Metapost: Delicious, nutritious COTW
This week's comment of the week ... it's good for what ails ya: "Good to see an appearance by Johnny Dollar, the man with action-packed expense account."...
Not taking questions on which "biz" I'm talking about
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/18/25 The chronology of this Rex Morgan storyline flashback has now looped back around to the point where the beat cop who's been...
Mostly sullen teen edition
Dustin, 4/17/25 Really loving Dustin's facial expression in the second panel here. "Ah," he's thinking, "he doesn't love her either. He may hate her as much...
Journeys through time
Archie, 4/16/25 I can't even keep track anymore of when these Archie reruns originated, and whether the coloring actually dates from that era or was added in...
Several historical deep dives
Blondie, 4/15/25 When I read today's Blondie, I had one immediate and overwhelming thought: isn't Dagwood's beloved living room chair blue, rather than the...
Milky Monday
Gil Thorp, 4/14/24 Look, my mission is as always to read the comics so you don't have to, but sometimes with the continuity strips you really do need to read...
Soapy Sunday
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/13/25 Oh, a thing I forgot to tell you about that happened in Rex Morgan, M.D., is that Summer managed to track down other people her...
Death, doom, etc.
Mary Worth, 4/12/25 Welp, looks like Dawn's about to die in agony after drinking a powerful drain cleaner ... and that's the tea, sis! Ha ha, get it, because...
Metapost: The comments ... they call out to you for the reading
This week: The comment of the week: Right here: Right now: "What sells this is the final panel. Remember, Dustin's equally-terrible-but-in-a-different-way...
Watch where you're pointing that thing, narration box
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/11/25 WHO IS THIS MAN, AND WHY IS HE IN THE CROWD? I dunno. Probably he's the person who was responsible for the stalker guy dying...
Ladies like big chins like that, right? The ones that look like butts? That turns them on?
Dick Tracy, 4/10/25 So the guy in the suit is lead detective in the case of the almost-stolen corpse, and I guess he figured out who the corpse used to be...
What kind of hippie accepts a title of nobility
Suburban Fairy Tales, 4/9/25 I made a fairly embarrassing error in my post about Suburban Fairy Tales a couple days ago, in which I implied that the second...
I read the comics to protect you from terrible truths
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/8/25 Way back in the mists of time when I first started this blog, it was called I Read The Comics So You Don't Have To, and I still...
Suburban ennui
Hi and Lois, 4/7/25 Ah hell yeah, Hi and Lois is at it again, with "it" being a mostly punchline-free strip about the formless but omnipresent disquiet in...
When you get peeled in a dream, you get peeled in real life
The Phantom, 4/6/25 One thing I respect about the Phantom is that, for a strip that started out with a fairly dubious colonialist attitude, it now makes a...
Don't really like that Snuffy and Granny Creeps are just kind of friends now. Seems wrong
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 4/5/25 Wow, I had always assumed that Hootin' Holler was cut off from outside civilization to the extent that it's blessedly...
Metapost: It's Friday, time for the [bursts into song] comment of the WEEEEEEK
That's right! Enjoy your COTW, right here, right now! "No, I don't mean your face is familiar from the radio, you nitwit. I recognize you as the man who...
Friday is for Pop(s)
Beetle Bailey, 4/4/25 That's right, Zero! Article 17 of the Third Geneva Convention establishes that POWs are only required to give their name, rank, and...
Daddy-daughter Thursday
Mary Worth, 4/3/25 The thing about Belle is that frankly nobody is operating on her level, at least not yet, and that makes her extremely dangerous. Look at...
Yeah, I'm using brand names and generics interchangeably. Deal with it
Shoe, 4/2/25 You know, I was going to joke here about how the snuggie's brief moment as a cultural sensation came and went in 2009, which I regret to inform...