Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for December 18, 2011

Just can’t take the slave driver out of Dr. Mel.

What we don’t see is that in the next panel, the toys are melted down and recycled into parts again. Dr. Mel just really likes that whip. The aliens/robots are trucked in to be enablers.

Hmmm.. Put a white wig and beard on Dr Mel, add some padding, realize the aliens could be mistaken for elves and…

Aren’t the aliens Uranians?

NO! That’s Charlie in the box. These are the toys from the Isle of Misfit Toys – from that old TV special, “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”

Do aliens get to collect unemployment?

I need to update the slave drivers in my robots.

I like how Dr.Mel keeps his robot workers all nicely clean and polished, even while they’re working.Not so much the Aliens.

In the interest of accuracy, Rickard should have drawn the robots with Chinese features.

as a wise man once said “meet the new boss, same as the old boss”

WHAH-PSHHHH! Faster Oldbot! Faster! Dr. Mel sings~When a problem comes along, you must whip it.Before the cream sits too long, you must whip it.When something’s going wrong, you must whip it.

I’d feel a lot sorrier for those robots if they didn’t look like they’d stepped out of a Gumby cartoon.÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷Sing along with Sherlock: “Look for the union label…”

Not funny this time…

“I recognize the one kid. That’s Jack, in the box.”

but robots don’t sweat, so no longer a sweatshop, per se

just wait till they kill all humans.