Merry Christmas to all! And to all a good next 7 to 12 days
Curtis, 12/24/21 The most recent Curtis storyline has invovled our hero chaperoning Michelle to and from the dentist in her family limo because she’s...
Alexander and Dagwood are basically identical but have different noses and now I can't stop staring at them
Blondie, 12/23/21 Not to be smug, but the idea that cowboys on long-range cattle drives would kill the cows they were being paid to transport to market and...
Tender AND mild? In this economy?
Dennis the Menace, 12/22/21 I’m sorry, I absolutely refuse to believe that a kid who goes to church on the regular would know what a “manger” is but also...
Terrible babies (including Wilbur)
Baby Blues, 12/21/21 Video is an illusion, a series of still images run in sequence so quickly that your brain can't perceive them as individual pictures and...
Tess is in real danger of missing her one allotted smile for the month
Dick Tracy, 12/20/21 I know I should be focusing on the fact that Blackjack, a member of Dick's rogue gallery, owned a collection of Dick Tracy memorabilia...
Sunday mostly panels
Panel from Slylock Fox, 12/19/21 I initially assumed the solution to this mystery would be animal fact based: bears really do eat salmon and raccoons really...
Too much eye contact
Mary Worth, 12/18/21 I may have said this before, but I feel like the new-model Mary Worth doesn't have quite enough nose visible when she's looking straight...
Metapost: TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO LIVE ON-STAGE COMEDY (plus COTW)
Folks, if you were wondering when my beloved live show, The Internet Read Aloud, would return to the stage in Los Angeles, good news: it’s returning in three...
The ellipsis in "They're not ... available" is truly unsettling to me
Daddy Daze, 12/17/21 Normally, I'm a big proponent of the "show, don't tell" maxim in a visual medium like the comics, but you know what? I have zero...
If Dennis finishes with "Get him!" he'll be my hero for life
Gil Thorp, 12/16/21 Oh, boy, the basketball season storyline of Gil Thorp is already more promising than this fall’s snoozefest because it looks like it’s...
The power of learning
Dick Tracy, 12/15/21 Let’s face it folks: between COVID-19, a general prejudice against nerds, and a widespread unwillingness on the public’s part to engage...
Hell is eternal menacing
Hi and Lois, 12/14/21 This is (and here’s a sentence that I’m reasonably sure has never appeared in the English language to date) the most heartbreaking Hi...
"Can't believe they were OUT OF MEATBALLS" he's furiously thinking to himself
Mary Worth, 12/13/21 Oh, man, the Wilbur-Estelle reunion doesn't look to be a dream or a fantasy sequence, just a sad testimonial to what happens in our...
The weather forecast is probably really important to birds, if you think about it
Shoe, 12/12/21 I honestly, and shamefully, would be down for Shoe to mine for laffs the relationship between Treetops' one newspaper and its (presumably) one...
Hope he's getting a lot of spittle on that mic
Rex Morgan, M.D., 12/11/21 GTV8 ANCHOR BRYCE NEWMARK: Tonight's top story: One local big sister, previously believed to be "basically OK," has now been...
Metapost: COTW RIGHT NOW!
WHOOMP HERE IT IS COTW! "This is the most sexual this strip has ever been or will be again. Ten years from now the fans will still be talking about that time...
Fast take Friday
Dick Tracy, 12/10/21 Ever since the raid on Apparatus HQ, Dick's been hard at work down in the phrenology lab, trying to determine if the Ace of Spades's...
"According to YOU" would be a good name for a TV news segment full of wild claims that aren't fact-checked
Rex Morgan, M.D., 12/9/21 I honestly kind of respect how many no shits this local news crew gives about this extremely pointless segment. Like, normally they...
Sunrise, sunset
Hi and Lois, 12/8/21 I’m reasonably sure we’ve never actually seen Trixie walking before? It’s 100% appropriate that this is the context in which she takes...
Doorknobs would be right at eye level for Snuffy, I'll give him that
Rex Morgan, M.D., 12/7/21 So Nancy finally got herself motivated to put an evil scheme in motion, for certain limited definitions of “evil” and “scheme,” and...