Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for July 31, 2024

Laika was russian to get back home because she was, well, laika. But the aliens had to delay that. They paid the price.

Cosmo, the telepathic dog in Guardians of ththe Galaxy, was based on the Soviet dog Laika. Comic nerd trivia.

This is as Laika-ly a story as the one the Russkies have been telling about her ever since.

What nobody knows? If nobody knows, how can we hear about it now?

Of course, Laika was brought back to a lovely farm near Sochi, and didn’t die a horrible death all alone.

I like this better than the true story.

Served the aliens right; the only saucer a dog cares about is one filled with food.

Laika can talk now. She sent us a message from 67 light years away, so it took a while to get here.

This story was also the inspiration for that early Pink Floyd album: “A Saucerful of Secrets”

I would think carpet on a spaceship is prohibitive in its weight when launching a spaceship from any planet? And when you kidnap a dog, what else do you expect from it when it has to go potty? I’ll bet they don’t have a doggy door in their space ship!

I do enjoy Brewster. But sometimes, I enjoy the little “Next:” captions more.

Didn’t end well for Laika

[Nerd Alert] The “Manhattan Projects” are a series of graphic novels starring Oppenheimer, Einstein, and Laika among others. It took the Americans four years to get the A-bomb because there was other, much more intereasting stuff going on…

If only this comic were true. But the truth is Laika the dog died in Earth orbit.

The USSR was indeed an evil empire, but shooting dogs into space with no hope of recovery is even worse than Bond villain activity.

Better ending than what we had been told!

I like this version better than what really happened to Laika.

(our carpet) When ’ya gotta go, ’ya gotta go.

What nobody knows is the Russians left her to die in space.

Yes, we sent a sentient, emotional, intelligent, social, loving animal into orbit, knowing full well she would die, alone, in darkness, terrified, in profund emotional agony, abandoned, with no way to understand what was happening to her or what she could possibly have done to deserve it. There is nothing, nothing whatsoever, that we accomplished in space that justifies the terrible, absolutely unneccesary, criminal torture we infliict on that dog. “We” here are not the Russians; “we” are the human race. 40,000 years of loving, devoted service—and see what we give you. I wish the human race could somehow be made to pay what we owe.

What we do know for sure is that she didn’t come back. It was a terrible fate for a cosmonaut’s best friend.

Little know fact, because all UFOs at that time came with wall to wall shag carpet, the “Roswell crash” would go on to influence the interior designs of custom vans 25 years later!

Now a member Guardians of the Galaxy

Until TASS revealed her name as Laika (which just means “female dog”), American journalists called her “Muttnik” (per a space trivia book by one of the astronauts).

I wish this story was true. Laika had a very sad ending.

Too bad they didn’t abduct Putin. If ever there was human in need of an invasive an@l probe…

A Flying Saucer with carpet, ritzy!

thanks for reminding us of this horrible story. i come to the comics to get a few moments of joy, not to become depressed.