Sunday transcendence
Hagar the Horrible, 4/7/24 Hagar has pelted this prophetic orb into the Duke's castle and it has thoroughly demoralized the defenders by showing them their...
Musical weekend
Beetle Bailey, 4/6/24 I'm sorry, Sarge doesn't know any "raunchy" songs. He may be a brute who spends his days preparing men for the horrors of war by...
Metapost: Gettin' COTWy with it
Comment of the WEEK, y'all! It's here and it's real and it's spectacular: "Reading today's Snuffy Smith, it strikes me that I know a lot about the...
Wilbur and other monsters
Arctic Circle, 4/5/24 Arctic Circle is a comic strip about a bunch of penguins that live in the Arctic (YES I KNOW THAT'S WRONG, IT'S PART OF THE JOKE/LORE),...
This lady is taking her LIFE into her own hands here, talking to Gertie like that
Gearhead Gertie, 4/4/24 I really enjoy the fact that about half of Gearhead Gertie strips are like "here's a recent NASCAR story or controversy, spelled out...
Old blogger yells at cloud
Blondie, 4/3/24 Everyone makes fun of young people for being addicted to social media, but the truth is that old people are also addicted to social media....
Sacred Tuesday
Gasoline Alley, 4/2/24 I realize that a lot of fiction essentially consists of making up a guy to get mad at so you can be happy when he loses, but I feel...
The only fools here are ... all of us
Dennis the Menace and Blondie, 4/1/24 Is there any "holiday" more vile and unpleasant than April Fool's Day, which is mostly marked by "pranks" perpetrated...
Children make the risen Christ cry
Family Circus, 3/31/24 Some might think that Billy's smug expression in the second panel here is just because he thought of a good (i.e., very bad) pun for...
Josh likes exclamation points
Beetle Bailey, 3/30/24 I actually really like Sarge's facial expression in this one. Having been advised that he's walking into a potentially explosive...
Friday feelings
Mary Worth, 3/29/24 Whoops, it turns out Dawn doesn't so much crave maternal affection as she craves not seeing her terrible drippy ex and new girlfriend he...
Soapy Thursday
Gil Thorp, 3/28/24 The Milford Mudlarks: the team whose players trust one another so much that they just keep passing the ball back and forth, indefinitely....
Troubled youth
Mary Worth, 3/27/24 God bless Mary Worth for sticking to its strengths, which is putting ordinary people into compelling situations and having them say...
Tuesday twofer
Beetle Bailey, 3/26/24 Does Corporal Yo assume that Sarge would just think "Oh, he finally got that leg-lengthening surgery, that explains why he's taller!...
Somehow ... mother returned
Mary Worth, 3/25/24 Big news, everybody. They did it. They dragged out the Keith storyline and then the Mary and Jeff go on a date transition for so long...
Josh lays down the law
Blondie, 3/24/24 OK, look, syndicated newspaper comic strip Blondie: if you start a comic where Dag gets an alert on his phone that it's time for a "ritual,"...
You DON'T want to know where he got the trenchcoat
Bizarro, 3/23/24 One of my goals in this blog is to get you all to appreciate the comics as a fundamentally visual medium. You could describe a comic where...
Metapost: [To the tune of "Ease On Down The Road"] Comment of, comment of, the week
Your top comment? It's here! "Hey, guy in the back, that's no way to hold a sign! You have your right hand on one end of the sign and your left hand squarely...
Friday quickies
Dennis the Menace, 3/22/24 The most menaced person here is the guy in the background, who spent all day hand-painting this snazzy retro "Information" sign...
Hagar would merely plunder the wabbit's gold
Gearhead Gertie, 3/21/24 Gearhead Gertie is another new strip I've been reading. It's about Gertie, an old lady who's monomaniacally hyperfocused on NASCAR...