Rubes by Leigh Rubin for February 23, 2019

The first word?

Considering you invented language a week ago, I’d say "deadline’ is one of many words he doesn’t understand.

A cartoonist in-joke?

If he rubs those sticks together he might end up like the drummer in yesterday’s Free Range.

Don’t worry. The next time we have a forest fire, I’ll grab some from the edge. Better yet, why don’t you show me how to do it.

“Fire BAAAAADD!!!” – Frankenstein’s Monster

“And you must carve a status report into the cave wall every 10 minutes, explaining why you are late!”

Then me have to wait for someone to invent clock.

Probably should have had some of those Looney Tunes evil eyes in the bottom half signifying they were about to be eaten.

It’s still stuck in R&D [Research and Development].

Lucky! I have to get it done IMMEDIATELY.

The big problem is that you need to have fire to light a fire under the dude trying to invent fire!