This is my discreet way of saying, I didn’t make Java’s strip for today. So instead you get this arti-joke.

I thought of it probably a year ago and couldn’t really fit it into any of my regular comics. So blue-haired mayonnaise-loving guy agreed to step in as a substitute comic. You would think he would have thought of this social hack years ago. His name is actually Arthur Choke and his friends call him Artie.

Hey, with the billions of people on Earth. There is probably a guy named Artie Choke. Probably many. What are the statistical odds of at least one of those guys asphyxiating while eating an artichoke? And how much would you pay for a chance to write that guys eulogy?