Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for May 17, 2010

The Doc is a consultant to BP?

No, just genetically linked to a long line of sociopaths. Who are in fact, all consultants…

The Doc’s an oil man for sure, but Pam looks like she’s about to rip out Winky’s spleen!

I hope Pam has better judgment in assigning benefit of the doubt than Miss Wormwood presently does in Calvin and Hobbes.

Who says this strip isn’t topical?

Who knew that the probing of an asteroid could create such an uncomfortable situation?

I struck gold! This has probably been posted before, but it was new to me - if you click on the “<<” link above the toon, it will take you to the very first Brewster Rockit comics. There we first discover Bucky, invented by Cliff and Pam’s children. Very interesting to see what came first, before we learned that Brewster is a blond.

I guess they’ll stick a giant straw in the asteroid to try and siphon out the antimatter into a waiting tanker. They may need to use a giant hammer to get the straw into the asteroid: a hammeroid.

BP, politicians and MDQ are doing the tar ball two-step down here. Sounds just like ‘em.

So, then Barry is portrayed by Brewster, and Janet (“The System Worked”) is portrayed by Cliff Clewless. Yup, works for me.

At least drilling into an asteroid wouldn’t kill everything in the ocean that’s fit to eat.

Doesn’t mater if it’s fit to eat or not,It’s fit to live!

Yep. Found the antimatter.

What’s the matter?

Quick! Break out the Uncle matter!

At this point some gray matter seems chiefly what is needed.

No, don’t add regular matter to sop the mess up, not unless you want, briefly, a second Sun in the Solar System.