This is a Pierre stan account now
Mary Worth, 9/24/21 God damn, look at him. Look at that adorable little smooshed face! Obviously I’m not talking about Wilbur, obviously, how dare you, I’m...
A bad day for nerds
Beetle Bailey, 9/23/21 Gourmet, as I'm sure we all remember, stopped publication in 2009. Plato may subscribe to Fine Food, surely a much lesser imitation of...
Did his body cannibalize all his cartilage to survive in hibernation?
Between Friends, 9/22/21 I've been reading and very occasionally commenting on Between Friends for a while now, and I absolutely get and accept that the...
"I'm SINGLE and ready for my dog to TINKLE on my ex's couch, for revenge!"
Dustin, 9/21/22 A thing about doing a comic strip every day for years and years is that keeping up with whatever “high concept” you used to sell the thing in...
Monday's for the dogs
Mary Worth, 9/20/21 Oh my god, everybody, it's really happening, where by "it" I specifically mean that Wilbur is going to go to the animal shelter to get a...
Sunday is for grandparents
Crankshaft, 9/19/21 Oh, hey, remember how Max and Hannah’s business/passion project, the Valentine Theater, went out of business during the COVID lockdowns,...
They didn't even give Alexander's band a dumb name
Blondie, 9/18/21 A strip like Blondie exists in a sort of eternal present, its world changing almost imperceptibly slowly over time to stay vaguely...
Metapost: F-R-I-I-I-D-A-Y (is for COTW)
Roll on into the weekend with your hilarious comment of the week! "As usual, the best part of this gag is the lengths that Leroy has gone to make it work....
No armadillos were harmed in the making of these jokes (on my part anyway)
Hi and Lois, 9/17/21 Do teen boys still, in the year 2021, lie around their bedrooms, decorated with Stones and Led Zep posters, and talk about how bands...
Froggie went a TEMPTIN'
Gasoline Alley, 9/16/21 OK, I am going back on what I said before: I am going to briefly recap the current Gasoline Alley plot (this little girl spent a long...
Third-degree Wednesday
Gil Thorp, 9/15/21 [clears throat] [extremely Beavis from Beavis and Butt-Head voice] FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! [takes a long,...
Kind of Menace
Dennis the Menace, 9/14/21 I am absolutely in love with the idea of Mr. Wilson’s identity as a jazz hepcat suddenly becoming another weak point that Dennis...
Nonsense is more tolerable when the art is good, it turns out
Six Chix, 9/13/21 I know I often slag on Six Chix for doing strips that are opaque, baffling nonsense, so here’s a change of pace: today’s strip is opaque,...
Leroy as a clarinetist? So wrong it's right
Daddy Daze, 9/12/21 Guys, look. I never wanted to have a non-trivial percentage of my waking hours haunted by thoughts of what caused the marriage of the...
"Should I NOT be insufferable and angry all the time?" thinks Wilbur
Shoe, 9/11/21 Spending too much energy thinking about world-building in newspaper comics is probably a waste of time, but [gestures at thousands of posts on...
Metapost: COTW is BACK, baby!
I returned from my absence this week to once again judge the living and the dead, the funny and the not-funny, and I decree the following to be this week’s...
Friday is (mostly) for children
Family Circus, 9/10/21 A lot has changed for me, both in my life and vis-à-vis my relationship to the comics, since I started this blog in 2004, and...
Soapy Thursday
Gil Thorp, 9/9/21 Big news, everybody! Usually football dominates the Gil Thorp fall storyline, just like it dominates the American sports fan's mind, but...
Excited for Halftrack's collaboration with Mr. Brainwash
Dennis the Menace, 9/8/21 We all know, of course, that every time the Henry and Alice Mitchell attempt to make friends, their very first social engagement...
TRIUMPHANT POST-LABOR-DAY RETURN COMICS!
Hello, everyone, I have returned to my comics mocking duties! Everyone who gave to the summer fundraiser will be getting a personal thank you note, but I...