Saturday outrage
Marvin, 2/28/26 OK, the question of "What the hell kind of school does Marvin go to" is always a live one, seeing as he's a literal infant, but it's really...
Metapost: EOM COTW
Let's see Friday off with a bang ... a comment of the week bang! "The work/life balance issue is, for me, eclipsed by the hand/finger balance issue. Do...
Joey's throwing form is terrible, that's amusing at least
Dennis the Menace, 2/27/26 I'm not here to tell the Dennis the Menace creative team how to do their job, but ... oh, wait, I am here to do that! That's...
Live your life so Mary Worth never bold-face yells "AGE DIFFERENCE?" at you
Dick Tracy, 2/26/26 The number of human beings who, over the past 18 months or so, have wondered to themselves if minor Dick Tracy villain Silver Nitrate is...
The guy she's killing is definitely not an immediate threat, right? Like this one's just for fun
Herb and Jamaal, 2/25/26 I assumed those plewds were supposed to be sweat, but then Herb mentions "crying" in the last panel and that sets up a much funnier...
The North of England was a Yorkist stronghold, not sure if that's relevant
Andy Capp, 2/24/26 Honestly, there's just a lot to enjoy here in today's Andy Capp. I like that Chalkie is taking the opportunity in the middle of the game...
The comments don't actually make sound, that's a metaphor
Mary Worth, 2/23/26 Yes Yes! YES!!! We did it, we endured the parrot storyline and its aftermath and have been rewarded by a near-forgotten Mary Worth plot-...
Josh gets cranky
Shoe, 2/22/26 One of the ways that doing this blog over two decades has turned me into an actual insane person is that I feel obligated to speak up for strip...
Comfortably numb
Andy Capp, 2/21/26 I have long been curious about how old Andy Capp is supposed to be; mostly, I've been a little nervous that he's supposed to be shockingly...
Metapost: What a week! A week for comments!
It's Friday, y'all, and you've earned your reward: This sweet, sweet COTW. "Sure, Mary may be getting a pet. But me? I'm off to get a PET. The doctors are...
Perverse Friday
The Phantom, 2/20/26 Many years ago, the Jungle Patrol was all-male, until early 2008 when it got gender-integrated by a plucky lady cop/waitress duo. How's...
EXCITING CAT DEVELOPMENTS
Gil Thorp, 2/19/26 Oh, it turns out that Keri Thorp was one of the kids who vandalized Goshen and now they're in jail and Gil is pissed ... at the cops, who...
Soapy Wednesday
Mark Trail, 2/18/26 Mark has been invited to Las Vegas to compete in the Woodsman Olympics, a Trailiverse competition that somehow has avoided a nuclear...
On the other hand, Hagar shouldn't understand "profits" as distinct from "robbery"
Hagar the Horrible, 2/17/26 This one, I think, adds up: in Viking-era Scandinavia, sugar would've been imported at great expense from the Islamic world, but...
Honestly more comics characters should be sent to Donetsk oblast, it'd really shake things up around here
Gil Thorp, 2/16/26 What's going on in Gil Thorp? I'm not talking about the day-to-day plot; I'm talking about the near-future background setting, where the...
To me, these animals are NOT funny
Mother Goose and Grimm, 2/15/26 You'd think I'd be happy to see a strip that eschews "someone wants to defy the laws of nature and have sex with a half-fish...
Romantical comics
Six Chix, 2/14/26 Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! Are you experiencing romantic love? I hope so, because if you aren't, aliens are going to vaporize you,...
Metapost: Spooky, scary COTW
It's Friday the 13th!!! The first of two such days in consecutive months! Hopefully this comment of the week will assuage your fears: "[patronizingly] That's...
A bullet's too good for this creep
Blondie, 2/13/25 I like the first couple of panels here: Dagwood being somewhat indulgent about his barber's fixation -- he knows a thing or two about...
Children who I dislike
Marvin, 2/12/26 A thing about Marvin is that over the years it has strayed further and further from the one thing that made it unique -- a comic strip? about...