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Metapost: To C, perchance to OTW
$ · June 7, 2024
This week's top comment? It's right here and right now: "I hope the duck cop in this town realizes how more effective superhero cosplayers are than Sherlock...
Sad man-children and actual children
$ · June 7, 2024
Dustin, 6/7/24 "Dustin can't get a date" is a running bit in Dustin that usually I hate because the strips on this theme inevitably happen with supposed...
Thursday quickies
$ · June 6, 2024
Kevin and Kell, 6/6/24 I know I don't talk about Kevin and Kell, the comic strip about weird corporate furries, very often, but I can't look at the wildly...
Kids these days
$ · June 5, 2024
Blondie, 6/5/24 The number one thing that makes me feel like an old person is my stiff right knee and hip, but number two, coming pretty close behind, is the...
Give peace a chance
$ · June 4, 2024
Slylock Fox, 6/4/24 I assume that the gentleman who's been tied up is the victim here, some solid citizen who was simply walking around with burlap sacks...
Everyone is not fine
$ · June 3, 2024
Marvin, 6/3/24 The very first "real job" I ever had, after I quit grad school, way back in the long past and yet futuristic sounding year of 1999, was as a...
The True Grit REMAKE is already 14 years old, c'mon
$ · June 2, 2024
Mary Worth, 6/2/24 I know I've been harping for a while on "why is Wilbur so obsessed with his dead fish and not talking about his alive fish?" Earlier this...
Saturday fast takes
$ · June 1, 2024
Gasoline Alley, 6/1/24 Uh oh, looks like the electricity is out all over Gasoline Alley! I guess electricity has decided, in the wake of the rejection of the...
Metapost: Brace yourselves ... COTW incoming
$ · May 31, 2024
A comment comes screaming across the sky ... a comment of the week! "Setting aside that this rolling pin is clearly some sort of do-it-yourself erotic...
Romance seems to be going great, getting more efficient by the day
$ · May 31, 2024
Dustin, 5/31/24 Look, I get -- believe me, I get -- that it's hard to mine jokes every single day out of a single premise, and sometimes when you're doing a...
Late night madness
$ · May 30, 2024
Six Chix, 5/30/24 I "read the comics so you don't have to," and I'm not too proud to acknowledge that sometimes that role requires that I alert you to when...
Some hairs are askew? We call that "Wednesday" around here
$ · May 29, 2024
Hagar the Horrible, 5/29/24 One of the great dilemmas of transport is that the more mass you need to move, the more energy you need to move it, which means...
This guy's gonna get linotype ink all over his all-white suit
$ · May 28, 2024
Blondie, 5/28/24 I think it's very telling that Dagwood doesn't seem to particularly care about getting to work on time using this new futuristic technology;...
Did he really forget? Doesn't look like it to be honest
$ · May 27, 2024
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/27/24 Big news, everyone! Our character wrap-up is finally over and we're getting to our next exciting Rex Morgan, M.D., medically themed...
Walker-Browne-Wilbur alliance
$ · May 26, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/26/24 Jesus, Wilbur, did you ever think that Willa has probably even more reason to mourn than you do, and you've never tried to reach out to...
A good joke spoiled
$ · May 25, 2024
Dustin, 5/25/24 Syndicated newspaper comic strip creators love golf for some accursed reason, but I have to say that they're generally pretty good about only...
Metapost: C to the O to the T to the W
$ · May 24, 2024
Enjoy your weekend in the humorous glow of this week's top comment! "Justin is doing his own thing, as always? No. I don't believe it. Oh, wait ... a lava...
Honh honh honh
$ · May 24, 2024
Between Friends, 5/24/24 For my sins, I must occasionally fulfill my oath and keep you up to date on the Between Friends gals, so: the dark-haired Between...
Can this blue-collar/white-collar romance last???? Haha jk I don't actually care
$ · May 23, 2024
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/23/24 This week we've been getting a little catchup on what the ancillary Rex Morgan characters have been up to, and it's mostly pretty...
How old is the youngest person alive who knows what the "cola wars" were
$ · May 22, 2024
Pardon My Planet, 5/22/24 As a hopeless Coke Zero addict, I of course respect any monument to those who fought and died in the name of delicious soda pop....
Josh reads the implications
$ · May 21, 2024
Blondie, 5/21/24 The implication here is that Dagwood has been home for hours while letting his latest workplace blunder marinate in his mind, only having...
This has huge implications for what "half-assed" means
$ · May 20, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/20/24 Yeah, sorry I didn't talk about Wilbur making a beautiful flowered coffin for his dead fish Stellan Sunday, but I just sort of stared at...
YHWH cares nothing for the Great Egg from which we hatched
$ · May 19, 2024
Panel from Slylock Fox, 5/19/24 Now, you all know that I am a fan of Reeky Rat trailer park disputes and have been for a very long time, but it's still nice...
Death and rock
$ · May 18, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/18/24 Remember when we learned that Old Man Wynter purchased a headstone for his dog that was significantly larger than the one he bought for...
Metapost: May mid-month comments of the mweek
$ · May 17, 2024
Your week's top comment is here, let its hilarious glow take you through the weekend! "You're a plugger if you plan both your day and night around abusing a...
