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On the other hand, Hagar shouldn't understand "profits" as distinct from "robbery"
Premium post · February 17, 2026
Hagar the Horrible, 2/17/26 This one, I think, adds up: in Viking-era Scandinavia, sugar would've been imported at great expense from the Islamic world, but...
Honestly more comics characters should be sent to Donetsk oblast, it'd really shake things up around here
Premium post · February 16, 2026
Gil Thorp, 2/16/26 What's going on in Gil Thorp? I'm not talking about the day-to-day plot; I'm talking about the near-future background setting, where the...
To me, these animals are NOT funny
Premium post · February 15, 2026
Mother Goose and Grimm, 2/15/26 You'd think I'd be happy to see a strip that eschews "someone wants to defy the laws of nature and have sex with a half-fish...
Romantical comics
Premium post · February 14, 2026
Six Chix, 2/14/26 Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! Are you experiencing romantic love? I hope so, because if you aren't, aliens are going to vaporize you,...
Metapost: Spooky, scary COTW
Premium post · February 13, 2026
It's Friday the 13th!!! The first of two such days in consecutive months! Hopefully this comment of the week will assuage your fears: "[patronizingly] That's...
A bullet's too good for this creep
Premium post · February 13, 2026
Blondie, 2/13/25 I like the first couple of panels here: Dagwood being somewhat indulgent about his barber's fixation -- he knows a thing or two about...
Children who I dislike
Premium post · February 12, 2026
Marvin, 2/12/26 A thing about Marvin is that over the years it has strayed further and further from the one thing that made it unique -- a comic strip? about...
Various sadnesses
Premium post · February 11, 2026
Shoe, 2/11/26 Shoe is a comic strip about depressed bird-people that is pretty committed to the gag-a-day format, but it's actually been doing a continuing...
Bygone times, mostly
Premium post · February 10, 2026
Mary Worth, 2/10/26 OK, finally, finally we have absorbed the lessons (?) of the great Toby-Ian parrot story, and after eating those vegetables we get our...
Not sure why he's so sweaty, it looks pretty cold out
Premium post · February 9, 2026
Dick Tracy, 2/9/26 I haven't really been keeping you up to date on this guest-written Dick Tracy storyline, but the short version is that a watch Dick gave...
Sunday highs and lows
Premium post · February 8, 2026
Heathcliff, 2/8/26 I gotta respect these guys for saying to hell with the NFL's trademarks and hanging a giant banner that says "SUPER BOWL" from the ceiling...
Best wishes (not to anyone in "Marvin")
Premium post · February 7, 2026
Rex Morgan, M.D., 2/7/26 Hey, I have been behind on reporting on this news, but, just as both Rex and little Johnny are recovering from surgery in-strip, Rex...
Metapost: The polar vortex will continue but the comments offer some relief
Premium post · February 6, 2026
Warm your icy mitts/heart with this week's top comment: "Of course Tildy's confused. Your kids should by all rights be named Carter and Mason, or Hunter and...
Working (kind of) for the weekend
Premium post · February 6, 2026
Wizard of Id, 2/6/26 Happy Friday, everyone! What are your weekend plans? Are you thinking about getting extremely high and catapulting some toilets at...
Family drama
Premium post · February 5, 2026
Mary Worth, 2/5/26 "Good lord," you're no doubt thinking, "how is it that, more than two weeks after Ian ended his war against Sunny the parrot by...
"Honorable" may be overstating the case
Premium post · February 4, 2026
Beetle Bailey, 2/4/26 Hey! Miss Buxley Wednesday is an honorable tradition, and it was specifically created so that elderly pervert comic strip fans could...
I'm not convinced Rex is absolutely certain of his kids' names, for what it's worth
Premium post · February 3, 2026
Dennis the Menace, 2/3/26 OK, this is, no joke, some significant menacing here. First of all, this guy has never appeared in the strip before, so I assume...
Damn, they made Max put on a suit for this, but Slylock gets to keep wearing his goofy cape
Premium post · February 2, 2026
Wizard of Id, 2/2/26 Thanks to the several faithful readers who pointed out that the Wizard of Id I featured a week ago is reusing the exact same art as a...
Sexy (?) Sunday
Premium post · February 1, 2026
Heathcliff, 2/1/26 Before the heavy crown of Heathcliff stewardship descended upon Peter Gallagher from his uncle, he contributed comics panels to Weird NJ...
Something must've happened? In THIS strip? Unlikely
Premium post · January 31, 2026
Andy Capp, 1/31/26 I've been reading Andy Capp daily again for about a year now, and on the one hand that isn't very long, given that the strip has run since...
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