Troubled youth
Dennis the Menace, 8/27/26 As my readers well know, part of Dennis's whole deal is that he hates his mother's cooking and will insult it at any opportunity....
A dog's life
Mother Goose and Grimm, 8/26/26 The Goofy/Pluto paradox is a situation many comics and cartoons that feature sapient animals find themselves in, whereby some...
Those second-degree burns ... truly epic
Zits, 8/25/26 As I recently noted, Zits is only running new strips on Sundays now, with the dailies being reruns from its deep library, and I assume that...
Monday is for ends, beginnings, and so on
Mary Worth, 8/24/26 So, just to bring you up to speed on Mary Worth, last week there was no follow-up to Dawn's single tear of romantic longing, and instead...
Happiness and sadness
Hagar the Horrible, 8/23/26 I honestly don't know if we're supposed to understand "Lucky Eddie is an animal lover” and "Lucky Eddie's girlfriend is a half-...
You must remember this. Or not, see if I care
Judge Parker, 8/22/26 Hey, remember how Neddy was freaking out because April, or maybe a fake April, was coming to violently drag Charlotte off into her...
Metapost: Quick COTW
Here ya go, this week's comment of the week: "We've all just barely accepted that the Lockhorns are millennials, but must we now face the even more chilling...
Big news Friday
Beetle Bailey, 8/21/26 Big news, everyone! The men of Camp Swampy have finally decided to murder Sarge! Daddy Daze, 8/21/26 Big news, everyone! The Daddy...
Good faces
Pardon My Planet, 8/20/26 OK, here's a sentence that I'm reasonably sure I've never written before, and probably nobody else has either: I'm actually...
Ominous developments
Crankshaft, 8/19/26 The last time Crankshaft and Harry Dinkle started an adventure together, Crankshaft looked real cherry but it ended up with Harry...
Troubling youth, etc.
Pickles, 8/18/26 Not to sound old, but I do find someone replying "k" to me to be irritating sometimes (and to prove I'm not doing generational discourse,...
Various disasters
Dustin, 8/17/26 Hey kids! Do you remember the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that dumped 150 million gallons of oil into the ocean? Well, that happened in April...
Dawn Weston: Sadhorny Chronicles
Six Chix, 8/16/26 The Wednesday Chik has not given up on her mission to educate comics readers on the true nature of the afterlife, which is that everyone...
Just make coffee at home, guys! It's cheaper!!!!
Pluggers, 8/15/26 I'm a guy who does not like fancy coffee drinks but I also have limitless disdain for self-righteous "Hur hur I went to the fancy coffee...
Metapost: It is time for the week's top comments
This week's comment of the week: It is here, for you to enjoy. "Pinocchio holds his own control bars aloft and finally earns his therapist's approval despite...
Present and past
The Lockhorns, 8/14/26 What with Leroy being a Millennial, you'd think he'd be on board with a work-from-home environment. But obviously "home" is where...
Life after and/or before death
Gearhead Gertie, 8/13/26 The Golden Rule -- that you should treat others as you would like to be treated -- is an ethical concept that seems to have arisen...
Grim and grim(m)er
Crock, 8/12/26 I'll admit it: I am, in fact, a gentleman of a certain age, which means I must begin working out how I'm going to start facing mortality....
You're never gonna get an AI to dig a ditch, I tell you what
Mary Worth, 8/11/26 Welp, I guess all the Tommy business has been resolved and now we can finally get into what we really want to know: what's life at the...
Monday glimmers of joy
Crankshaft, 8/10/26 You know how when you've been experiencing pain for a while so it's become just kind of background radiation in your life, when it abates...