Metapost: You know it, you love it: It's the COTW
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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...
Norse interlude
Judge Parker, 7/9/25 Oh, I guess I forgot to mention that the cushy jobs Sophie and Reena got managing Sophie's boyfriend's family's charitable foundation...
Go East, Perpetually 60-Year-Old Woman
Mary Worth, 7/8/25 "God damn it," you've probably said to yourself, repeatedly over the past few months, "Are we going to get a non-Weston recurring...
I guess Marvin never inheriting money is something to cheer for
Luann, 7/7/25 Hey kids, we all love Wilbur, the sad loser who has an off-putting relationship with his fish. But did you know there's another such person in...
Old age, youth, and so forth
Crock, 7/6/25 I like the fact that Crock reruns are keeping their publication year in the strip now because you can tell exactly the era that created the...
The emperor does have clothes, but they are stinky
Luann, 7/5/25 Many dads enjoy drinking coffee out of mugs that declare them to be the "World's Best Dad" or "#1 Dad" or the like, generally purchased for...
Metapost: Comments bursting in air
OK, sorry, I missed dawn's early light, even on the West Coast, but here is your comment of the week nonetheless: "Is Dr. Jeff's 'again’ meant to indicate...
U-S-A! U-S-...A?
Dennis the Menace, 7/4/25 Kind of wild that Mrs. Wilson is waking her husband up by telling him not what time it is, but what day it is, implying that he's...
I've seen the future and it is on a single story
Gearhead Gertie, 7/3/25 I am if nothing mercurial, and do you know what I've decided? I like the Gearhead Gerties where the focus is on Gertie's perpetually...
Is "Sunbeam" distinct from the Sun itself, I guess is the relevant question
Beetle Bailey, 7/2/25 Longtime readers know that one of my minor Beetle Bailey fixations is that Miss Buxley's classic little black dress is actually a...