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Metapost: [Title of COTW post goes here]
July 16, 2021
[Little joke introducing the COTW goes here] "Removing the border between the last two panels of today's Dennis the Menace would work so much better on every...
Medico Friday
July 16, 2021
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 7/16/21 Wow, I’m not sure if we’ve ever seen a Snuffy Smith before where Jughaid has doffed his coonskin hat, revealing his...
Thursday is for kidnappings
July 15, 2021
Dick Tracy, 7/15/21 Oh, did I tell you about the Dick Tracy plot where Mysta Chimera was working with Vera Alldid, a cartoonist who does an in-universe comic...
Ashlee gonna upgrade to SUPER-ASHLEE, watch out world
July 14, 2021
Mary Worth, 7/14/21 It looks like Ashlee is really learning some important lessons here. Physical objects, like watches, can have emotional resonance for...
Good walks spoiled
July 13, 2021
Gil Thorp, 7/13/21 It’s summertime in Milford, everybody! Is this the year we’re going to get a wacky summer storyline that isn’t about golf? Maybe! We...
Soapy memories
July 12, 2021
Dick Tracy, 7/12/21 Oh, hey, remember when Dr. Ghost and Dr. Sail stole one of Diet Smith’s space coupes and Diet sent it careening off into deep space, and...
Sunday is for children of various ages
July 11, 2021
Hi and Lois, 7/11/21 I don’t really care much about the lazily structured “joke” about Chip not mowing the lawn, but I am very interested in the tiny adult...
Death, love, and taxes
July 10, 2021
Funky Winkerbean, 7/10/21 Hey, do you guys remember Phil Holt, who was (I guess?) a thinly veiled stand-in for Jack Kirby, and who Darrin met at a children’s...
I don't wanna be buried in a bird cemetery
July 9, 2021
Shoe, 7/9/21 A few weeks ago, faithful reader Tabby Lavalamp raised questions in a COTW runner up about why the notoriously heard-hearted Shoe would...
Metapost: COTW? U know it baby
July 9, 2021
Folks, it's that time on a Friday ... time for your comment of the week: "You know what? It's refreshing that Crankshaft spends its time working out obscure...
Wait ... Zane and Abel ... Cain and Abel ... HOLD THE DAMN PHONE
July 8, 2021
Gil Thorp, 7/8/21 Oh, hey, the “spring” storyline in Gil Thorp is still going on [checks notes] several days after the 4th of July, but today’s strip would...
Can't wait for their extremely campy local TV ad
July 7, 2021
Judge Parker, 7/7/21 Ha ha, ever since Sam was supposed to be guarding Randy and Charlotte but got punched into unconsciousness and Randy and Charlotte...
So many horribles
July 6, 2021
Hagar the Horrible, 7/6/21 Ha ha! It's funny because Lucky Eddie has made this same silly dad joke repeatedly, every time Hagar's warband comes to sack this...
Defiant children
July 5, 2021
Family Circus, 7/5/21 Happy 4th of July (Observed), everybody! On this sacred holiday, I have some news for you: The Keane Kids are America. Jeffy, in...
Technically, during the Purge, all crimes are legal, so Thirsty's in the clear
July 4, 2021
Mary Worth, 7/4/21 Not too much to say about Shauna vs. Ashlee: The Rumble At The Clinic For Drew's Love except that the art here genuinely delights me. The...
Really unsettled by the way that coffee is clinging to their cheeks as dark, viscous blobs
July 3, 2021
Funky Winkerbean, 7/3/21 You might recall (or you might not, because why would you, honestly) that “Flash Freeman” and “Ruby Lith” are two unjustly forgotten...
Metapost: Declare independence from the hated King George III with this COTW
July 2, 2021
Whose John Hancock is on this week's top comment? Why, it's Schroduck! "The fact that Marvin wouldn't even use the sudoku brand name but is fine namechecking...
One-panel Friday
July 2, 2021
Bizarro, 7/2/21 Hey, guys! Do you know how amphibians reproduce? In turns out that in a lot of species, the females lay unfertilized eggs in water, and then...
They have identical cups -- do you think they went to the same coffee shop?
July 1, 2021
Six Chix, 7/1/21 Man, I don’t want to contradict this extremely confident-looking woman, but I’m not sure I’d refer to a wound that’s quite clearly gushing...
Wednesday chaos
June 30, 2021
Rex Morgan, M.D., 6/30/21 “Yes, full of surprises. Like remember when we made her start taking the bus to school so she’d get hit by a car and the resulting...
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