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...

Slouching Towards Charterstone

$ · April 25, 2024

Mark Trail, 4/25/24 Mark, I don't know if I'd trust a horse with my life in this scenario. Have you ever seen a horse race? They're just running in circles,...

This strip is NOT sponcon, I'd respect it more it more if it were

$ · April 24, 2024

Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/24/24 OK, fine, I admit it, I'm a hypocrite: after many years of complaining that Rex Morgan, M.D., doesn't do high-stakes medical drama,...

Vote early, vote often

$ · April 23, 2024

Blondie, 4/23/24 Good lord, when's the last time Blondie introduce a new character? Even Elmo has been around since at least 1954. Despite [gestures vaguely...

Beasts, beast-men, Wilbur, etc.

$ · April 22, 2024

Pluggers, 4/22/24 John Cougar Mellencamp sits at the intersection of plugger and poet, and I have long believed that "Life goes on/ long after the thrill of...

Iris and Zak 100% will not notice if Wilbur stops talking or just leaves

$ · April 21, 2024

Mary Worth, 4/21/24 You'd think that boxing talk combined with Wilbur going into a traumatized fugue state would be a perfect opportunity for a return of the...

More like Hi and Bankrupt, amiright

$ · April 20, 2024

Between Friends, 4/20/24 Not to sound like the old person that I literally am, but TV used to be a lot fewer two-hour movie premises stretched out over eight...

Metapost: The week's top comments ... you want 'em, we got 'em

$ · April 19, 2024

Your COTW is right here, right now! "Hey guys, an app that can load the dishwasher is called a robot. How soon we forget the tropes of yesteryear."...

STOP THE MADNESS

$ · April 19, 2024

Dennis the Menace, 4/19/24 There's been a disturbing trend lately of Dennis the Menace panels where Dennis doesn't figure into the gag at all, even as unseen...

Think of the perfectly good car rendered useless for this little gimmick

$ · April 18, 2024

Six Chix, 4/18/24 I'll freely admit that I find floating Poseidon here very charming, with his cheery attitude and his whole ... diaper? situation and a...

Cyber-Wednesday

$ · April 17, 2024

Blondie, 4/17/24 Most Blondie strips aren't exactly Shakespeare, but there's usually ... a recognizable jokes? A punchline? People are way too ready to say...

Walker-Browne transcendence

$ · April 16, 2024

Hi and Lois, 4/16/24 Lois's book group used to be the fun kind, where she and her friends would use the vague excuse of literary pretension to get extremely...

The surreal and the terrifying

$ · April 15, 2024

Alice, 4/15/24 I'm happy to report that, sine I started reading Alice a few weeks ago, I have fallen thoroughly, 100% under its spell. This strip takes...

Ominous soapers

$ · April 14, 2024

Mary Worth, 4/14/24 Are you feeling down, my friends? Depressed? Abandoned? Do you worry that nobody loves you, simply because, in many ways both large and...

Saturday is for the children

$ · April 13, 2024

Hi and Lois, 4/13/24 Two things you have to keep in mind when reading today's Hi and Lois: (a) despite my many jokes about how Trixie is an eternal baby...

Metapost: Friday funtime COTW

$ · April 12, 2024

You want this week's top comment? You got it, buddy! "Now let's be fair, there are plenty of valid reasons for this lady to call Wilbur 'pretty good.' Maybe...

Soapy emotional rollercoasters

$ · April 12, 2024

Gasoline Alley, 4/12/24 It's not news exactly that conflict is the engine of good stories, but I have to say that Gasoline Alley feels like it's...

Add more cats. More dogs. MORE

$ · April 11, 2024

Mary Worth, 4/11/24 Uh, what's that? We sent Wilbur on a solo karaoke journey where he sang Celine Dion and you felt nothing? Well, what if we, uh [sweating...

The War of Electric Aggression

$ · April 10, 2024

Gasoline Alley, 4/10/24 You know, after all these years, I still experience the joy of discovery from reading the newspaper comics. Or, well, at least...

Josh's seal of disapproval

$ · April 9, 2024

Family Circus, 4/9/24 The "fun" of a Dolly Family Circus gag, to the extent that such a thing exists, is often about the gap between her smug, know-it-all...

Ladies can have flattops too, by the way, there's a lady with a flattop IN THIS STRIPa

$ · April 8, 2024

Dick Tracy, 4/8/24 In a lot of ways, it has to be a real pain in the ass to be a criminal in the Dick Tracy universe -- like, you have to have some kind of...

Sunday transcendence

$ · April 7, 2024

Hagar the Horrible, 4/7/24 Hagar has pelted this prophetic orb into the Duke's castle and it has thoroughly demoralized the defenders by showing them their...

Musical weekend

$ · April 6, 2024

Beetle Bailey, 4/6/24 I'm sorry, Sarge doesn't know any "raunchy" songs. He may be a brute who spends his days preparing men for the horrors of war by...

Metapost: Gettin' COTWy with it

$ · April 5, 2024

Comment of the WEEK, y'all! It's here and it's real and it's spectacular: "Reading today's Snuffy Smith, it strikes me that I know a lot about the...

Wilbur and other monsters

$ · April 5, 2024

Arctic Circle, 4/5/24 Arctic Circle is a comic strip about a bunch of penguins that live in the Arctic (YES I KNOW THAT'S WRONG, IT'S PART OF THE JOKE/LORE),...

