Your hate just makes Wilbur STRONGER
Mary Worth, 1/23/22 Oh my GOD, the island ISN’T EVEN DESERTED, Wilbur is going to be FINE, just FINE. I don’t want to overstate things, but this is...
Walker-Browne weekend
Hi and Lois, 1/22/22 You have to respect the unspoken shorthand these two best pals share. If they were mere acquaintances, Thirsty would have to do a lot...
Friday mostly quickies
Mary Worth, 1/21/22 Look, would we all be happier if Wilbur were dead? Absolutely. But, things being as they are, can we at least look forward to watching...
How did he lose his shoe and not his glasses???? I hate him
Marvin, 1/20/22 Today’s Marvin is a good Rorschach test for readers. Where did your mind go immediately after reading this? Are you a pedant who looked up...
The only thing more boring than art crime is art perjury
Rex Morgan, M.D., 1/19/22 Well, it looks like Rex has only one chance to stave off total financial annihilation in the Case Of The Intellectual Property...
Did they try to make his eyes kind of sexy? I hate this
Dick Tracy, 1/18/22 Oh, look, everybody, it’s another quick Dick Tracy Minit Mystery, starring [steadfastly refuses to do any actual research on the relative...
HE SHOULDN'T BE ALIVE
Marvin, 1/17/21 Man, say what you will about Marvins where the joke is about pooping or peeing, but at least I have some grip on what’s happening in those...
Crime and punishment
Panel from Slylock Fox, 1/16/22 I just want to offer my 100% unironic appreciation of everything going on in this panel. I love the weird angle we're seeing...
Mostly one-panels
Mother Goose and Grimm, 1/15/22 One of the last pure pleasures of social media is when some bizarre bit of pop culture ephemera from decades past gets...
Metapost: COTW + WILBURMERCH
Folks, do you want to spend seventy-two American dollars for a framed print of the strip where Wilbur Weston may have fallen off a cruise ship to his death?...
"Increase our speed! He's swimming closer!"
Dick Tracy, 1/14/22 When Apple rolled out the Apple Watch in 2015, probably a lot of comics nerds out there were like "Oh, a watch computer that helps you...
Today's Lockhorns is just a joke about Leroy liking TV, I'm not even going to bother with it
Dustin and Funky Winkerbean, 2/13/22 The general vibe of the newspaper comics industry is small-c conservative -- that is, it's mostly created by older...
Pleasure cruise
Pluggers, 1/12/22 At long last, we get an answer to the eternal “what is a plugger?” question, and it’s this: a plugger is anyone who isn’t afflicted with...
It's a big ocean out there, so hear me out: Don't bother looking
Mary Worth, 1/11/22 I've been to Rome twice in my life, in 1999 and 2002, and by an odd coincidence both visits were at the same time as big events for the...
Step out of the shade and into the SUN OF GLORY
Slylock Fox, 1/10/21 This is at least the third time this mystery has appeared in Slylock Fox: it showed up in 2013, with exactly the same art albeit with...
Deadly Sunday
Mary Worth, 1/9/22 Oh, hey, so, uh, Wilbur died, everybody! Wilbur … died? I mean, maybe he didn’t die, I have a hard time believing they’re killing off...
Gross and sad
Marvin, 1/8/22 I know what you’re thinking: How could Jeff possibly be this theatrically disgusted by his dog’s poop, when we know (we know because it’s...
Metapost: Back to the grind, back to the COTW
Folks ... it's your very first comment of the new year! Enjoy! "Grandma holds her spoon the way Mary Worth holds a cell phone. That spoon is going to miss...
ELMO: ORIGINS
Blondie, 1/7/22 If you’re a longtime reader of this blog, you know that Elmo is one of my Blondie obsessions. Who is he? Where are his parents? Why does he...
Bad news Thursday
Crankshaft, 1/6/21 I didn't watch Netflix's Bridgerton, but there was a brief window in late 2020 and early 2021 when online discourse about it was...