl, combie the flour, salt, baking soda, and cream of tartar. Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix well. Preheat oven to three hundred degrees while you let the dough rest for [blank] to [blank] minutes in the refrigerator.
2007-03-26--Issue 2, page 22, panel 5: [Prospero] In a small bowl, combine the sugar with the cinnamon for the topping. Take about two and a half tablespoons of the dough and roll it into a ball. Roll this dough in the cinnamon/sugar mixture and press it onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Repeat for the remaining cookies. Bake the cookies for twelve to fourteen minutes and no more. The cookies may seem undercooked, but will continue to develop after they are removed from the oven. When the cookies have cooled, they should be soft and chewy in the middle.
2007-03-26--Issue 2, page 22, panel 6: [Prospero] BOOM!
2007-05-11--Issue 3, page 19, panel 4: [Prospero (disguised)] Hee hee hee hee!
2007-05-30--Issue 4, page 4, panel 1: [Prospero] Please accept my humble offering of pulped fibrous material.
2008-02-27--Issue 9, page 2, panel 3: [Prospero (disguised)] Miss Angela has challenged me to a combat ritual called "miniature golf". We are playing for the honor of our homeworlds. Wish me luck.
2008-04-25--Issue 10, page 4, panel 6: [Prospero] I used this primitive display adaptation device to create a holographic generator that projects imagery via heat waves distorting the air molecules above this metal box's inefficient electrical coil.
2007-04-28--Issue 10, page 5, panel 1: [Prospero] This is a sample of DNA that came from what you call a "cafeteria". It has evolved several times since I constructed this device. I have concerns for those consuming it.
2007-04-28--Issue 10, page 5, panel 3: [Prospero] I would also recommend a better material for the heat sinks. These organic ones don't last very long.
2007-04-30--Issue 10, page 6, panel 7: [Prospero] This is even more amazing than your lava lamp technology.
2007-05-02--Issue 10, page 7, panel 6: [Prospero] It is. We will need several chemicals to make it work, but [blank] believe they serve them at meal times here.
2007-05-09--Issue 10, page 10, panel 1: [Prospero] Please brace your internal organs for sudden gravitational forces.
2007-05-09--Issue 10, page 10, panel 4: [Prospero] Your lung capacity is most impressive.
2007-05-12--Issue 10, page 11, panel 4: [Prospero] Ready. This will likely make the yellow-headed human moisten his synthetic coverings.
2007-05-14--Issue 10, page 12, panel 6: [Prospero] It's for the best. I've analyzed that stuff.
2007-05-19--Issue 10, page 14, panel 2: [Prospero] Our perversion of science is going well.
2007-05-28--Issue 10, page 18, panel 4: [Prospero] We should fire now if we want to live.
2007-06-02--Issue 10, page 20, panel 4: [Prospero] PUTTY HO!
Issue 18, page 15, panel 4: [Prospero] Great Elders!The first sign is here!
Issue 18, page 16, panel 1: [Prospero] They come! You must attend! Hurry!
Issue 18, page 17, panel 1: [Prospero's Device] Ninety-five percent chance of Shub Sothoth activity.
Issue 18, page 17, panel 1: [Prospero's Device] Incoming very bad thing. Might be major plot device.
Issue 18, page 17, panel 1: [Prospero's Device] Target planet in System One One Three Eight mostly harmless.
Issue 21, page 6, panel 1: [Prospero] Someone might want to inform Food TV to move their satellite. It comes very close to the descent trajectory.
Issue 21, page 6, panel 2: [Prospero] It would probably be healthier than that pizza substance you ingest.
Issue 21, page 6, panel 3: [Prospero] It will impact the water spewing unit aboveground tonight, after David Letterman has made you bark.
Issue 21, page 7, panel 1: [Prospero] I do wish my robotic battle chassis hadn't been destroyed.
Issue 21, page 7, panel 2: [Prospero] If you mean the herald of the possible end of life on your planet, then yes.
Issue 21, page 10, panel 5: [Prospero] I hope I look as good in ten thousand years.
Issue 21, page 11, panel 5: [Prospero] Behold that which will either maximize what you call "bling" or make your power source explode.
