Metapost: EOM COTW
We are slipping one last comment of the week for April under the wire, folks: "It's the icing on the cake! The cake that we'll have for dessert after we kill...
I just ... B.O. Plenty, you guys, I dunno
Dick Tracy, 4/28/23 I sort of forgot to mention that it seemed for a minute like the game-themed crime bullshit in Dick Tracy might take a turn into furry...
The answer is "apples," also
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 4/27/23 OK, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, I'm all for mixing things up once in a while, but I'm going to have to ask you to...
He named his cat Odin, yet HE wears an eye patch. Ironic
Mary Worth, 4/26/23 OK, look, I was willing to accept it when we only got a day of Wilbur singing karaoke while sobbing openly, but now we find out that a...
Soapy Tuesday
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/25/23 I love how exasperated Hank Jr. looks by this turn of events in panel two. "No, it's not that big a deal, he just tried to kill me...
Loretta's sassy lean really sells this
The Lockhorns, 4/24/23 Happy Monday, everyone, and it’s a truly happy Monday indeed when the day’s Lockhorns panel features Leroy openly weeping, or at so...
BOATFALL 2: 2 BOAT 2 FALL
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/23/23 Like all industries, the newspaper soap opera strip game is inevitably prone to jealousies and copycat moves when one strip has a...
Happy ... birthday? ... to the earth
Six Chix, 4/22/23 I feel like there are few more depressing sentences in the English language than “cake is biodegradable,” which implies that these people...
Metapost: Comments of the week for your delectation
This week’s top comment? Is that what you’re after? Well, good news: here it is. "Being presented with 'so many things to do’ and then opting for 'wandering...
Friday quickies
Mary Worth, 4/21/23 I'm not at all a person who's in favor of repressing one's feelings, but Wilbur is openly weeping in front of you, Mary! I don't think he...
All your commenting handles are burned into my memory, weirdly
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/20/23 One of my little life problems is that I have an absolutely terrible memory for names, which as you can imagine is often...
Love and vapes
Gil Thorp, 4/19/23 Oh, were you upset that Gil Thorp seemed to have dropped the Great Vape Caper storyline? Well, it seems Toby and his pals are still out...
Tuesday is for oldsters
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/18/23 Oh no, Hank Jr. must either give in to that nagging feeling he has about "Dr. Mirakle" and follow that thread no matter how far it...
Ahh, youth!
Folks, we need to start off on a sad note: Dennis Lien, who for many years posted in the comments here as shrug, passed away last week under hospice care. He...
In search of lost Dagwoodian time
Blondie, 4/16/23 My impression of Blondie and Bumstead’s personal history goes something like this: they has a brief and dissolute young adulthood during the...
Is "gossip fence" the official name? It is now as far as I'm concerned
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/15/23 Aw, shucks, it looks like Dr. Mirakle really is Rene Belluso after all, cleverly disguised via fake eyebrows, though the question...
Metapost: Something exciting .... comedy tonight, COTW today!
Folks! TONIGHT the Internet Read Aloud returns to the city of Los Angeles, with a very special guest: Washington Post columnist/Wait Wait Don't Tell Me...
Friday fast takes
Hi and Lois, 4/14/23 “I mean, look at these drips! None of them are charismatic or even vaguely attractive, and they’re already in high school and yet have...
"Oh dear" is honestly my reaction to most things that happen in the comics
Daddy Daze, 4/13/23 As you know, one of my favorite things to speculate about is the backstory on the relationship between the Daddy Daze daddy and the Daddy...
Rhyming names are my madeleine
Mary Worth, 4/12/23 Of the several minimum wage office temp jobs I held between semesters when I was in grad school, probably the best was the summer I spent...