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Gearhead Gertie, 7/16/26 Really love Gertie's gobsmacked look in the top panel here. Sure, she's been dutifully putting away cash for retirement for her...
Wednesday is for tragic antiheroes
The Phantom, 7/15/26 Ahh, it looks like the promised Nomad-Python supervillain teamup really is happening, coordinated by the mysterious "Ignis Vindicta"...
Depressing Tuesday
Shoe, 7/14/26 I appreciate that this joke could've worked fine by just saying that ol' Uncle Herm was a lousy bowler; but no, we also gotta work in the fact...
Really had to resist including some family tree diagrams for this one
Hagar the Horrible, 7/13/26 In The City of God, St. Augustine famously tells a story of a pirate who had been captured by Alexander the Great: "When that...
Mostly AI Sunday
Blondie, 7/12/26 Back in early 2024, Dithers had to regretfully report that DithersCo wasn't using AI tools to boost productivity, with his employees mostly...
Strong labor solidarity among comics characters really would solve a lot of problems
Beetle Bailey, 7/11/26 The thing about the daily comics is that they're still drawn as if the black and white version is canonical, even though probably most...
Metapost: The time is COTW. The COTW is now: COTW time
OK that post title doesn't make tons of sense, but ... COTW time! Now! "Maybe it's just that the standards of menace have been so raised by the likes of...
Mostly one-panel Friday
Alice, 7/10/26 This is honestly a perfect Alice strip. The actual joke, while not groundbreaking or anything, definitely made me laugh, mostly because of the...
Nostalgia, drugs, etc.
Rex Morgan, M.D., 7/9/26 As predicted, the scam twins (who are named Jean and Jane, I don't think anyone predicted that) are indeed the nieces of notorious...
People love daughters ... daughters who KILL
Judge Parker, 7/8/26 Hey, remember when Neddy tried to be a TV writer, and managed to sell Netflix a pilot about April, the violent, terrifying CIA assassin...
Do NOT give the "Daddy Daze" daddy an axe
Daddy Daze, 7/7/26 One of my favorite aspects of The Shining, which is one of my favorite all-time movies, is that for most of the movie's runtime it's not...
This goes beyond bothersome. I alone am brave enough to call out Heathcliff on his nonsense
Dick Tracy, 7/6/26 This Dick Tracy storyline isn't just about the seedy, underground world of hard-core video "gamers"; it also introduces the strip's...
Jordan will be a character witness at their trial. "They seemed nice," he'll say
Mary Worth, 7/5/26 For years, one action item has popped up repeatedly in Charterstone condo association meetings: replacing the doors on the apartments,...
Workshopping terms for friends of Elmo. "Frelmos?"
Blondie, 7/4/26 On this, America's most sacred fireworks-related holiday, not one but two comics did "people making fireworks noises with their mouths in...
Metapost: Better late than never COTW
Look, man, sometimes when it's a holiday Friday you wake up and think "Ah, a holiday Friday! It's just like a Saturday!" and you forget that there are...
Sad Friday
Crankshaft, 7/3/26 Ugh, fine, I guess I'll update you on what's going on in this Crankshaft flashback: Harry Dinkle's drunk dad was all set to debut a new...
That plugger looks mad, as he should
Mary Worth, 7/2/26 Obviously, as a long-running, hidebound artform, comic strips are remarkably static when it comes to depicting the details of everyday...
BUSKSCAM 2026: THE RECKONING
Rex Morgan, M.D., 7/1/26 Oh, hey, so it turns out June was so snooty about those buskers last week because she could tell that the lady with the violin...
Maybe I'm too harsh, she's browsing r/SoapOperas
Dennis the Menace, 6/30/26 I'm pretty sure Dennis is the one being menaced here, as he stares dumbly at Mrs. Wilson, who is half-watching what used to be her...
Honestly unsurprised that a dog would use its unprecedented power of speech for this
Mary Worth, 6/29/26 The very first Mary Worth plot covered on this blog introduced both Tommy in full drug lord mode and launched the Wilbur/Iris...