That’s Lyman, a character from the early strips. I don’t know why exactly, but the “gag panel” was replaced with a stock panel. Normally the panel with Lyman would be a pre-joke, arranged so that some papers could cut it off and only show the bottom two rows.
What is up with the green shirt guy in the first panel? I feel like my brain isn’t parsing the image right
That’s Lyman, a character from the early strips. I don’t know why exactly, but the “gag panel” was replaced with a stock panel. Normally the panel with Lyman would be a pre-joke, arranged so that some papers could cut it off and only show the bottom two rows.