Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 01, 2023

April is nice here. As is May.

I’ve always kind of liked April. As long as I don’t have to live with her for more than 8.33% of the time.

Yes, April may but June will!

Children should like the Prodigal Son story. It means you don’t have to worry about the stuff you do when you’re a kid.

Infinity-illion?

June is also Accordion Awareness month. Listen to a polka to celebrate.

I thought the “May 1” reference would wind up having something to do with May Day.

And the Prodigal Son isn’t supposed to be “fair.” Just like the workers who worked from the 1st, 3rd, 6th, and 11th hour, but all got paid the same. He maketh the sun to shine on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust. So I guess some people will be very upset when they see some folks in heaven who they don’t think deserve to be there.

I find it odd that she missed the point of the story that the true work of the Father is forgiveness, restoration, and reconciliation. On a lighter note, I’ve always thought it unique that April, May, and June are all typically girl names.

A hocky reference! Well done! I see Red Wings influence here.

How do you pronounce ∞illion?

Hey, April slugs it out with winter with no help. May and June waltz in after all the heavy lifting and melting are done, all “La dee dah! Look at us – we have sun!”

Wonderful strip this morning and even more Wonderful followup comments.

Reread the history. The second son had “issues” as well.

We Southerners ask…what is this hip-check thing?

Prodigal son and months of the year? Swing and a miss.

In central VA May weather has been beautifully mild, even if a bit wet. Got a feeling June will finally get up to speed, and July will go for another run as ‘hottest on record’. But then, predicting the weather more than a day or 2 ahead is like hunting bears with a ping-pong paddle. The outcome is definitely iffy.

April is more cruel than March?

April showers bring May flowers. May flowers bring hay fever.

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Thanks loads, April….

I like ooillion !!!!

The older son was mad about a party thrown for his brother who the dad thought might be dead.. could’ve been happy his brother was alive and well. He still was the sole inheritor.

How is that word ending in ‘illion’ pronounced? ‘Infinitillion’? ‘Lazyeightillion’?

Where I live, April hip-checks the cruelest month. May is the start of summer. June is when the misery begins. So yeah, I don’t like June either.

In 2023, summer begins on the summer solstice (June 21) and runs until the autumnal equinox (September 23). A fact which strikes many people as odd is that the daylight hours always get shorter during summer, but it makes sense once you realize that the summer solstice is the longest day of the year.

The most famous hip check in Major League Baseball was done by Mr. October!

Having spent my life dutifully avoiding religious services, I don’t even know the story of the Prodigal Son. But I do question a 10 year old alluding to The Wasteland.

Hey, hey, hey, don’t be dissin’ April! She’s a lovely month. Now, March, that’s another story.

April is the cruelest month? Not hardly, if July and August have any say! Kids out of school overcrowding every place that I go, heat and humidity, construction season on the roads, no new TV, no football, bugs prime season for biting and stinging – everything about summer months stink!