Love and pee
Archie, 4/8/26 You know, I had a riff all ready to go about how I hate it when a strip starts with character #1 parroting back something to character #2 that...
Oh, it's OK to punch a guy in the throat, but this goes too far somehow
Hi and Lois, 4/7/26 You know, if, before today, you had asked me which Walker-Browne character would have been the first to declare themselves a sovereign...
Fraught greetings
Luann, 4/6/26 So at some point in the long stretch when I was demonstrating self-care and not reading Luann, there was some kind of romantic/emotional...
Mary Worth goes grunge
Pluggers, 4/5/26 I feel like the way you'd do a panel like this if you thought the overall vibe of the Pluggers comic should be "Pluggers and their foibles!...
More like BogdGGUGH
Judge Parker, 4/4/26 So I guess I haven't fully spelled out what's been going in on Judge Parker over the past few weeks: Bogdan, Randy's lovable prison pal,...
Metapost: It's that time of week again (comment time)
Welp, looks like another Friday has come and, in a few hours, will be gone. But we can't let it pass without acknowledging the delightful comments of the...
Friday romance (?)
Blondie, 4/3/26 I regret to inform you that Dagwood and Blondie's daughter is dating a guy with broccoli hair now. Also she's doing "healthy lifestyle...
Jamaal's actually working, someone has to while Herb ruminates endlessly
Luann, 4/2/26 "Oh my gosh," you're probably thinking. "Is Luann, the wildly ribald but perversely sexless comic strip about college students, implying that...
April Fool's Comics
Family Circus, 4/1/26 Happy April Fool's day, everybody! As I've noted over the last few years, the "trick" the passage of time has played on me is my...
Iudex Parker (only real late antiquity heads will get this one)
Judge Parker, 3/31/26 Ha ha, has this ever happened to you? After generations of coexistence with increasingly tame horses, your tribe of steppe pastoralists...
Gonna need a good editor to put this Nitrate back together
Pluggers, 3/30/26 Wait, so we're saying that pluggers ... don't like sports? Watching the wildly popular NCAA basketball tournament is non-plugger behavior?...
Also, did he sleep sitting up or what
Beetle Bailey, 3/29/26 The last panel here fills me with nothing but contempt. Apparently the only way they could think of to visually drive home that Sarge...
The great outdoors
Mary Worth, 3/28/26 OK, fine, "Trixie" successfully scammed Harvey out of a six-figure amount, which we do not condone. But, does Harvey need that money,...
Metapost: Slightly late real quick COTW
It's the comment of the week! It's here! "Ever notice that Blondie's chair (the one she's always doing sudoku puzzles in while facing away from everyone and...
Just kidding, I regret nothing as usual
Hi and Lois, 3/27/26 A thing about Hi and Lois and comic strip time that you really have to keep in mind is that Hi and Lois has been in newspapers with...
If Alexander took his place, would anyone even notice
Blondie, 3/26/26 Every once in a while, you get a hint that Alexander is recapitulating many of his father's most distinctive traits. This makes sense, as...
Facial expression theater
Crankshaft, 3/25/26 I like the combination of Crankshaft's dopey smile and Keesterman's look of genuine concern in the final panel. Consistently misspeaking...
Walker-Browne Tuesday (warfighters only)
Hagar the Horrible, 3/24/26 I make a lot of jokes on this blog parsing various anachronistic clues trying to figure out where Hagar and his crew are...
Surely a man so lavishly dressed has ample resources to survive this error
Mary Worth, 3/23/26 One of my favorite books of the last 10 years is Because Internet, which focuses on how the internet has changed language use but has a...
Spring keeps on springin'
Blondie, 3/22/26 The saddest part of this strip is the throwaway panel, which reveals that Blondie has a whole spring cleaning bit lined up to unleash on her...