Walker-Browne shocking conclusions
Beetle Bailey, 5/27/22 I'm trying to figure out what "cave" would even mean in this context, in which they've clearly all been marching so long that it's not...
Thursday quickies
Dennis the Menace, 5/26/22 The only thing menacing here is that Dennis is six years old and should only have the vaguest idea of what "radio" is, and he...
You guys are going straight to JANI-JAIL (a closet)
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/25/22 Exciting developments in Rex Morgan, M.D., everyone! It turns out that vigilantism is not only bad for your rotator cuff, but it's...
Me, though? I'm VERY owl-friend (in a wholesome way)
Dick Tracy, 5/24/22 Aww, it looks like this rat dinner is actually just a li’l treat for an adorable li’l owl sidekick to this owlish (?) dude, who I’m...
Mostly distasteful Monday
Mary Worth, 5/23/22 This upcoming storyline can’t possibly be about Dawn and what’s-his-face, the Star Wars nerd whose name the narration box can’t even be...
Two nices and a nasty
Family Circus, 5/22/22 There's "I increasingly find Pluggers relatable” old and then there's "I unironically find the Family Circus funny" old, but I have to...
Saturday quickies
Daddy Daze, 5/21/22 I generally think of piles of leaves as pretty ephemeral things, but apparently the one next to the Daddy Daze Daddy’s house has been...
Metapost: Weekly comments for your enjoyment
The comment of the week? It’s coming sooner than you think. "What's the angle here? Shady Shrew sinks his boat to collect the insurance money which, by...
Feel like if you refer to your clothes as a "getup" you already have misgivings
Shoe, 4/20/22 Look, Roz, I know you had to come up with an insult on the fly here, and so I guess I should be impressed by the extremely labored pun your...
Comics deal with the future (i.e., the present)
The Lockhorns, 5/19/22 I’m pretty sure the first legacy comic to do a cryptocurrency joke was, shockingly, Snuffy Smith way back in 2015, although they just...
Sexually unpleasant Wednesday
Mary Worth, 5/18/22 Oh, wow, not only has l'affaire HelenCal ended with Ian and Toby's past and potential future (respectively) student entanglements safely...
Tuesday is for jerks
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 5/17/22 Wow, I guess we really are going to get “Snuffy is cruel to his family/Snuff is poor” bits for the rest of the week,...
'There's a HOLE in your story' Sly smirked as Shady was hauled off to the torture chamber
Slylock Fox, 5/16/22 My intense study of the post-animalpocalypse world of Slylock Fox has been ongoing for sixteen years now, but every day we are still...
We can't see how it's progressing, but I certainly hope the tongues are out by the final panel
Blondie, 5/15/22 There are, as you might guess because you’re reading these words on a website called “The Comics Curmudgeon,” a number of things that...
Grim Saturday
Hi and Lois, 5/14/22 As readers of this blog well know, I like that Thirsty has in recent years been allowed to once again be the moderately functional...
Metapost: Weekly comments of the week
Like sands through the hourglass, so go the very funny top weekly comments. Here’s this week’s! "My favorite part of this is the narration box: 'As Toby...
Ian should NOT be this eager about ANYTHING
Shoe, 5/13/22 Sometimes a long running comic strip will dip deeply into its well of accumulated goodwill among its readers and craft a gag that reflects its...
You're going to be doing the voice in your head for at least a week
Blondie, 5/12/22 You ever stare at a sentence for a long stretch of time and become increasingly convinced that it doesn’t really make sense as something a...
Josh contemplates human frailty with varying degrees of sympathy
Pluggers, 5/11/22 The historian Ronald Syme wrote that the Emperor Augustus, who died at 77, "outlast[ed] the friends, the enemies, and even the memory of...
I would go more for a "HACHI-MACHI!" myself
Dick Tracy, 5/10/22 I’ve apparently lived my life either correctly enough or incorrectly enough that I’ve never worked anywhere that’s been subject to a...