Soapy Saturday

$ · July 13, 2024

Rex Morgan, M.D., 7/13/24 Hey, he got made but he didn't get caught, seeing as he's standing right here in front of you a free tween. He can still pull this...

Metapost: Another Friday, another 20 years of COTW

$ · July 12, 2024

OK, not quite 20 years, as I didn't start picking a comment of the week until April 2005, and didn't start doing weekly roundups until September 2006, but...

Highs and lows (mostly lows)

$ · July 12, 2024

Gil Thorp, 7/12/24 The beloved Gil Thorp bonfire tradition has been cancelled forever due to a nationwide wood shortage, which means we must console...

Metapost: THE 20MICS 2URMUDGE0N

$ · July 11, 2024

Folks, I want you to cast your minds back to the long-forgotten year 2004. A young man not yet 30 had decided to try out this "blogging" thing that seemed to...

"I was picked on for being too smart AND too pretty" Buck says confidently

$ · July 11, 2024

Rex Morgan, M.D., 7/11/24 As a guy who was once a kid who was picked on as kind of a weirdo myself, I am, of course, pulling for Parker. They seem smart and...

Enter, pursuing a bear

$ · July 10, 2024

Six Chix, 7/10/24 Comics coloring errors have been a source of cruel mockery and speculation on this blog for decades now, but I think that the rate of these...

Gross and grosser

$ · July 9, 2024

Mary Worth, 7/9/24 OK, here's the thing: we know really next to nothing about Dawn's mother, and I admit that I've been projecting a lot onto the image of...

Frog and Toad are not friends, and are about to face the Prisoner's Dilemma

$ · July 8, 2024

Slylock Fox, 7/8/24 For hundreds of thousands of years, between H. Sapiens, Neanderthals, Denisovans, and H. erectus, there were multiple human species...

Dads (no grads)

$ · July 7, 2024

Mary Worth, 7/7/24 For months now, I've been pretty disappointed that what I thought was going to be an incredible story about Dawn attempting to bond with...

Life is very long when you're lonely

$ · July 6, 2024

Blondie, 7/6/24 I can't believe I've lived long enough to become the kind of nostalgist who says things like, "Remember when this legacy comic was only 75...

Metapost: Early bird COTW

$ · July 5, 2024

Would you like a comment of the week for your long holidy weekend, or perhaps your one-day return to work, or perhaps you don't even live in America or have...

When to give up and when to persist

$ · July 5, 2024

Hagar the Horrible, 7/5/24 I know the joke here is that you think the buffet owner has "won" this coin toss because it means someone will be patronizing his...

U-S-A! U-S-...A?

$ · July 4, 2024

Happy 4th of July, everybody! It's the day when everyone, Americans and non-Americans alike, comes together to celebrate America. How are you spending the...

Never has the word "unique" been so obviously used as an insult

$ · July 3, 2024

Mary Worth, 7/3/24 Do you, Jeff? Do you know what's like to go through a rough patch? Because I've been reading this strip for a while, and as near as I can...

Soapy stubble Tuesday

$ · July 2, 2024

Mark Trail, 7/2/24 You can make your old-school soap-opera comic character as hip and bestubblèd and "nu-look" as you want, but you will never be able to...

Why is Chip dragging Trixie into this. What went on in that house

$ · July 1, 2024

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 7/1/24 Obviously Snuffy Smith's whole deal is that the doesn't care about the greater good of the polity and routinely...

"Conditions" could also refer to access to alcohol

$ · June 30, 2024

Beetle Bailey, 6/30/24 Once again, the throwaway panels across the top of this Sunday strip deepen the narrative considerably. Without them, we just have a...

Pray for the fallen

$ · June 29, 2024

Rex Morgan, M.D, 6/29/24 Like most observers of Rex Morgan, M.D., I assumed this plot was going to amble on interminably with some low-stakes, low-violence...

At sea

$ · June 28, 2024

Mary Worth, 6/28/24 I've been accused, with perhaps some justification, of being a "coastal elitist". It's hard to keep track of what interests do or don't...

Itchy/gross/spinning

$ · June 27, 2024

Gearhead Gertie, 6/27/24 I find Gertie's husband extremely relatable here. Sometimes, when your loved one just shouts jargon from their special interest that...

Absolutely not looking up what "The Dowe" is. You can't make me

$ · June 26, 2024

Gil Thorp, 6/26/24 It took me a long time staring at the the first panel to put together what's going on here: Gil's new squeeze Beth was a server at some...

Let's get biblical

$ · June 25, 2024

Hi and Lois, 6/25/24 Over at here at Hi and Lois, we're working to reassure you that it's not just desperate old people falling for those "Make Money At Home...

Red-hot SHK! SHK! action

$ · June 24, 2024

Family Circus, 6/24/24 I think it's a not uncommon phenomenon to have one grandmother who, while still loving, is just less on your wavelength than the other...

Out of the past

$ · June 23, 2024

Marvin, 6/23/24 Not to brag or anything, but after nearly 20 years of my doing this blog, my archives page has become a valuable historical resource that...

Dumb little guys

$ · June 22, 2024

Beetle Bailey, 6/22/24 My wife and I are aficionados of real, non-microwave popcorn, and there are two ways to make this at home: you can do it in a metal...

