"Like mutants, I know about those, too! I guess that makes sense," Felix said, nodding in spite of his mild disappointment. But still, Mars!

"If aliens existed as close by as all that, more people would probably have heard of them, huh? The Skrulls came from Tarnax IV," he explained, before dropping his voice to a whisper as if this next part was some reputation-compromising secret that had to be kept under wraps. "I looked it up after the fact."