Monday is for old people
Pluggers, 9/7/26 This year, my 80-year-old stepmother fractured her hip badly enough to need a replacement, and although "hip replacement" sounds very dire,...
Bad news food
Curtis, 9/6/26 Curtis is one of the few strips that does generational discourse that in my opinion truly gives both sides their due, which is one of the...
Somewhat sexual Saturday
Beetle Bailey, 9/5/26 Look, sometimes your partner is going to float some specific sexual kink -- voyeurism, say -- that you're not on board with. How do you...
Metapost: Laborious COTW
We in the USA are heading into our three-day wekeend, and hopefully all of us won't find it to be too much work to enjoy this week's top comment: "I don't...
Bad news, generally
Mary Worth, 9/4/26 Nelly Feneley has been spending all week seething about how terrible everything is these days, but we've been wondering how this would...
Cyber-Thursday
The Lockhorns, 9/3/26 I like how Leroy is delivering this line as he's buttoning up his shirt. Like, sure, maybe he made some desperate promises when he was...
Hats on hats
Dick Tracy, 9/2/26 So I guess that computer didn't just magically explode, but had actually been already fitted with some kind of internal incendiary device...
Employees of the month
Judge Parker, 9/1/26 The best-case scenario when an attractive younger woman marries a rich, driven older man -- well, I guess the best-case scenario is that...
Can I call in a wellness check on a cartoon character
Mary Worth, 8/31/26 Hey, everyone, here's a fun fact, if by "fun" you mean guaranteed to deliver the epiphany that oh my god I'm so old, how did I get to be...
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Dick Tracy, 8/30/26 I had kind of lost interest in this Dick Tracy computer hacker storyline, mostly because both the ways in which it got computer stuff...
Honestly surprised that toilet lid isn't carpeted
Pluggers, 8/29/26 The key to unlocking this scene, to my mind, is the cobwebs. Pluggers now spend all their pooping time doomscrolling just like the rest of...
Eternal past, eternal present
Andy Capp, 8/28/26 Guitar Bob is an Andy Capp ancillary character who may have been around since the strip launched in the '50s or may have been spawned in...
Troubled youth
Dennis the Menace, 8/27/26 As my readers well know, part of Dennis's whole deal is that he hates his mother's cooking and will insult it at any opportunity....
A dog's life
Mother Goose and Grimm, 8/26/26 The Goofy/Pluto paradox is a situation many comics and cartoons that feature sapient animals find themselves in, whereby some...
Those second-degree burns ... truly epic
Zits, 8/25/26 As I recently noted, Zits is only running new strips on Sundays now, with the dailies being reruns from its deep library, and I assume that...
Monday is for ends, beginnings, and so on
Mary Worth, 8/24/26 So, just to bring you up to speed on Mary Worth, last week there was no follow-up to Dawn's single tear of romantic longing, and instead...
Happiness and sadness
Hagar the Horrible, 8/23/26 I honestly don't know if we're supposed to understand "Lucky Eddie is an animal lover” and "Lucky Eddie's girlfriend is a half-...
You must remember this. Or not, see if I care
Judge Parker, 8/22/26 Hey, remember how Neddy was freaking out because April, or maybe a fake April, was coming to violently drag Charlotte off into her...
Metapost: Quick COTW
Here ya go, this week's comment of the week: "We've all just barely accepted that the Lockhorns are millennials, but must we now face the even more chilling...
Big news Friday
Beetle Bailey, 8/21/26 Big news, everyone! The men of Camp Swampy have finally decided to murder Sarge! Daddy Daze, 8/21/26 Big news, everyone! The Daddy...