Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for January 17, 2023

So the box will be smaller…..

You can still lose weight before cremation. Lay off the cream part.

Gallows humor more appropriate to a Far Side cartoon!

All your diets and exercise went up in smoke.

Would it be environmentally safe to do that to Cosmo? It might be safer all around to stick him a box and bury it.

So he could finally have a smokin’ hot body!

Mine is almost all water weight. Just poke a hole in me when I die, and my corpse’ll look like a raisin.

Loose weight and have a smoking hot body.

The oven ain’t large enough.

Be careful of grease fires

This is possibly the most I’ve ever related to a comic strip.

Won’t work, Cosmo. Your suit coat is fireproof.

Either way you’ll lose weight.

From time to time I’ve thought of donating my bod to science. After they’ve used it for transplanting and the like, they’d cremate the remains. And, yes, that would be my last ditch chance to finally lose weight.

Also, it speeds up the ‘…to ashes’ part.

That’s the only way Cosmo can get a piece of ash.

Well if we distill you, you can lose up to 60% of your body weight – on the average…

Well, Cosmo, that fiery idea works. If you don’t believe it, just ash Mort!!!

But still it is all dead weight!

His goose is cooked