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The battle of the generations is OVER
Premium post · July 26, 2025
The Lockhorns, 7/26/25 The random, silent bystanders who show up in The Lockhorns represent one of the strip's great mysteries. Like, who is this lady, who...
Metapost: Y'all know what time it is (it is time for the COTW, for the record)
Premium post · July 25, 2025
Are you emotionally and psychologically prepared for this week's comment of the week? I sure hope so, because here it is: "Wizard of Id has succintly...
Sadness, death, etc.
Premium post · July 25, 2025
Beetle Bailey, 7/25/25 This strip is a pretty good demonstration of the fact that comic characters even within the same universe each have their own...
Thursday is for manimals
Premium post · July 24, 2025
Slylock Fox, 7/24/25 I gotta say, it's probably pretty annoying to have to write Slylock Fox at this point, because doing cute little animal mysteries...
I believe in everyone. I believe in you
Premium post · July 23, 2025
Wizard of Id, 7/23/25 I guess in the extremely sketchy world of Wizard of Id characterization, Sir Rodney's whole deal is that he's supposed to be a...
Spiral into madness
Premium post · July 22, 2025
Family Circus, 7/22/25 I frankly am not a fan of the smug looks on Jeffy and Big Daddy Keane's faces here. Oh, you think it's funny to contemplate how...
Monday outrages
Premium post · July 21, 2025
Mother Goose and Grimm, 7/21/25 You all know that "fire hydrants are like toilets, to a dog" is one of my pet peeves, but I frankly find it a million times...
Old age, youth, the past, the present, etc.
Premium post · July 20, 2025
Heathcliff, 7/20/25 I'm a little obsessed with the tiny fish saying "Welcome to the club!" to Jaws. (Side note: Do we agree that the shark from Jaws is named...
Jon minus reasons to live
Premium post · July 19, 2025
Garfield, 7/19/25 True comics internet oldheads remember Garfield Minus Garfield, a webcomic that, as the title implied, took daily Garfield comics in which...
Metapost: You know it, you love it: It's the COTW
Premium post · July 18, 2025
This week's comment of the week comin' at ya ... right now: "I'm really uncomfortable with the way Truck is breaking the fourth wall here. 'Are you this...
Using "game" as a verb is a huge red flag, in my opinion
Premium post · July 18, 2025
Intelligent Life, 7/18/25 Look, buddy, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, also liked to engage in marathon gaming sessions, but he forced his servants to...
OK, to be fair, that's not really GOOD art
Premium post · July 17, 2025
Gearhead Gertie, 7/17/25 Oh, man, the domestic drama in the Gearhead household just gets more fraught! Gertie's husband Harold, in a desperate attempt to...
Wednesday quickies
Premium post · July 16, 2025
Hi and Lois, 7/16/25 Hmm, if you have to apply, it isn't really Trixie's pre-school yet, is it, Hi? Really makes you think (about how modern child-rearing is...
Interpersonal relations and their discontents
Premium post · July 15, 2025
Pardon My Planet, 7/15/25 My least favorite Pardon My Planets (which is really saying something) are the "Ha ha, gender relations, amiright folks?" ones, but...
Somewhere in time
Premium post · July 14, 2025
Andy Capp, 7/14/25 The question of "When does Andy Capp take place" is increasingly fascinating to me -- characters are on modern dating apps but also they...
I guess it could be a "green substance" gun, technically
Premium post · July 13, 2025
Dick Tracy, 7/13/25 It seems that the Dick Tracy time travel plot is now over ... and the Dick Tracy ray gun plot has begun! This is one Dick should have a...
Yet more teen action
Premium post · July 12, 2025
Gil Thorp, 7/12/25 Hey, remember when Keri was in horse therapy, for their eating disorder? Well, big news: they took their horse therapist Britney to prom!...
Metapost: You're commenting. You're commenting all week!
Premium post · July 11, 2025
Your comments were all very funny this week, obviously, but only one comment can be the week's top comment, and here it is: "My little friend is not so...
Indignant Friday
Premium post · July 11, 2025
Rhymes With Orange, 7/11/25 No, see, GoFundMe is the website you use for crowdfunding when you have an unexpected and dire financial emergency of some sort,...
Mostly teen Thursday
Premium post · July 10, 2025
Archie, 7/10/25 I honestly enjoy the fact that some nameless gal is clearly scoping Archie and Reggie out in the first panel, and that Reggie reacts...
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