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Guns (not in "Andy Capp," that's knifecrime territory)
Premium post · December 13, 2025
Andy Capp, 12/13/25 Hartlepool is part of the Tees Valley Combined Authority, a conurbation of 700,000 people in the far northeast of England, and it's...
Metapost: 12-12-Twomments of the tweek
Premium post · December 12, 2025
Your top comment is here, and it's spectacular! "You have to wonder about the parents who remain in line with their children. They can see, right? They know...
Unsettling Friday
Premium post · December 12, 2025
Blondie, 12/12/25 Mr. Dithers is no doubt all too well acquainted with Dagwood's relationship with food, so he's no doubt well aware of how transgressive a...
That bird is pure evil and I love it
Premium post · December 11, 2025
Mary Worth, 12/11/25 Sorry to be a killjoy, but I'm deeply concerned that Ian appears to own the exact same robe that Wilbur does. Yes, they're different...
Someday they're gonna reveal who's under the boxes and I promise it will be extremely underwhelming
Premium post · December 10, 2025
Mary Worth, 12/10/25 We all know, of course, that Mary Worth takes place in a world similar to but not exactly like our own, where America's most famous 20th...
What vile Scots obscenity is Ian shouting here? Sound off in the comments
Premium post · December 9, 2025
Blondie, 12/9/25 I'm pretty impressed that Alexander and Cookie have figured out how to mirror both their phones to the TV simultaneously, and even more...
Monday is for teens
Premium post · December 8, 2025
Hi and Lois, 12/8/25 Let's forget for a moment the incomprehensible/not funny punchline of this one and try to understand the lead-up to it. Why is Chip...
I get the sense that Henry is a lot pettier than we give him credit for
Premium post · December 7, 2025
Dennis the Menace, 12/7/25 I feel like Henry's "He's gone too far this time!" line actually explains a lot about this strip. Like there's some kind of beef...
Literally, nobody wants to give pluggers the time of day
Premium post · December 6, 2025
Mary Worth, 12/6/25 I was going to make some comment about how Toby is confusing Sunny's ability to mimic words with an ability to fully understand what...
Metapost: Wintry COTW
Premium post · December 5, 2025
Cold enough for ya??? Well, warm yourself in the bright glow of this week's top comment: "Augie should just explain to Summer that, in accordance with their...
One-panel Friday
Premium post · December 5, 2025
Heathcliff, 12/5/25 I really enjoy today's Heathcliff for the way it manages to remain legible despite its one-panel nature collapsing a whole sequence of...
Gertie is going to have the first ever divorce trial broadcast on Fox Sports 1
Premium post · December 4, 2025
Mary Worth, 12/4/25 "Good lord, Josh," you're almost certainly saying, "it's been days since the first unpleasant Ian-Sunny encounter and you haven't kept us...
If I wanted to think this much about the 6-7 meme, I would've had children
Premium post · December 3, 2025
Herb and Jamaal, 12/3/25 As I noted a couple of weeks ago, Pluggers was insanely on the cutting edge of doing a 6-7 meme joke in the syndicated newspaper...
Ha ha, TUESDAYS, amiright (statistically speaking, I'm probably right)
Premium post · December 2, 2025
Herb and Jamaal, 12/2/25 Usually when Herb and Jamaal does its "hilariously nonspecific" bit, it's taking an actually quite specific scenario but changing...
Monday egg chat
Premium post · December 1, 2025
Luann, 12/1/25 Back in the '80s, when this strip first debuted and its characters were in high school but acted like they were 12, much of its energy was put...
Sunday is for large bearded men
Premium post · November 30, 2025
Mary Worth, 11/30/25 Ahh, the moment we've all been waiting for: when Ian returns from his weeks-long "teachers conference" and confronts the bird who has...
Adopt, don't shop (for horrifying nightmare beasts)
Premium post · November 29, 2025
Six Chix, 11/29/25 Big news, everybody: By the year 2045, frenchies and dachshunds will have been somehow bred to be more than six feet long, and capable of...
Metapost: Post-prandial COTW
Premium post · November 28, 2025
Most Americans have had the past few days off of work, but I have to admire my faithful readers' dedication to posting hilarious comments. Here's this week's...
Friday is for birds (non-Toby edition)
Premium post · November 28, 2025
Pickles, 11/28/25 "Ha ha, I sure hate my mother-in-law!" is of course a time-honored bit for hack humorists everywhere, so naturally it has repeatedly found...
Thanksgiving horrors
Premium post · November 27, 2025
Shoe, 11/27/25 Well, I guess we just live in a world now where the Shoe bird-men will acknowledge without shame that they are in fact bird-men. Kind of...
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