Metapost: Gonna comment all up in your week, baby
Yeah, man! It's the COTW! And it goes a little something ... like this! "It's been obvious for a while that these two aren't humans exactly, but today...
Yes, Crock's middle initial is "P", I don't care for it but there it is
Pluggers, 11/14/25 I have to admit that I'm intrigued by the "come out here" formulation. This isn't a plugger who has walked into the living room and...
You can fly, man. Why even bother running. Makes no sense
Shoe, 11/13/25 "Plus I forgot we live in a tree! Like where am I even supposed to go? The end of that branch is maybe fifteen feet away, tops!" Garfield,...
Streaming doesn't count, people on streaming shows don't have souls
Dick Tracy, 11/12/25 New Dick Tracy storyline, everybody! This one involves (a) a guy named "Rojo Ozob," and (b) a sheriff who accidentally drove over a...
Josh has some second thoughts
Family Circus, 11/11/25 One of my favorite unintentional running Family Circus bits is when panels drawn decades ago that depict the Keane Kids in a car have...
I think coffee tastes great, that's why I put so much cream and sugar in it
Shoe, 11/10/25 "48 years" is relevant here because that's how long Shoe has been syndicated. Shoe, dimly aware of the contours of his universe, knows that...
Please do not peck my eyes out, bird lovers, you are valid
Crock, 11/9/25 Now, obviously part of the whole deal of Crock is that it takes what's objectively a pretty grim situation -- a remote outpost of an army...
The spices go ON the pumpkin, they're not IN the pumpkin
Hi and Lois, 11/8/25 In addition to being a coastal elitist who knows about academia, I contain multitudes and am also a Rust Belt native who was in a...
Metapost: The week that was, and the comments of it
Ready or not, Friday has arrived, and with it this week's funniest comment, chosen by me: "Kudos to Lou for being thematically consistent by mounting the TV...
I guess if you learn things about him in conversation, he becomes less unknown and it kills the vibe
The Phantom, 11/7/25 The Jungle Patrol, like most military and paramilitary outfits, is mostly composed of young people, but the nature of those young people...
Nothing worse than finding trust fund kids in your canal
Andy Capp, 11/6/25 I know increasing globalization means that cities around the world are becoming more and more similar to one another in their interlocked...
The hills have eyes, and lolling tongues
Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/5/25 Oh, wow, it turns out that this Rex Morgan, M.D., plot is going to involve -- brace yourself -- interpersonal conflict???...
Whose luggage is that and why did they bring it on their date
Mary Worth, 11/4/25 Sorry to be a "liberal coastal elitist" who "has a basic understanding of how academia works," but a "teachers conference” isn't really a...
Toby has journeyed far from Charterstone, so nobody can see her shameful between-meals nosh
Alice, 11/3/25 Today's Alice will I think be particularly inscrutable to non-Alice regulars, but in my late blog era I have myself become an Alice regular...
Bad romances
Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/2/25 So the big news that Augie delivered over pad thai is that not one but two publishers are interested in his manuscript and are...
Just getting her husband's feeble mind palace revved up then going back to her sudoku
Blondie, 11/1/25 The thing about Dagwood is that he's a dullard. He's not stupid, though he's also clearly not a genius, but mostly he just lacks any kind of...
Metapost: COMMENTS ... OF THE *FREAK!*
Look, guys. I really did plan to do a bunch of Cryptkeeper-style creepy puns for this post, but it's actually been a long and stressful week for me, and it's...
Mostly spooky one-panels
Pluggers, 10/31/25 Sorry, I don't think you should be exclaiming "What have you done?" to a guy in a toga unless he just banded together with other patriots...
Melancholy Thursday
Shoe, 10/30/25 I love how genuinely sad the Perfesser looks in the second panel. He's there by himself because he had planned to treat himself to something...
I declare victory in my long war against "Crock"
Herb and Jamaal, 10/29/25 One of my personal crosses to bear is that I cannot just go along with it when comics deliberately, and for "humorous" effect,...