Stamps definitely won't get you any closer to the Pokémon League. Baseball cards, on the other other hand...

Speaking of, can we talk for a minute about the Pokémon TCG and the controversy surrounding all the card scalping that's been going on over the past few years? 

 I'm not actually sure how funny this is; it's just that every time I see the Mariner 4 spacecraft, all I can think is that it looks like a ceiling fan. 

And then I want an actual ceiling fan shaped like Mariner 4.

(Maybe there's one on Etsy.)

 I drew this to commemorate some... sort of milestone when Trainer Wants to Battle! had its original run. Unfortunately I completely forget what that milestone was. Some number of readers reached or something? Anyway. I still think this turned out pretty cute. This was Red's party at the time of making the illustration. I was going for quality, not quantity.

 I feel like the Scientists in Kanto are extremely shady. First they're messing around with the questionable practice of bringing back extinct taxa, and then one of them just hands a valuable museum specimen to the first 10-year-old to walk in the back door. Sounds like some under-the-table research to me.

Or, y'know, it's just a video game and I'm way overthinking it again.

 Has Jurassic Park taught these people nothing about bringing back extinct taxa?

Then again, this is the Pokémon universe and they have all sorts of crazy science stuff going on, like creating self-aware virtual life forms that can manifest physically, genetically modifying clones to be exponentially stronger than their progenitor, and engineering technology that projects a person's mind into a Pokémon. So maybe by now they've also learned to resurrect fossils responsibly.

 Thought I'd switch it up from Mars for a bit, and give some love to older space missions! Including the ones that... didn't quite perform nominally and probably ended up running into the Great Galactic Ghoul.

 I'll take "draw" every time! :)