Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for April 12, 2019

Brewster, what if you’re not even real but just a digital figment of someone’s imagination?

More like PUNCHLINE NOT FOUND, amiright??

Breaking the third wall! I love it! (It would be fourth in a movie.)

Oh, no!! Could this be the end of Brewster Rockit? Or at least of “Brewster Rockit: Space Guy!”?

I hope there are a backup of the Brewster comic files and I hope they have deleted Cliff.

Careful what you say. Alexa may be listening.

“The computer ate my homework.”

Quick! Unplug your computer from the internet and call tech support!

Malware that’s Bad?! Who would have thought…

Don’t click those links in your email. The CEO has no reason to email YOU! He probably has no clue how to use email, he has flunkies for that!

NNNNNNnnnnnooooooooooo

“Oh no — it’s the dreaded ‘404’ virus!”

Yeah, I can believe that. My newspaper has started carrying “Nancy.”

One little solar flare, Brewster and his digital world are gone. Hope they have a backup in the protected archives. What did you say? Cliff was in charge of keeping the backup up to date? File recovered https://www.gocomics.com/brewsterrockit/2004/07/05?ct=v&cti=2116349

There is not enough memory to display this message.

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OK, going off-line now to do a full system scan.

We’re all just data on a celestial server.

This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

Not with a bang or a whimper

But with a malware prank.

And that’s why we have … computing in the clown!

Just a day or two ago my husband was telling me about a SciFi story he had read in the past in which an interplanetary archeology team comes upon a site which includes, among other things, a button which translated was labelled something like “Do not press this. Doing so will end the universe.” They assumed it was a joke and the story continued with other mesmerizing discoveries until on one page the whole thing goes blank mid-sentence with only empty pages following.

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