Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for March 16, 2022

I smell a framing. Talk to Sergeant Rufus.

I bet Corporal Mittens is also part of a cartel smuggling catnip.

She should never tell him how to succeed in crime. He has nine lives, you know.

“And I thought it was the purrfect crime.”

Cat toys? No cat needs those!

Corporal Mittens just walked on the keyboard and laid down on it.

Yay. The return of Corporal Mittens. Let’s have more of him.

but cat toys have intrinsic value . . .

She really wanted an empty box

That was a pretty catty remark.

Who understands bitcoin?

The smoking gun was probably the laser dot toy

“I would have gotten away with it, if it hadn’t been for those darn kids!”

He asked for NipCoin.

I’m surprised Mittens would be involved in ransomware. No cat I know would care about anything but a good under-ear scratch, back rub and tuna snack to ever get involved with a computer. I guess that’s why the corporal was a dead ringer for the hacker when it asked for cat toys, despite being the least likely candidate for the crime.

A cat’s ransomware attack is usually Feed me or you’ll get hairballs in your shoes.

Corporal Mittens is too cute to go to the brig.