Metapost: It's comedy ... it's comments of the week ... it's BOTH
That’s right folks: next Friday is the 2nd Friday of the month, and you know what that means: LIVE ON-STAGE COMEDY IN LOS ANGELES, FROM YOURS TRULY! Here is...
Adventures in time
Family Circus, 6/2/23 Nextdoor, the social network that's like Facebook except instead of people who you actually like or at least know it's full of people...
Yet more youths
Rex Morgan, M.D., 6/1/23 Many, many years ago, God, so many years ago, what have I done with my life, is this all there is … wait, what was I talking about?...
That chicken is ready to do some karate chops
Beetle Bailey, 5/31/23 The whole “Beetle and Miss Buxley are dating” bit is a recent development in this strip and I’m on the record as strongly opposed to...
Mostly teen Tuesday
Gil Thorp, 5/30/23 One of the things I’ve always respected about baseball (the men’s version) is that, as with all sports, sometimes a level of disrespect is...
Spiritual Monday
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 5/29/23 You might think that the inhabitants of Hootin’ Holler would object to the fact their only clergyman is a grifter and...
Unfortunately, heaven is other people too
Family Circus, 5/28/23 The Good Place was a great philosophical afterlife sitcom, and in its later seasons you learn that the titular Good Place (its...
Soapy dullness
Judge Parker, 5/27/23 Oh, can’t remember if I mentioned that the CIA let April out of prison, but: the CIA let April out of prison, presumably because they...
Metapost: Long weekend COTW
Whether you have Monday off or you’ll be working hard on Saturday and Sunday, let today’s comment of the week lift you up: "Harwoods! Just checking to see if...
Please do not mistake me for a snob, I love a starch
Shoe, 5/26/23 I know that restaurants generically calling side dishes like potatoes or rice or whatever “starches” was a thing at one point, but is it still...
Mostly baseball
Shoe, 5/25/23 I'm not sure if we's supposed to understand here that Skyler is literally running away from home (if he is, he's violating the cardinal rule...
Trixie will be rendered using what critics are calling "the most unsettling CGI yet"
Six Chix, 5/24/23 Six Chix is a long-running feature that dares to ask the question, “What if women wrote a comic strip? What would we learn about the female...
How many dead Houndstooths (Houndsteeth?) are there exactly
Mary Worth, 5/23/23 We don't know a ton about Saul's past, but we do know that he was forced by his family to abandon his true love and enter into some kind...
Soapy catch-ups
Gil Thorp, 5/22/23 Oh, were you wondering if the Great Vape Caper was still underway and still funding the Milford Athletic Department and/or the lifestyles...
Sunday is for old people
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/21/23 We all know that newspaper comics in general and newspaper soap opera comics in particular are being kept alive by a readership...
Can't stop staring at that blatantly traced grill
Blondie and Hi and Lois, 5/20/23 As a participant in the childfree lifestyle, I appreciate what representation I can find in the comics, even if it's just...
Metapost: C! O! T! W!
It’s that time of month, y’all … time for the comment of the week! "I see why Jeff bought a much bigger boat. If you want to discuss Wilbur's sex prowess and...
Several opinions from Josh about comic strips
Beetle Bailey, 5/19/23 It is of course a long-established joke in Beetle Bailey that Sarge is a cartoonish glutton, but every once in a while they also do a...
Only Thirsty has the wisdom necessary to transcend samsara
Dick Tracy, 5/18/23 A question I have often had reason to contemplate is “Who is [any given legacy comic strip still being produced in the year 2023] for,...
It's hard for Mud to think clearly, up there where the oxygen is so thin
Gil Thorp, 5/17/23 How is Gil’s arch-rival Luke Hernandez dealing with Gil’s secret baseball weapon, a blind pitcher teaching the Mudlarks to open their...