Heathcliff

Heathcliff is at the delicatessen. He's wearing a black helmet with the word "ham" written on it.
"Don't order ham." the staff member warns a customer.

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Pondering Beetle Bailey

Beetle Bailey, 2013-06-17.

Sarge doesn't know what zombies are. In the real world, everyone knows what zombies are. The only places where people have never heard of zombies are zombie stories. Look at The Walking Dead. They call them "walkers" because they've never heard of zombies. If Sarge doesn't know what zombies are, that probably means Beetle Bailey is the setting for a zombie story, but pre-zombie-outbreak. The fact that Beetle is now watching a show about zombies means that the outbreak is probably imminent and he'll be the first to realise what's going on because he saw that show. It's the only possible explanation.

Fred Basset

"Hasn't it boiled yet?" asks one of Fred's owners.
"A watched kettle never boils, dear!" says the other.
"Neither does one that isn't plugged in!" observes Fred.

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F-Minus

An angry woman wearing an elaborate crown is reading something from a manilla folder. Nearby, two men stand talking.
"I know it's not against the dress code," says one, angrily, "but she's my employee. Shouldn't I have the crown?"
The other man clearly does not care.

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Pondering Ginger Meggs

Ginger Meggs, 2013-06-13.

OK, Ginger Meggs lives in Australia, and not in the snow or the desert or anything, just your standard Australian weather. Besides, it's winter (so it can't be high temperatures), there's no snow on the ground and it's clearly neither raining nor hailing. And he just walked to school. What could this extreme weather condition possibly be? Is a puddle enough to get his school closed down? Is that supposed to indicate flooding?

I don't think I ever missed a single day of school due to extreme weather. In 40°+ temperatures, in rain, hail, thunder and lightning and one time even snow, not once did my school ever tell us to stay home because of the weather. So what is it that gets Ginger Meggs his day off?