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Crankshaft, 12/6/21 Look, it’s not that I want to be a comics curmudgeon, all the time; sometimes it’s just important to me that comics do a better job of...
Can we just transition this strip entirely to Pierre and Libby being best pals
Hagar the Horrible, 12/5/21 Yet another example of why the so-called "throwaway" panels at the top of a Sunday strip, which are excised in some paper layouts...
We won't be laughing when the hillbilles conquer us riding their war salamanders
Mary Worth, 12/4/21 Look, Wilbur, they’re fish. They’re fish! They’re fine, but the gulf between their world and a human’s is much wider than between, say, a...
Metapost: December COTW is go!!!!
Time keeps on slippin' into the future, and it's now the first comment of the week of the last month of 2021: "For all that Mary talks Wilbur up, she would...
Sad couples Friday
The Lockhorns, 12/3/21 That’s right, Leroy! Loretta is old enough to remember the golden age of online discourse, when people wrote long essays about...
Bitter old love
Mary Worth, 12/2/21 “JOSH” I can almost here you yelling, “You haven’t talked about Mary Worth all week! Is there something wrong with Mary Worth, or with...
Dick mostly wants to show off his physique the way a trench coat never could
Crankshaft and Curtis, 12/1/21 I’m genuinely of the opinion that “gaslighting,” as a word, at one point conveyed a useful concept but has had its impact...
Not sure how jaywalking is defined in a town with no real roads
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 11/30/21 I'm reasonably sure that I've never seen the blessings of the Anglo-Norman system of trial by jury granted to the...
Yes, yes, their names are "Maggot" and "Grossie," yes, this is terrible beyond words, yes, we all know this
Crock, 11/29/21 “Hmm,” I bet you’re thinking, “a four-digit number that turns out to be the price in dollars and cents of an entire barrel of wine sure is a...
YES it's the same two comics as yesterday, it's MY BLOG, I do what I WANT
Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/28/21 If you want the answer to “Why is Rex Morgan boring now” in a nutshell, here it is: one of the strip’s more devious characters has...
The fact that its formerly rigid body bends doesn't even bother me, I'm becoming numb
Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/27/21 Here’s the thing, folks: I spent a lot of brain power this week remembering the various Funkyverse familial relationships and it’s...
Not sure the <i>Funky</i>verse can resist the temptation to make this a superspreader event
Hi and Lois, 11/26/21 Almost every family patriarch in a newspaper comic is a baby boomer, with tickets to the original Woodstock in a scrapbook and a disco...
Staring at my mashed potatoes, getting increasingly furious about comics continuity errors around a horny old man
Funky Winkerbean, 11/25/21 Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! If you’re looking for something to be thankful for, maybe you should give thanks that you don’t...
These delicious muffins will break down her poor victim's resistance
Dick Tracy, 11/24/21 It really tickles me to think that the various deformed criminals of Dick Tracy have their own fairly normal lives, from which they are...
"Thank goodness we don't have to give her more amnesia!"
Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/23/21 I think it's completely legit to say, "Hmm, when this strip's child character sold a book for a lot of money to a museum somehow...
Just sittin' on the ol' Viking-on-the-lam bench
Hagar the Horrible, 11/22/21 Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas famously begins with its main character, Henry Hill, going on at great length about how much fun it...
Better than playing "inhuman wheelbarrow," I guess
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 11/21/21 Snuffy Smith trufans! Do you want to get hot Snuffy Smith visual content like the turkey in today’s installment?...
Sam should be thrilled that he can finally just throw money at this problem
Judge Parker, 11/20/21 So, see, the mayor has been launching a vendetta against Abbey, falsely accusing her of burning down her own B&B in both the court of...
Metapost: [COTW wordplay goes here]
[Setup for comment of the week goes here] "I'm actually mad at how inaccurate the darndest thing in Family Circus is. Little kids think all grownups are...
Not sure what kind of store "DASHn&OUT" is supposed to be, it has a [squints] barrel full of ice?
Blondie, 11/19/21 I know I spend far too much time going on and on about comic book time here, but it really is an interesting lens for analyzing long-...