"Dropping" is a much nicer way to put it than "crashing," let's go with that
Crock, 9/24/25 In my freshman year of college, there was an outbreak of E. coli at various Jack in the Boxes that killed four children, and a friend of mine...
"Pluggers" has fallen
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/23/25 Last we saw of Truck and Cody, they had agreed to treat each other as honorary father and son and it was all very heartwarming. But...
Up up and away
Mary Worth, 9/22/25 As promised/threatened, Mary has taken Olive to the Santa Royale Hot Air Balloon Festival! You know, hot air ballooning, the classic...
Odd jobs
Blondie, 9/21/25 Comics Time is a damn complicated thing. Dagwood and Blondie are both relatively young parents of teenagers, which caused some of you to...
Not even going to get into how sad having Buck as your best man would be
Blondie, 9/20/25 My favorite part of this Blondie strip is "40 reps of what?" Like, she knows that this is some elaborate Dagwood bullshit and she's trying...
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Pluggers and plugging in
Pluggers, 9/19/25 Look, you know I can be a little spicy when it comes to pluggers and their culture and values, but I'm not made of stone. I don't wish ill...
Not going to try to transcribe a comical French accent, just imagine it
Judge Parker, 9/18/25 I'm never exactly sure how old Sam and Abbey are supposed to be -- yes, they're the parents of two women who are both in their early to...
Too many Harwoods
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/17/25 I am really enjoying the quiet desperation of Yvonne's facial expression as she tries to convey to Rex and June how crazy-making...
More about time
Mary Worth, 9/16/25 It's not exactly clear how much time in-strip is supposed to have elapsed between the current storyline and Olive's original appearance...
This is the most unwell plugger I've ever seen, which is honestly saying something
Pluggers, 9/15/25 A friend of mine in Baltimore, widely known for always looking younger than she was, when asked for her secret said, "Never make a noise...
She can also swim, I guess, but that seems pretty normal
Mary Worth, 9/14/25 So, adding to the list of Olive's Known Powers: she can predict the movements of air conditioning units, she can "see” people "in front"...
Life is very long when you're Blondie
Blondie, 9/13/25 Blondie began in 1930, in a world now mostly alien to us, but it was originally a story about urban hipsters: a young woman who the artists...
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I guess you really have to ... hand it to them [everyone starts yelling at me]
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/12/25 Say what you will about Rex Morgan, M.D., but it is straight-up killing it in the "characters make interestingly exaggerated hand...
Tales out of school
Luann, 9/11/25 Many years ago, when I was a TA in grad school, I had a very precocious undergraduate student who used to come to office hours to hang out and...
The fish skeleton I just accept. There's always a fish skeleton in these
Slylock Fox, 9/10/25 This is one of the most baffling Six Differences cartoons I've seen in quite a while. Why does the horse have a butt wound? Why does he...
She's flying AWAY from New York, she should be singing "California" by Phantom Planet
Mary Worth, 9/9/25 Mary Worth's use of bold font is ... let's say, unconventional, but I do think that Olive's word balloon in the second panel being...
A real force of alcoholic nature
The Lockhorns, 9/8/25 Now, one of Loretta's running gripes with Leroy is that he doesn't make enough money for her tastes, so we can be certain that her shoe...
Does he think she can buy her own plane tickets or what
Mary Worth, 9/7/25 I myself am not a parent and don't presume to fully understand how they have to balance between fiercely protecting their children and...