Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for December 08, 2019

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    mddshubby2005  almost 5 years ago

    This would be a great first chapter to a dystopian science fiction video game.

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    pschearer Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    I welcome our alien overlords. (Yeah, I know, it doesn’t match my avatar, but I’m too old to fight anymore.)

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    PoodleGroomer  almost 5 years ago

    We invade Earth after I finish this 5* expert level game of Freecell.

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    kaffekup   almost 5 years ago

    Um, I thought it was designed by a human, Robert (The Music Man) Preston to defeat the aliens?

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    Bilan  almost 5 years ago

    The Last Starfighter certainly wasn’t one of the best sci-fi movies. But it’s noteworthy because it’s the very first movie to use CGI.

    Btw, she’s way too young to know that movie.

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    charliefarmrhere  almost 5 years ago

    I don’t think that the kid that played the video game & got the high score was the one that got abducted to fight the aliens. Wasn’t it someone else who happened by chance to be by the video machine just after the game winner had just walked away?

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Online comics are written by aliens to make us soft and lazy! (That’s my excuse.)

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    Gent  almost 5 years ago

    Aha. Just what the alien astronaut theorists were always afraid of!

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    gduncan58  almost 5 years ago

    I forgot the race/species, but his character was definitely alien. Humanoid, but not homo sapiens,

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    Andrew Sleeth  almost 5 years ago

    I am far too distracted by Pam to give one whit about alien invasions. (Hmmmm. Perhaps she’s an alien?!)

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    royq27  almost 5 years ago

    Robert Preston was an alien sent to find whoever had beaten the game. I always thought the kid went with him, not to save the Universe, but to get away from his annoying Mother.

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    COL Crash  almost 5 years ago

    The worst part is that as we train our entire focus on video games and the other distractions of the digital age, they will be able to completely take over before most people even notice they’re here.

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    JudyAz  almost 5 years ago

    Sounds similar to “Ender’s Game”

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    ve6rgp  almost 5 years ago

    In reality, video games improve eye hand coordination.

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    anomalous4  almost 5 years ago

    See also Ender’s Game.

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    tripwire45  almost 5 years ago

    Exactly.

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    GreggW Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Sounds more plausible.

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    1MadHat Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    From Wikipedia:

    Ender’s Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date in Earth’s future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind after two conflicts with the Formics, an insectoid alien species they dub the “buggers”. There is PDF of it at:

    https://epublib.info/resources/pdf/enders-game-by-orson-scott-card.pdf

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    DCBakerEsq  almost 5 years ago

    Why would aliens want Earth anyway?

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    Snoots  almost 5 years ago

    Video games were invented so that our personal skills would drop to the point of thumb dexterity and eye-hand coordination, insuring the ability of the government, big business and religion to retain control over society through mind manipulation.

    Or fun. Hard to tell. All I know is I’ve never seen a hard-core gamer accomplish anything other than maybe assemble a computer desk (or alternately on very, very rare occasion, win $100 grand in a contest). Some may think I’m exaggerating, but seriously, not. I was once an accomplished neurosurgeon before YouTube and Netflix hit the Internet.

    Okay, maybe I exaggerate. It took World of Warcraft to sink the deal.

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    Jonathan Bridge Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    See also “Zero Hour” by Ray Bradbury.

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