Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for August 28, 2016

But, on the positive side, none of the mimes is armed…

Don’t walk against the wind.

Aren’t they protected by those invisible boxes?

I’ll bet the grinning one is planning a stealth attack.

A planet just waiting to be destroyed!

Learn the words!

Then they’ll get a desperate call on the radio: “Turn around! The harbor is mimed!”

It was quiet, too quiet, like being inside a sound proof invisible box.

I won’t worry until they start pulling on those invisible ropes.

Watch out, Brewster: they’re armed with imaginary grenades!

Careful where you step! The area is full of land mimes.

“If the primary target is overcast, as always your secondary targets are the accordion factory and the mime school.”.(approximate near-quote from “Hot Shots”… I can’t remember the exact phrasing)

And here I thought they were all surrendering…

Better put a silencer on those guns.

I was going to point out some of the same things you folks said, but now it’s mute.

A Nebula-winning story some years back, “Murder in Clowntown,” described the crime of mime-bashing. The central premise of the story was that no clown could directly harm another, but self-harm was possible. In mime-bashing, the perp would pretend to hit a mime, who would obligingly throw himself backward, usually hitting a brick wall.