Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for July 21, 2024

What an airhead … wait

That proves it, I guess.

In the subzero of outer space, that won’t be Jack Frost nipping at your nose.

Sam & Max: Bad Day on the Moon

Sam: “I think I’m having some trouble figuring out how to find the moonies or moonites or whatever the hell they’re called.”

Max: “Take that dippy bag off your head and let’s follow these highway signs.”

Sam: “So let me get this straight. We can breathe here then?”

Max: “I guess those candy-butt astronauts didn’t have the stones to try it.”

Sam: “I could never say that about an astronaut.”

Smells like … (gasp) … death.

Since taking off your helmet is a really bad idea in space I’m not sure how you determine the smell… It’s a Schrödinger’s aroma… I’m going with it smelling like chocolate. I like the smell of chocolate, and nobody’s gonna prove me wrong.

Hey, someone had to try it.

I’m hoping that they’ll detect isoamyl acetate around some distant body in outer space . A planet with that odor might be a nice place to visit.

Removing helmet in space is gonna kills instantly. No way he still be alive.

“Ah Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It is very cold in space.”

And the moon smells like gunpowder, according to the Apollo astronauts.

Nice ship name.

Raspberries? ARE YOU SERIOUS?

…and Pam hardly looks startled or surprised in the last panel. She’s seen Brewster do such dumb things before.

“I only wear the helmet because they make me.”

Or your blood imploding

Nothing in outer space, i.e. the space between heavenly bodies, exists in sufficient concentration to be detected by the sense of smell.

don’t try this at home!

All in the interest of science.

That helmet must be like a Scope bottle. You know, put on, twist, and it seals.

The “smell of space” is the “smell of spacecraft”, which contain a wide variety of volatile compounds. Most likely the burnt metal smell is from thruster combustion residue. Space has no smell, no air, no rest stops.

If they cleaned up some of those infinite galaxies, maybe their space wouldn’t smell so much.

Just another look at how Brewster’s brain does not compute!

Odors don’t travel through vacuums. But if one COULD analyze the chemistry of clouds of molecules floating through space, they could have such smells, conceivably.

The Secret Revealed — Brewster Rockit is really Superman!

Either that, or this is showing us a super power he developed as a result of the many alien probings that also caused him to become super-stupid.

Galileo:

“Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be”