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Schrodinger's Mirakle Method
Premium post · October 22, 2023
Gasoline Alley, 10/22/23 OK, I dunno, look, maybe weeks and weeks of talking bear bullshit have ground me down into submission, but I find these comical...
Guy in the car is a gender traitor I guess
Premium post · October 21, 2023
Dustin, 10/21/23 Dustin is, of course, a comic explicitly created to explore the irreconciliable differences between young people and old people and the...
Metapost: COTW? COTW!
Premium post · October 20, 2023
Comment of the week? Comment of the week: "In the first panel, the cow is being affectionate; in the second panel, where the cat watches the cow warily, the...
June refuses to even acknowledge the concept of "sincerity"
Premium post · October 20, 2023
Gasoline Alley, 10/20/23 If you were thinking that nothing could make this seemingly interminable talking bear story even more pointless and irritating, you...
"Rewarding financially, I mean, obviously"
Premium post · October 19, 2023
Shoe, 10/19/23 I've complained about this before, but Shoe has a long-established setting where the various bird characters get drunk and hit on one another,...
You think those lasers can't simply be danced through? You sweet summer child
Premium post · October 18, 2023
Dick Tracy, 10/18/23 Oh no! Why would you build a huge wing on the back of your mansion that has an entirely glass ceiling? Why, you're just asking for...
Tuesday is for the future
Premium post · October 17, 2023
Slylock Fox, 10/17/23 Ahh, an idyllic barnyard scene, featuring various animals relaxing and frolicking with one another, showing no sings of the advanced...
Gonna be hard to repurpose that thing if they hire a turtle detective or whatever
Premium post · October 16, 2023
Dick Tracy, 10/16/23 Dick Tracy loves gadgets, of course, but I assume he's bored and vaguely disgusted with fancy "forensics," because they allows...
Sunday quickies
Premium post · October 15, 2023
Rex Morgan, M.D., 10/15/23 So the exciting (?) Mud/Rene kidnapping plot is over (??), and I gotta say probably the perfect sum up to any given Rex Morgan,...
Fun wordplay, fun wordplay ... oh NO
Premium post · October 14, 2023
Mary Worth, 10/14/23 Uh oh! Keith may have been willing to agreed to disagree on whether or not society should be allowed to disintegrate into chaos, but my...
Metapost: Keep on truckin' COTW
Premium post · October 13, 2023
It's the freakin' weekend, everyone, and that means it's the freakin' comment of the freakin' week! "Personally, I wish more comics were like today's Beetle...
Does Lt. Fuzz have the same hair situation as Charlie Brown
Premium post · October 12, 2023
Beetle Bailey, 10/12/23 I don't know if General Halftrack's rambling comeback here is supposed to be funny (it isn't) or if it's supposed to indicate that...
Maybe she likes chaos, Keith, you ever think about that
Premium post · October 11, 2023
Mary Worth, 10/13/23 Look, I know Sonia here is supposed to be an angry neo-hippie and is riffing on the fact that she's arguing with her father, or "daddy,"...
Wednesday is for America going down the TUBES
Premium post · October 11, 2023
Mary Worth, 10/11/23 Wow, this current Mary Worth storyline is really upping the moral stakes from "Dogs: Are they good, or should we encourage them to fight...
Legacy cases
Premium post · October 10, 2023
Blondie, 10/10/23 I once saw an interview with John Singleton and Stephanie Allain, the producers of the movie Hustle and Flow, about a scene where the...
The Perfesser is actually a really successful author, he's just depressed for reasons unrelated to his career
Premium post · October 9, 2023
Mary Worth, 10/9/23 An opinion I'm coming around to more and more is that it's kind of silly to expect comics as a medium to be "realistic," as they have to...
Sexy Sunday
Premium post · October 8, 2023
The Phantom, 10/8/23 The Phantom is a comic strip first launched in 1936 about a lineage of white guys who've lived in Africa for hundreds of years and...
Mostly children
Premium post · October 7, 2023
Blondie, 10/7/23 As a rule, I try to keep my contact with young people to an absolute minimum, so maybe I'm wrong, but it's not really normal for a kid to...
Metapost: The best comment? Of MY week? It's more likely than you think
Premium post · October 6, 2023
Folks! It's Friday and here's your COTW! "Rex isn't shocked; he's incredulous. He thinks he can Barney Google his way out of having to appear in his...
Electrifying Friday
Premium post · October 6, 2023
Mary Worth, 10/6/23 Oh, root beer? You guys both love root beer? You'd describe it as your "favorite"? Well, I think we can forget DNA tests or the...
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