Dads and sads
Blondie, 6/16/24 Even in a recurring narrative, it can be difficult to accommodate the full network of an average person's social relations into the story,...
Mostly suburban trauma
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 6/15/24 Today's Barney Google and Snuffy Smith punchline isn't bad exactly. It's a perfectly serviceable newspaper comic...
Metapost: This is the weekly comment of the week post
Interested in reading this week's top comment, as chosen by me? Well, good news: it's here. "What family does Declan have now? Not the one he's marrying...
Grompy Friday
Judge Parker, 6/14/24 Hey, remember "Declan," Neddy's fiance, who in previous appearances on this blog gave the general vibe of "amiable enough" and "amiable...
Various foodstuffs
Tina's Groove, 6/13/24 Say, it's been a while since we've checked in with the anxious depressive food service workers over at Tina's Groove. What are they up...
Wednesday quickies
Blondie, 6/12/24 Hmm, you're saying that every time Dithers is in a room with Dagwood, his strength is being sapped by powerful Bumstead Radiation? No wonder...
Walt, do NOT inform God that His plan to smite you failed
Gasoline Alley, 6/11/24 So, the reason the electricity went out at Walt's is that a big tree fell over and pulled down the power line running from the...
Pretty sure there's a verse in Leviticus that forbids interring a freshwater fish in the ocean
Mary Worth, 6/10/24 The thing about disposing of a dead fish is, honestly, that there isn't a particularly dignified way to do it, and if you're as...
Love, death, etc.
Crock, 6/9/24 Crock is a strip in perpetual reruns for obvious reasons, and today's ("today's") strip is a delightful puzzle to try to figure out when...
Crankiness ... intensifying
Dennis the Menace, 6/8/24 "Dennis shit-talks his mother's cooking" isn't my favorite trope in this strip, but I feel you at least have to respect the form:...
Metapost: To C, perchance to OTW
This week's top comment? It's right here and right now: "I hope the duck cop in this town realizes how more effective superhero cosplayers are than Sherlock...
Sad man-children and actual children
Dustin, 6/7/24 "Dustin can't get a date" is a running bit in Dustin that usually I hate because the strips on this theme inevitably happen with supposed...
Thursday quickies
Kevin and Kell, 6/6/24 I know I don't talk about Kevin and Kell, the comic strip about weird corporate furries, very often, but I can't look at the wildly...
Kids these days
Blondie, 6/5/24 The number one thing that makes me feel like an old person is my stiff right knee and hip, but number two, coming pretty close behind, is the...
Give peace a chance
Slylock Fox, 6/4/24 I assume that the gentleman who's been tied up is the victim here, some solid citizen who was simply walking around with burlap sacks...
Everyone is not fine
Marvin, 6/3/24 The very first "real job" I ever had, after I quit grad school, way back in the long past and yet futuristic sounding year of 1999, was as a...
The True Grit REMAKE is already 14 years old, c'mon
Mary Worth, 6/2/24 I know I've been harping for a while on "why is Wilbur so obsessed with his dead fish and not talking about his alive fish?" Earlier this...
Saturday fast takes
Gasoline Alley, 6/1/24 Uh oh, looks like the electricity is out all over Gasoline Alley! I guess electricity has decided, in the wake of the rejection of the...
Metapost: Brace yourselves ... COTW incoming
A comment comes screaming across the sky ... a comment of the week! "Setting aside that this rolling pin is clearly some sort of do-it-yourself erotic...
Romance seems to be going great, getting more efficient by the day
Dustin, 5/31/24 Look, I get -- believe me, I get -- that it's hard to mine jokes every single day out of a single premise, and sometimes when you're doing a...