Metapost: It is COTWing again
It's your comment of the week, right ... now! "Don't worry folks, this extremely tedious series of strips where Harry smugly inventories his experience as...
Fun fact: I've written 90% of the posts on this blog in pajama pants
Dennis the Menace, 5/7/21 Hello, everyone! Did you know today is No Pants Day, a day when we're all urged to donate unwanted clothes, or give to a charity...
He's not a CHEF like some snooty French rat, no sir
Six Chix, 5/6/21 Folks, Six Chix sure loves its cryptids, and I for one am on board! The strip long dwelled on a single subject: “What if Bigfoot were...
"Human bodies are STILL frail and mortal? What the absolute hell"
Mary Worth, 5/5/21 Say what you will about this "Drew the dissatisfied Instadoc" storyline, but it's been hard to predict its twists and turns! Like, is Drew...
I will never submit to the easy and morally suspect trend of pro-Buckism
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/4/21 A classic Rex Morgan, M.D., trope is when ancillary characters give Rex and his family free stuff for no good reason -- clothes,...
The not particularly dangerous game
Dennis the Menace, 5/3/21 Man, clearly the menace here is not Dennis, who's merely playfully experimenting with the results of intensifying ontological...
Marvin's grandparents are not in evidence, so it must be a Logan's Run-type future
Mary Worth, 5/2/21 I am honestly not sure where this is going, by which I mean that I am honestly not sure how stupid we’re supposed to think Dr. Drew is!...
One-panel Saturday
Mother Goose and Grimm, 5/1/21 Hey there! Did it ever occur to you, in your (I assume) decades of reading the syndicated newspaper comic strip Mother Goose...
Metapost: COTW WOOOOO
Hell yeah it’s your comment of the week! "This plugger seems to be jiggling both the toilet handle and his genitals simultaneously. And both for the same...
Why pay for a sitter when the docents will keep Dennis from killing himself for free, probably?
Dennis the Menace, 4/30/21 I spent way too long trying to parse Henry and Alice’s facial expressions and how they line up with Dennis’s tattletale claim to...
"Oh, whoops, I dropped my stethoscope. You're probably wondering why I own one of these, huh?"
Mary Worth, 4/29/21 There’s a lot of suspension of disbelief that goes into enjoying a comic strip like Mary Worth, and sometimes I can pull it off and...
Love, death, and lies
Mother Goose and Grimm, 4/28/21 Ha ha, it's funny because Grimm wants to murder a cat! No, wait ... it's funny because ... Grimm is doing mafia cosplay, and...
DREWFLUENCER
Mary Worth, 4/27/21 Oh man, I honestly don't know where this is going exactly but I'm very excited about it. I think every soap strip should do a storyline...
The thrill (of kidnapping) is gone
Judge Parker, 4/26/21 Oh, hey, remember when Sam got kidnapped a couple of years ago? Well, kidnapped might be a kind of strong word for it. Yes, he was...
Childhood trauma
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/25/21 Two things amused me very much about today’s Rex Morgan. The first is how Rex immediately moves to ensure that Kyle Vidpa, a man...
Saturday quickies
Crock, 4/24/21 Man, I really respect how tired they made Maggot look in the final panel here. “Won’t beer cans explode? [extremely heavy sigh] Get it?...
Metapost: [extremely "Y'all ready for this" voice] Y'all ready for COTW
What's that? You are ready for your comment of the week? Well, good news, here it is! "Mary gave me enough of her delicious turkey stew for days! Every day...
Not even going to try to parse the wordplay on that AA sign
Funky Winkerbean, 4/23/21 When I wrote about the many different strategies comic strip artists were taking to address (or not) the coronavirus pandemic, one...
Maybe the weight-lifting lady should give the jump-rope lady some more space, just a suggestion
The Lockhorns, 4/22/21 As usual, I admire the craftsmanship that went into today’s Lockhorns. It would be easy to have the panel just consist of Loretta...
The phrase "ear mite" jumped into my mind. Is this a real thing that lives in human ears? Don't know and don't care to find out
Slylock Fox, 4/21/21 Man, usually even the non-Slylockverse Slylock Fox True or False strips involve, like, animal facts of some kind. Yes, it’s technically...