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Premium post · October 3, 2025
Wizard of Id, 10/3/25 It absolutely makes sense that people hear "New York" and think of New York City -- the city is a world cultural capital, is the...
We haven't even heard "Muddy Boots" yet, come on guys
Premium post · October 2, 2025
Gearhead Gertie, 10/2/25 I was actually visiting a friend in Durham on the day Dale Earnhardt died, a date that I will always think of as "North Carolina's...
More comics should be drawn from a ground-level POV
Premium post · October 1, 2025
Dennis the Menace, 10/1/25 I was thinking the other day about how Dagwood Bumstead and Hi Flagston have extremely generic jobs. Technically Dagwood is an...
Is there a less plugger sport than tennis? Cricket, maybe
Premium post · September 30, 2025
Hagar the Horrible, 9/30/25 Hagar is the protagonist of this strip, so we usually see things from his perspective, and I have to admit I never really tried...
Can't I enjoy my glass of wine and [squints] potato undisturbed
Premium post · September 29, 2025
Crock, 9/29/25 The point of this joke is of course that it's annoying when a telemarketer (perhaps one offering you a "banking credit card") interrupts you...
Sunday is for old people
Premium post · September 28, 2025
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/28/25 Well, I guess Truck's not-son Cody did in fact come out ahead of beloved (?) tween neo-vaudeville novelty act "Shorty and the...
Generation gaps
Premium post · September 27, 2025
Judge Parker, 9/27/25 Look, we're all young and hip here [laughs nervously], but the truth is that the soap opera strips are a very traditional medium and...
Metapost: Fallin' for the COTW
Premium post · September 26, 2025
We're officially in autumn now, folks, so take a big swig of that pumpkin spice latte [note to intern: find more up-to-date seasonal joke here, maybe find...
Unpleasant Friday
Premium post · September 26, 2025
Beetle Bailey, 9/26/25 Perverts turned on by crudely drawn cartoons everywhere were devastated this week when Beetle Bailey skipped its usual "Miss Buxley...
I guess technically speaking they still have to get out of the tree first
Premium post · September 25, 2025
Mary Worth, 9/25/25 Wow, back in the day, you could write a long, crazy yarn about an unlikely trio hot-air-balloon-crashing into the remote woods, where...
"Dropping" is a much nicer way to put it than "crashing," let's go with that
Premium post · September 24, 2025
Crock, 9/24/25 In my freshman year of college, there was an outbreak of E. coli at various Jack in the Boxes that killed four children, and a friend of mine...
"Pluggers" has fallen
Premium post · September 23, 2025
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/23/25 Last we saw of Truck and Cody, they had agreed to treat each other as honorary father and son and it was all very heartwarming. But...
Up up and away
Premium post · September 22, 2025
Mary Worth, 9/22/25 As promised/threatened, Mary has taken Olive to the Santa Royale Hot Air Balloon Festival! You know, hot air ballooning, the classic...
Odd jobs
Premium post · September 21, 2025
Blondie, 9/21/25 Comics Time is a damn complicated thing. Dagwood and Blondie are both relatively young parents of teenagers, which caused some of you to...
Not even going to get into how sad having Buck as your best man would be
Premium post · September 20, 2025
Blondie, 9/20/25 My favorite part of this Blondie strip is "40 reps of what?" Like, she knows that this is some elaborate Dagwood bullshit and she's trying...
Metapost: It is time. Time ... for the comments. Comments ......... of the week
Premium post · September 19, 2025
Your top comment ............... right here .......................... right now: "I have to assume the Perfesser was examined in the conference room because...
Pluggers and plugging in
Premium post · September 19, 2025
Pluggers, 9/19/25 Look, you know I can be a little spicy when it comes to pluggers and their culture and values, but I'm not made of stone. I don't wish ill...
Not going to try to transcribe a comical French accent, just imagine it
Premium post · September 18, 2025
Judge Parker, 9/18/25 I'm never exactly sure how old Sam and Abbey are supposed to be -- yes, they're the parents of two women who are both in their early to...
Too many Harwoods
Premium post · September 17, 2025
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/17/25 I am really enjoying the quiet desperation of Yvonne's facial expression as she tries to convey to Rex and June how crazy-making...
More about time
Premium post · September 16, 2025
Mary Worth, 9/16/25 It's not exactly clear how much time in-strip is supposed to have elapsed between the current storyline and Olive's original appearance...
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