Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 27, 2019

One of my favorite suspension-of-disbeliefs in television is when the bad guy comes up to somebody and knocks them out when they were only a few feet away and not even hiding.

Using the dog leash for kite flying seems to be an excellent idea.

That’s funny…. I’m using it as a “kid-who’s-so-full-of-her-own-judgemental-opinion-she-can’t-tell-when-people-are-joking” detector.

Cos I’d probably have said either of those things and then waited for a laugh.

Maybe Charlie Brown should try it. Perferably away from trees.

Rare treat by Jeff Mallet: a three-jokes-strip and even bending (if not breaking) the fourth wall. Thanks!

Best use yet for a retractable dog leash.

dang, I figured it was a kite but a leash is too heavy for the kite to life, well, toy kites at least. Kinda spoiled my own fun.

The point of this to me is that those first two jumped to ridiculous conclusions that they considered obvious. While Frazz is smart enough to know that without full knowledge of the situation he can only make an educated guess.

Whatever it is, it is pulling the picture frames out of kilter.

Jef has read and understood and uses his Eisner.

“You obviously have a pet helicopter.”

That went over like a lead balloon.

I like her. I “repurpose” many things. They often work better that way than originally intended.

Obviously, you got elected to hold a tether on the flying saucer.

The kid is using a detector for sarcasm, dad jokes and think-inside-the-frame-ers.

Blog Posts Frazz 16 hrs ·

My dog, Zoey, is part border collie, which, in dog math, makes her all awesome. She really is a good dog. The other part of her is some kind of terrier, which doesn’t take away from the awesome one bit. What you end up with, or what we ended up rescuing, is a super-smart, super-friendly dog that herds selectively. She doesn’t herd our four cats, and she only occasionally herds us. What she lives to herd is squirrels. She herds them up trees, with extreme prejudice. That might be the terrier in her more than the border collie, but that’s just details.

In any event, the retractable leash is a must. We used to have a routine out on walks where she’d see a squirrel and sit stock-still while I unclipped her and checked for traffic and other dogs. Then, and only then, after I gave her the release command, she would chase the squirrel up the nearest tree — actually, up whatever tree the squirrel chose — and prance proudly and directly back to me. But after I saw some posts on this kinda sorta local Facebook-type site suggesting that some people, even people in my friendly little town, could get pretty worked up over unleashed dogs, we went with the retractable leash. I kind of understood the concerns, and the leash is a very acceptable compromise. Zoey still sits and waits for the release command, and if I sprint almost as fast as she does and the tree is close enough, it works. Sometimes it doesn’t work. Sometimes she runs out of leash, especially when our walk is a 3-body affair, with the dog on the leash pulling my wife in her wheelchair being pushed by me. Before anybody gets worked up anew, this time about about potential injury, Zoey wears a harness where the leash-attachment point is at her sternum.

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The intent of those harnesses is to discourage pulling — the angle is all wrong and frustrates the effort — but it also makes for a gentle, if undignified, somersault when the leash runs out. Followed immediately, of course, by a happy, prancing dog with the clear expression, “that was GREAT!”

I don’t know if it was walking Zoey that inspired today’s Frazz or if talking to boneheads did, but I’ll go with the dog. I walk her daily, and I think I probably talk to boneheads a little less than that.

“I’m obviously walking my friend’s beagle, who is going after the Red Baron.”

I hate it when the person with the gun is apparently more afraid to shoot than of what the bad guy will do to them so they just let the bad guy take the gun from them.

A pocket fisherman is good for kite flying

Would have been nice here if Frazz was in front of the side of the panel.