Mr. Foofram looks so defeated. He could fire Hi for this but what's the point
Hi and Lois, 10/12/26 I admit that, as a non-kid-haver, I'm not fully up on the ages at which kids are allowed to be left on their own and/or put in charge...
Toby's gonna drown those birds and ironically it'll make Ian love her again
Mary Worth, 10/11/26 Apologies, Mary Worth, for implying a few days ago that this dream sequence would not match the boxing Wilburbabies in madness. Parrots!...
Sadly Lois does not have anything better to do than whatever this is
Hi and Lois, 10/10/26 What really makes this strip, obviously, is Lois in the second panel watching over this scene from inside anxiously, with her arms...
Metapost: Comment of the week time: The coolest time of the week
That's right, daddy-o: The COTW is here, and it's sick (complimentary): "Goddammit, Mud, this is Glenwood! If you don't think it can support an off-brand...
"My Memory Is Shaky Regardin' Some Of Those Years" would be a good song title, actually
Blondie, 10/9/26 I really kind of enjoy Dagwood's emotional rollercoaster here. The man on the TV says that "with 3D printing, anyone can become an action...
Danses macabres
Mary Worth, 10/8/26 So, Toby has been having an "Is my husband cheating on me, with Mary Worth of all people?" anxiety dream all week, and I keep waiting for...
Tough questions
Rex Morgan, M.D., 10/7/26 Back in the day, when he was first introduced into this comic strip, Mud Mountain Murphy used to be depicted as a giant of a man...
Tuesday is for dog-men
Pluggers, 10/6/26 One of the interesting things about one-panel comics is that they often have to condense a series of actions into a single image-caption...
As a movie nostalgist myself, I'm feeling anxious about this one
Dennis the Menace, 10/5/26 Part of being a sophisticated textual critic such as myself is that you have to be able to distinguish between "something I...
Goals achieved
Marvin, 10/4/26 Hey, remember the World Cup, from, like, a few months ago? And remember that caveman-lookin' guy from Norway, Erling Haaland? Well, what if...
Some sad stories
Blondie, 10/3/26 I know you can't expect dreams to make actual narrative sense, but I think it's OK to expect dreams that someone wrote and put into a linear...
Metapost: Crisp fall comments of the week
The gorgeous fall weather is arriving (your geoclimatic mileage may vary), so let's enjoy it, and this comment of the week: "Wow, good for Mother Goose --...
I guess Toby is pretty much always in a particularly vulnerable state
Mary Worth, 10/2/26 To me, "Toby gets some parrots and Ian melts down about it” was basically a perfect Mary Worth storyline. But for those who would demand...
Religious fervor
Gil Thorp, 10/1/26 [Between panels two and three] "... and ... what's that? Coach Clover seems to be discussing something with her assistants and ... oh my...
Domestic dramas
Family Circus, 9/30/26 God damn but Gary looks smug here. "That's right, Mrs. K.! My parents love me, but they don't love each other ... and they're engaged...
God forbid a woman has a hobby
Judge Parker, 9/29/26 I haven't really talked about it much because it's been super boring, but April and Randy have been having marital problems of the icy...
Female and/or robot trouble
Hi and Lois and Alice, 9/28/26 Artificial intelligence! It's the future, or maybe the present, and it's going to change the world, possibly by killing us...
Disturbing Sunday
Hi and Lois, 9/27/26 My first impression reading this was that Hi seems so youthful in the first panel in the second row that he must be imagining himself as...
Also, why is it a mansion, seems overly grandiose to be honest
Blondie, 9/26/26 I very much accidentally read Blondie's dialogue in panel one as "that restaurant we swore we'd never go back to" and, you know what: Mama...
Metapost: [COTW title TK]
[insert vaguely topical joke leading into COTW here] "The Perfesser seems to have an endless supply of uncles that he periodically kills for the sake of...