Sorry, Leroy, but: ya burnt. Ya undeniably burnt
Dick Tracy, 5/25/21 Wow, who could've possibly predicted that taking a protectee who already faced one assassination to the theater would've been a bad idea?...
Kids today! They aren't great
Blondie, 5/24/21 Ha ha, the kids today! Always getting on the online and becoming millionaires! It's almost unfair! Used to be you could get rich doing a...
TRY to tell me it makes sense, I DARE you
Dustin, 4/23/21 So the last time I tackled wordplay in a Sunday Dustin comic strip lots of people got mad at me because apparently they think hanger and...
Sadly, there is no vaccine against the various bird diseases you'll catch
Shoe, 5/22/21 Syndicated newspaper comics are, generally speaking, a relic from an earlier age, when there were only three TV networks and the goal for most...
Metapost: Well the weeks keep coming and the comments keep coming
What's the sound? It's the C to the O to the T to the W! "Mary would rather tsk, tsk about the wild, sexy girl on a bad path than watch the magnificent pod...
Lucky Eddie's Continuing Cryptid Adventures
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 5/21/21 Ha ha! It's funny because Orville in his grief has been forced to part with his ancestral home, his one asset that...
It's quite harrowing to see what comic artists think a handsome man looks like
Mother Goose and Grimm, 5/20/21 I’ve mocked them over the years, but I have come to respect the humble comics colorists as a vital part of the operation on...
Wednesday quickies
Mary Worth, 5/19/21 “I certainly would not have formed a romantic liaison with this family had I known about the lapses in judgement lurking in your...
Mary begins to look ill -- but this time it's not from seasickness
Mary Worth, 5/18/21 Look, I don’t ask for much in this life, and maybe I’m being greedy for wanting anything beyond Jeff hearing Mary’s story and reacting...
Just get a normal damn phone, Dick
Dennis the Menace, 5/17/21 Look, the only time I want Dennis to say "Now he's studyin' for the bar” as a punchline is if he's repeating some crack from his...
Josh gives up, mostly
Marvin, 5/16/21 I was going to go on a real sarcastic riff here about how great it was that comics were a rich, visual medium so that we could get literally...
IT BEGINS
Mary Worth, 5/15/21 When’s the last time Mary had the mission of actually nipping a relationship in the bud? I don’t know if she ever has! Once, long ago, a...
Metapost: Mid-May COTW
Please enjoy the follow comment, deemed by me to be of the top quality! "There is a pill for writer's block. It's called benzedrine and about half of the...
Once we're done with COVID, writer's block is next on the list, we swear
Funky Winkerbean, 5/14/21 Just to bring you up to date on what's happening in Funky Winkerbean: Harry's attempt to raise money for new choir robes using his...
Are the Milfordians branching out to new restaurants, or did the Bucket finally decide its name was too dumb and needed a rebrand
Gil Thorp, 5/13/21 It’s always fun to learn something new about a medium you’ve written about for years, which is why last weekend I followed with interest...
A Greek chorus of vague concern
Gil Thorp, 5/12/21 Today’s a great day in Gil Thorp for groups of three Mudlarks experiencing approximately the same emotion! Panel two is easy to parse:...
Eyes empty of thought or moral agency
Beetle Bailey, 5/11/21 As recently noted, Zero’s one-dimensional characterization has in the past decade or so shifted from “is very stupid” to “is a very...
Soapy Monday
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/10/21 As the world’s greatest newspaper comics strip blogger and also a narcissist, I often just kind of assume that stuff in the comics...
Sunday quickies (mostly yelling)
Crankshaft, 5/9/21 “He says that right before someone burns down a building for the insurance money. Happens more often than you’d think! Anyway, that...
Spys like her
Judge Parker, 5/8/21 You ever spend like 15 minutes of your day staring at a comic strip character's ear? Zooming in on the image file while yelling...