The cycle of comics life
Between Friends, 10/5/23 Many years ago, when I first started this blog, it was called "I Read The Comics So You Don't Have To," and sometimes I feel I've...
Dangerous Wednesday
Blondie, 10/4/23 Look, I'm not going to say that this guy is a spitting image rendition of Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men, but his...
Tuesday quickies
Mary Worth, 10/3/23 "I believe otherwise and, I can paint a fuller picture for you"? This isn't an episode of Columbo, just say you got his address from...
He still likes the Mets, though, right? That seems very important to his character
Mary Worth, 10/2/23 Do you think Mary aggressively pesters new Charterstone residents to accept her casserole-based hospitality because she wants them to...
Honestly hoping it's just a slightly smaller version of Keith
Mary Worth, 10/1/23 OK, I had a whole thing ready to go here about how the Sunday strips represent Mary's self-aggrandizing memories/interpretations of...
Mostly criminal Saturday
Hagar the Horrible, 9/30/23 I think it's very interesting that Hagar is ostentatiously drinking from a golden chalice in this strip. He and his warband have...
Metapost: Are you ready for COTW? [dance beats kick in]
Get ready to party all weekend with the comment of the week! "The key to success in crime, Rene thought, is finding people dumb enough not to file kidnapping...
Even the courthouse has a patched blanket wall, sad
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 9/29/23 Believe me, if there's one bit of empathy doing this blog for multiple decades has granted me, it's the understanding...
Dennis is CANCELLED (from existence itself)
Dennis the Menace, 9/28/23 Look, Mr. Wilson, I know your irritating neighbor has pushed you to the brink of madness, but when a couple renews their vows,...
Why does Dagwood go to the barber all the time when his hair is always the same length
Crock, 9/27/23 It might seem incongruent to think of colonizers as sentimental, but many have a certain image of the colonized as a backwards but noble...
The dogs are in on it too, this is worse than we thought
Hagar the Horrible, 9/26/23 That big sweatball coming off of Lucky Eddie in the first panel tells the whole story here. "Ha ha, I'm a guy who's crazy about...
Soapy Monday
Gasoline Alley, 9/25/23 Oh, man, were you wondering what happened in the story of the lost little boy who was about to be taken away from his talking bear...
Did he have those custom made, or did he paint them, or what
Pardon My Planet, 9/24/23 Man, I have to say that I wildly misinterpreted this comic at first, thinking this dude was doing some kind of corporate...
Saturday quickies
Pluggers, 9/23/23 Not sure if the joke here is supposed to be "pluggers are bad at using tools" or "pluggers plan in advance for possible accidents," but...
Metapost: COTY? No, COTW
This week's top comment won't get a major award at a banquet, but it's still worthy of praise! "Naturally there's a whole back room set up, complete with...
Bird facts Friday
Shoe, 9/22/23 Perfesser Cosmo Fishhawk is, according to the (alarmingly detailed) table in the Shoe Wikipedia page, an osprey, and ospreys, according to the...
I'm not married to it being human, I guess
Blondie, 9/21/23 Way back in 2006 -- which, I take no pleasure in reporting, was a full 17 years ago -- there was a weird rash of syndicated newspaper comic...
RETVRN to Worthian tradition, reject Wilburian modernity
Mary Worth, 9/20/23 You know, if you're a Worth-head come lately, you might think of Mary Worth as a strip primarily about a core rotating cast of characters...
Tuesday quickies
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 9/19/23 Sadly, due to the free availability of firearms and ongoing unchecked clan warefare, PTSD is endemic among the...
The alien on the right is EXTREMELY high
Slylock Fox, 9/18/23 I love how the narrator (reflecting official Forest Kingdom Regime propaganda) just has Slylock "overhearing" this conversation, like...