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Premium post · August 20, 2026
Pardon My Planet, 8/20/26 OK, here's a sentence that I'm reasonably sure I've never written before, and probably nobody else has either: I'm actually...
Ominous developments
Premium post · August 19, 2026
Crankshaft, 8/19/26 The last time Crankshaft and Harry Dinkle started an adventure together, Crankshaft looked real cherry but it ended up with Harry...
Troubling youth, etc.
Premium post · August 18, 2026
Pickles, 8/18/26 Not to sound old, but I do find someone replying "k" to me to be irritating sometimes (and to prove I'm not doing generational discourse,...
Various disasters
Premium post · August 17, 2026
Dustin, 8/17/26 Hey kids! Do you remember the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that dumped 150 million gallons of oil into the ocean? Well, that happened in April...
Dawn Weston: Sadhorny Chronicles
Premium post · August 16, 2026
Six Chix, 8/16/26 The Wednesday Chik has not given up on her mission to educate comics readers on the true nature of the afterlife, which is that everyone...
Just make coffee at home, guys! It's cheaper!!!!
Premium post · August 15, 2026
Pluggers, 8/15/26 I'm a guy who does not like fancy coffee drinks but I also have limitless disdain for self-righteous "Hur hur I went to the fancy coffee...
Metapost: It is time for the week's top comments
Premium post · August 14, 2026
This week's comment of the week: It is here, for you to enjoy. "Pinocchio holds his own control bars aloft and finally earns his therapist's approval despite...
Present and past
Premium post · August 14, 2026
The Lockhorns, 8/14/26 What with Leroy being a Millennial, you'd think he'd be on board with a work-from-home environment. But obviously "home" is where...
Life after and/or before death
Premium post · August 13, 2026
Gearhead Gertie, 8/13/26 The Golden Rule -- that you should treat others as you would like to be treated -- is an ethical concept that seems to have arisen...
Grim and grim(m)er
Premium post · August 12, 2026
Crock, 8/12/26 I'll admit it: I am, in fact, a gentleman of a certain age, which means I must begin working out how I'm going to start facing mortality....
You're never gonna get an AI to dig a ditch, I tell you what
Premium post · August 11, 2026
Mary Worth, 8/11/26 Welp, I guess all the Tommy business has been resolved and now we can finally get into what we really want to know: what's life at the...
Monday glimmers of joy
Premium post · August 10, 2026
Crankshaft, 8/10/26 You know how when you've been experiencing pain for a while so it's become just kind of background radiation in your life, when it abates...
I don't use TikTok either, no shade, but still
Premium post · August 9, 2026
Shoe, 8/9/26 Hey, uh, Shoe, what's goin' on over there, kids-wise? You don't like kids? You're doing a comic for the last remaining old people who still read...
Pretty sure Thirsty has bedroom eyes under there
Premium post · August 8, 2026
Mother Goose and Grimm, 8/8/26 So, ah, what do you think that foodstuff is that Superman is slicing in half with his (I assume) heat vision? Is it a deep...
Metapost: [extremely "YMCA" voice] C! O! T! W!
Premium post · August 7, 2026
Your comment of the week ... the moment you've been waiting for, all week! "Phil's 'So...you're saying yes?’ in panel one is heartbreaking because she's...
Friday one-liners
Premium post · August 7, 2026
Shoe, 8/7/26 I guess Skyler passive-aggressively hinted that it would be nice if he and his uncle/guardian ate together once in a while, so the Perfesser has...
I assume that's Splitscreen's hype man behind him
Premium post · August 6, 2026
Dick Tracy, 8/6/26 So it seems that Dick's latest antagonist, the VPN-happy "Widescreen,” is in fact a nepo antagonist and the son (or something) of...
Wednesday is for sex-havers and non-sex-havers alike
Premium post · August 5, 2026
Rhymes With Orange, 8/5/26 Stale legacy strips like Hagar the Horrible (start date: 1973) still find tired tropes like "Oooh, what if a human were to form an...
You don't get a lot of chances to drag a guy off by the collar like that, so you gotta take advantage
Premium post · August 4, 2026
Gil Thorp, 8/4/26 I have thought for some time now that Gil is universally considered the most important person in Milford, and perhaps even in whatever...
I think it's weird that Slylock enforces laws about both deceptive advertising practices and major felonies
Premium post · August 3, 2026
Slylock Fox, 8/3/26 I have no idea what the relationship is between Count Weirdly and the little purple being who's always hanging around his...
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