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Premium post · May 30, 2024
Six Chix, 5/30/24 I "read the comics so you don't have to," and I'm not too proud to acknowledge that sometimes that role requires that I alert you to when...
Some hairs are askew? We call that "Wednesday" around here
Premium post · May 29, 2024
Hagar the Horrible, 5/29/24 One of the great dilemmas of transport is that the more mass you need to move, the more energy you need to move it, which means...
This guy's gonna get linotype ink all over his all-white suit
Premium post · May 28, 2024
Blondie, 5/28/24 I think it's very telling that Dagwood doesn't seem to particularly care about getting to work on time using this new futuristic technology;...
Did he really forget? Doesn't look like it to be honest
Premium post · May 27, 2024
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/27/24 Big news, everyone! Our character wrap-up is finally over and we're getting to our next exciting Rex Morgan, M.D., medically themed...
Walker-Browne-Wilbur alliance
Premium post · May 26, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/26/24 Jesus, Wilbur, did you ever think that Willa has probably even more reason to mourn than you do, and you've never tried to reach out to...
A good joke spoiled
Premium post · May 25, 2024
Dustin, 5/25/24 Syndicated newspaper comic strip creators love golf for some accursed reason, but I have to say that they're generally pretty good about only...
Metapost: C to the O to the T to the W
Premium post · May 24, 2024
Enjoy your weekend in the humorous glow of this week's top comment! "Justin is doing his own thing, as always? No. I don't believe it. Oh, wait ... a lava...
Honh honh honh
Premium post · May 24, 2024
Between Friends, 5/24/24 For my sins, I must occasionally fulfill my oath and keep you up to date on the Between Friends gals, so: the dark-haired Between...
Can this blue-collar/white-collar romance last???? Haha jk I don't actually care
Premium post · May 23, 2024
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/23/24 This week we've been getting a little catchup on what the ancillary Rex Morgan characters have been up to, and it's mostly pretty...
How old is the youngest person alive who knows what the "cola wars" were
Premium post · May 22, 2024
Pardon My Planet, 5/22/24 As a hopeless Coke Zero addict, I of course respect any monument to those who fought and died in the name of delicious soda pop....
Josh reads the implications
Premium post · May 21, 2024
Blondie, 5/21/24 The implication here is that Dagwood has been home for hours while letting his latest workplace blunder marinate in his mind, only having...
This has huge implications for what "half-assed" means
Premium post · May 20, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/20/24 Yeah, sorry I didn't talk about Wilbur making a beautiful flowered coffin for his dead fish Stellan Sunday, but I just sort of stared at...
YHWH cares nothing for the Great Egg from which we hatched
Premium post · May 19, 2024
Panel from Slylock Fox, 5/19/24 Now, you all know that I am a fan of Reeky Rat trailer park disputes and have been for a very long time, but it's still nice...
Death and rock
Premium post · May 18, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/18/24 Remember when we learned that Old Man Wynter purchased a headstone for his dog that was significantly larger than the one he bought for...
Metapost: May mid-month comments of the mweek
Premium post · May 17, 2024
Your week's top comment is here, let its hilarious glow take you through the weekend! "You're a plugger if you plan both your day and night around abusing a...
There was no tobacco in biblical times, what a sad blunder
Premium post · May 17, 2024
Gasoline Alley, 5/17/24 OK, see, I get that Assistant Mayor Elbert Imeswine was the villain of the "Electric Acres" arc, but he doesn't seem to be based on...
Sorry about pretty much all of this
Premium post · May 16, 2024
Pluggers, 5/16/24 The caption is basic down-home folksiness combined with "pluggers are always hungry," but the facial expression on the man-bear plugger...
Josh grumps out
Premium post · May 15, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/15/24 Oooh, look everyone, Mary Worth is doing a bit where Wilbur is shouting "Stella!" like Stanley from A Streetcar Named Desire, except it's...
Ancient ways, modern art
Premium post · May 14, 2024
Gasoline Alley, 5/14/24 Ha ha yes, last week I had some fun imagining Walt encountering some biblically accurate angels, but this week Walt is has entered a...
Nightmarish Monday
Premium post · May 13, 2024
Daddy Daze, 5/13/24 One of the most fascinating and bonkers "big ideas" books of the '70s was The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral...
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