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Bird poop, Dawn's emotional crisis, etc.
Premium post · September 16, 2026
Shoe, 9/16/26 More than 20 years ago, I had the idea that it would be fun to start a blog sharing my opinions about Wilbur Weston's sex life with the world,...
Folks with problems
Premium post · September 15, 2026
Pluggers, 9/15/26 Sorry, pluggers! The FDA just declared the cyclospora outbreak over, and we all trust the FDA on this, right? [nervous laughter] Anyhoo, my...
Mostly soapy Monday
Premium post · September 14, 2026
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 9/14/26 I guess the point of this strip is "You never get what you want when you want it," but for at least a brief moment I...
Imagine eating some eclairs you find stuck behind some pots in your cabinet. Disgusting
Premium post · September 13, 2026
Blondie, 9/13/26 This is, truly, one of the saddest Blondies I've ever seen. Of course, we all know that Dagwood's every waking moment is dominated by his...
Saturday quickies
Premium post · September 12, 2026
Beetle Bailey, 9/12/26 "Yeah, man, I know, I was sitting right here when you ordered it 10 minutes ago. I'm past it now." Family Circus, 9/12/26 Look, Dolly,...
Metapost: C ....... OTW!!!!
Premium post · September 11, 2026
Comment of the week? COMMENT OF THE WEEK, BABY! "Is this the first time we've seen the Daddy Daze daddy without glasses? There goes my theory that he was the...
Friday terrors
Premium post · September 11, 2026
The Phantom, 9/11/26 Happy Friday, everybody! I was going to explain the backstory to today's Phantom to those who haven't been reading along, but, you know...
Tales of Josh's oldness
Premium post · September 10, 2026
Hi and Lois, 9/10/26 Now, look, I more or less enjoyed Forrest Gump as a college-aged moviegoer in 1994, but I wouldn't say that it had much of a lasting...
Birds and bird-adjacent business
Premium post · September 9, 2026
Mother Goose and Grimm, 9/9/26 "Why do they mention the King's Horses in 'Humpty Dumpty?’” is an extremely hoary bit at this point, but I have to say I like...
Important follow-ups
Premium post · September 8, 2026
Mary Worth, 9/8/26 Wow, I'm glad to see that there are still sensible people living in Charterstone! "So what?” is exactly the appropriate response to...
Monday is for old people
Premium post · September 7, 2026
Pluggers, 9/7/26 This year, my 80-year-old stepmother fractured her hip badly enough to need a replacement, and although "hip replacement" sounds very dire,...
Bad news food
Premium post · September 6, 2026
Curtis, 9/6/26 Curtis is one of the few strips that does generational discourse that in my opinion truly gives both sides their due, which is one of the...
Somewhat sexual Saturday
Premium post · September 5, 2026
Beetle Bailey, 9/5/26 Look, sometimes your partner is going to float some specific sexual kink -- voyeurism, say -- that you're not on board with. How do you...
Metapost: Laborious COTW
Premium post · September 4, 2026
We in the USA are heading into our three-day wekeend, and hopefully all of us won't find it to be too much work to enjoy this week's top comment: "I don't...
Bad news, generally
Premium post · September 4, 2026
Mary Worth, 9/4/26 Nelly Feneley has been spending all week seething about how terrible everything is these days, but we've been wondering how this would...
Cyber-Thursday
Premium post · September 3, 2026
The Lockhorns, 9/3/26 I like how Leroy is delivering this line as he's buttoning up his shirt. Like, sure, maybe he made some desperate promises when he was...
Hats on hats
Premium post · September 2, 2026
Dick Tracy, 9/2/26 So I guess that computer didn't just magically explode, but had actually been already fitted with some kind of internal incendiary device...
Employees of the month
Premium post · September 1, 2026
Judge Parker, 9/1/26 The best-case scenario when an attractive younger woman marries a rich, driven older man -- well, I guess the best-case scenario is that...
Can I call in a wellness check on a cartoon character
Premium post · August 31, 2026
Mary Worth, 8/31/26 Hey, everyone, here's a fun fact, if by "fun" you mean guaranteed to deliver the epiphany that oh my god I'm so old, how did I get to be...
tzzzzz FARRRRRSH! AAAAHH-- !!
Premium post · August 30, 2026
Dick Tracy, 8/30/26 I had kind of lost interest in this Dick Tracy computer hacker storyline, mostly because both the ways in which it got computer stuff...
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