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4/20 TRY TO EXPLAIN IT
April 20, 2021
Judge Parker, 4/20/21 Hey, kids, it’s 4/20, and you know what that means: time to get high (IF THAT’S LEGAL IN YOUR JURISDICTION, CAN’T EMPHASIZE THAT...
Some Cory Evening
April 19, 2021
May Worth, 4/19/21 Oh, wow, I don’t think we’ve ever seen Dr. Jeff’s distinguished McMansion before, have we? Generally, Mary prefers her cozy condo to the...
Youth wasted on the young
April 18, 2021
Panel from The Lockhorns, 4/18/21 So … is Loretta over there audibly lying about her age to those women? Or is this just how Leroy strikes up conversations...
Crickfluencer
April 17, 2021
Mark Trail, 4/17/21 You know, one thing I didn’t really like about the first plot of new-look Mark Trail was that it lacked truly cartoonishly hateable...
Metapost: Comments? Comments!
April 16, 2021
Folks, here it is: your comment of the week! "OK men, welcome to our daily socially-distanced, FaceTime happy hour! You know the drill: Get those...
Dr. Drew needs his place in the sun!
April 16, 2021
Mary Worth, 4/16/21 Oh, now we're getting to what Dr. Jeff really means when he says Dr. Drew seems "dissatisfied with life" even though he hasn't actually...
One-panel Thursday
April 15, 2021
Family Circus, 4/15/21 Many years ago, I was going through customs at Boston Airport, and one of the customs inspectors had an extremely cute beagle on a...
Somehow this is even less forgivable than if Jeffy did it
April 14, 2021
Mary Worth, 4/14/21 Ahh, I love to savor the early days of a new Mary Worth storyline, when it's still full of promise and potential and we can fool...
Funkyblood for the Funkygod
April 13, 2021
Beetle Bailey, 4/13/21 I'm reasonably sure that Zero's original one-note Beetle Bailey character definition was "is stupid," but apparently at some point...
Forward movement
April 12, 2021
Mary Worth, 4/12/21 Finally, finally, we are blessedly moving on from Saul and Eve's emotional process and starting a new storyline in Mary Worth, and hell...
Generational strife
April 11, 2021
Dustin, 4/11/21 Not sure what makes me madder here: that Dustin produces this massive hanger-tangle out of nowhere; that this comic’s writer has apparently...
Love and therapy
April 10, 2021
Mother Goose and Grimm, 4/10/21 I’m old enough to get the why of it, but it’s genuinely funny to me that “flatscreen” is used as a shorthand for a certain...
Metapost: Comedy (again) and COTW (always)
April 9, 2021
Folks! Don't forget that tonight at 6 pm Pacific/9 pm Eastern, the Internet Read Aloud returns to your Zoom machines! This show's performers include: Atlanta...
[beep boop] WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED POOP [bleeep]
April 9, 2021
Marvin, 4/9/21 Since the earliest days of machines that seemed like they could think like human beings, human beings have worried about being replaced by...
Oh, there's an actual joke in Dennis the Menace today? Hadn't noticed
April 8, 2021
Dennis the Menace, 4/8/21 I’ve always thought Dennis’s affinity for Westerns, a genre very popular among children when this strip began and almost unknown to...
As a former library employee, first of all: How dare you
April 7, 2021
Daddy Daze, 4/7/21 A thing that irritates me and probably nobody else in storytelling is when the protagonist has to solve some central mystery and for most...
Rex is stealing Tralian valor
April 6, 2021
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/6/21 Sarah may have forgotten all her magical art skills due to her amnesia, but at least she still has the vague notion that artists use...
No exit (from the food court)
April 5, 2021
Dennis the Menace, 4/5/21 I like that these two kids and their moms have similar facial expressions, as if both pairs were mirror images of one another. In...
That's the last life-sized snork in North America, you incompetent beasts
April 4, 2021
Panel from Slylock Fox, 4/4/21 This is not the first time that Slylock Fox has done a strip where the “solution” is “fans don’t actually lower temperature,...
American madness
April 3, 2021
Blondie, 4/3/21 Not sure why but I’m very fixated on the choice to do a pink-to-blue gradient in the background here. Specifically, I’m very curious as to...
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