Troubling Saturday
Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/2/24 My faithful readers are all familiar with Rex Morgan, M.D., the soap opera comic strip where nothing ever happens. But what if...
Metapost: Horn-tooting COTW
Hi folks! Your COTW in a moment but first ... Dropout, the streaming service from the College Humor folks, has a great geek-culture panel game show called...
Three "anyways"es
Curtis, 3/1/24 The weird thing about arrested-in-time strips like Curtis is that we, who have been reading this strip for decades, have internalized the...
Leap into comics!
Mary Worth, 2/29/24 Yes, blah blah blah, Toby and Mary are still going on and on about Keith's virtues (as a singer and a [squints] farrier?) and unorthodox...
Comical suffering
Judge Parker, 2/28/24 Judge Parker Senior's wayward daughter Ann, having escaped her captor when he decided that Judge Parker Senior was too scary, has...
Thorp-off
Gil Thorp, 2/27/24 Under new writer Henry Barajas, Gil Thorp has introduced a more diverse cast, kept old characters around, and even rescued Gil's children...
Love to sit, and read about sitting
Rex Morgan, M.D., 2/26/24 Every once in a while, the Rex Morgan, M.D., creative team remembers the "M.D." part of the strip title and realizes they're...
Gloomy Sunday
Pluggers and Gasoline Alley, 2/25/24 Old people! Do you enjoy the Sunday comics as one of your last pleasures in life? Well, the whimsical "funny pages" are...
The old, the young, the beautiful
Family Circus, 2/24/24 The Family Circus was originally drawn by Bil Keane, with the characters all being thinly veiled versions of him and his real family,...
Metapost: C [clap] O [clap] T [clap] W [clapclapclap]
Woo! It's the week's top comment! Woo! "Beasley, you imbecile. That's not an award. The cup with '#1' on it is given out to all the mail carriers, on account...
Friday fast takes
Gasoline Alley, 2/23/24 In 1918, when this strip began, most American cities, even small ones, had electric streetcar networks. These were only beginning to...
A criminal AND a judge? Bad news
Beetle Bailey, 2/22/24 Beetle Bailey has always added new characters to cash in on the latest fads, and a fun fact is that "Rocket '88'," considered by some...
And what about those car warranty calls, amiright folks
Blondie, 2/21/24 I am coming around to the opinion that the primary value of the syndicated newspaper comic strip Blondie is to provide anthropological...
Keith loses his cool
Mary Worth, 2/20/24 OK, I'll officially be back on this storyline's side again if instead of manfully failing to mention those inconvenient paternity test...
Josh has advice
Dennis the Menace, 2/19/24 Let me tell you, as a guy who writes jokes for a living, that no matter how bad you think the jokes on this website are, there...
Sunday short takes
Family Circus, 2/18/24 "Oh, hey, does my toddler have a bunch of friends who I don't know, who somehow got into the house without me having noticed? Sure,...
Saturday is for the terrible children
Hi and Lois, 2/17/24 In a happier family, Hi would relay this story with a rueful smile on his face, acknowledging that it was a disappointing game while...
Metapost: Slightly lackadaisical COTW
Got a late start this morning but a comment of the week is welcome any time of day, I feel: "'Keith! How things are with your former girlfriend and your...
Friday is for fluids
Shoe, 2/16/24 I was about to start this post with "Sorry I'm the Perfeser facial expression parser now," but why should I apologize for that? You, my...
Coffee is for Thursdays
Rex Morgan, M.D., 2/15/24 Welp, I guess we've finally wrung all the narrative content we can out of Rene getting extremely injured and also involuntarily...