There was no tobacco in biblical times, what a sad blunder
$ · May 17, 2024
Gasoline Alley, 5/17/24 OK, see, I get that Assistant Mayor Elbert Imeswine was the villain of the "Electric Acres" arc, but he doesn't seem to be based on...
Sorry about pretty much all of this
$ · May 16, 2024
Pluggers, 5/16/24 The caption is basic down-home folksiness combined with "pluggers are always hungry," but the facial expression on the man-bear plugger...
Josh grumps out
$ · May 15, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/15/24 Oooh, look everyone, Mary Worth is doing a bit where Wilbur is shouting "Stella!" like Stanley from A Streetcar Named Desire, except it's...
Ancient ways, modern art
$ · May 14, 2024
Gasoline Alley, 5/14/24 Ha ha yes, last week I had some fun imagining Walt encountering some biblically accurate angels, but this week Walt is has entered a...
Nightmarish Monday
$ · May 13, 2024
Daddy Daze, 5/13/24 One of the most fascinating and bonkers "big ideas" books of the '70s was The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral...
Walker-Browne quickies
$ · May 12, 2024
Hi and Lois, 5/12/24 The "joke" of today's strip is that the Flagston children have announced that their mother now has to share Mother's Day with their...
MOTHERS ARE GREAT, I LOVE MOTHERS, THEY DESERVE ONLY THE BEST
$ · May 11, 2024
Blondie, 5/11/24 Look, obviously saying anything against mothers and motherhood is a swift ticket to getting abruptly cancelled -- and rightfully so! [laughs...
Metapost: The comments, the comments ... they're good
$ · May 10, 2024
There were many comments this week, but to me, this one was tops: "Ha, look at that sad look on Lois' face, she knows that Ditto will indeed be following in...
The fish are the new Adam and Eve
$ · May 10, 2024
Beetle Bailey, 5/10/24 The thing I like about this strip is how numb Sarge looks in the second panel. He scarfed down two plates full of burgers and fries...
Family life
$ · May 9, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/9/24 Dawn is reconnecting with her Connecticut WASP mother by attempting to enjoy high-prestige social pursuits like the ballet. Wilbur,...
Neologistic nights
$ · May 8, 2024
Tina's Groove, 5/8/24 So Tina's Groove is one of the "new" comics I've been reading lately, though in the interest of total accuracy I should note that these...
Big developments, for certain definitions of "big"
$ · May 7, 2024
Shoe, 5/7/24 A classic Shoe bit is to use the structure of a test question at Skyler's school to deliver a bad joke, even though the result is a test...
Hagar [experiences] the Horrible [way to die]
$ · May 6, 2024
Gil Thorp, 5/6/24 Milford has its own Native American reservation and, we learn today, its own institution of higher learning. Soon, having accrued all the...
Mostly Walker-Browne Sunday
$ · May 5, 2024
Hi and Lois, 5/5/24 I guess the point of this strip (to the extent that any given Hi and Lois comic can be said to have a "point") is to shore up the Walker-...
Josh gets critical
$ · May 4, 2024
Daddy Daze, 5/4/24 Look, I'm just going to say it: I find the Daddy Daze baby, with his fixed, manic smile, his uncanny ability to move about and manipulate...
Metapost: Comments, we get comments (of the week)
$ · May 3, 2024
cotw COTW COTW COTW! "Amen, sister. Don't we all wish we were Kristy? I have no idea what this is about, and I don't care: being Kristy just seems right."...
That's his "decoy wallet"
$ · May 3, 2024
Judge Parker, 5/3/24 Hey, guys, remember Pavel, a Russian crime boss and the first interesting new character Judge Parker introduced in years? In the old...
All of his "adventure stories" involve almost dying on a cruise ship
$ · May 2, 2024
Shoe, 5/2/24 Yeah, man. Giant bird with prehensile hands and opposable thumbs? Wears clothes and plays guitar? Not part of any Earthly biome I'm familiar...
It came from the deep (erotically)
$ · May 1, 2024
Pardon My Planet, 5/1/24 I don't generally have anything nice to say about Pardon My Planet, but I will say this: this lady (I think the Pardon My Planet...
Filmmakers ... always trying to create "drama"
$ · April 30, 2024
Gil Thorp, 4/30/24 This week in Gil Thorp we've learned that star Mudlark pitcher Leo Atazhoon is Native American (this may actually not be new info but...
Monday quickies
$ · April 29, 2024
Mary Worth, 4/29/24 Nothing but respect for this old man, who continues to mentally use some truly obscene epithet to refer to Wilbur even while...
Mostly thowaways
$ · April 28, 2024
Panels from Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 4/28/24 Remember the "30-50 feral hogs" guys? He briefly amused Twitter in 2019 when he demanded to know how he...
From hell's heart, I stab at thee
$ · April 27, 2024
Gil Thorp, 4/27/24 I'm not sure what the current consensus on how to win over the teenage kids of the divorced dad you're currently fucking, but bribing them...
Metapost: It's all happening, COTW-wise
April 26, 2024
This week's top comment -- ta da! "It's not enough that Zak is a gorilla. He is an ugly gorilla. Man, that Wilbur is a master of nuance." --Bob Tice And the...
Quicksand isn't real, also, but we don't have time to go into that
$ · April 26, 2024
Suburban Fairy Tales, 4/26/24 Suburban Fairy Tales is one of the new strips I've been reading, and it's a basically funny and enjoyable strip about cute...
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