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...
Love is in the air
Arctic Circle, 2/14/24 Arctic Circle is usually a strip about climate change and other environmental issues, but on this special day of St. Valentine, it...
Tuesdays are for awful chimeras
Pluggers, 2/13/24 Wow, I feel like the backstory that lead up to today's Pluggers is even grimmer than usual. Chicken-lady is thrusting this inoffensive but...
Honest Josh's Comics Emporium
Gasoline Alley, 2/12/24 Good (?) news, everybody: Slim didn't freeze to death in his car, and it turns out that the supposed "love note" his wife found was...
Multiple no-necks in today's strips, honestly
Crock, 2/11/24 You know, some days I open up the ol' comics in my newspaper web browser and think, "After all these years on this blog, do I truly have...
Even his perm is wilted
Mary Worth, 2/10/24 While we've heard a lot about how Keith is a good romantic partner and putting in the work as a father figure, we haven't actually seen a...
Metapost: Look upon these comments, and rejoice
Would you describe yourself as "working for the weekend"? Well, good news: It's almost here, and this week's top comment heralds the fun: "Wouldn't it be...
Kids these days
Hi and Lois, 2/9/24 I have not been on the "dating scene" since I met my wife-to-be back in 2002, but I try to keep abreast of the discourse and the lingo...
Love and death (mostly death)
Mary Worth, 2/8/24 Move over, "celler door!" There's a new most beautiful two-word phrase in the English language, and it's "odd rock." "Race you to that odd...
Hell is other people and also other animal-people
Six Chix, 2/7/24 I said my piece a while back about why I'm not the biggest fan of cartoons about hell, but you know me: I can't resist looking at a comic...
Tuesday is for the children
Hi and Lois, 2/6/24 God, this one is super bleak. Lois has convinced herself that, sure, things are tight and they can't afford to order pizza very often...
Medical monday
Mary Worth, 2/5/24 Say, remember way back at the beginning of this storyline, when Sonia showed up at Keith's doorstep insisting that he was her father, and...
Boomers and horses
Blondie, 2/4/24 I am of course more than happy to call Blondie wildly out of touch, culturally. But I gotta say, I trust this strip implicitly when it comes...
Lotta good farming there, "green" is right in the name
Hagar the Horrible, 2/3/24 Man, I remember when poetry was orally transmitted, when anyone could get in front of the assembly and fire off some verses that...
Metapost: Early morning COTW
The best part of waking up is learning what the top comment of the week was on josh reads dot com, the world famous comics curmudgeon blog: "Once again, Shoe...
Beetle and Sarge Face the AI Onslaught: A Comic Strip Odyssey
Bizarro and Six Chix, 2/2/24 Were you, as an adolescent, fascinated by Dante's Inferno, and in particular by the book's weird geography, in which hell is a...
I guess he really is the Man Who Cannot Die
The Phantom, 2/1/24 So, big news everybody: The "Death of the Phantom" arc, which started, I swear to God, way back in 2017, is finally over, and,...
Wednesday horror
Mark Trail, 1/31/24 Having helped a bunch of guys get in touch with their emotions via fishing, Mark is now being dispatched on a much more dangerous...
Is annoying Rex Morgan considered "good," because he's done lots of that
Rex Morgan, M.D., 1/30/24 Oh yeah, so it turns out that Lyle "Old Man" Ollman is actually Rene/"Jimmy"'s uncle! I admit I made fun of Lyle for not having the...
The circle of life
Gasoline Alley, 1/29/24 One of the central and increasingly untenable contradictions of Gasoline Alley is that it is and always has been a strip where the...