Day 22.
This one is called The Parrot Hour.
It’s a single frame — the first frame of a comic strip. The setup for a punchline.
I drew this today while parrot-sitting Pico. Ella is away at work. He’d been in and out of his cage all day, which sounds harmless enough until you realize that parrots are incredibly destructive creatures by nature. Every time you let them out, they will seek something to eat or destroy in an attempt to occupy their minds. You keep many things around for him to destroy, but he eventually runs out of things. And patience.
This time of day is called Parrot-30.
The parrot is about to begin his most important oration of the day. He is going to say every word and phrase he can think of or remember — including any new ones still in development — in an attempt to offset boredom.
This is not a drill. It is an imminent warning.
— Stooge