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No Apologies Needed For Being Basic As Hell: The Jeff and Mary Story
Premium post · May 16, 2023
Mary Worth, 5/16/23 Look, I'm a guy who likes to eat out, and LA has an great food scene with amazing high- and low-end restaurants, but definitely at the...
Also that rocket doesn't have the fuel capacity to reach orbit, like at all
Premium post · May 15, 2023
Slylock Fox, 5/15/23 I genuinely love the contrast in Max and Sly's affect here, in line with the tale spun by the mystery. Max is just in the midst of a...
Even more sexual Sunday
Premium post · May 14, 2023
Hi and Lois, 5/14/23 This is truly one of the wildest throwaway panels I’ve ever seen. Readers of space-constrained newspapers are just getting a classic...
Sort of sexual Saturday
Premium post · May 13, 2023
Shoe, 5/13/23 We talk a lot on here about the Shoe goggle eyes of horror, with the horror in question being experienced by the Shoe character and the goggle...
Metapost: COTW (and virtual laffs only)
Premium post · May 12, 2023
Folks! Apologies to anyone who had planned to come to the Internet Read Aloud in LA tonight – the theater is having both plumbing and HVAC problems so I had...
The shirt was designed by someone who likes mud as a concept, it's not licensed merch
Premium post · May 12, 2023
Gil Thorp, 5/12/23 Gil Thorp is notorious for bringing back beloved characters from years past, and so when I recognized Gregg Hamm’s name I was excited to...
The frolicking dolphins are eager to welcome Wilbur to the watery grave he keeps dodging
Premium post · May 11, 2023
Six Chix, 5/11/23 So the thing about "sudden," as a noun, is that it has completely fallen out of use in English outside the set phrase "all of a sudden,"...
Grim scenes
Premium post · May 10, 2023
Gil Thorp, 5/10/23 Still not sure what a “Milford juvenile sports program manager” is or does, but apparently it pays pretty well, enough to get a penthouse...
Medical maladies
Premium post · May 9, 2023
Daddy Daze, 5/9/23 Daddy Daze is one of the more recent additions to my stable of commented upon comics, and yet I have been commenting on it for more than...
(Mostly) soapy Monday
Premium post · May 8, 2023
Mary Worth, 5/8/23 Welp, looks like Ed and Estelle are happy and Ed’s workplace problems are squared away, and Wilbur is emotionally processing his...
Billy's mustache, Dolly's neck ... it's all very, very wrong
Premium post · May 7, 2023
Marvin, 5/7/23 Like Hagar the Horrible, Marvin hasn’t exactly introduced a ton of new characters over in recent years. I’m pretty sure “Marty” is new,...
Various types of manimals
Premium post · May 6, 2023
Daddy Daze, 5/6/23 I definitely wouldn’t say I have a “favorite” Daddy Daze character – why would anyone say that, that would be insane – but I will admit...
Metapost: Laff at comments of the week -- and laff at Josh in person!
Premium post · May 5, 2023
It's the first Friday of the month again, so you know what that means: we're one week away from the second Friday of the month, the day when The Internet...
Parental-ish fast takes
Premium post · May 5, 2023
Mary Worth, 5/5/23 Since Dr. Ed's big problem was that he felt terribly overworked, I feel like we're really glossing over what's actually turned his life...
Is this an attempt to make Lute jealous that's gone awry?
Premium post · May 4, 2023
Hagar the Horrible, 5/4/23 I know it’s a little hypocritical, because I always complain about legacy comics being static and hidebound, but I also am always...
Someone's just gotta hug Rene until he GETS IT
Premium post · May 3, 2023
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/3/23 You know, the story of Rene is a true tragedy, and not just because he tried and failed to kill a late-middle-aged man, who then...
Crock is going all "CSI: Sign Handles" over here
May 2, 2023
Crock, 5/2/23 Clearly a lot of Crock strips will have you saying "What on earth is going on here," but today's Crock really has me saying, "No, really, what...
Hank Jr. and Rene didn't drown, everybody, sorry to disappoint
Premium post · May 1, 2023
Dustin, 5/1/23 A truly incredible thing to keep in mind about Dustin is that it’s a comic that debuted in January 2010, when, in the aftermath of the global...
Rustic Sunday
Premium post · April 30, 2023
Gasoline Alley, 4/30/23 I thought perhaps we were going to get the beginning of a heartwarming arc where Joel learns to read late in life (hey, it worked for...
Finally, something that makes golf look tolerable
Premium post · April 29, 2023
Shoe, 4/29/23 Sure, we make fun of legacy strips where the punchline is “Ha ha, technology, amiright?” a lot, but they do serve a valuable purpose, in that...
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