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Walker-Browne-Wilbur alliance
$ · May 26, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/26/24 Jesus, Wilbur, did you ever think that Willa has probably even more reason to mourn than you do, and you've never tried to reach out to...
A good joke spoiled
$ · May 25, 2024
Dustin, 5/25/24 Syndicated newspaper comic strip creators love golf for some accursed reason, but I have to say that they're generally pretty good about only...
Metapost: C to the O to the T to the W
$ · May 24, 2024
Enjoy your weekend in the humorous glow of this week's top comment! "Justin is doing his own thing, as always? No. I don't believe it. Oh, wait ... a lava...
Honh honh honh
$ · May 24, 2024
Between Friends, 5/24/24 For my sins, I must occasionally fulfill my oath and keep you up to date on the Between Friends gals, so: the dark-haired Between...
Can this blue-collar/white-collar romance last???? Haha jk I don't actually care
$ · May 23, 2024
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/23/24 This week we've been getting a little catchup on what the ancillary Rex Morgan characters have been up to, and it's mostly pretty...
How old is the youngest person alive who knows what the "cola wars" were
$ · May 22, 2024
Pardon My Planet, 5/22/24 As a hopeless Coke Zero addict, I of course respect any monument to those who fought and died in the name of delicious soda pop....
Josh reads the implications
$ · May 21, 2024
Blondie, 5/21/24 The implication here is that Dagwood has been home for hours while letting his latest workplace blunder marinate in his mind, only having...
This has huge implications for what "half-assed" means
$ · May 20, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/20/24 Yeah, sorry I didn't talk about Wilbur making a beautiful flowered coffin for his dead fish Stellan Sunday, but I just sort of stared at...
YHWH cares nothing for the Great Egg from which we hatched
$ · May 19, 2024
Panel from Slylock Fox, 5/19/24 Now, you all know that I am a fan of Reeky Rat trailer park disputes and have been for a very long time, but it's still nice...
Death and rock
$ · May 18, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/18/24 Remember when we learned that Old Man Wynter purchased a headstone for his dog that was significantly larger than the one he bought for...
Metapost: May mid-month comments of the mweek
$ · May 17, 2024
Your week's top comment is here, let its hilarious glow take you through the weekend! "You're a plugger if you plan both your day and night around abusing a...
There was no tobacco in biblical times, what a sad blunder
$ · May 17, 2024
Gasoline Alley, 5/17/24 OK, see, I get that Assistant Mayor Elbert Imeswine was the villain of the "Electric Acres" arc, but he doesn't seem to be based on...
Sorry about pretty much all of this
$ · May 16, 2024
Pluggers, 5/16/24 The caption is basic down-home folksiness combined with "pluggers are always hungry," but the facial expression on the man-bear plugger...
Josh grumps out
$ · May 15, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/15/24 Oooh, look everyone, Mary Worth is doing a bit where Wilbur is shouting "Stella!" like Stanley from A Streetcar Named Desire, except it's...
Ancient ways, modern art
$ · May 14, 2024
Gasoline Alley, 5/14/24 Ha ha yes, last week I had some fun imagining Walt encountering some biblically accurate angels, but this week Walt is has entered a...
Nightmarish Monday
$ · May 13, 2024
Daddy Daze, 5/13/24 One of the most fascinating and bonkers "big ideas" books of the '70s was The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral...
Walker-Browne quickies
$ · May 12, 2024
Hi and Lois, 5/12/24 The "joke" of today's strip is that the Flagston children have announced that their mother now has to share Mother's Day with their...
MOTHERS ARE GREAT, I LOVE MOTHERS, THEY DESERVE ONLY THE BEST
$ · May 11, 2024
Blondie, 5/11/24 Look, obviously saying anything against mothers and motherhood is a swift ticket to getting abruptly cancelled -- and rightfully so! [laughs...
Metapost: The comments, the comments ... they're good
$ · May 10, 2024
There were many comments this week, but to me, this one was tops: "Ha, look at that sad look on Lois' face, she knows that Ditto will indeed be following in...
The fish are the new Adam and Eve
$ · May 10, 2024
Beetle Bailey, 5/10/24 The thing I like about this strip is how numb Sarge looks in the second panel. He scarfed down two plates full of burgers and fries...
Family life
$ · May 9, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/9/24 Dawn is reconnecting with her Connecticut WASP mother by attempting to enjoy high-prestige social pursuits like the ballet. Wilbur,...
Neologistic nights
$ · May 8, 2024
Tina's Groove, 5/8/24 So Tina's Groove is one of the "new" comics I've been reading lately, though in the interest of total accuracy I should note that these...
Big developments, for certain definitions of "big"
$ · May 7, 2024
Shoe, 5/7/24 A classic Shoe bit is to use the structure of a test question at Skyler's school to deliver a bad joke, even though the result is a test...
Hagar [experiences] the Horrible [way to die]
$ · May 6, 2024
Gil Thorp, 5/6/24 Milford has its own Native American reservation and, we learn today, its own institution of higher learning. Soon, having accrued all the...
Mostly Walker-Browne Sunday
$ · May 5, 2024
Hi and Lois, 5/5/24 I guess the point of this strip (to the extent that any given Hi and Lois comic can be said to have a "point") is to shore up the Walker-...
Josh gets critical
$ · May 4, 2024
Daddy Daze, 5/4/24 Look, I'm just going to say it: I find the Daddy Daze baby, with his fixed, manic smile, his uncanny ability to move about and manipulate...
