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$ · July 12, 2025
Gil Thorp, 7/12/25 Hey, remember when Keri was in horse therapy, for their eating disorder? Well, big news: they took their horse therapist Britney to prom!...
Metapost: You're commenting. You're commenting all week!
$ · July 11, 2025
Your comments were all very funny this week, obviously, but only one comment can be the week's top comment, and here it is: "My little friend is not so...
Indignant Friday
$ · July 11, 2025
Rhymes With Orange, 7/11/25 No, see, GoFundMe is the website you use for crowdfunding when you have an unexpected and dire financial emergency of some sort,...
Mostly teen Thursday
$ · July 10, 2025
Archie, 7/10/25 I honestly enjoy the fact that some nameless gal is clearly scoping Archie and Reggie out in the first panel, and that Reggie reacts...
Norse interlude
$ · July 9, 2025
Judge Parker, 7/9/25 Oh, I guess I forgot to mention that the cushy jobs Sophie and Reena got managing Sophie's boyfriend's family's charitable foundation...
Go East, Perpetually 60-Year-Old Woman
$ · July 8, 2025
Mary Worth, 7/8/25 "God damn it," you've probably said to yourself, repeatedly over the past few months, "Are we going to get a non-Weston recurring...
I guess Marvin never inheriting money is something to cheer for
$ · July 7, 2025
Luann, 7/7/25 Hey kids, we all love Wilbur, the sad loser who has an off-putting relationship with his fish. But did you know there's another such person in...
Old age, youth, and so forth
$ · July 6, 2025
Crock, 7/6/25 I like the fact that Crock reruns are keeping their publication year in the strip now because you can tell exactly the era that created the...
The emperor does have clothes, but they are stinky
$ · July 5, 2025
Luann, 7/5/25 Many dads enjoy drinking coffee out of mugs that declare them to be the "World's Best Dad" or "#1 Dad" or the like, generally purchased for...
Metapost: Comments bursting in air
$ · July 4, 2025
OK, sorry, I missed dawn's early light, even on the West Coast, but here is your comment of the week nonetheless: "Is Dr. Jeff's 'again’ meant to indicate...
U-S-A! U-S-...A?
$ · July 4, 2025
Dennis the Menace, 7/4/25 Kind of wild that Mrs. Wilson is waking her husband up by telling him not what time it is, but what day it is, implying that he's...
I've seen the future and it is on a single story
$ · July 3, 2025
Gearhead Gertie, 7/3/25 I am if nothing mercurial, and do you know what I've decided? I like the Gearhead Gerties where the focus is on Gertie's perpetually...
Is "Sunbeam" distinct from the Sun itself, I guess is the relevant question
$ · July 2, 2025
Beetle Bailey, 7/2/25 Longtime readers know that one of my minor Beetle Bailey fixations is that Miss Buxley's classic little black dress is actually a...
Suspicious grooming and other body presentation
$ · July 1, 2025
Rex Morgan, M.D., 7/1/25 On the topic of bad viewing angles of cartoon heads, the characters in soap opera strips have more or less normally shaped noggins,...
Mostly one-panel Monday
$ · June 30, 2025
The Lockhorns, 6/30/25 You all know that I hold the Lockhorns in a great deal of affection, but I am not blind to the truth, which is that they are squat,...
Mary innovating new insane ways to hold a small cup
$ · June 29, 2025
Panel from The Lockhorns, 6/29/25 One of the great mysteries of The Lockhorns that haunts all of us Lockheads is the identity and nature of the non-Lockhorn...
Dustin's been "halfway there" his whole life and will never get any further
$ · June 28, 2025
Mark Trail, 6/28/25 There's a new Mark Trail adventure starting this week that appears to be about fairly straightforward environmental issues -- poop in the...
Metapost: COTW? COTW
$ · June 27, 2025
Comment of the week? That's right, it's the comment of the week: "After all the other 'Ed doing things nobody visiting NYC would' entries, I have to...
One-panel Friday
$ · June 27, 2025
Mother Goose and Grimm, 6/27/25 Look, we all associate Cinderella with trying on glass slippers, but canonically, the Prince's retinue repeated the process...
Facial expression theater
$ · June 26, 2025
Dustin, 6/26/25 I really love the fact that Ed looks utterly joyless as he prepares to shove that forbidden donut down his donut hole. He doesn't even want...
Do you think Leroy was doing the gesture during the movie
$ · June 25, 2025
The Lockhorns, 6/25/25 I really like the way Leroy is clutching his chest dramatically here. I imagine he already did this routine inside at the concession...
Doom, gloom, and so forth
$ · June 24, 2025
Beetle Bailey, 6/24/25 One of my favorite bits of actual Beetle Bailey character evolution over the past few years is Zero going from being a friendly but...
He's not even a baby horse
$ · June 23, 2025
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 6/23/25 Now, look, you know that Spark Plug is a horse and I know that Spark Plug is a horse, but if you didn't know that...
These characters aren't real people, you don't have to be nice to them
$ · June 22, 2025
Rex Morgan, M.D., 6/22/25 "Would it help to know that after your relationship ended in failure, she still thought about you all the time, obsessively, even...
Saturday praise
$ · June 21, 2025
Crock, 6/21/25 Not sure if we're seeing a singular mind at work here or if this is the product you'd expect to get from someone who'd been writing a comic...
