Oh, Henry

Have you ever heard of the comic strip Henry? If not, consider yourself lucky. I was first exposed to it in the Sunday Richmond Times-Dispatch. They didn't print it daily. Probably because it sucks, but then why did they bother to print it on Sunday? Well, anyway, my brother and I always made fun of it. According to its website, it's in 75 newspapers! I'm sorry if it's one of yours.

It works really well for this site because there is never any dialogue, so I don't have to type that out for you.

Here's what you probably think the joke is: kid in shorts and t-shirt notices that it's freezing outside. He goes into his house, and gets a coat, scarf, and hat, but not for his own use!! HA HA HA - it's for a snowman!

That's not what the "joke" is, though. See, Henry always wears shorts and t-shirt. The "joke" is that snowmen don't really need coats, scarves, or hats -- they don't get cold. Yes, of course, they are made of snow, but see -- they prefer the cold, otherwise they'd melt. Have you not seen "Frosty the Snowman"? Or sung the song? I guess Henry hasn't.

But, boy do Henry's parents suck. Can you believe they let him out in such cold weather dressed like that? Maybe he has one of those strange childhood diseases -- his disease is that he has super-heated blood.

Hey! I just noticed that the snowman also has earmuffs, but not gloves. This is odd. I mean, snowmen don't generally have ears, but this one obviously has hands, so you think it would be more important for him to have gloves than earmuffs. Also, he's not wearing pants.