Close Encounters of the Weird Kind

Being an alien observer of Earth should be simple: Watch humans, take notes, don't get spotted. But J.B. and Pug are spectacularly bad at all three. While J.B. treats every mission as an excuse to raid Earth's candy supply, Pug's busy building the galaxy's most comprehensive collection of hats. Their careers are going great (terrible) until they meet Fran, a retired intelligence officer who not only sees through their supposedly perfect cloaking technology but decides to give them nicknames and adopt them as her personal extraterrestrial problem children. Throw in their new teammate NubNub, whose brilliant disguise strategy is to pretend to be living room furniture, and a suspiciously quantum-powered cat named Chairman Meow, and you've got a recipe for intergalactic workplace comedy at its finest.

Speaking of recipes, try explaining to Command why a T-Rex is running a drive-through restaurant, or why Florida's retirement communities are suddenly holding quantum physics lectures disguised as baking classes. "Close Encounters of the Weird Kind" is what happens when alien surveillance goes hilariously wrong and the watchers discover they're the ones being watched - usually by elderly humans with far too much time on their hands and a surprising grasp of interdimensional mathematics. Pack your quantum-enhanced snacks and get ready for a story that proves the universe's best-kept secrets might just be hiding in plain sight, probably pretending to be a throw pillow.