This lady is taking her LIFE into her own hands here, talking to Gertie like that

$ · April 4, 2024

Gearhead Gertie, 4/4/24 I really enjoy the fact that about half of Gearhead Gertie strips are like "here's a recent NASCAR story or controversy, spelled out...

Old blogger yells at cloud

$ · April 3, 2024

Blondie, 4/3/24 Everyone makes fun of young people for being addicted to social media, but the truth is that old people are also addicted to social media....

Sacred Tuesday

$ · April 2, 2024

Gasoline Alley, 4/2/24 I realize that a lot of fiction essentially consists of making up a guy to get mad at so you can be happy when he loses, but I feel...

The only fools here are ... all of us

$ · April 1, 2024

Dennis the Menace and Blondie, 4/1/24 Is there any "holiday" more vile and unpleasant than April Fool's Day, which is mostly marked by "pranks" perpetrated...

Children make the risen Christ cry

$ · March 31, 2024

Family Circus, 3/31/24 Some might think that Billy's smug expression in the second panel here is just because he thought of a good (i.e., very bad) pun for...

Josh likes exclamation points

$ · March 30, 2024

Beetle Bailey, 3/30/24 I actually really like Sarge's facial expression in this one. Having been advised that he's walking into a potentially explosive...

Friday feelings

$ · March 29, 2024

Mary Worth, 3/29/24 Whoops, it turns out Dawn doesn't so much crave maternal affection as she craves not seeing her terrible drippy ex and new girlfriend he...

Soapy Thursday

$ · March 28, 2024

Gil Thorp, 3/28/24 The Milford Mudlarks: the team whose players trust one another so much that they just keep passing the ball back and forth, indefinitely....

Troubled youth

$ · March 27, 2024

Mary Worth, 3/27/24 God bless Mary Worth for sticking to its strengths, which is putting ordinary people into compelling situations and having them say...

Tuesday twofer

$ · March 26, 2024

Beetle Bailey, 3/26/24 Does Corporal Yo assume that Sarge would just think "Oh, he finally got that leg-lengthening surgery, that explains why he's taller!...

Somehow ... mother returned

$ · March 25, 2024

Mary Worth, 3/25/24 Big news, everybody. They did it. They dragged out the Keith storyline and then the Mary and Jeff go on a date transition for so long...

Josh lays down the law

$ · March 24, 2024

Blondie, 3/24/24 OK, look, syndicated newspaper comic strip Blondie: if you start a comic where Dag gets an alert on his phone that it's time for a "ritual,"...

You DON'T want to know where he got the trenchcoat

$ · March 23, 2024

Bizarro, 3/23/24 One of my goals in this blog is to get you all to appreciate the comics as a fundamentally visual medium. You could describe a comic where...

Metapost: [To the tune of "Ease On Down The Road"] Comment of, comment of, the week

$ · March 22, 2024

Your top comment? It's here! "Hey, guy in the back, that's no way to hold a sign! You have your right hand on one end of the sign and your left hand squarely...

Friday quickies

$ · March 22, 2024

Dennis the Menace, 3/22/24 The most menaced person here is the guy in the background, who spent all day hand-painting this snazzy retro "Information" sign...

Hagar would merely plunder the wabbit's gold

$ · March 21, 2024

Gearhead Gertie, 3/21/24 Gearhead Gertie is another new strip I've been reading. It's about Gertie, an old lady who's monomaniacally hyperfocused on NASCAR...

Sad that this is the only way they could think of to visually convey the idea of "huge fan"

$ · March 20, 2024

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 3/20/24 OK, look, I guess I get that there's decades of aesthetic history built into Barney Google and Snuffy Smith and if...

Mostly soapy Tuesday

$ · March 19, 2024

Tina's Groove, 3/19/24 Tina's Groove is another new strip I'm getting into! Tina is a waitress and is friends with the other folks at the restaurant where...

I appreciate them zapping nuclear weapons. Really doing us a solid in my opinion

$ · March 18, 2024

Alice, 3/18/24 Happy Monday, everybody! I've decided to add a few more strips into my repertoire, and here's Alice. Here it is! I would describe this art as...

Doesn't say anything about pants, just sayin'

$ · March 17, 2024

Six Chix, 3/17/24 I caused a bit controversy last year when I said that I found the idea of eternal punishment morally objectionable. Still, no matter what...

Oh, the gun? I guess Bangalla doesn't have a second amendment, huh

$ · March 16, 2024

Hagar the Horrible, 3/16/24 That's Hagar's mother-in-law as the presiding judge up there, by the way, and really the only way this strip would make sense or...

Metapost: It's all about the COTW, baby

$ · March 15, 2024

Your comment of the week! Here it is! The best one! I decree it! "Yesterday we learn today is World Sleep Day, and today Dagwood is celebrating by not only...

Friday fast ones

$ · March 15, 2024

Dick Tracy, 3/15/24 "Orphans are disgusting and deserve their fate! Can you imagine if we brought one into our home?" Blondie, 3/15/24 "...he'd let Dag...

Ahh, the famously sleepy comics characters. Gang's all here

$ · March 14, 2024

Blondie, 3/14/24 Dagwood Bumstead's inhumanly vast appetite is so well known that it obscures one of his other unnatural qualities -- namely, his ability to...