The Day The Hippies Came To Town
Mary Worth, 11/18/21 This is, even within the context of a Wilbur storyline in Mary Worth, extremely sad. Remember earlier in this storyline when he was...
Kids today with their cell phones and their TikToks and the unrealistic productivity demands placed upon them
Beetle Bailey, 11/17/21 Miss Buxley's face isn't what you would call "expressive" -- it's more what I would call "blowup sex doll" -- but given that she's...
Title to change to "Funky's Dad's Harem" by 2023
Funky Winkerbean, 11/16/21 Remember how after the big post-Lisa’s-death Funky Winkerbean time jump, all the promotional material around the strip said it was...
Felicitous pairings
The Lockhorns, 11/15/21 I’m really loving Leroy’s little bar cart here. You never know what room in the house you might be in when you abruptly need to...
Honestly shocked to learn the Flagston twins have social lives
Crock, 11/14/21 Crock has a long-running bit about how there’s a talking chicken who’s always on the verge of being cooked and eaten by the strip’s...
"Maybe we SHOULDN'T be bringing them to church, actually," the Keane parents are thinking
Crankshaft, 11/13/21 In one of the more jarring bits of Funkyverse visual shorthand, traditionally panels that are supposed to be flashbacks are depicted in...
Friday quickies
Beetle Bailey, 11/12/21 Plato is exactly the kind of dork who would try to pull off the “the most erotic organ of all is the brain” thing, but declaring that...
I too would rage against the Funkyverse's creator, given the opportunity
Mary Worth, 11/11/21 Wilbur continues to moderately out-hip Estelle in his choice of music, turning for his next number to Gotye’s 2011 hit “Somebody That I...
She might need to eventually get even more "on the nose" and bop him on his actual nose
Beetle Bailey, 11/10/21 Wow, is it up to me now to be the guardian of Beetle Bailey lore? I guess it is, so here's my gripe: this is absolutely not a Zero...
The song choice absolutely puts Estelle in the Britney role, obviously
Dennis the Menace, 11/9/21 I guess the joke here is supposed to be that Dennis is misinterpreting a traditional bridal party as some sort of harem situation?...
![That face! That scrunched up pissy face! ["chef's kiss" gesture]](https://joshreads.com/images/21/11/i211108maryworth.jpg)
That face! That scrunched up pissy face! ["chef's kiss" gesture]
Mary Worth, 11/8/21 I have to say that there was a point, early in this Wilbur storyline, where I was like, "Ugh, another Wilbur storyline? Really?" And...
He SHOULDN'T be alive, we all agree on this
Mary Worth, 11/7/21 Like a weird pervert who has become so addled by online pornography that he needs ever more bizarre and tentacle-heavy erotic imagery in...
Saturday mostly one-panel quickies
Pluggers, 11/6/21 Man-animals are OK, but pluggers often prefer the company of full-animals, who provide a comforting reminder of the ways things used to be,...
"For example, I like the other thing that apparently everyone else in this town likes"
Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/5/21 Well, it looks like Griff’s loyalty to his old friend – who was, let’s be real, pretty rude to him when he made a perfectly polite...
The butterflies are like three feet tall, this is an understandable mistake
Gil Thorp, 11/4/21 The ... B? C? ... plot of the fall Gil Thorp storyline is that star running back Chance Macy isn't really interested in the enticements of...
Cigars, definitely the thing we associate with the word "bogart"
Dick Tracy, 11/3/21 I know I shouldn’t quibble about “realism” in a strip that features a seedy bar called “Bucket of Blood,” one of the patrons of which is...
Pierre is far too indignant to speak, so you're spared my faux French accent bit
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 11/2/21 When it comes to elected officials, Snuffy only wants to know one thing: will they stand firm in the face of the...
Moderately morbid Monday
Crock, 11/1/21 I'm going to take a break from my long-running feud with Crock to offer some helpful humor advice: in the third panel here, Crock and Poulet...
Exasperated Sunday
Shoe, 10/31/21 This is clearly a Macbeth-themed restaurant, but the Perfesser does a Hamlet joke when he orders and isn’t just immediately ejected onto the...
Hell is other fish and/or parents
Marvin, 10/30/21 I’ll say this for Marvin: when it introduced its new fish characters a few weeks back, it could have played it safe and just used them as...