Close to Home by John McPherson for May 10, 2023

It is amazing how many “nerf asteroids” have to hit our lives before we stop taking things for granted. Great strip today Mr McPherson!

Considering we’ve now found out that asteroids like Bennu appear to be largely loose piles of rubble…

I suspect that, having no real consequences, it’ll have just the opposite effect on our thinking…

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh, “BOING”!!

Wait, what the…

… we’ve been “Nerf’d!!!

“Quantity has a quality all its own.” A Nerf asteroid the size of Mt. Everest would not cause a global extinction on the scale of Chicxulub, but it would still be a Very Bad Day.

Bleeb has some powerful friends

Too late!

Don’t look up that “dress,” Bleeb. Oh, I see now. You aren’t, You are actually watching the asteroid with your friends.

More like reminding them of who their Maker is and not taking HIM for granted!

He’s a softy after all!

JUST SEND THE REAL ONE. WE WILL NEVER RESPECT WHAT WE HAVE HERE

Yeah, good luck with that!

Chelyabinsk, February 15, 2013.

I have a theory that asteroids are what remains of Gods other experiments that just didn’t work out either.

Perhaps you should smite all the republicans.

A beach ball would be nice

One of the Designers is a practical joker, another one jiggles the earth to keep people on their toes…

>FOOMP!!!<

So, is this fast pitch or slow pitch?

After it goes through the atmosphere, it will be a Nerf ball.

So God is a scruffy white hippy on a cloud in outer space?

It would be funny for them and the end of us if that “Nerf asteroid” turned out to be a neutron star or a black hole. Oopsey!

really!