For anyone keeping notes, today marks the 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY at my job. Ten blissful, heavenly years. Paradise and eternal joy. I’m celebrating today by not fucking going into fucking work. Because it’s Sunday, mostly. Here, have some Sunday funnies.

Frazz

You mean to tell me that Frazz is actually supposed to be funny??! Wow, all this time I was led to believe that this comic strip exists only to irritate anyone who accidentally reads it. I could’ve sworn that I was right all along here, but yeah, wow, my mistake! Sorry everyone!

cabalonrye: “You need to learn to build houses that can stand the heat. Thick walls, good isolation, shutters to close during the day, shaded areas, light coloured ground and roads… And you need to learn to live in non-freezing temperatures.”
Guilty Bystander: “Which is why I love where I live in the Philippines: Daytime highs of 75-78F, overnight lows of 55-60F, all year long. Just don’t ask about monsoon season, which is just getting underway.”
Last Rose Of Summer: “Hah! Here in Vegas it’s been 107 to 112 for 3 weeks. Lows? In the 90s.”

If nothing else, strips like these give the Frazz fans some room to flex their knowledge of regional temperatures and, uh, house-building. And we should be grateful for it.

Curtis

Okay, I wasn’t on board at first with today’s Curtis, but the line “I’d swear my innocence on any book that looks like a Bible” is actually pretty funny. The Wilkins household probably has 50 books that actually are the Bible, but Curtis knows that it would be quite a needle in a haystack situation to find him a book in the house that looks like a Bible. This is where Curtis will get off on a technicality!

Also the funniest panel in the entire funnies section today is the second-to-last panel here. What jank-ass hardware store did the Wilkins buy their “BING BONG BING BONG” doorbell from? I gotta find that store!

Jim Alexander: “If it’s not yet noon, then why did the clock chime 13 times?”
David Rickard: “Today’s Curtis provides a masterclass in implausible deniability.”
Cameron1988: “Way to go, dunderhead”

Ha, local genius Jim Alexander gives us a riddle to really scratch our heads over, while Cameron1988 is NOT HAVIN’ IT with Curtis’ antics! We have the full range today, folks.

Rex Morgan, M.D.

Now this is the goldmine. Everything about this one is so damn perfect that I’d do it an injustice by even commentating upon it! So I will!

My Rex Morgan, M.D. knowledge is limited to two things: 1) There’s a guy in it named Rex Morgan. 2) He’s a doctor.

Of course, who knows how many zany characters permeate this strip. For all I know, Rex Morgan himself was killed by a flying manhole in 1972 and comic has been covering the side characters ever since! Side characters such as Anderzej and, well, this old lady. This old lady who will likely get mangled in a horrible car accident after being addled and poisoned by the flowers that Anderzej deliberately contaminated with a lethal toxin and placed on the fireplace mantle.

iamr4man: “Oh look, he’s reading a newspaper’s comics page. If he read Rex Morgan M.D. he’d know his wife is about to go to the hospital. But, of course he won’t read Rex Morgan, even if his newspaper carries it. Who would read that dumb strip anyway.”
made of wince: “Oh, Tildy, how could you be doing this when you know better? How could you be leaving the house in that robe?”
Benjie: “I still think it’s just a reaction to the ugly pills she takes every day.”
namberak: “I’m calling Griff to find out what he charges for a car bomb. It might be a little pricey though, because I want one that the circuit can’t complete unless there are two occupants.”

I gotta give the Rex Morgan, M.D. commentators credit here. Now there’s a group of people who know how to respond to these kind of comic strips! Threatening characters with a car bomb is my kind of style!