The entire story is a retelling of the Orson Welles broadcast of the War of the Worlds. Frankly, the most unrealistic aspect of the story is the panel at the top of this page – the crowds take Welles’s apology at face value and go home without any form of outrage at all.

(Heavy Metal issue #135, November 1991 – Page 105 The Great Martian Scare of 1936 by Geary)