1 Martian 1: We need a new plan to take over Earth.
2 Martian 2: How about we activate our sleeper agent in the US government?
3 Martian 1: Excellent idea! Contact the agent at once!
4 {scene change: An office in Washington D.C.}
4 Loren: {answering phone} Hello, Loren Ipsum speaking.

Outside Loren Ipsum's window you can see the Washington Monument. The photo is a royalty-free image from morgueFile.

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2016-12-17 Rerun commentary: This shocking revelation would only have come as a surprise to people who don't read the comic annotations, since it was revealed beforehand, way back in the original annotation for #1324, some six months before this strip was published.

At the time, it was actually just a silly throw-away attempt at a joke, and for a while I forgot about it. Until the time when strip 1500 was approaching, and I think someone on the forums pointed out that we already knew what had to happen in strip 1500, because of the revelation in 1324. It was only then that I decided to actually follow through with it and concocted this whole storyline of Loren being a Martian agent.

I have to say, getting a sleeper agent undetected into the US Government is probably the most competent thing these Martians have ever done.