Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for February 17, 2023

Well, the dark side of Mercury is extremely cold. Mercurial, that planet is. Best to approach it from the dark side of the sun!

He gets the atmosphere right, i.e. it’s almost non-existent, so you can see the stars even in daylight.

That’s why you should never do anything important during “Mercury Retrograde”.

Those dudes are SOOOO mercurial!

Let me guess, next stop is Pluto with hot pizza.

How would they even know about ice cream?

I SCREAM, You SCREAM, We all SCREAM!! Period. It is 300 degrees!!

Mercury is a tidal locked planet. Delivery could have been made on the side facing away from the sun.

Of course, then you wouldn’t have had the joke.

“Ahhhh, my Praline!”

Better travel to Uranus to get it frozen again

Where’s the Terminator when you need it. (astronomy joke)

I can see why they would order ice cream.

Winky looks under age to me, don’t they have child labor laws on the R.U. Sirius. Especially since most of his duties appear to be rather dangerous.

Delivering to the dark/cold side of the planet, then them moving to the bright/hot side and eating it quickly would seem to be the best strategy.

Interesting species/race, that can abide in extremes of hot and cold, no oxygen and open radiation exposure.

They must be reading his lips, since he is wearing a helmet and there is no atmosphere to convey sound waves.

At least Winky got a space suit this time.

They should be grateful that the container survived — maybe they used one of those bear-proof containers from yesterday’s Ripley’s Believe It or Not.