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As the World Thorps
Gil Thorp, 8/29/22 Seems its new author is transforming Gil Thorp from one of newspaper comics' few remaining sports strips into a full-blown soaper, and at...
It's Spencer "Farms," Marie, you're supposed to know that
Judge Parker, 8/28/22 It’s excruciating watching poor Marie’s unspoken pleading as Abbey looks past and through her, slamming back those screwdrivers. “B-but...
Changing lanes
Arctic Circle, 8/27/22 Arctic Circle boldly swerves out of its lane (preachy environmental half-jokes) directly into the oncoming traffic of toilet humor....
Lots of exposition here; not gonna lie
Between Friends, 8/26/22 Between Friends mixes joke-a-day and soapy arcs about three middle-aged women and should therefore be called Among Friends, but...
Metapost: Pre-vacation comments of the week!
FOLKS! You’re getting an early COTW because I, your friend the Comics Curmudgeon, am going on a li’l vacation! I’ll be back on September 10th but until then...
Thursday is for makin' quick jokes about the LADIES, amiright?
Crankshaft, 8/25/22 I love Jeff's sly little smile in the second panel here. He seems to be saying "Ha ha, the ladies, amiright? Can't live with 'em (because...
These guys need a high school DEunion if you ask me
Funky Winkerbean, 8/24/22 This week’s Funky Winkerbean is about Holly and Funky going to their high school reunion, which I think is hilarious, and to be...
She got two words of Spanish into that sentence, just enough to watch them start to panic
Gil Thorp, 8/23/22 Ohhhh, I get it now! All that bluster from Gil’s new nemesis? It was just flirting! His aggressive on-airpod proclamation that he was...
The trades are very lucrative, this is a fact and not funny at all
Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/22/22 Oh ho. Oh ho ho. It's a new week and a new storyline in Rex Morgan, M.D., and the game, as they say, is afoot! Buck's about to be...
Criminal Sunday
Panel from Slylock Fox, 8/21/22 You ever think that Count Weirdly is just kind of greedy? I mean, he already has an extremely cool customized rocket-plane...
Saturday is for ass
Hagar the Horrible, 8/20/22 What do you think the origin is of "grotesquely exaggerated cleft chin" being a comics shorthand for "handsome"? Was it a Cary...
Sadly, I understood that reference in Funky Winkerbean
Crankshaft, 8/19/22 “Slight markup” is my favorite part of this. Crankshaft isn’t doing this for the money! He’s doing it so he can make a big show out of...
Jared Strikes Back
Mary Worth, 8/18/22 Oh, man, Mary is truly, truly cruel, because after having a brief cafeteria talk with Jared, she's decided she's going to force Dawn to...
"Inconstancy," the adjective normal college students use all the time
Family Circus, 8/17/22 The Keanes have been on vacation in New York City for a couple weeks now, in a series of panels that are actually reruns from decades...
Is Dawn going to stop talking long enough to choke down that muffin
Beetle Bailey, 8/16/22 Feel like it’s been a long time since I saw someone actually smoking a tobacco cigarette in a newspaper comic strip, and while I...
By Friday someone had better either be terminally ill or so healthy they have superpowers
Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/15/22 Ah, good news, everybody! It looks like Andrzej and Tildy may have had some health scares, but they're on the mend and all this...
The Metawilburphis
Mary Worth, 8/14/22 Behold DaWnilbur, everyone! I love the way this matches up with realistic dream logic in that Dawn was spending hours before falling...
I enjoy "confronting my 'ambassador'" myself, if you know what I mean
The Lockhorns, 8/13/22 The thing about the Lockhorns is that, while in one sense they’re millennials, in another sense they’re trapped in an eternal present...
Metapost: Hot hot hot COT COT COTW
Is it time for your comment of the week? You know it! "It's good to know that this guy specifically chose a chunky, heavy gold wedding ring. He's so married...