From the suburbs to the sea
Panel from The Lockhorns, 7/3/22 This one gets even better when you think about the backstory. Presumably the lifeguard jumped down out of his chair and...
Just grinning maniacally, watching that marshmallow melt
Slylock Fox, 7/2/22 I was going to joke about Slylock being extremely high here but I couldn’t bring myself to do it, he is an honorable fox lawman (lawfox?)...
Loving this guy's goatee, his journey is truly a core Gen X experience
Gil Thorp, 7/1/22 I guess we’re finally finding out why Gregg’s dad was so keen to hide his literary crimes: not because he feared the wrath and contempt of...
I certainly hope Jared is left to die on the lava fields of Mustafar
Mary Worth, 6/30/22 Look, I’m not what you’d call particularly “hip” (SAYS THE GUY WHO’S BEEN WRITING A BLOG ABOUT NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS FOR 15+ YEARS,...
One-panel Wednesday
Dennis the menace, 6/29/22 There are so many questions this panel raises – like where are any of these people and why is Henry wearing a suit jacket in the...
Romance is complex
Mary Worth, 6/28/22 Has there ever, going all the way back to the ancient Egyptians, been a more perfect match between visual and narrative art as today's...
Can we get a week of Max trying and failing to do sweet skateboard tricks
Gil Thorp, 6/27/22 It’s that time of year again: the time when the baseball season plot keeps rolling ahead in Gil Thorp and you look at the calendar and...
Sunday is for the decline of civilization
Marvin, 6/26/22 Look, I get it. Marvin, the strip, wants to "have it all" as a comic strip. That means that it wants to be a strip about an infant, and wants...
Mostly mad Saturday
Beetle Bailey, 6/25/22 What really makes this strip for me is how mad General Halftrack looks. Sure, he's off golfing while his soldiers are enduring...
God, I hope it's TJ from "Luann"
Mary Worth, 6/24/22 Wow. Wow. You're telling me that Jared has a friend? A non-Dawn friend named TJ? And TJ also likes to party down at "ROCK IT," Santa...
The kids are not all right
Marvin, 6/23/22 Now, I'm not one of those fancy "body language experts" who get paid by Us Weekly to analyze paparazzi pics of Ansel Elgort or whoever, but I...
More like Shattered Dumb-Ass, amiright folks
Gil Thorp, 6/22/22 As a certified coastal elitist, I usually take umbrage when someone says "Nobody cares about this outside your liberal bubble,...
Mostly unpleasantly horny Tuesday
Mary Worth, 6/21/22 One of the minor world-building things in the Star Wars movies that has always bothered me is how languages work. The humans speak...
You never want to miss a spit take
The Lockhorns, 6/20/22 A fun thing to do with the comics (for certain limited definitions of “fun,” but those limited definitions are pretty important for a...
Normally I say "shoot your shot," but even I have limits
Dustin, 6/19/22 Earlier this year, my faithful readers were treated to what I assume was an enlightening etymological journey in which they learned that the...
Saturday quickies
Dustin, 6/18/22 "What I'm trying to say, kid, is that when you get old, your body goes to shit. But also, you stop feeling inconvenient emotions. So it...
Metapost: Please, my comment of the week, it's very funny
Your comment of the week ... has ARRIVED: "Hoping for three solid weeks of Curtis trying to drum up a whisper campaign for what is clearly his webcomic. 'Oh...
Friday is for naked butts (NOT A METAPHOR) (TRIGGER WARNING: NAKED BUTTS)
Funky Winkerbean, 6/17/22 Hi, guys. Happy Friday. It’s been a tough week and I hope you’re all looking forward to the weekend. To celebrate, here’s Funky...
They ordered the piranhas on the Dark Web, maybe
Dick Tracy, 6/16/22 Oh, right, I guess I never mentioned that the owl guy had, pre-owl-stuff, been seen using hypnosis (?) to convince people to hand over...
Breakin' the law (of common decency)
Gil Thorp, 6/15/22 “Look, I’m only asking this because one of my dumb students put me up to it, but: were you guys in the mob or what? It’s ok, you can tell...