Feel like the Uniform Code of Military Conduct is being violated here, just my take
Dennis the Menace, 1/28/24 Folks, let me tell you something about my brain (and yeah, sorry, you're reading a blog with the URL josh reads dot com, you...
Soapy ... conclusions? Fingers crossed
Mary Worth, 1/27/24 Remember when Keith first showed up in this strip as a closed-off, taciturn man who tried to get through his interactions with Mary with...
Metapost: The comments ... the comments are good
FRIDAY MORNING MEANS COMMENT OF THE WEEK TIME EVERYBODY!!!! "Rene's Scooby Doo reference is frankly unearned. The Mystery Inc teens actually put in the...
Friday quickies
Dick Tracy, 1/26/24 Fan fact, everybody: "the Amazing Baxter" is actually Fata, in a very clever disguise as a man, which the square, conventional minds of...
Troubling Wednesday
Hi and Lois, 1/25/24 Wow, that is a sinister expression on Dot's face there in the final panel. "If I had the God-like power to erase anything from...
Soapy catchups
Judge Parker, 1/24/24 Oh, yeah, so it turns out that the long lost Parker sister is in fact a scam artist -- not, to be clear, that she's only pretending to...
They should be marketing a whole line of corpse-guy Successories posters honestly
Dick Tracy, 1/23/24 I think it's sweet that these two ladies keep a poster of their deceased corpse-guy (he was a corpse-guy before he was deceased, to be...
Historical Monday
Family Circus, 1/22/24 Look, I'm not going to stand here and claim that the line between "saying the darnedest things" and "heresy" is a clear and bright...
Sunday sadness
Shoe, 1/21/24 This is a truly terrible joke and I don't want to deal with it on any of it's "humorous" levels but I think we should pause to think about the...
St. Slim preserve us
Gasoline Alley, 1/20/24 Longtime faithful readers know that in most of the strips I comment on here, there's at least one character upon whom I wish every...
Birds? On a boat? Sounds dubious
Shoe, 1/19/24 I was going to go on a long rant here about how comics gag writers so frequently come up with a joke and then work backwards from it even if it...
Nobody in the Dusin family should know real human affection. I forbid it
Dustin, 1/18/24 I think my record on the themes and narrative content of Dustin is pretty clear -- I find them extremely objectionable, perhaps more than any...
Even the courthouse has those patched curtains, incredibly sad
Blondie, 1/17/24 I gotta say, "In honor of Kid Inventors Day, I created an alarm clock app that doesn't work" is probably the funniest sentence I've ever...
Tuesday quickies
Crock, 1/16/24 I'm not sure what series of facial expressions I would make if I spoke to my institutionalized mother about the fact that she's so dissocated...
Dramatic-ish developments
Mary Worth, 1/15/24 Well, thank God, surely now that this Mary Worth story has wrapped up in the most boring manner possible we can move on to something more...
The guy who he was going to sell the loot to is probably also pretty sad
Beetle Bailey, 1/14/24 I know I spend more time thinking about the logistics of what happens in-universe in newspaper comic strips than just about anyone...
There's no ties in basketball, but he's giving it his best
Mary Worth, 1/13/24 There's been a few complaints from the commentariat that I haven't been covering the end (?) of the Keith-Kitty-Brad-Sonia saga. The...
Metapost: Brr! It's cold out there for a COTW
Laugh yourself warm with this comment of the week! "Sexy plotlines and I'm learning Spanish? Top that, Duolingo!" --Old School Allie Cat These runners up...
Black suit/dark grey shirt is another warning sign
Dick Tracy, 1/12/24 Yeah, yeah, blah blah blah, Tess is a private investigator and her agency deals with different aspects of the same shadowy underworld...
Maybe he can hunt down the Ben Franklin golf grifter guy, for revenge
The Lockhorns and Blondie, 1/11/24 The word app, as a shorthand for application in the computer programming sense, was as attested as early as 1992, which...