Imagine being less alert than Dagwood. Shameful
Blondie, 5/24/26 Blondie over its multidecade run has chronicled America's increasing suburbanization and corresponding car dependence. Back in the '50s,...
Saturday quotables
Mary Worth, 5/23/26 I've given it a bit of thought and I've come to the conclusion that "The condo board agreed we can create a supplemental food supply for...
Metapost: Never forget the COTW
If you're in the U.S., you're heading into a three-day weekend, and how better to celebrate than the comments of the week? "What I love about The Phantom is...
Distasteful Friday
Blondie, 5/22/26 The sad thing here is that Alexander and Cookie can't actually hear what Dagwood is jamming out to. Sure, we readers are privy to the truly...
Josh goes OFF
Mother Goose and Grimm, 5/21/26 OK, I guess I respect the Mother Goose and Grimm entries where the strip remembers that part of its remit is doing riffs on...
It's called "object permanence for relationships" and Tommy has yet to develop it
Gil Thorp, 5/20/26 Somehow, this extremely long golf match that has pitted Gil and his ex Mimi against one another in a battle of golfing coaching acumen is...
I'm rooting for the perverts, obviously
Andy Capp, 5/19/26 Today's Andy Capp serves two different and distinct audiences: (1) Brits opposed to socialized medicine who will shove it in the face of...
Bad blood
Mary Worth, 5/18/26 A thing about soap opera comic strips is that it's very difficult to understand how we're supposed to read the passage of time. Like,...
Did Tommy not do the twelve-step thing where he apologized to everyone, or did he just not bother to apologize to Dawn
Dick Tracy, 5/17/26 Look, when the Russians launched a huge drone attack against a prison on U.S. soil, I was willing to give it a pass -- I mean, who...
Jokes, with pictures
Crock, 5/16/26 This is one of those Rodney Dangerfield-style one-liners that sort of makes sense when you first hear it but just kind of falls apart the more...
Metapost: No fuss, no muss, just COTW
Here it is! Real quick! Your top comment! Of this whole dang week! "I love how Tommy greets everything in life like a fresh-born baby. He got off drugs when...
Friday is for failure
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/15/26 Oh, I had sort of forgotten that Lonnie didn't just turn to blackmail because he was evil; he was actually acting out of financial...
Youth, old age, and so on
Mark Trail, 5/14/26 Many years ago, we were visiting Vancouver during the delightful summer months, and in Stanley Park we encountered ... like, a lot of...
Mae Mae cut out the middleman and blackmailed herself, then didn't pay
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/13/26 Oh, did you think that maybe Lonnie's blackmail scheme might generate sustained dramatic tension of some kind? Well, sorry, Mae Mae...
You don't get into advanced gaslighting until college
Gil Thorp, 5/12/26 The Vegas sportsbooks have had a rough last few years. In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic...
Kinda gross Monday
Luann, 5/11/26 So Luann has a boyfriend named "Phil" now, and sure, the strip has done a certain amount of classic Luann stuff about their relationship where...
Mmm ... sandwich
Judge Parker, 5/10/26 There have been hints in this strip that Judge Parker Senior is slipping away into alcoholism or maybe just dementia, and ... look,...
Some bathroom jokes (SORRY)
Barney Google and Snuff Smith, 5/9/26 Snuffy sure looks smug, doesn't he? He shouldn't, though: cultivating the favorite food source of your primary prey...
Metapost: Full-on spring-y comment of the week
May! The glorious month of May, and it's delightful comment of the week! "You might think this is standard Funkyverse sub-wordplay, but in fact it's...
The old men and the Friday
Beetle Bailey, 5/8/26 I honestly am not sure if the joke here is simply "Lt. Fuzz is humiliated because Gen. Halftrack takes an enlisted soldier's advice...