Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 13, 2022

I really like this kid.

The pre-history of the earth in 4 sentences. Talk about concision. Of course, he’s ‘borrowed’ the style from the films of the last 30 years, but the other kids will remember those names and that drawing long after they forget the class.

The #1 thing wrong with the report is that Triceratops was herbivorous, so eating part of a Pterodactyl wouldn’t have been of interest.The #2 thing wrong is that gas tank contents mostly came from vegetative matter, not dinosaurs. Dinos would make lousy motor fuels, which need to start with mostly carbon and hydrogen. Vegetative matter also has sulfur, which can be removed in refining, and nitrogen which mostly escapes during the compression-and-breakdown process. Dinos contained sulfur and nitrogen, plus calcium, phosphorus and smaller amounts of other elements, all of which don’t belong in gasoline.

Science Fiction or Pure Fantasy?

I feel lots of people should feel hit by the “largely empty pickup truck” thing, watching from Europe it is incomprehensible why so many in the US voluntarily drives something that is essentially clumsy and wasteful, when they could be driving something much better for less money.

The real issue is that this is all way too much fun.

Most oil (and therefore gasoline) was formed during the Permian Period, 290-248 million years ago, pre-dating the Dinos by a whole bunch.

Sounds like a quote embraced by both Faux News and News Max, as well as #45.

Great graphics today!

Except the Pterodactyls sort of evolved and now wander through my yard every day in the form of Sandhill Cranes which are really amazing creatures.

Why would Mrs. Olsen have a problem with this? This gets a “A.”

The highest DNA from a T Rex is found in chickens. Which can be found in a bucket, deep fried.

But the pterodactyl’s descendants are everywhere — winner!

Know why you never hear a Pterodactyl urinate? The P is silent. Thanks, you’ve been great! I’ll be here all week!

Fake but accurate? No wonder we’re so screwed.

Jef. Thank YOU for this brilliant cartoon commentary. Bravo, well done. 4.0 A+

Brilliant.

With all its faults, every kid in the room understands the underlying message. “What’s my Slurpee worth?” and wondering what kind of sound system the truck has.

Always on killjoy in the crowd, lol

Have you ever wondered how an animal as huge as a brontosaurus, diplodocus, stegosaurus, or other gigantic herbivores could ingest enough food through that relatively tiny mouth to grow and then maintain that body? There is (AFAIK) not another modern creature with anything close to that dis-proportion of head-to-body.

“68 MILLION YEARS FROM NOW YOU WILL BOTH SHARE A GAS TANK, PROPELLING A LARGELY EMPTY PICKUP TRUCK TO A CONVENIENCE STORE.” – that pretty much sums it up.

I guess if you have a pickup truck you’re a jerk whenever you drive without cargo. Even if you’re only going to a nearby convenience store and back.

Wait. No one’s going to comment on the great Ken Kesey quote? He was a visionary and a loon, and not necessarily in that order. A Holy clown, if you will.

Never mind the nitpicking about prehistoric anachronisms and the science of petrification, what about the the pictorial brilliance on display in the lower left-hand corner of the scene, which is shown at two overlapping points in time through a chronosynclastic window? Jef Mallett doesn’t just break the “fourth wall,” he makes the fourth dimension transparent!

Third trip to the convenience store, in fact.

JWilly has it right about dinosaurs and petroleum, though the interesting question remains, where did that stuff come from? Coal pretty obviously from plants, but . . . ?

“It’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.” Ahem

Especially terrific today – and that time-bending non-inset inset pulling it all along. Made my Sunday morning – thank you!

You know, most of the comment threads on GoComics are remarkably good at killing a joke. Just saying.

You wish it were the truth beyond being on paper or in this case a chalk board.

Nope, Ken Kesey was wrong, also.

Jef, take notes on JWilly’s comment….

Kids learned something for sure