Archive (Page 48) • The Comics Curmudgeon • Buttondown

Fingers crossed the strip remains Ben Stiller-free

Premium post · August 31, 2023

Gil Thorp, 8/31/23 So before we get football season underway, Milford's students are doing some kind of Night At The Museum sleepover thing, only without the...

Get forgiven or die trying

Premium post · August 30, 2023

Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/30/23 I guess Mud Mountain Murphy's apology tour has now become Mud Mountain Murphy's relentless attempt to extract forgiveness from...

Hopefully this won't be as bad as the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars

Premium post · August 29, 2023

Hi and Lois, 8/29/23 Look, I'm just a simple city boy who's always had his trash collected by a municipal service department, and I don't understand the wily...

Love and death

Premium post · August 28, 2023

Mary Worth, 8/28/23 Big news: in the presence of their beloved dogs, Saul and Eve have agreed to marry one another! Since their last attempts at matrimony...

Fun and/or games

Premium post · August 27, 2023

Hi and Lois, 8/27/23 All the Walker-Browne golf strips are sad, of course, because they're about golf when they could be about literally anything else. But...

Animal nightmares (non-<i>Pluggers</i> edition)

Premium post · August 26, 2023

Gasoline Alley, 8/26/23 Hey, remember the bear in Gasoline Alley who can talk? Well, he found a human baby abandoned in the woods and brought him to the...

Metapost: Top comments? Of MY week? It's more likely than you think

Premium post · August 25, 2023

Friday morning means COMMENT OF THE WEEK! "I'm intrigued by Gil's 'Did I forget to...’ What rituals does he usually perform to ensure those 'OK to Burn' days...

Deadly Friday

Premium post · August 25, 2023

Judge Parker, 8/25/23 Look, Sophie, your parents might have accidentally kinda sorta agreed, under a certain amount of duress, to assassinate somebody, OK?...

Soapy quickies

Premium post · August 24, 2023

Gil Thorp, 8/24/23 "Take it up with mother nature, coach! Ever since the Great Blight killed most of the trees, we can't spare wood for frivolous purposes...

Lotta sicko material here today, quite honestly

Premium post · August 23, 2023

Dick Tracy, 8/23/23 Hey! Remember, Sprocket Nitrate, the ancillary Dick Tracy character whose whole deal is she goes around barefoot all the time? Well,...

How many ways times do we have to say "Pluggers are dying" before they actually die?

Premium post · August 22, 2023

Gil Thorp, 8/22/23 I guess Coach Hernandez didn't realize that his redemption and plush new job at Milford would come with a price, until Gil informed him...

Four runners is pretty weak turnout for a marathon, honestly

Premium post · August 21, 2023

Dick Tracy, 8/21/23 Hey, remember that Dick Tracy storyline that I wasn't really bothering to try to follow in any detail? Well, it's ended (?) with the main...

Grumpy Sunday

Premium post · August 20, 2023

Marvin, 8/20/23 You well know that I do not consider the syndicated comic strip Marvin to be the pinnacle of sequential art, but today's strip is even more...

"So, hypothetically, which level of hell am I in for?"

Premium post · August 19, 2023

Judge Parker, 8/19/23 Not to toot my own horn too much about literally doing my job (which is, and forever more shall be, reading and in some basic way...

Metapost: A new COTW, at last!

Premium post · August 18, 2023

After a long vacation sojourn, the comment of the week is BACK, everybody, and this is it: "'Truck? It's Mud.' Yep, that's how I expect Rex Morgan characters...

Are they in ... construction? Publishing? C'mon, throw us a bone

Premium post · August 18, 2023

Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/18/23 Not to be an old guy waxing rhapsodic about the past, but remember when Mud used to be fun? When every one of his word balloons was...

Don't do it, Mary! Don't leap into the comforting embrace of the sea

Premium post · August 17, 2023

The Phantom, 8/17/23 As noted by me and Uncle Lumpy, the "Death of the Phantom" arc is, after literal years, maybe going to finally end in the Phantom's...

The cyber-outlaw Mark Trail

Premium post · August 16, 2023

Mark Trail, 8/16/23 Look, I'm the first to admit that I'm an old person now, and if I accidentally clicked onto anyone doing a video livestream on any social...

Many soapy returns

Premium post · August 15, 2023

Hello, everybody! I'm back from my relaxing vacation, tanned, rested, and ready to mock the crap out of some comics. I must as always give thanks to Uncle...

Snuffynomics

Premium post · August 14, 2023

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 8/14/23 Recessions are grim in a barter economy. As scarce goods are consumed or worn out, folks commence to hoardin', losing...