Looming holiday cheer
Dennis the Menace, 12/17/25 [when you get caught in the middle of what's very explicitly a mock torture session, like you're literally condemning this...
Ian won the award because he's the only male professor who turned down a sexual advance from a student this year
Mary Worth, 12/16/25 There's a lot of hand-wringing about "grade inflation" at elite universities, which I have for the most part thought is overblown, but,...
Eros/thanatos
Gil Thorp, 12/15/25 It's often unclear to me how old anyone in a comic strip is supposed to be, and Gil Thorp in particular has historically had a quirky...
Not-so-funny animals
Dick Tracy, 12/15/25 For a month now, we've all been like, "Who or what is the Ghost Cat? We've been told he'll appear when needed -- obviously that will be...
Guns (not in "Andy Capp," that's knifecrime territory)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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...