He'll wait for her, motionless, in that same room, indefinitely
Gil Thorp, 5/7/26 See that girl in the second panel, sort of squinting at Gil and Coach Gerads in the middle distance? That's me, trying to parse the order...
Simplicity is the key to brilliance, I always say
Alice, 5/6/26 Remember how at one point Alice thought that new cars were too expensive because of all the crazy new features they had, but then just a few...
Praise Heath from whom all blessings flow
Heathcliff, 5/5/26 The oldest references to cherubim in the bible seem to imagine them as winged half-animal, half-human creatures that guard or carry the...
He'll get that meth lab yet, I believe in him
The Phantom, 5/4/26 President Goranda is, according to the extremely detailed Phantom wiki I just discovered, the leader of Ivory Lana, the country that was...
Comics of a certain age
Dick Tracy, 5/3/26 There's no such thing as the "J. Duveen Art Gallery" (though Joseph Duveen was a famous early 20th century art dealer), but the fictional...
Mostly dads
Family Circus, 5/2/26 A thing about one-panel comic strips is that it can be hard to tell what order things are happening in, and a thing about the Family...
Metapost: May day COTW
Commenters of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains! And please, delight in the hilarity of this week's comment of the week! "Ex-wives,...
Join the Navy, see ... well, you'll see some stuff, no doubt about that
The Phantom, 5/1/26 Look, I'll admit it: I've taken something of a shine to this sailor in his service whites, who's mildly bonking the Nomad on his head...
Gertie's HOA meetings must be off the chain
B.C., 4/30/26 I guess I hadn't really given it a ton of thought, but before today, if asked to describe the relationships between the various character...
Facial expressions and other matters
Mary Worth, 4/29/26 I was briefly excited that this Mary Worth storyline was going to end with Mary and Toby enjoying a self-congratulatory spa trip rather...
"Why even grow a mustache if you're not going to stroke it thoughtfully" is Lonnie's take on things
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/28/26 Lonnie may be a failed salesman, but he still has an advanced grasp on economics. He knows that what has value isn't his knowledge...
Big news, everyone
Hagar the Horrible, 4/27/26 Big news, everyone! A new named character has been added to Hagar the Horrible, and he's a servant/butler type named "Charles"...
Phone stuff
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/26/26 As predicted by literally everybody, sad-sack failed salesman Lonnie has figured out that Mae Mae is Lorna and is going to cash in...
The Farmers' Almanac is the real victim of the smartphone era
Mary Worth, 4/25/26 Remember when Dr. Jeff, who's allergic to cats, discovered that he wasn't allergic to hypoallergenic cats, so Mary immediately got a cat?...
Metapost: TGI ... comments of the week? We ARE allowed to say that!
Woo it's the FREAKIN' WEEKEND baby and it's time for your comment of the week! "I eat again at the so-called Soul Food place, and yet again I fail to consume...
TGI ... F? Are we still allowed to say that?
Intelligent Life, 4/24/26 You could use Intelligent Life to do a whole in-depth analysis of how the position of the nerd has changed in American culture over...
Gertie's husband should divorce her. There, I said it. He's obviously very unhappy
Gearhead Gertie, 4/23/26 At first glance, Gearhead Gertie seems like a comic about NASCAR, but it isn't, not really. It's actually about one woman's wildly...
Head-on fish skeletons, a normal thing you see all the time in real life
Heathcliff, 4/22/26 One thing I love about newspaper comic strips is that they're full of visual signifiers that are multiple generations out of date at this...
Do you want to chew your cud all day, buddy, does that sound appealing
Herb and Jamaal, 4/21/26 I went to grad school for history (NOTE: DO NOT DO THIS) from 1996 to 1999, which was about at the tail end of the period when it...
Harsh judgements
The Lockhorns, 4/20/26 A fun subtle running bit in The Lockhorns is that Leroy's coworkers hold him in as much contempt as his wife does, but with a subtle...