Metapost: Early mornin' COTW
Rosy-fingered dawn is here, and she’s brought the comment fo the week! "Diane is cosplaying and posing for no one in particular, and the boys are backlit...
Don't let his communist clinic branding fool you: Drew's a class enemy
Gil Thorp, 6/11/21 I guess what’s going on here is that each of the Coaches Thorp is sitting with their own student-athlete in the teen vs. teen’s...
I assume she's at school and not just randomly standing next to a ... credenza ... somewhere?
Hi and Lois, 6/10/21 I was going to go on a riff here about how women are forced to do this carefully calibrated gender performance where if they don’t get...
Finally, we've discovered a conversation duller than talking about your dreams
Crankshaft, 6/9/21 Congratulations to Crankshaft for delivering a strip whose meaning isn't immediately obvious, but in a way that makes it feel like maybe...
Sincerely hope tweens are out there reading "Crankshaft" to their horrified dads in real life
Mary Worth, 6/8/21 An important aspect of the Ashlee plot is that Ashlee didn’t just grow up with bad parents; she’s also currently poor and living in...
Soaps and old people
Mark Trail, 6/7/21 Mark is off battling influencers, and Cherry is about to do battle with an HOA over native plants, so where does that leave Rusty? Well,...
Sunday is for family time!
Dennis the Menace, 6/6/21 Ha ha, it's another Sunday strip where Dennis does some menacing without even showing up! He's interfering with his parents'...
Unnecessarily horny Saturday
Baby Blues, 6/5/21 Imagine that you were on the verge of experiencing some marital intimacy with your husband, when suddenly you realized your cheek was...
Metapost: Come and get it! ("It" here being your COTW)
FOLKS … it’s time again for the comment of the week "In today’s semifinals of the Who Can Pour More Coffee in Their Lap tournament, we see the different...
Bad dad Friday
The Lockhorns, 6/4/21 Having done this blog for many years, I can tell you that there is definitely a weekly rhythm to many of the comics. Hopefully if...
Hotboxing, but for meat smell
Blondie, 6/3/21 THING I LIKE ABOUT TODAY’S BLONDIE: The little anthropomorphic power-lifting mascot for Power Burger, holding aloft a barbell with hamburgers...
Can't tell if running the strip sidewise is supposed to be yet another joke or just annoying
Six Chix, 6/2/21 Sorry, folks, I can’t even deal with the ostensible joke here because of the bird’s use of “peeps” to refer to fellow birds, which is both...
Soapy Tuesday
Mary Worth, 6/1/21 Wow, huh, if you had asked me how this was going to go, I would’ve guessed, at various points over the course of this storyline, first...
Pasta family massacre
Crankshaft, 5/31/21 So Crankshaft has spent the last month dwelling on the Valentine Theater and how the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t done it any favors,...
Wasn't stealing his HEART enough for you???
Mary Worth, 5/30/21 Remembrer, folks: if you’re an attractive older woman who’s hit it off with an age-appropriate man you meet online, that man is...
Saturday quick sadness
Beetle Bailey, 5/29/21 I guess it was probably a colorist’s decision/error, but I am truly tickled by Beetle’s slice of pizza, which appears to be devoid of...
Metapost: Hopefully unmoderated comments of the week
Folks! Your comment of the week in a moment, but speaking of comments ... faithful reader/Joshreads dot com tech guy Adam Norwood updated my server and the...
This Ain't The Spring 2021 Baseball Season Plot of <i>Gil Thorp</i> XXX: A Porn Parody
Gil Thorp, 5/28/21 They say a happy marriage is one where each partner can still surprise the other, and by that definition my longtime partnership with soap...
Crimes of fashion
Mary Worth, 5/27/21 We all frankly know that the intertwined personal and (aspirationally, on both parts) professional relationship between Drew and Ashlee...
Would honestly like it if this conversation clarified who Drew's mother was and what happened to her
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/26/21 So Sarah’s been writing this very long fan letter to Kitty Cop scribe and noted local writer’s block sufferer Kyle Vidpa for a...