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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...
Distasteful Wednesday
Premium post · November 26, 2025
Crock, 11/26/25 So, how old were you when you learned that "stuffing" an animal actually meant that you strip its skin off and fit it over an animal-shaped...
Toby doesn't care about Sunny's criminal past ... she's so open-minded
Premium post · November 25, 2025
Dick Tracy, 11/25/25 Ah, man, remember the Dick Tracy vampire car storyline from 2016? It was a fun one, and I personally would follow the principle of...
Monday fast takes
Premium post · November 24, 2025
Dick Tracy, 11/24/25 "Can't believe this clown would rather cut people's brake lines for money instead of building elaborate funny cars for the mafia. Nobody...
Josh asks: How DARE you
Premium post · November 23, 2025
Blondie, 11/23/25 Two very important details here. One, Dagwood has his handkerchief out and at the ready when he knocks on Herb's door. He's already on the...
Norwegian! Would?
Premium post · November 22, 2025
Judge Parker, 11/22/25 A few months ago Sophie and Reena experienced a certain amount of panic and anxiety in the wake of witnessing an April-involved spy...
Metapost: COTW ASAP
Premium post · November 21, 2025
Real quick: it's comment of the week time! "Steve, I accidentally ordered too many birdcages. Try to upsell any customer who comes in to buy bird food....
He's already named "Ozob," how many clown aliases does one guy need
Premium post · November 21, 2025
Dick Tracy, 11/21/25 Look, I don't like to speak ill of the dead, and I'm not going to say I'm glad that Sheriff Somners plummeted to his death off that...
Ceci n'est pas une course automobile
Premium post · November 20, 2025
Gearhead Gertie, 11/20/25 Gearhead Gertie's loved ones are trying to break through her epistemological bubble that only allows her to think about NASCAR...
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