Tuesday is for praising hayseeds and the hayseed-adjacent
Gasoline Alley, 8/3/21 Folks, let me confide something in you. I was relishing the prospect of just tearing in to today’s Gasoline Alley for using a “joke”...
"Ugh, the wife wants to come, guess I can't spend the whole party telling the actress about how dead Lisa is"
Funky Winkerbean, 8/2/21 "Hey," you almost certainly are not thinking, "Wasn't Mason trying to make a Lisa's Story movie the right way, and they had gotten...
Sunday sadnesses
Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/1/21 "I suppose some people need more adventure in their lives, or in the lives of the people they read about in serialized...
It appears Leroy Lockhorn and I have at least one thing in common
The Lockhorns, 7/31/21 A fascinating thing about longstanding legacy comics is that many of their running jokes are built on cliches pulled from the broader...
Metapost: C to the O to the T to the W
Folks! It’s your comment ..... of the weeeeeek!!!! "You're telling THIS guy he needs to come up with a name? Based on his history, he'll be on the phone to...
Summertime blues of various sorts
Hi and Lois, 7/30/21 "Gosh, I wish there were continuing storylines in Hi and Lois,” said ... someone? One of you, maybe? Well, here you go, it turns out...
Josh discovers the shocking truth: Comics are not realistic
Mother Goose and Grimm, 7/29/21 So, Grimm, who is a dog, got his owner/"mom" a "gift," but the joke is he's too cheap to actually get her an engraved...
Drew's not going to buy this, he knows Ashlee isn't qualified for any job of any kind
The Phantom, 7/28/21 Given how completely superhero franchises have come to dominate pop culture, it’s kind of amazing to think about how relatively recent...
Yeah baby, struggle to get it off, keep squirming, that's the stuff
Dick Tracy, 7/27/21 Look, I have no insider knowledge and I’m not saying that the Dick Tracy creative team is in the midst of a contract dispute with their...
Ha ha, that Bizzy Buzz Buzz! She sure is, uh, buzzing
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 7/26/21 Remember Bizzy Buzz Buzz, the Snuffy Smith character who was named after a popular (?) 1960s toy and whose whole deal...
Is that a ... queen? Did an actual monarch attend this backwoods educational institution? I don't buy it
Mary Worth, 7/25/21 I guess, based on the quote from [checks Wikipedia] American philosopher Irwin Edman, that this is going to be the moment when Ashlee...
Saturday quickies
Hagar the Horrible, 7/24/21 Wait, she went from dating a mollusk to dating a mammal? The mermaid sexual lifecycle in this strip is even weirder than I...
Metapost: Hot summer COTW
Hoo, it's a scorcher out there, folks! Almost as hot as this blistering hot comment of the week: "If Daddy was a workaholic, he'd draw both your nostrils,...
Is the problem with me? Am I too obsessed with the fake death so I can't focus on real life?
Funky Winkerbean, 7/23/21 I don't mean to tell people how to deal with shocking news, but I feel like this Comic-Con crowd has moved on way too quickly to...
Thursday is for booze
Gil Thorp, 7/22/21 So we're still in the early, extremely manic phase of this Gil Thorp storyline, and there's been lots of cutting back and forth between...
Confirmed: Mother Goose and Grimm takes place before 1963
Mother Goose and Grimm, 7/21/21 Good news, everyone! Like Dennis the Menace, Grimm, the lovable dog from the syndicated comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm,...
Death (real, maybe, and fake, definitely)
Mary Worth, 7/20/21 Folks, I feel like this is one of those Mary Worth image pairs that will go down in infamy. Just admire the contrast between base, trashy...
Trust me, nodding and smiling as if you can hear is NOT a long-term solution
Marvin, 7/19/21 Almost ten years ago, my audiologist told me something that has really stuck with me: studies have shown that when someone gets a hearing...
Sunday two-liners
Rex Morgan, M.D., 7/18/21 “Wow, so instead of straining to come up with story elements ex nihilo like I’ve been doing, you used aspects of your everyday life...
Birthday funnies (the birthday is mine, it's my birthday)
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 7/17/21 YOU, A SIMPLE CLOD: “Wow, this joke doesn’t work at all. It’s a real stretch for something that’s not even funny.”...