Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for January 01, 2025

Any nominations?

Was that a philosophical comment from the peanut gallery?

Since it’s 2025, it’s too late to lose anyone in 2024. Just sayin’.

No redshirts eh.

Happy New 2025 ya rockiteers. May new year propels ya ahead!

You really should check out last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. Every year they do an obituary issue. This one had James Earl Jones on the cover and had stories on a selection of those who died in 2024.

Wait! Ensign Kenny survived all of his mishaps?

“Ok, we need volunteers! Line up at the airlock!”

Dollar short and a day late.

Uhh, Ensign Kenny, Winky, uncounted numbers of Donut People… ☺

I volunteer Cliff.

Technically he’s right. We didn’t lose anyone tragically. We lost Kenny several time in comedic fashion.

Not me! Wait… who’s gonna be the next president? I changed my mind!

Jimmy Carter and game show host Peter Marshall, just to name a couple. (I hadn’t heard that Peter had passed away until just yesterday, believe it or not.)

Aw, c’mon, don’t leave a blank space in our presentation!

I did.

Not such a bad year, then.

They lost a spleen. Several of them, in fact. Which implies Dr Mel has functional organ cloning in place.

How many spleens did Winky lose?

Jimmy Carter…but given the lead time on comic strips, there was no way Mr. Rickard could have predicted that. Anyway, it would have ruined the punch line.

what about all the pastry creatures who met a cruel fate ?

Not that you didn’t try.

Just learned that Linda Lavin (Alice) passed away on Dec 28th,

Each high school senior yearbook has a memoriam page. It’s nearly impossible to go 4 years without a teenager dying. On the TV show The Wonder Years it was a school teacher.

I volunteer as tribute !