Chip must have been feeling really lazy when he drew this strip. Also it may interest you to know that what Brutus and Wilberforce are actually seeing is the first visible crescent of the Moon after the Moon was in it's new moon stage.
It's interesting to note that the term new moon was first used for the crescent and the term dark moon was used for when the moon was between the Earth and the Sun (what we now call new moon).
I also find it hard to believe that Wilberforce has never heard of or seen a new moon before.
