Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for June 19, 2016

Better question, do you tell your sons about the Mantis version of the birds and bees.

Don’t all the other little mantis children bug their mothers about the same thing?

I guess Father’s Day on their home planet is more like Father’s Memorial Day.

Total sexism. The females deserve to be treated just like the males.

Human females just devour men’s souls.

For the Mantises, Fathers Day is like any other of the food holidays.

These comments are classic examples of being as funny (if not more than) the strip!

Wo-Mantis, Woman-tis. I saw what you did there.

I turn on the tube and what do I seeA whole lotta people cryin’ “Don’t blame me”They point their crooked little fingers at everybody elseSpend all their time feelin’ sorry for themselvesVictim of this, victim of thatYour momma’s too thin; your daddy’s too fat

Get over it (slide guitar riff)Get over it (slide guitar riff)All this whinin’ and cryin’ and pitchin’ a fitGet over it, get over it

Thanks, big guy. I love your well-thought out and concisely stated defenses of facts and rationality here on the comment pages.

I’m assuming the whole cannabilism thing started because the female needed extra protein in order to have healthy babies so the male does double duty by his offspring.And many many little critters die soon after mating anyway. so this way, instead of being random food, the male very specifically is helping his mate and offspring.

Have you noticed? Lots of comic strips are picking up on the headless mantis theme.

Humans have the same kind of subspecies.They are called “Golddiggers”.The Golddiggers are in fact even more brutal than the Womantis:While the Womantis mercifully kill and eat the fathers of their kids, the Golddiggers keep them in perpetual slavery in plain sight but away from their kids.

Humans have the same kind of subspecies.They are called “Golddiggers”.The Golddiggers are in fact even more brutal than the Womantis:While the Womantis mercifully kill and eat the fathers of their kids, the Golddiggers keep them in perpetual slavery in plain sight but away from their kids.