Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for July 31, 2024

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    Bilan  3 months ago

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

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    syzygy47  3 months ago

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

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    pschearer Premium Member 3 months ago

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

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    Doug K  3 months ago

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

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    some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member 3 months ago

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

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    MagOctopus  3 months ago

    I like this better than the true story.

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    phritzg Premium Member 3 months ago

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

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    fuzzbucket Premium Member 3 months ago

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

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    phritzg Premium Member 3 months ago

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

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    BJDucer  3 months ago

    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!

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    Skeptical Meg  3 months ago

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

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    [Traveler] Premium Member 3 months ago

    Didn’t end well for Laika

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    Differentname  3 months ago

    [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…

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    blakerl  3 months ago

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

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    Need coffee  3 months ago

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

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    royq27  3 months ago

    Better ending than what we had been told!

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    kvnkoehler  3 months ago

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

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    Calvins Brother  3 months ago

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

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    rhpii  3 months ago

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

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    rugeirn  3 months ago

    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.

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    mistercatworks  3 months ago

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

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    mokspr Premium Member 3 months ago

    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!

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    alexius23  3 months ago

    Now a member Guardians of the Galaxy

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    gcarlson  3 months ago

    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).

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    aerilim  3 months ago

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

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    eb110americana  3 months ago

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

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    norphos  3 months ago

    A Flying Saucer with carpet, ritzy!

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    bunrabbit99  3 months ago

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

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