He just loves airplanes. He loves them so much
Gil Thorp, 6/23/26 I love the abrupt emotional turn Gil takes in panel three: he lowers his sunglasses over his eyes to hide the flash of anger, but we can...
Grim Monday
Intelligent Life, 6/22/26 Everything I've learned about all the characters in Intelligent Life has been against my will. I wasn't thrilled when I realized I...
The Norwegian Tourist Board breathes a big sigh of relief
Judge Parker, 6/21/26 Look, we know what you want and what you don't want out of your soap opera comic strips, and what you don't want is character growth....
"Rigor Mortis Theater" is clearly a reliable source
Curtis, 6/20/26 As a longtime Wikipedia editor and aficionado of Wikipedia silliness, I enjoy it when I stumble upon evidence of a vicious long-ago battle...
Metapost: Your comments, the comments you love and crave
It's here! The comment of the week! Enjoy it! "Garfield, you fool! Never accept food or drink from the Fair Folk! Now you must spend 1,000 Mondays beneath...
Various odd creatures
Mark Trail, 6/19/26 Oh wow, I think this gorilla sanctuary storyline is adding yet more layers of moral complexity. If you ran a failing gorilla sanctuary...
Thursday dining
Blondie, 6/18/26 When Blondie started a business, back in 1991, it might've presented the strip with an opportunity to step beyond the tired food-mania...
The white gloves are a nice touch
Dennis the Menace, 6/17/26 I can see why Dennis thinks that Henry, who wears a bow tie everywhere and thinks that you should change into a polo shirt when...
The arousing, the sublime, the disgusting
Gil Thorp, 6/16/26 Good news, everyone! Luke has given up on his pagan beliefs that Milford High is haunted by the shades of its dead coaches, and has now...
Starting the week philosophically
Rex Morgan, M.D., 6/15/26 I genuinely love that Mae Mae and this lady from "the media" are having a respectful argument by making statements that are as...
Vikings aren't pluggers (they love exploring new lands, and are also fun)
Pluggers, 6/14/26 I'm beginning to suspect that some of my sense that Pluggers is increasingly all over the place on explaining plugger identity is that the...
Remember Wilbur's not-son? Too bad she didn't make friends with him
Mary Worth, 6/13/26 Dawn's never alone because of her friends! You know, like Cathy, who's always eating giant salads, and other Cathy, who Dawn probably...
Metapost: The comments, the week, and so forth
Let's skip the pleasantries and get to the most pleasant thing of all: the comment ... of the WEEK! "When Prussian gymnast and bodybuilder Joseph Pilates...
Fast Friday
Beetle Bailey, 6/12/26 Whoa, looks like America's foremost military-themed comic strip is going to take on the extremely current and relevant topic of women...
Best kind of abyss, right after James Cameron's
Heathcliff, 6/11/26 It's true that California has higher gas prices than the rest of the country, but I guarantee that every time you've seen a viral picture...
Unpleasant whimsy
Rex Morgan, M.D., 6/10/26 You know, maybe I'm sheltered, but I think that interpersonal violence happens a lot more often in stories than it does in real...
GORILLAGRIFT!
Mark Trail, 6/9/26 The "Mark's dad is getting romance-scammed” Mark Trail storyline has had some pleasing twists and turns: we learned Mark "Happy" Trail Sr....
I truly see your sleepy, sleepy heart
Gil Thorp, 6/8/26 Isis, a Mudlark student-athlete, was taken by ICE earlier this year, and she's now being released after much protest by fellow students,...
Young love (and also pluggers)
Pluggers, 6/7/26 Look, I know that Pluggers has lost its focus on pluggers being hard-working, blue collar real Americans and now mostly dwells on stuff like...
Young people and their food foibles
Archie, 6/6/26 I guess the joke here is that Archie, who we mostly know through his romantic misadventures but who is in many ways still a boy, likes Ninja...