Metapost: KAPOW! It's the COTW
Wham, bam, thank you faithful commenters for your service! Here's this week's comment of the week: "Saul is over in panel one, pursuing his passion:...
They teach you the tip o' the helmet in firefighter school
Mary Worth, 10/10/25 Mary's looking pretty frazzled in panel two, and who can blame her, what with her having just been in a freak balloon accident and then...
Elder Thursday
Crankshaft, 10/9/25 Look, characters in comic strips are, ultimately, not real people, and while you can chuckle at their antics, you ultimately shouldn't...
Remember that comic that used to be about Christian cavemen? Well, I've got some interesting news
B.C., 10/8/25 I find it funny that [pause to once again consult the character list in the "B.C. (comic strip)" Wikipedia article because I can't remember...
It's the greatly attractive pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Mary Worth, 10/7/25 This polite jockeying about who should climb down from the balloon first is getting to "a farmer needs to get a chicken, a fox, and a bag...
Monday is gross and confusing
Alice, 10/6/25 We all know of course about the various beloved characters in Alice, the normal comic strip we all read every day and fully understand: Alice,...
Even passive enjoyment leaves pluggers exhausted
Dick Tracy, 10/5/25 Longtime readers of this blog know that I have a lot of favorite etymological facts. One of those favorites is that the word...
Balloons? These guys know how to party
Rex Morgan, M.D., 10/4/25 Oh, man, Rex and June thought they were going to have an early night of it, but now it looks like they'll be up late spinning an...
Metapost: C to the O to the T to the W
My name's the Comics Curmudgeon and I'm here to say/ It's COTW time in a major way! "Ah yes, the old story of the charismatic front man* being tempted to...
Friday is for drugs
Wizard of Id, 10/3/25 It absolutely makes sense that people hear "New York" and think of New York City -- the city is a world cultural capital, is the...
We haven't even heard "Muddy Boots" yet, come on guys
Gearhead Gertie, 10/2/25 I was actually visiting a friend in Durham on the day Dale Earnhardt died, a date that I will always think of as "North Carolina's...
More comics should be drawn from a ground-level POV
Dennis the Menace, 10/1/25 I was thinking the other day about how Dagwood Bumstead and Hi Flagston have extremely generic jobs. Technically Dagwood is an...
Is there a less plugger sport than tennis? Cricket, maybe
Hagar the Horrible, 9/30/25 Hagar is the protagonist of this strip, so we usually see things from his perspective, and I have to admit I never really tried...
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Can't I enjoy my glass of wine and [squints] potato undisturbed
Crock, 9/29/25 The point of this joke is of course that it's annoying when a telemarketer (perhaps one offering you a "banking credit card") interrupts you...
Sunday is for old people
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/28/25 Well, I guess Truck's not-son Cody did in fact come out ahead of beloved (?) tween neo-vaudeville novelty act "Shorty and the...
Generation gaps
Judge Parker, 9/27/25 Look, we're all young and hip here [laughs nervously], but the truth is that the soap opera strips are a very traditional medium and...
Metapost: Fallin' for the COTW
We're officially in autumn now, folks, so take a big swig of that pumpkin spice latte [note to intern: find more up-to-date seasonal joke here, maybe find...
Unpleasant Friday
Beetle Bailey, 9/26/25 Perverts turned on by crudely drawn cartoons everywhere were devastated this week when Beetle Bailey skipped its usual "Miss Buxley...
I guess technically speaking they still have to get out of the tree first
Mary Worth, 9/25/25 Wow, back in the day, you could write a long, crazy yarn about an unlikely trio hot-air-balloon-crashing into the remote woods, where...
"Dropping" is a much nicer way to put it than "crashing," let's go with that
Crock, 9/24/25 In my freshman year of college, there was an outbreak of E. coli at various Jack in the Boxes that killed four children, and a friend of mine...