Pleas for sanity (metaphorical and actual)
Heathcliff, 1/29/26 Grandpa Nutmeg typically gets mad at Heathcliff for failing to deal with his house's endemic mouse problem, but I actually think his...
Things that are and are not new
Blondie, 1/28/26 Oh, man, I was all ready to go on a riff about how this is clearly a joke about the idea of a celebrity "hall pass," e.g., the idea that a...
Mistakes, repentance, etc.
Family Circus, 1/27/26 Look, we're pretty mean to Jeffy on this website, and for obvious reasons: he's pretty stupid, he's very annoying, etc. Sometimes,...
Is that old CRT TV some kind of portal to our dimension
Wizard of Id, 1/26/26 I guess a running bit in the Wizard of Id now is that the titular wizard is encountering aspects of contemporary life one by one and...
We can't all be heroes
The Phantom, 1/25/26 Hey, remember the Sunday Phantom storyline that started like eight months ago when a city kid visiting her Wambesi country relatives...
Medical madness
Gil Thorp, 1/24/26 So, Gil thinks that opinions and interests are determined by the qualities of a person's "blood" -- which is not a metaphor for genetic...
Metapost: Wintry COTW
Many of you will be hit by a lot of snow this weekend! Not me, I'm in the pleasant Southwest, we're getting some rain but nothing too dire, but the rest of...
To be fair, I wouldn't want to do anything together with either Hi or Lois
Hi and Lois, 1/23/26 Now, if you only have a surface understanding of my whole deal, you're going to read this and say, "Ooooh, Josh is going to make a joke...
Boring vs. sad: Battle for soap opera supremacy
Rex Morgan, M.D., 1/22/26 You really gotta give it up for today's Rex Morgan, M.D.: it truly offers a master class in absolutely nothing happening. Rex asks...
I personally would not give Garfield access to a phone. Nothing good could come of it
Slylock Fox, 1/21/26 One of the things that truly sets people apart from animals is that our enormous brains are too large when fully formed to pass through...
Another think coming
Herb and Jamaal, 1/20/26 Man, that's a harrowing expression on Herb's face. He just realized that he shouldn't engage in thinking ... and he can't stop...
Twists and/or turns
Mary Worth, 1/19/26 Last week, the main conflict of this Toby storyline -- "Toby got a bird and Ian hated it” -- was resolved as Ian submitted to Sunny's...
Menacing birds/food/social relations
Mary Worth, 1/18/26 Good news, everyone! Ian didn't become some soft-hearted sap just because a parrot saved his life or whatever. No, he recognized that...
Sympathy for the plugger
Mary Worth, 1/17/26 Minutes later, Mary would of course be relaying all this information to Toby and Ian's homeowners insurance carrier. Why should the...
Metapost: The comments, they are amusin'
This week's comment of the week ... is HERE! For you to ENJOY!!! "Actually, you're a plugger if you often fall asleep on the toilet at any time, including in...
Family fun
The Lockhorns, 1/16/26 I accept that, for narrative convenience, sometimes the Lockhorns need to passive-aggressively try to destroy each other emotionally...
Remembering some guys
Dustin, 1/15/26 Remember Dustin's dad from the comic strip Dustin, who's notoriously kind of an asshole? Well, it turns out he's also an alcoholic. Dennis...
Mostly old people problems
Beetle Bailey, 1/14/26 I feel like if you have an elderly authority figure looking startled and somewhat confused and shouting "Take some notes!" and then...
Not a big fan of the B.C. guys' messed up faces either
Archie, 1/13/26 Against all odds, the fact that I've been doing this blog for more than 20 years doesn't usually make me feel old, mostly because I'm still...
I don't think a guy could just do that to a basketball no matter how mad he is. I don't think that's realistic
Dustin, 1/12/26 I don't know that I've really commented on the "Dustin (the character)'s second-best friend is an eight-year-old child" aspect of Dustin (the...