Friday romance (?)
Blondie, 4/3/26 I regret to inform you that Dagwood and Blondie's daughter is dating a guy with broccoli hair now. Also she's doing "healthy lifestyle...
Jamaal's actually working, someone has to while Herb ruminates endlessly
Luann, 4/2/26 "Oh my gosh," you're probably thinking. "Is Luann, the wildly ribald but perversely sexless comic strip about college students, implying that...
April Fool's Comics
Family Circus, 4/1/26 Happy April Fool's day, everybody! As I've noted over the last few years, the "trick" the passage of time has played on me is my...
Iudex Parker (only real late antiquity heads will get this one)
Judge Parker, 3/31/26 Ha ha, has this ever happened to you? After generations of coexistence with increasingly tame horses, your tribe of steppe pastoralists...
Gonna need a good editor to put this Nitrate back together
Pluggers, 3/30/26 Wait, so we're saying that pluggers ... don't like sports? Watching the wildly popular NCAA basketball tournament is non-plugger behavior?...
Also, did he sleep sitting up or what
Beetle Bailey, 3/29/26 The last panel here fills me with nothing but contempt. Apparently the only way they could think of to visually drive home that Sarge...
The great outdoors
Mary Worth, 3/28/26 OK, fine, "Trixie" successfully scammed Harvey out of a six-figure amount, which we do not condone. But, does Harvey need that money,...
Metapost: Slightly late real quick COTW
It's the comment of the week! It's here! "Ever notice that Blondie's chair (the one she's always doing sudoku puzzles in while facing away from everyone and...
Just kidding, I regret nothing as usual
Hi and Lois, 3/27/26 A thing about Hi and Lois and comic strip time that you really have to keep in mind is that Hi and Lois has been in newspapers with...
If Alexander took his place, would anyone even notice
Blondie, 3/26/26 Every once in a while, you get a hint that Alexander is recapitulating many of his father's most distinctive traits. This makes sense, as...
Facial expression theater
Crankshaft, 3/25/26 I like the combination of Crankshaft's dopey smile and Keesterman's look of genuine concern in the final panel. Consistently misspeaking...
Walker-Browne Tuesday (warfighters only)
Hagar the Horrible, 3/24/26 I make a lot of jokes on this blog parsing various anachronistic clues trying to figure out where Hagar and his crew are...
Surely a man so lavishly dressed has ample resources to survive this error
Mary Worth, 3/23/26 One of my favorite books of the last 10 years is Because Internet, which focuses on how the internet has changed language use but has a...
Spring keeps on springin'
Blondie, 3/22/26 The saddest part of this strip is the throwaway panel, which reveals that Blondie has a whole spring cleaning bit lined up to unleash on her...
Downer Saturday
Mary Worth, 3/21/26 "My heart ... my delicate heart ... too weak to fly to see my injured beloved. Time to heal myself using the best technique known to man:...
Metpost: Friday is for comments (of the week)
Well, well, well ... looks like it's that time again ... comment of the week time, that is: "I, for one, always type my scam emails with my fingers held...
"Unease" is one of my main emotional modes, not gonna lie
Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/20/26 One of the special interest rabbit holes I've gone down in the past few years is the history of the composition of the Bible, and...
Distasteful Thursday
Mary Worth, 3/19/26 Say what you will about the evil gangs that are keeping "Trixie" captive in a Cambodian compound, but you have to respect that they let...
Cranky Wednesday
Hi and Lois, 3/18/26 Look, we're all adults here. Well, maybe some of you are weird kids with grown-up taste in ironic internet websites, I don't know, but...
MidMarch follies
Dick Tracy, 3/17/26 Welp, the huge prison riot/jailbreak in Dick Tracy is winding down, with a lot of bad guys on the loose but the authorities regaining...