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Funkymancer
Premium post · July 6, 2022
Funky Winkerbean, 7/6/22 Man, wouldn't it be cool if Funky Winkerbean made an abrupt change in its narrative style and suddenly became a retro-cyberpunk...
No alarms and no surprises
Premium post · July 5, 2022
Rex Morgan, M.D., 7/5/22 Say, were you feeling a little on edge rolling into our four-day week? Need your nerves soothed? Well, remember how beloved (?)...
Monday is for PATRIOTISM
Premium post · July 4, 2022
Mary Worth, 7/4/22 Happy Fourth of July, everyone! Did you bake a cake for America's birthday, like Mary did? No? Well, I guess you don't love America...
From the suburbs to the sea
Premium post · July 3, 2022
Panel from The Lockhorns, 7/3/22 This one gets even better when you think about the backstory. Presumably the lifeguard jumped down out of his chair and...
Just grinning maniacally, watching that marshmallow melt
Premium post · July 2, 2022
Slylock Fox, 7/2/22 I was going to joke about Slylock being extremely high here but I couldn’t bring myself to do it, he is an honorable fox lawman (lawfox?)...
Loving this guy's goatee, his journey is truly a core Gen X experience
Premium post · July 1, 2022
Gil Thorp, 7/1/22 I guess we’re finally finding out why Gregg’s dad was so keen to hide his literary crimes: not because he feared the wrath and contempt of...
I certainly hope Jared is left to die on the lava fields of Mustafar
Premium post · June 30, 2022
Mary Worth, 6/30/22 Look, I’m not what you’d call particularly “hip” (SAYS THE GUY WHO’S BEEN WRITING A BLOG ABOUT NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS FOR 15+ YEARS,...
One-panel Wednesday
Premium post · June 29, 2022
Dennis the menace, 6/29/22 There are so many questions this panel raises – like where are any of these people and why is Henry wearing a suit jacket in the...
Romance is complex
Premium post · June 28, 2022
Mary Worth, 6/28/22 Has there ever, going all the way back to the ancient Egyptians, been a more perfect match between visual and narrative art as today's...
Can we get a week of Max trying and failing to do sweet skateboard tricks
Premium post · June 27, 2022
Gil Thorp, 6/27/22 It’s that time of year again: the time when the baseball season plot keeps rolling ahead in Gil Thorp and you look at the calendar and...
Sunday is for the decline of civilization
Premium post · June 26, 2022
Marvin, 6/26/22 Look, I get it. Marvin, the strip, wants to "have it all" as a comic strip. That means that it wants to be a strip about an infant, and wants...
Mostly mad Saturday
Premium post · June 25, 2022
Beetle Bailey, 6/25/22 What really makes this strip for me is how mad General Halftrack looks. Sure, he's off golfing while his soldiers are enduring...
God, I hope it's TJ from "Luann"
Premium post · June 24, 2022
Mary Worth, 6/24/22 Wow. Wow. You're telling me that Jared has a friend? A non-Dawn friend named TJ? And TJ also likes to party down at "ROCK IT," Santa...
The kids are not all right
Premium post · June 23, 2022
Marvin, 6/23/22 Now, I'm not one of those fancy "body language experts" who get paid by Us Weekly to analyze paparazzi pics of Ansel Elgort or whoever, but I...
More like Shattered Dumb-Ass, amiright folks
Premium post · June 22, 2022
Gil Thorp, 6/22/22 As a certified coastal elitist, I usually take umbrage when someone says "Nobody cares about this outside your liberal bubble,...
Mostly unpleasantly horny Tuesday
Premium post · June 21, 2022
Mary Worth, 6/21/22 One of the minor world-building things in the Star Wars movies that has always bothered me is how languages work. The humans speak...
You never want to miss a spit take
Premium post · June 20, 2022
The Lockhorns, 6/20/22 A fun thing to do with the comics (for certain limited definitions of “fun,” but those limited definitions are pretty important for a...
Normally I say "shoot your shot," but even I have limits
Premium post · June 19, 2022
Dustin, 6/19/22 Earlier this year, my faithful readers were treated to what I assume was an enlightening etymological journey in which they learned that the...
Saturday quickies
Premium post · June 18, 2022
Dustin, 6/18/22 "What I'm trying to say, kid, is that when you get old, your body goes to shit. But also, you stop feeling inconvenient emotions. So it...
Metapost: Please, my comment of the week, it's very funny
Premium post · June 17, 2022
Your comment of the week ... has ARRIVED: "Hoping for three solid weeks of Curtis trying to drum up a whisper campaign for what is clearly his webcomic. 'Oh...
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