When to give up and when to persist
Hagar the Horrible, 7/5/24 I know the joke here is that you think the buffet owner has "won" this coin toss because it means someone will be patronizing his...
U-S-A! U-S-...A?
Happy 4th of July, everybody! It's the day when everyone, Americans and non-Americans alike, comes together to celebrate America. How are you spending the...
Never has the word "unique" been so obviously used as an insult
Mary Worth, 7/3/24 Do you, Jeff? Do you know what's like to go through a rough patch? Because I've been reading this strip for a while, and as near as I can...
Soapy stubble Tuesday
Mark Trail, 7/2/24 You can make your old-school soap-opera comic character as hip and bestubblèd and "nu-look" as you want, but you will never be able to...
Why is Chip dragging Trixie into this. What went on in that house
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 7/1/24 Obviously Snuffy Smith's whole deal is that the doesn't care about the greater good of the polity and routinely...
"Conditions" could also refer to access to alcohol
Beetle Bailey, 6/30/24 Once again, the throwaway panels across the top of this Sunday strip deepen the narrative considerably. Without them, we just have a...
Pray for the fallen
Rex Morgan, M.D, 6/29/24 Like most observers of Rex Morgan, M.D., I assumed this plot was going to amble on interminably with some low-stakes, low-violence...
At sea
Mary Worth, 6/28/24 I've been accused, with perhaps some justification, of being a "coastal elitist". It's hard to keep track of what interests do or don't...
Itchy/gross/spinning
Gearhead Gertie, 6/27/24 I find Gertie's husband extremely relatable here. Sometimes, when your loved one just shouts jargon from their special interest that...
Absolutely not looking up what "The Dowe" is. You can't make me
Gil Thorp, 6/26/24 It took me a long time staring at the the first panel to put together what's going on here: Gil's new squeeze Beth was a server at some...
Let's get biblical
Hi and Lois, 6/25/24 Over at here at Hi and Lois, we're working to reassure you that it's not just desperate old people falling for those "Make Money At Home...
Red-hot SHK! SHK! action
Family Circus, 6/24/24 I think it's a not uncommon phenomenon to have one grandmother who, while still loving, is just less on your wavelength than the other...
Out of the past
Marvin, 6/23/24 Not to brag or anything, but after nearly 20 years of my doing this blog, my archives page has become a valuable historical resource that...
Dumb little guys
Beetle Bailey, 6/22/24 My wife and I are aficionados of real, non-microwave popcorn, and there are two ways to make this at home: you can do it in a metal...
Metapost: Midsomer murderously funny COTW
The days are at their longest at the comments ... they're at their funniest: "I like imagining Ian looming over the much shorter Wilbur with a belly laugh,...
World-historical dumbness
Family Circus, 6/21/24 Lord, I am a simple man, and one of my favorite Family Circus bits is when Jeffy just says some of the dumbest shit imaginable....
Is this the same redhead as in the pictures yesterday? What am I a detective? That's Dick's job
Bizarro, 6/20/24 Happy Solstice, everyone! Do you think these ladies are supposed to represent the changing seasons, or that they're just hanging out at a...
Don't hold back, Ian. We need you now more than ever
Mary Worth, 6/19/24 One of the things one must always be on guard against is the brand of nostalgia that convinces you that the past was always better and...
Tuesday quickies
Blondie, 6/18/24 Originally read that first panel as referring to "verse" as in poetry, then was briefly disappointed when it turned out I was incorrect,...
Guys, I don't ... I don't really know much about sports
Beetle Bailey, 6/17/24 OK, it's probably just a clip art compositing error, but I actually think it's very in character that Plato is abruptly swapped in for...