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"According to YOU" would be a good name for a TV news segment full of wild claims that aren't fact-checked
Premium post · December 9, 2021
Rex Morgan, M.D., 12/9/21 I honestly kind of respect how many no shits this local news crew gives about this extremely pointless segment. Like, normally they...
Sunrise, sunset
Premium post · December 8, 2021
Hi and Lois, 12/8/21 I’m reasonably sure we’ve never actually seen Trixie walking before? It’s 100% appropriate that this is the context in which she takes...
Doorknobs would be right at eye level for Snuffy, I'll give him that
Premium post · December 7, 2021
Rex Morgan, M.D., 12/7/21 So Nancy finally got herself motivated to put an evil scheme in motion, for certain limited definitions of “evil” and “scheme,” and...
New tech for old people
Premium post · December 6, 2021
Crankshaft, 12/6/21 Look, it’s not that I want to be a comics curmudgeon, all the time; sometimes it’s just important to me that comics do a better job of...
Can we just transition this strip entirely to Pierre and Libby being best pals
Premium post · December 5, 2021
Hagar the Horrible, 12/5/21 Yet another example of why the so-called "throwaway" panels at the top of a Sunday strip, which are excised in some paper layouts...
We won't be laughing when the hillbilles conquer us riding their war salamanders
Premium post · December 4, 2021
Mary Worth, 12/4/21 Look, Wilbur, they’re fish. They’re fish! They’re fine, but the gulf between their world and a human’s is much wider than between, say, a...
Metapost: December COTW is go!!!!
Premium post · December 3, 2021
Time keeps on slippin' into the future, and it's now the first comment of the week of the last month of 2021: "For all that Mary talks Wilbur up, she would...
Sad couples Friday
Premium post · December 3, 2021
The Lockhorns, 12/3/21 That’s right, Leroy! Loretta is old enough to remember the golden age of online discourse, when people wrote long essays about...
Bitter old love
Premium post · December 2, 2021
Mary Worth, 12/2/21 “JOSH” I can almost here you yelling, “You haven’t talked about Mary Worth all week! Is there something wrong with Mary Worth, or with...
Dick mostly wants to show off his physique the way a trench coat never could
Premium post · December 1, 2021
Crankshaft and Curtis, 12/1/21 I’m genuinely of the opinion that “gaslighting,” as a word, at one point conveyed a useful concept but has had its impact...
Not sure how jaywalking is defined in a town with no real roads
Premium post · November 30, 2021
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 11/30/21 I'm reasonably sure that I've never seen the blessings of the Anglo-Norman system of trial by jury granted to the...
Yes, yes, their names are "Maggot" and "Grossie," yes, this is terrible beyond words, yes, we all know this
Premium post · November 29, 2021
Crock, 11/29/21 “Hmm,” I bet you’re thinking, “a four-digit number that turns out to be the price in dollars and cents of an entire barrel of wine sure is a...
YES it's the same two comics as yesterday, it's MY BLOG, I do what I WANT
Premium post · November 28, 2021
Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/28/21 If you want the answer to “Why is Rex Morgan boring now” in a nutshell, here it is: one of the strip’s more devious characters has...
The fact that its formerly rigid body bends doesn't even bother me, I'm becoming numb
Premium post · November 27, 2021
Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/27/21 Here’s the thing, folks: I spent a lot of brain power this week remembering the various Funkyverse familial relationships and it’s...
Not sure the <i>Funky</i>verse can resist the temptation to make this a superspreader event
Premium post · November 26, 2021
Hi and Lois, 11/26/21 Almost every family patriarch in a newspaper comic is a baby boomer, with tickets to the original Woodstock in a scrapbook and a disco...
Staring at my mashed potatoes, getting increasingly furious about comics continuity errors around a horny old man
Premium post · November 25, 2021
Funky Winkerbean, 11/25/21 Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! If you’re looking for something to be thankful for, maybe you should give thanks that you don’t...
These delicious muffins will break down her poor victim's resistance
Premium post · November 24, 2021
Dick Tracy, 11/24/21 It really tickles me to think that the various deformed criminals of Dick Tracy have their own fairly normal lives, from which they are...
"Thank goodness we don't have to give her more amnesia!"
Premium post · November 23, 2021
Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/23/21 I think it's completely legit to say, "Hmm, when this strip's child character sold a book for a lot of money to a museum somehow...
Just sittin' on the ol' Viking-on-the-lam bench
Premium post · November 22, 2021
Hagar the Horrible, 11/22/21 Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas famously begins with its main character, Henry Hill, going on at great length about how much fun it...
Better than playing "inhuman wheelbarrow," I guess
Premium post · November 21, 2021
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 11/21/21 Snuffy Smith trufans! Do you want to get hot Snuffy Smith visual content like the turkey in today’s installment?...
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