Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for March 11, 2021

Super, they are very good indeed..

Poor Ed. His workday wears him out.

We also used to be impressed by how much of our desks the computers and monitors took up.

Today is the 69th anniversary of the birth of Douglas Adams. Happy Birthday wherever you are Douglas, and DON’T PANIC.

So for the past twenty years you’ve been milking jokes about a guy sleeping.

I had a co-worker who we found asleep at his desk with his trench coat on. He had a tie that looked like his father tied for him the first day and he never untied the knot

It does not look like a dream so much as an out of body experience. Except his head is facing the wrong way.

Today’s Shoe has a similar theme, but Cosmo is a piker compared to Ed.

I think the answer is in the first strip with Rita. She either bored them so bad that it made him terminally sleepy at work or he’s allergic to Rita.

Of course the original example is very situation specific, the gag being the “geekiness” of a Star Trek marathon keeping everyone up late.