Mostly kind Sunday
Crock, 6/1/25 Imagine if you petitioned Almighty God for a full accounting of all the evil you've done in your life. This is information that He, being...
Saturday quickies
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/31/25 Wait, is something happening in Rex Morgan, M.D.? Is something interesting happening in Rex Morgan, M.D.? Wild. Truly wild....
Metapost: [COTW title goes here]
[Joke or quip setting up COTW and establishing that the reader has been waiting for it all week goes here] "Mrs Wilson's smiling face makes the gag work....
Did anyone really call him Steve "Guitar" Miller or was that just my dad
Blondie, 5/30/25 Here's a joke for you: a guy with a master's degree in ancient history and a guy with an MFA in poetry were coworkers once, back in the late...
Crime, love, etc.
Mother Goose and Grimm, 5/29/25 Look, obviously I'm not asking that a comic strip that deliberately has fun with a character that's in some ways like a...
C3P0 would be a great press secretary, actually
Dennis the Menace, 5/28/25 When you have a long-running strip like Dennis the Menace, where one of the main characters is a child who never grows up and...
Modern-day foibles
Herb and Jamaal, 5/27/25 Of the 99 most recent Herb and Jamaal strips I've commented on, all but one have four panels, so I guess the strip is pretty married...
Trouble brewin'
Mary Worth 5/26/25 OK, sorry, it's very funny that Wilbur's instinct upon stumbling onto this perfectly insane scene is to address not Belle, his...
The hottest frat fads from the early 20th century are back! Up next: phone booth stuffing
Panel from Slylock Fox, 5/25/25 Every once in a while, I get frustrated with myself for not being able to remember my parents' anniversary, or the names of...
Downer Saturday
Crankshaft, 5/24/25 The wisteria guy from earlier this week is, as Uncle Lumpy remembers so I don't have to, the former paramour of Lilian's now-deceased...
Metapost: The comments ... they ain't stoppin'
It's Friday and you know what that means: You can't stop the comment of the week. You can only hope to contain it within this metapost: "I love how fast the...
Carpe diem comics
Shoe, 5/23/25 This strip would be -- well, not funny, exactly, but it would at least make some sort of sense if the Perfesser was married, which to the best...
Some might say the mythological Icarus loved the joy of flying a little too much
Archie, 5/22/25 I dunno, Jughead, that looks more like blood to me. Presumably the LORD will be passing through to smite all those who harbor Archie in their...
Are his wish-granting capabilities all sunflower-focused
Heathcliff, 5/21/25 Real heads who read Heathcliff daily know that most weeks have a theme of some sort -- "dirt week", "garbage week", and so forth. This...
Sitcom-adjacent jokes
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/20/25 On Sunday, June got the mail, and told her sons that the family had gotten a wedding invite, and they were like "You get free cake...
Crime and/or punishment
Hagar the Horrible, 5/19/25 I really appreciate how chill Hagar is about his own prosecution here. Based on the wigs, he's probably being tried for his...
Bleak Sunday
Shoe, 5/18/25 You know I'm a fan of the depressing Shoe strips where either the Perfesser or Skyler is sitting in the living room chair and the other one has...
Current and future ghosts
The Phantom, 5/17/25 One of the key ongoing dramas of The Phantom is the question of what woman will contribute her genetic material to the ongoing Phantom...
Metapost: May flowers COTW
Spring has sprung (not eligible in all areas), and now it's time for the comment of the week! "YES! The grueling, meaningless life uneventful!! That's the...
Speaking affectionately ill of the dead
Dick Tracy, 5/16/25 The current Dick Tracy story wrapped up with our criminals fleeing from the cops and in the process conveniently getting into a terrible...