Metapost: Midsomer murderously funny COTW

$ · June 21, 2024

The days are at their longest at the comments ... they're at their funniest: "I like imagining Ian looming over the much shorter Wilbur with a belly laugh,...

World-historical dumbness

$ · June 21, 2024

Family Circus, 6/21/24 Lord, I am a simple man, and one of my favorite Family Circus bits is when Jeffy just says some of the dumbest shit imaginable....

Is this the same redhead as in the pictures yesterday? What am I a detective? That's Dick's job

$ · June 20, 2024

Bizarro, 6/20/24 Happy Solstice, everyone! Do you think these ladies are supposed to represent the changing seasons, or that they're just hanging out at a...

Don't hold back, Ian. We need you now more than ever

$ · June 19, 2024

Mary Worth, 6/19/24 One of the things one must always be on guard against is the brand of nostalgia that convinces you that the past was always better and...

Tuesday quickies

$ · June 18, 2024

Blondie, 6/18/24 Originally read that first panel as referring to "verse" as in poetry, then was briefly disappointed when it turned out I was incorrect,...

Guys, I don't ... I don't really know much about sports

$ · June 17, 2024

Beetle Bailey, 6/17/24 OK, it's probably just a clip art compositing error, but I actually think it's very in character that Plato is abruptly swapped in for...

Dads and sads

$ · June 16, 2024

Blondie, 6/16/24 Even in a recurring narrative, it can be difficult to accommodate the full network of an average person's social relations into the story,...

Mostly suburban trauma

$ · June 15, 2024

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 6/15/24 Today's Barney Google and Snuffy Smith punchline isn't bad exactly. It's a perfectly serviceable newspaper comic...

Metapost: This is the weekly comment of the week post

$ · June 14, 2024

Interested in reading this week's top comment, as chosen by me? Well, good news: it's here. "What family does Declan have now? Not the one he's marrying...

Grompy Friday

$ · June 14, 2024

Judge Parker, 6/14/24 Hey, remember "Declan," Neddy's fiance, who in previous appearances on this blog gave the general vibe of "amiable enough" and "amiable...

Various foodstuffs

$ · June 13, 2024

Tina's Groove, 6/13/24 Say, it's been a while since we've checked in with the anxious depressive food service workers over at Tina's Groove. What are they up...

Wednesday quickies

$ · June 12, 2024

Blondie, 6/12/24 Hmm, you're saying that every time Dithers is in a room with Dagwood, his strength is being sapped by powerful Bumstead Radiation? No wonder...

Walt, do NOT inform God that His plan to smite you failed

$ · June 11, 2024

Gasoline Alley, 6/11/24 So, the reason the electricity went out at Walt's is that a big tree fell over and pulled down the power line running from the...

Pretty sure there's a verse in Leviticus that forbids interring a freshwater fish in the ocean

$ · June 10, 2024

Mary Worth, 6/10/24 The thing about disposing of a dead fish is, honestly, that there isn't a particularly dignified way to do it, and if you're as...

Love, death, etc.

$ · June 9, 2024

Crock, 6/9/24 Crock is a strip in perpetual reruns for obvious reasons, and today's ("today's") strip is a delightful puzzle to try to figure out when...

Crankiness ... intensifying

$ · June 8, 2024

Dennis the Menace, 6/8/24 "Dennis shit-talks his mother's cooking" isn't my favorite trope in this strip, but I feel you at least have to respect the form:...

Metapost: To C, perchance to OTW

$ · June 7, 2024

This week's top comment? It's right here and right now: "I hope the duck cop in this town realizes how more effective superhero cosplayers are than Sherlock...

Sad man-children and actual children

$ · June 7, 2024

Dustin, 6/7/24 "Dustin can't get a date" is a running bit in Dustin that usually I hate because the strips on this theme inevitably happen with supposed...

Thursday quickies

$ · June 6, 2024

Kevin and Kell, 6/6/24 I know I don't talk about Kevin and Kell, the comic strip about weird corporate furries, very often, but I can't look at the wildly...

Kids these days

$ · June 5, 2024

Blondie, 6/5/24 The number one thing that makes me feel like an old person is my stiff right knee and hip, but number two, coming pretty close behind, is the...

Give peace a chance

$ · June 4, 2024

Slylock Fox, 6/4/24 I assume that the gentleman who's been tied up is the victim here, some solid citizen who was simply walking around with burlap sacks...

Everyone is not fine

$ · June 3, 2024

Marvin, 6/3/24 The very first "real job" I ever had, after I quit grad school, way back in the long past and yet futuristic sounding year of 1999, was as a...

The True Grit REMAKE is already 14 years old, c'mon

$ · June 2, 2024

Mary Worth, 6/2/24 I know I've been harping for a while on "why is Wilbur so obsessed with his dead fish and not talking about his alive fish?" Earlier this...

Saturday fast takes

$ · June 1, 2024

Gasoline Alley, 6/1/24 Uh oh, looks like the electricity is out all over Gasoline Alley! I guess electricity has decided, in the wake of the rejection of the...

Metapost: Brace yourselves ... COTW incoming

$ · May 31, 2024

A comment comes screaming across the sky ... a comment of the week! "Setting aside that this rolling pin is clearly some sort of do-it-yourself erotic...