Looking for comics relief

You don’t read the comics?
You’ve got all the time in the world, bub. Read the comics.
I still clip the best strips out, for inspiration. Back when I had an office, when anyone had one, and therefore a cork bulletin board, when I was editing the news side of a newspaper, I cut out a “Rex Morgan, M.D.” and thumbtacked it up there to remind me of the real, sometimes burdensome, impact on people’s lives when they become news.
The last frame of the daily strip depicted