Metapost: Early morning COTW
$ · June 20, 2025
Starting the day off right -- with your comment o' the week: "Leroy's plan to dramatically self immolate by pouring a bowlful high proof alcohol over a lit...
That is an extremely sweet Garfield tee
$ · June 20, 2025
Blondie, 6/20/25 Imagine how much funnier this strip would be if Blondie had spent any of the past 90 years or so developing the characters and backstories...
Major and minor developments
$ · June 19, 2025
Six Chix, 6/19/25 Remember kids, the daily comics aren't just for laffs; they also can provide important safety information. For instance, have you ever...
Disappointment after disappointment
$ · June 18, 2025
Pluggers, 6/19/25 "Wrongo!" my brain basically shouted at me the moment I read this panel. "Pluggers would not shop at Trader Joe's, which is for young, hip...
We all want to be Heathcliff, but there can be only one Heathcliff
$ · June 17, 2025
Heathcliff, 6/17/25 There are few characters in the comics whose energies are so distinct from one another as Heathcliff and Wilbur Weston, despite the fact...
Mostly one-panel menaces
$ · June 16, 2025
Heathcliff, 6/16/25 This is, of course, a hilarious joke about rectal thermometers, and I laud the strip for being subtle enough to not use the words...
Dads, but no grads
$ · June 15, 2025
Blondie, 6/15/25 The Blondie deep lore is that back in the '20s, Blondie was a flapper girl and Dagwood was the dissolute son of a millionaire, and he was...
Good strips Saturday
$ · June 14, 2025
The Lockhorns, 6/14/25 Once, not long after we moved to Los Angeles, we were driving with friends through a historic neighborhood in Pasadena, full of...
Metapost: Forgetful COTW
$ · June 13, 2025
As we move on into the weekend, let's think about your achievements for the week, as well as places you may have fallen short. For instance, did you happen...
What does Dolly even have to spend money on. C'mon
$ · June 13, 2025
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 6/13/25 It's never entirely clear whether Hootin' Holler was cut off from the rest of the Newnited States by some abrupt...
No phones, just living in the moment (they don't know how to use phones yet)
$ · June 12, 2025
Slylock Fox, 6/12/25 Years ago, I read a book about the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, and one of my strongest memories of it is that after the...
I personally am on Team Snert
$ · June 11, 2025
Hagar the Horrible, 6/11/25 I find this strip genuinely funny, and particularly love the expressions on Hagar and Eddie's faces in the second panel....
Some bleak old people/tech stuff
$ · June 10, 2025
Pluggers, 6/10/25 Pluggers already did a version of this bit in 2007, only back then the joke was "When a plugger gives you directions, all the landmarks he...
Hell is for children
$ · June 9, 2025
Luann, 6/9/25 Back when I was last reading Luann regularly, a decade ago, the whole deal with Toni's niece Shannon was that she was a hellion but that was...
Slenderwilbur will haunt your nightmares
$ · June 8, 2025
Mary Worth, 6/8/25 Many of our most beloved deranged Mary Worth storylines end abruptly, with antagonists just straight up driving off a cliff or whatever,...
What's the matter, Hi? Are you afraid of the possibilities
$ · June 7, 2025
Hi and Lois, 6/7/25 Years ago, I was doing some PT for a few weeks, and at one of my sessions there was an older guy there who was rehabbing a knee injury,...
Metapost: Junetastic COTW
$ · June 6, 2025
Let's roll into summer with the comment ... of the week! "I assume this is the same hardware store where Hi buys his hair fixatives." --Joe Blevins And the...
SHOCKING MARTY MOON MUSTACHE REVEAL!!!!
$ · June 6, 2025
Gil Thorp, 6/6/25 Deep in the 2020 pandemic lockdowns, I decided that the dream of the '90s had finally well and truly died, and I shaved off my goatee and...
Josh has questions
$ · June 5, 2025
Dennis the Menace, 6/5/25 I know that "ha ha, this little boy is repulsed by the idea of heteronormativity” is one of Dennis the Menace's go-tos, but to do a...
You ever heard of this new thing called "e-commerce," Hi
$ · June 3, 2025
Gil Thorp, 6/3/25 I'm really coming to enjoy the on-the-nose "sound effects" that we're getting during sports antics in Gil Thorp. Are "catch," "swipe," and...
I too love it when comics and movies exist. Love those content formats
$ · June 2, 2025
Mary Worth, 6/2/25 Did you know that the psychological "fight or flight" response is more accurately called "fight, flight, freeze, or fawn"? I think it...
Mostly kind Sunday
$ · June 1, 2025
Crock, 6/1/25 Imagine if you petitioned Almighty God for a full accounting of all the evil you've done in your life. This is information that He, being...
Saturday quickies
$ · May 31, 2025
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/31/25 Wait, is something happening in Rex Morgan, M.D.? Is something interesting happening in Rex Morgan, M.D.? Wild. Truly wild....
Metapost: [COTW title goes here]
$ · May 30, 2025
[Joke or quip setting up COTW and establishing that the reader has been waiting for it all week goes here] "Mrs Wilson's smiling face makes the gag work....
Did anyone really call him Steve "Guitar" Miller or was that just my dad
$ · May 30, 2025
Blondie, 5/30/25 Here's a joke for you: a guy with a master's degree in ancient history and a guy with an MFA in poetry were coworkers once, back in the late...
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