Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for July 12, 2009

Brewster is so easily distracted, while Winky loses another spleen…

Captain Short Attention Span strikes again!

S.O.S.: Save Our Spleens!

Everyone says I have ADD, but they just don’t - hey! Look! A chicken!

Suddenly I realize I, just like Brewster, have been probed once too often…

A giant space bat?……get the spleen kit.

A space bat? What are the wings for, I wonder. In space, as my granddad would say, “They’re useless as t i t s on a boar hog.”

Well, if they didn’t have wings they would be space rats.

Solar panels, very small solar sails, field coils for electromagnetic sails. . Also true, McGehee.

He’s doomed.

i hate when that happens

Maybe the space kitty will snag the bat and Winky will come back for once with his spleen!

I hate those spleen eating giant space bats!

oh no they are going have to clone a new spleen for winky and prob a new winky.

May as well, Winky’s they cloned Winky’s spleen already.

Even though we saw the space bat but for one brief panel, I think it radiated charisma and vivaciousness. Heck, make it part of the Sirius crew.

I hear they’re good eatin’….

I suppose they taste like space chicken, dracip.

Ooo! That one looks like a spleen!

ADD and NF (Myers Briggs reference) in space - a scary concept!

NF? Let’s test that.

Brewster definitely decides primarily according to Fi (subjective values), but his primary source of input is definitely Se (objective, “here and now” data and events). He aspires to use Ni (relating to inner symbolism) effectively, but usually doesn’t (as in this strip, especially the last panel).

An NF wouldn’t have to “look hard enough” to see patterns in the stars; they’d appear automatically and without conscious control. Brewster speaks here like an S, not like an an N.

Thanks to the cognitive processes he manifests in a particular order and way, Brewster’s an ESFP Performer, and not an NF (not even the often-screwball ENFP Inspirer).

http://www.personalitypage.com/ESFP.html

An ESFP with ADD? Yikes. You couldn’t ask for a looser cannon. :)

(Winky, on the other hand, is most likely an ISFJ Nurturer: as caring as an INFJ Protector, yet without an INFJ’s ability to see mortal danger to his spleen coming.)

Rakkav, there aren’t many INTPs in the comics, are there? I think we’re too practical - I wouldn’t be caught out in the open like that without being armed!

Now cross that system matrix of individual differences with Galen’s: Phlegmatic, Choleric, Sanguine, Melancholic, all mutually orthogonal scales; there’s enough for unique fingerprints for everybody! Infinite recreation, labeling each other, too…

The problem with short attention spans.

Cloning Lab, We’re going to need another Winky.