It's another "you don't understand how hard it is to be this smart" comic
224964, was probably funnier when Randall and his doughy friends did this on their Zoom call wearing masks
Remember about a week ago when Randall was complaining about how unhealthy it is to be compulsively checking the news all the time?
Today in "mindlessly regurgitating things I saw on Twitter this week", it's that bear thing that was going around, with a bizarre exercise in cross-promotion.
There are too many characters: either Randall or Blonde Megan needs to go.
There is no joke: the intended punchline, such as it is, is ruined by the second panel.
The inclusion of Gretchen adds nothing, except for the intriguing implication that Randall senses his long-dreaded decay can no longer be forestalled. It would have been simple enough to have one of his usual characters vomit forth the same clumsily-written explanation. That he instead chose to add a Very Special Guest Star* suggests that he is attempting to ingratiate himself with the next generation of Geek™ a la Luke 16:1-13.
*And did so in a characteristically lazy way. Remember when people like Mr. Rogers or Yo Yo Ma would go on Arthur, and the animators would draw special animal characters for them? Randall's equivalent is scribbling dreadlocks on a stickman.
2652 Self-deprecation can't last forever; at some point you have to actually be good at your job