Metapost: Comments, we get comments (of the week)
$ · May 3, 2024
cotw COTW COTW COTW! "Amen, sister. Don't we all wish we were Kristy? I have no idea what this is about, and I don't care: being Kristy just seems right."...
That's his "decoy wallet"
$ · May 3, 2024
Judge Parker, 5/3/24 Hey, guys, remember Pavel, a Russian crime boss and the first interesting new character Judge Parker introduced in years? In the old...
All of his "adventure stories" involve almost dying on a cruise ship
$ · May 2, 2024
Shoe, 5/2/24 Yeah, man. Giant bird with prehensile hands and opposable thumbs? Wears clothes and plays guitar? Not part of any Earthly biome I'm familiar...
It came from the deep (erotically)
$ · May 1, 2024
Pardon My Planet, 5/1/24 I don't generally have anything nice to say about Pardon My Planet, but I will say this: this lady (I think the Pardon My Planet...
Filmmakers ... always trying to create "drama"
$ · April 30, 2024
Gil Thorp, 4/30/24 This week in Gil Thorp we've learned that star Mudlark pitcher Leo Atazhoon is Native American (this may actually not be new info but...
Monday quickies
$ · April 29, 2024
Mary Worth, 4/29/24 Nothing but respect for this old man, who continues to mentally use some truly obscene epithet to refer to Wilbur even while...
Mostly thowaways
$ · April 28, 2024
Panels from Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 4/28/24 Remember the "30-50 feral hogs" guys? He briefly amused Twitter in 2019 when he demanded to know how he...
From hell's heart, I stab at thee
$ · April 27, 2024
Gil Thorp, 4/27/24 I'm not sure what the current consensus on how to win over the teenage kids of the divorced dad you're currently fucking, but bribing them...
Metapost: It's all happening, COTW-wise
April 26, 2024
This week's top comment -- ta da! "It's not enough that Zak is a gorilla. He is an ugly gorilla. Man, that Wilbur is a master of nuance." --Bob Tice And the...
Quicksand isn't real, also, but we don't have time to go into that
$ · April 26, 2024
Suburban Fairy Tales, 4/26/24 Suburban Fairy Tales is one of the new strips I've been reading, and it's a basically funny and enjoyable strip about cute...
Slouching Towards Charterstone
$ · April 25, 2024
Mark Trail, 4/25/24 Mark, I don't know if I'd trust a horse with my life in this scenario. Have you ever seen a horse race? They're just running in circles,...
This strip is NOT sponcon, I'd respect it more it more if it were
$ · April 24, 2024
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/24/24 OK, fine, I admit it, I'm a hypocrite: after many years of complaining that Rex Morgan, M.D., doesn't do high-stakes medical drama,...
Vote early, vote often
$ · April 23, 2024
Blondie, 4/23/24 Good lord, when's the last time Blondie introduce a new character? Even Elmo has been around since at least 1954. Despite [gestures vaguely...
Beasts, beast-men, Wilbur, etc.
$ · April 22, 2024
Pluggers, 4/22/24 John Cougar Mellencamp sits at the intersection of plugger and poet, and I have long believed that "Life goes on/ long after the thrill of...
Iris and Zak 100% will not notice if Wilbur stops talking or just leaves
$ · April 21, 2024
Mary Worth, 4/21/24 You'd think that boxing talk combined with Wilbur going into a traumatized fugue state would be a perfect opportunity for a return of the...
More like Hi and Bankrupt, amiright
$ · April 20, 2024
Between Friends, 4/20/24 Not to sound like the old person that I literally am, but TV used to be a lot fewer two-hour movie premises stretched out over eight...
Metapost: The week's top comments ... you want 'em, we got 'em
$ · April 19, 2024
Your COTW is right here, right now! "Hey guys, an app that can load the dishwasher is called a robot. How soon we forget the tropes of yesteryear."...
STOP THE MADNESS
$ · April 19, 2024
Dennis the Menace, 4/19/24 There's been a disturbing trend lately of Dennis the Menace panels where Dennis doesn't figure into the gag at all, even as unseen...
Think of the perfectly good car rendered useless for this little gimmick
$ · April 18, 2024
Six Chix, 4/18/24 I'll freely admit that I find floating Poseidon here very charming, with his cheery attitude and his whole ... diaper? situation and a...
Cyber-Wednesday
$ · April 17, 2024
Blondie, 4/17/24 Most Blondie strips aren't exactly Shakespeare, but there's usually ... a recognizable jokes? A punchline? People are way too ready to say...
Walker-Browne transcendence
$ · April 16, 2024
Hi and Lois, 4/16/24 Lois's book group used to be the fun kind, where she and her friends would use the vague excuse of literary pretension to get extremely...
The surreal and the terrifying
$ · April 15, 2024
Alice, 4/15/24 I'm happy to report that, sine I started reading Alice a few weeks ago, I have fallen thoroughly, 100% under its spell. This strip takes...
Ominous soapers
$ · April 14, 2024
Mary Worth, 4/14/24 Are you feeling down, my friends? Depressed? Abandoned? Do you worry that nobody loves you, simply because, in many ways both large and...
Saturday is for the children
$ · April 13, 2024
Hi and Lois, 4/13/24 Two things you have to keep in mind when reading today's Hi and Lois: (a) despite my many jokes about how Trixie is an eternal baby...
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