Merry Parrotmas to all! And to all a Sunny night!
Mary Worth, 12/24/25 As is my tradition, I will be knocking off for the holiday week and will return to blogging at some point in the new year, like around...
Unhappy holidays
Rex Morgan, M.D., 12/23/25 Oh, I'm sorry, did you think that Buck Wise would decorate his lawn with a boring, pedestrian "inflatable" of the Grinch or some...
Monday is for the birds
Alice, 12/22/25 One of the distinctive features of Alice comics is the little ... title? caption? ... that goes in the bottom margin. Usually it just sort of...
https://joshreads.com/2025/12/the-disturbing-reason-for-the-season/
Crock, 12/21/25 I kind of like the worldbuilding in today's Crock, which implies that Magi simply spontaneously generate in desert climes, and can be...
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Baby (Jesus/parrots[metaphorical]/, creation of)
Hi and Lois, 12/20/25 Now, if you were an ordinary, casual comics enjoyer, you'd read this strip and think "Ha, it's funny because Hi thinks so little of his...
How is "AXX" pronounced? Feel free to email me MP3s of your guesses
Crock, 12/19/25 The sentence that most bothers me here is "It's me again," implying that we're seeing another installment in a long-running drama between...
Fast cars and fast takes
Dick Tracy, 12/18/25 There was a certain amount of chatter in the comments on the day of Ghost Cat's big reveal, with some people claiming that cat-themed...
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...