Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for August 15, 2010

Sigh…best fetch another spleen…

I thought it was, “With interstellar arachnids, keep it down, kids.”

Scorpions never change their spots

I don’t think the space scorpion likes baths.

Death where is thy sting?

If it isn’t one STING, it’s another.

(edit) for those you thought it was a little strange, I fixed it. \\//_

That thing’s gonna make a laSTING impression!

Oh, those puns sting….Really stinging humor!

Those who take Dr. Mel’s advice better put their spleens on ice.

SHEIK I used to sing that in the Spring in a cold white building with wooden benches. What if I took offence? I sure give offence. And what band did Sting play with before he went solo?

scorpions are not arachnids

sting? oh yeah, the singer with the white hair…… that was…..uh……..AFter the Beatles, right?

oo, Sting trivia! my favorite! here’s one–

who sold the most records: Sting or Xavier Cugat ??

and your final jeopardy question: name one famous accordion player… (cue the final jeopardy tune)

ok, pens down everybody, the answer is NOBODY – nobody famous ever played the accordion

Dr. Mel: “HEY, WINKY! THOSE CRITTERS YOU’RE SURROUNDED BY? IT TURNS OUT THAT LOUD NOISES MAKE THEM HOSTILE! SO WHATEVER YOU DO, BE VERY, VERY QUIET!!!”

Flaco Jimenez, dude. Ace accordion master with the “Texas Tornadoes”.

One spleen extraction, coming up…or will the scorpion just sting Winky in the spleen? Oh, the humanity!

spammer flagged

Lawrence Welk played the accordion.

buckwheat zydeco did too

Some of these spammers need to be Flagged more than once!

By the way, it’s “Feed a cold, Starve a fever.”

Winky takes one for the team, again.

By the way, wait until you find out how big scorpions really got back in the day. Giant scorpions, dragonflies and millipedes… were any of them running around today, I don’t think Phylum Mammalia would fare very well, except as lunch.

Phylum Chordata.

“Oh death where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling Oh grave thy victory? The bells of Hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling For you but not for me.”

Right. I was still thinking of Mammalia though; most of the other Chordata are lower on my personal totem pole.

Class Mammalia, then.

I read in Reader’s Digest many moons ago how a college English professor challenged one of his students to define “mammal”. The student (a boy) came back with something like, “Uh, it’s hairy… it has a hard skeleton… and, uh, it gives milk.”

“So far,” snapped the professor, “you haven’t eliminated the coconut.”

There are several interesting references to who played the accordion when and to what degree of fame, here. I’m ashamed of myself for not remembering They Might Be Giants.

It’s really “Feed a cold and feed a fever”. It’s not good to not eat either way.

Where’s today’s Brewster?

What happened to today’s strip.. not even a rerun ?

In space, no one can see Brewster take a vacation?

GoComics occasionaly has glitches in the update process. Happened to “Frank and Ernest” for a few days a week or so ago.

Today’s “Brewster Rockit” is available on comics.com

Tomorrow’s, if necessary, will be here when the time comes.

I’ll email GoComics about “Brewster Rockit” not updating. It would probably be a good idea if some other people did as well. Use the “Contact Us” link at the bottom of the page.

Cloning Lab, We’re going to need another Winky.