I guess Randy was too tuckered out with doing the artwork for the last comic to do anything but a flowchart. It's kinda sad because it's honestly not a terrible joke for a visual gag. The joke here is that when you use your phone as an alarm, the alarm sound is similar to the phone's ringing sound, so a person might try to answer the alarm like a phone.
That joke is pretty much dependent on the image of the person confusedly holding the beeping phone to their ear, saying "Hello? Hello?". It's not hilarious, but it's decent, maybe even alright. I'd probably still have criticized it if that was the only thing in the panel, but it wouldn't have taken much to add things and make it a fairly good comic. Like maybe "I'm sorry, it's too early for morse code, you can tell me why you're screaming later." or a second panel where the answerer would tell someone else "My phone is having some identity problems, it wants to be an alarm clock now." or "Did you know that when your phone reaches a certain level it evolves into an alarm clock?"
These are just off the top of my head, mind, but they're decent examples of how this same joke, if given a bit of artwork (literally just a stick figure in his bed with a phone to their ear) and a caption or panel could have made this into a funny comic, instead of a graph joke.
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