Mae Mae cut out the middleman and blackmailed herself, then didn't pay
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/13/26 Oh, did you think that maybe Lonnie's blackmail scheme might generate sustained dramatic tension of some kind? Well, sorry, Mae Mae...
You don't get into advanced gaslighting until college
Gil Thorp, 5/12/26 The Vegas sportsbooks have had a rough last few years. In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic...
Kinda gross Monday
Luann, 5/11/26 So Luann has a boyfriend named "Phil" now, and sure, the strip has done a certain amount of classic Luann stuff about their relationship where...
Mmm ... sandwich
Judge Parker, 5/10/26 There have been hints in this strip that Judge Parker Senior is slipping away into alcoholism or maybe just dementia, and ... look,...
Some bathroom jokes (SORRY)
Barney Google and Snuff Smith, 5/9/26 Snuffy sure looks smug, doesn't he? He shouldn't, though: cultivating the favorite food source of your primary prey...
Metapost: Full-on spring-y comment of the week
May! The glorious month of May, and it's delightful comment of the week! "You might think this is standard Funkyverse sub-wordplay, but in fact it's...
The old men and the Friday
Beetle Bailey, 5/8/26 I honestly am not sure if the joke here is simply "Lt. Fuzz is humiliated because Gen. Halftrack takes an enlisted soldier's advice...
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...