Should be Elviney and Elvoutey in my opinion
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 1/11/23 Look, I get it, if you were in charge of a century-old comics property about hillbillies, you’d have the urge to add...
Tuesday is for desperation
Gil Thorp, 1/10/23 Sorry, kids! Gil has a new commitment to winning and he doesn’t have time for mere gossip like “checking in on each other’s well being” or...
Sad dads
Dustin, 1/9/23 Dustin is still doing the “Dustin’s dad wants to do pole vaulting” “plot,” for a second week, which I’m reasonably sure is the longest I’ve...
Every old person I know is obsessed with the weather, this doesn't add up
Dick Tracy, 1/8/23 The current Dick Tracy plot takes a look at the age old battle between labor (the master forger who made a fake Da Vinci based on some...
Wilbur combed his combover extra over for this occasion
Dustin, 1/7/22 This whole week in Dustin has been about how Dustin’s dad wants to relive his high school glory days as a pole vaulter, and his wife is just...
Metapost: New year, new COTW
Folks! Your comment of the week in a moment, but first: If you're in LA on January 13, you can get some more laffs from me, live and in person! That's...
Gil's wearing a suit because he has to go to court later
Gil Thorp, 1/6/23 It saddens me that Marty Moon, Gil’s oldest frenemy, feels like he needs to introduce himself here. Presumably he’s doing it not for Gil’s...
Not-so-innocent youth
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 1/5/23 Oh, man, look at the shift on Jughaid's face between panels here. His relationship with Mary Beth is generally of the...
Mostly facial expressions
Blondie, 1/4/23 There are, I think I don't have to tell you, a number of subtle ways in which the syndicated comic strip Blondie reinforces the patriarchy....
Weird world-building
FOLKS, I neglected in yesterday’s return post to promote the big event of Comics Award Season: The Fifteenth (!) Annual Worthy Awards, in which faithful...
WELCOME BACK (to the post-<i>Funky Winkerbean</i> hellscape)
Funky Winkerbean, 12/25/22 FOLKS!!!! I'm back from my winter travel and ready to get back into the swing of 2023 comics blogging! Usually my first post back...
HO HO HO! I'M OUTTA HERE SUCKERS
Folks, it’s that time of year again: time for me to get the hell out of dodge and gently put this blog to sleep for a couple of weeks for its...
Les's head, still smirking, will be left on the altar
Rex Morgan, M.D., 12/22/22 So Rex Morgan is trying to do a thing where they're aging up the kids a bit, and ... look, as a non-kid-haver, I'm just going to...
https://joshreads.com/2022/12/we-still-havent-gotten-a-milford-bonfire-maybe-it-will-be-a-funeral-pyre-for-their-hopes-and-dreams/
Between Friends, 12/21/22 So Monday and Tuesday’s Between Friends were about one of the families in the Between Friends gang watching the Twilight saga,...
At sea
Blondie, 12/20/22 I'm reasonably sure that we've never seen Dagwood and his "fishing buddy" Herb ever actually go fishing? Maybe there was talk of fishing...
Love Iris's jacket, I think it's inspired by the 1980s Star Trek movie uniforms
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 12/19/22 We’ve all wondered about the circumstances of the elaborate gift-giving sequence in “The Twelve Days of Christmas,”...
Women do be shopping (for necessities, and also luxuries)
Marvin, 12/18/22 OK, today’s Marvin is dumb and bad and revolves around a terrible “women be shopping!!!!” premise, but I still found it very funny, mostly...
Santa Claus: Enter the Santa-verse
Blondie, 12/17/22 I spent a probably embarrassing amount of time staring at this thinking “Which of the third-tier Blondie characters is this dressed up as...
Metapost: Wintry COTW
As the snow comes down and that icy wind begins to blow (on you, not me; I live in Southern California), please warm yourself with laughter at this comment...
Cantankerous Friday
Crankshaft, 12/16/22 Hey, did you know that "deja vu" means "seen again," and that "vu" is the past participle of the verb "voir," which means "to see," and...