Glenwood needs to see a doctor, but do they need to see THIS doctor
Mary Worth, 4/3/22 It's fascinating to me that in the year 2022, the rhythms of soap opera strips are still predicated on the fact that some newspaper...
Metapost: Comedic comedy comic plugs plus comments!
Whoops, folks, sorry about failing to get this one out to newsletter subscribers Friday! But hey, if you like the radio, but also on the internet, you might...
Soapy Saturday
Mary Worth, 4/2/22 I love that Mary Worth seems to be edging towards “what if we did a story about cancel culture and #metoo overreach … but we gender...
Betting this isn't even in the top ten dumb things Toby has cried in her car over
Slylock Fox, 4/1/22 In the Book of Genesis, there is a moment, immediately after Adam and Eve eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, when their...
Not going to bother explaining who "Vitamin" is, you gotta keep up
Beetle Bailey, 3/31/22 Look, I have carefully curated my entire lifestyle so that I don’t have to know or care about the pop culture references or aesthetic...
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Menace
Shoe, 3/30/22 The thing about Shoe is that the bird-people have varying character designs that involve varying amounts of clothing. Some are fully clothed;...
Mostly medical Tuesday
Gil Thorp, 3/29/22 Ahhh, if it's spring, it must be time for ... the Gil Thorp baseball plot, which will definitely involve these young men and their varying...
And the Oscar for longest-winded diatribe about a legacy newspaper strip goes to...
Blondie, 3/28/22 I honestly kind of respect how Blondie is just absolutely committed to doing jokes about whatever big pan-cultural event is on the calendar,...
Grandma is WAY too excited thinking about that super-old dude
Family Circus, 3/27/22 I actually think this is a pretty clever strip, though I would argue that, just as the strip sometime updates old art to acknowledge...
The zip-a-tone makes those portraits look like pop art masterpieces, honesty
Beetle Bailey, 3/26/22 Not sure why but my immediate thought upon reading this was that the Halftracks are fairly old and their parents are almost certainly...
Metapost: More comedy, more comments, more week
Folks, first off, it’s that time of month again: the time were you are required to come to my show in Los Angeles, full of jokes about the internet! Last...
All profits from Shoe go directly into alcohol
Family Circus, 3/25/22 I very distinctly remember the moment more than four years ago when I read this article about the “raw water” movement in the New York...
Tales out of school
Blondie, 3/24/22 This is not the first time I've griped about this, but at one point unseen off-screen characters in Blondie used to be named things like...
Mid-week EGG-citement
Six Chix, 3/23/22 One of those things that I never thought about until I learned it and then I thought about it all the time is that nowhere in the Humpty...
TRIGGER WARNING: Old people gettin' it on
Shoe, 3/22/22 A few years ago during a big family Thanksgiving gathering, I looked up to see my seventysomething mother and her siblings sitting on the coach...
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's crime parody singers, a real thing that exists
Crankshaft, 3/21/22 Pam. Pam. Your father is an enthusiastic gardener who loves to order stuff from the Bean's End catalog. That's a giant bag labelled...
Rex gonna ask Sarah "for an autograph" and it's actually a document legally separating her from their finances, just in case
Rex Morgan, M.D, 3/20/22 So, we’ve already established that Sarah will suffer no consequences for possibly accidentally amnesia-plagiarizing her lucrative...
Grumpy middle-aged men
Mary Worth, 3/19/22 It's been a while since we had a good Ian storyline, and the Ian I know is not a guy who sees that his wife isn't having a great day and...
Metapost: C ......... OTW!
Folks, it’s the comment ........ of the week! "Notice how Mrs. Wilson is on her cell phone keeping up to date with the times by scrolling through TikTok,...
The degree to which I am not a coffee head has been demonstrated by me just Googling "can coffee go stale"
Dick Tracy, 3/18/22 Coffyhead claimed that the coffee over at Coffee Howz was "stale," but I think the truth is that, like any addict, his need for coffee...