Soapy Monday
Gasoline Alley, 9/25/23 Oh, man, were you wondering what happened in the story of the lost little boy who was about to be taken away from his talking bear...
Did he have those custom made, or did he paint them, or what
Pardon My Planet, 9/24/23 Man, I have to say that I wildly misinterpreted this comic at first, thinking this dude was doing some kind of corporate...
Saturday quickies
Pluggers, 9/23/23 Not sure if the joke here is supposed to be "pluggers are bad at using tools" or "pluggers plan in advance for possible accidents," but...
Metapost: COTY? No, COTW
This week's top comment won't get a major award at a banquet, but it's still worthy of praise! "Naturally there's a whole back room set up, complete with...
Bird facts Friday
Shoe, 9/22/23 Perfesser Cosmo Fishhawk is, according to the (alarmingly detailed) table in the Shoe Wikipedia page, an osprey, and ospreys, according to the...
I'm not married to it being human, I guess
Blondie, 9/21/23 Way back in 2006 -- which, I take no pleasure in reporting, was a full 17 years ago -- there was a weird rash of syndicated newspaper comic...
RETVRN to Worthian tradition, reject Wilburian modernity
Mary Worth, 9/20/23 You know, if you're a Worth-head come lately, you might think of Mary Worth as a strip primarily about a core rotating cast of characters...
Tuesday quickies
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 9/19/23 Sadly, due to the free availability of firearms and ongoing unchecked clan warefare, PTSD is endemic among the...
The alien on the right is EXTREMELY high
Slylock Fox, 9/18/23 I love how the narrator (reflecting official Forest Kingdom Regime propaganda) just has Slylock "overhearing" this conversation, like...
He's got meaty forearms and a way with packing tape
Crock, 9/17/23 I'm going to choose to believe that this strip is one where the Crock creative team retained a flicker of memory that this strip is in fact...
Saturday shoutouts
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/16/23 Shoutout to Rex Morgan, which, when its armed kidnapping plot rapidly devolved into discussions about the easiest way to transfer...
Metapost: Friday COTWy baby
I don't really know what that post title is supposed to mean either, except that it's time for your comment of the week! "Loretta forgot the number one rule...
Enter the CYBER-SENIOR
Mary Worth, 9/15/23 Ahh, it's Friday, so that means that this eternal plot has got to be wrapping up and we'll finally be moving on to someth-- oh no. Oh no....
They actually aren't funny, Elmo. Your mom is, once again, correct
Dustin, 9/14/23 Apologies (?) for not showing you yesterday's Dustin, which consisted of Dustin asking his dad to guess the global gross domestic product,...
Am I jaded or as out of touch as the Blondie brain trust? Or BOTH
Shoe, 9/13/23 A comic strip is such a condensed bit of storytelling that I generally think it should do one joke and and do it well. Today's Shoe, for...
Once you're on the plane, all bets are off
Dick Tracy, 9/12/23 Sprocket Nitrate has managed to extract herself from the crumbling criminal enterprise in which she was entangled and has laid her hands...
Henry wears a pocket square to church, he's a real class act
Hi and Lois, 9/11/23 Sometimes it can be easy to forget that we live in an age of technological wonders. For instance, if you have a leak in your house, you...
Sunday madness
Shoe, 9/10/23 I don't play poker so I don't know if it's normal for three friends to be randomly assigned a total stranger as a fourth player for a game in a...
Shazam is also there, we're mixing cinematic universes
Blondie, 9/9/23 Are you guys still playing Wordle? I am, and sorry if that isn't cool anymore, I guess I just like having fun, but the reason I'm aware that...
Metapost: Y'all know what time it is (it's COTW time)
Your top comment of the week is here ... right now! "Nosy the Riveter" --Windier E. Megatons, on Bluesky And your hilarious runners up! "Nice of the Judge to...