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Saturday is for death
Premium post · September 6, 2025
Beetle Bailey, 9/6/25 Hmm, Sarge managed to knock himself unconscious after landing on his tailbone, presumably from some shockwave that went up his spine,...
Metapost: Slightly delayed COTW
Premium post · September 5, 2025
Sorry, a little late in the day I know, but here ... is your comment ... of the week! "Poor Charlie Brown. Once, he was a global icon, the Everyman...
RIP Norway, 872-950 AD
Premium post · September 5, 2025
Hagar the Horrible, 9/5/25 Real Hagar heads know that Hagar is illiterate, and while Lucky Eddie also was at one point, he later learned to read and write. I...
Wednesday quickies
Premium post · September 4, 2025
Family Circus, 9/4/25 Ha ha, look at Jeffy's face! He knows it's not good! But he doesn't have the gumption to be mad about it, just sad! Hagar the Horrible,...
What about women's driving ability, relative to men? Some delightful material there, I'm sure!
Premium post · September 3, 2025
Mother Goose and Grimm, 9/3/25 Hopefully by now you are all well acquainted with my beef with how comic strips depict the relationship between dogs and fire...
Measured criticism for Tuesday
Premium post · September 2, 2025
Beetle Bailey, 9/2/25 Now, I'm not a big shot syndicated newspaper comics artist, but I think that if you have a joke where a general tells a subordinate...
Some cyber-gripes
Premium post · September 1, 2025
Crock, 9/1/25 Even if you hate Crock with a passion, you don't read it every day for 20+ years without learning a little something about its character...
Egyptomania
Premium post · August 31, 2025
Mary Worth, 8/31/25 Yes, Olive, you "saw" that she was struggling in the water, with your "eyes," as she was immediately in "front" of you as you stood on...
Ancient-ish times
Premium post · August 30, 2025
Hagar the Horrible, 8/30/25 Look, despite the fun ("fun") I have here detailing all the anachronisms in Hagar the Horrible, I do in fact get that the...
Metapost: Summer's end COTW
Premium post · August 29, 2025
Forget the equinox: We all know September and the school year herald the end of summer as we know it. So enjoy this last pre-fall comment of the week:...
Hell is for (and created by) children
Premium post · August 29, 2025
Dennis the Menace, 8/29/25 We take the eternal struggle between Dennis and Mr. Wilson so much for granted that it rarely occurs to us to ask what Dennis gets...
Troubling biology
Premium post · August 28, 2025
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 8/28/25 Imagine: You've just finished putting together the script for a perfectly serviceable Barney Google and Snuffy Smith...
Belated change belatedly acknowledged
Premium post · August 27, 2025
B.C., 8/27/25 A fun thing that happened in B.C. about halfway through the decade or so when I was ignoring it is that the Cute Chick and the Fat Broad got...
Tuesday quickies
Premium post · August 26, 2025
Six Chix, 8/26/25 Look, in the Tuesday Chixiverse, people have sex with sandwiches and pizza, so I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss out of hand anything...
Real sad situations
Premium post · August 25, 2025
Beetle Bailey, 8/25/25 Comedy is, in large part, the art of subverting your audience's expectations in ways they find pleasing. So you could see how it might...
Sunday is for teens and/or birds
Premium post · August 24, 2025
Shoe, 8/24/25 You of course all know that one of my favorite things to grapple with in every Shoe strip that's even vaguely bird-related is "Did the Shoe...
Gloomy Saturday
Premium post · August 23, 2025
The Lockhorns, 8/23/25 Look, I don't know how they can make it any more obvious that the Lockhorns are millennials. Today's panel deploys one of the most...
Metapost: Foreshortened COTW
Premium post · August 22, 2025
Slightly shorter list of comments of the week for a somewhat shorter week on my part, but this week's top comment still delivers the laffs! "Really liking...
Violence (on-screen, on-course, etc.)
Premium post · August 22, 2025
Luann, 8/22/25 In the current Luann plot, Tiffany has dragged Les to a spa to get a mani-pedi and other treatments, and has been annoyed that he still wants...
Thursday updates
Premium post · August 21, 2025
Mary Worth, 8/21/25 Mary Worth Update: Olive rushed into the surf and saved her drowning classmate, is one way to describe what happened, although another...
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