Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for July 20, 2010

ARRGGHHHHH!

MUAHAHAHAHAHAA!

What a nightmare! If the Family Circus kids are invading now, wait until The Fusco Brothers show up.

Where’s Dr. Mel and his kill-bots when you need him? Since poor Billy has been seven years old for nearly 50 years now, it’s the kindest thing you can do.

Very, very clever, Tim!

Hey, look, a brand new batch of spleens…

(Sigh) Too bad I can’t comment about them on Acramax Comics anymore, thanks to others making explicit commets about them, Arcamax.Com removed it.

Yawn, I had this dream where Family Circus invaded GoComics. Strange dream, everybody was commenting.

Hey! The Family Circus Dad was just over at Baldo the other day. That family is getting around!

I had an extra child with that name.

Of course, if I were a real stickler, and willing to admit I actually read “Family Circus” for several years, I’d note that Tim got the punch line a bit off–in “Family Circus,” whenever somebody asked “Who did this?” the kids answered “Ida Know,” and a little ghostly character was seen committing the offense… Aieee! And I have brain cells dedicated to this information…

Josh–so that’s what happened at ArcaMax? I don’t usually read the comments over there, but a couple weeks ago noticed the “Comment” buttons (which are still on the site!) don’t work. Thought it was because of my pop-up blocker or something…

Really? “Ida Know?” Well, it looks like I goofed. I always thought it was “Not Me.” Just proves what I’ve always thought: I don’t spend enough time reading “Family Circus.” Thanks, puddleglum 1066. Tim Rickard - creator, Brewster Rockit.

dr.mel: You did “get it right”. There is “NotMe” (a Boy ‘ghost’) and there is “IdaKnow” ( a girl ‘ghost’) who cause trouble ay Family Circus. So you didn’t ”GOOF”.

While I don’t read Family Circus anymore I do appreciate it for the fact that it was one of the 1st comics I read in the newspaper. This continues today, although I’ve moved on to Pooch Cafe, Doonesbury, Lio and Brewster. There is a need for a spectrum of comics in the newspaper so that people of all ages and comic sensibilities can enjoy this great medium. (plus, I always liked the large Saturday comics where they do the dotted line path of the kids).

I prefer the The Nietzsche Family Circus, myself.

here’s hoping that mallard fillmore is one oil- soaked foul ….uh…fowl

@Puddleglum: it’s true, Puddleglum. I’ve been reading them there at ArcaMax since 2009 and leaving my own funny (and decent) comments about the strip. Unfortunetly, others have been leaving (as I said previously) explicid, profane, and racist remarks (when there’s african-american children present in the strip) about this 50-year old, clean cut strip! No doubt ArcaMax had enough of it and decided to close all postings to every strip on that site including ones here at GoComics. A dissapointment.

PJ looks like he has a full load in his diaper.

Dennis the Menace did it, with his henchmen, Calvin & Hobbes.

I want to see the gang from “Pearls Before Swine” show up; they haven’t crossed over with Brewster yet, and being “meta” they might have some ideas about stopping the ink spill.

hey i’m a tim too!

I’d love to see what the old Dysfunctional Family Circus (http://dfc.furr.org/) would have done with this. The one thing I’m sure of is, it wouldn’t be G rated!

From Go (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139239/):

Claire: What do you have against the Family Circus?

Todd: Okay, you sit down to read your paper, and you’re enjoying your entire two-page comic spread, right? And then there’s the Family [f-ing] Circus, bottom right hand corner, just waiting to suck. And it’s the last thing you read, so it spoils everything you read before it.

Claire: You could just not read it.

Todd: I hate it, yet I’m uncontrollably drawn to it.

Good one Varnes! Harvest them for their spleens!

i grew up with family circus and sometimes even- gasp - agree with mallard fillmore i ain’t gonna force anyone else to each marshmallow fluff with instant coffee, but it’s good

RWM - My objection to Mallard Fillmore is that it just isn’t funny.