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You know, like the Garfield Randomizer, in which seemingly dadaist strips result from randomly combining panels from the many years of Garfield strips? Or that other collection, wherein surrealism is produced by removing all of Garfield's dialogue? Perhaps this strip can still be salvaged in a similar way.
(I will addd that the authors have had quite long enough to "set us up for something". There are innumerable other comics that can start setting us up for something and take a lot less time than a few months in doing it.)