Gertie is possibly already drunk. Trouble brewing
Andy Capp, 8/7/25 You would think that Andy sustaining an injury at "punk rock night" would send me down my usual rabbit-hole of "in what year does Andy Capp...
Wednesday quickies
Blondie, 8/6/25 Look, obviously Mr. Dithers is an asshole, but also Dagwood is talking to his wife on speaker while standing like six inches away from...
Can they do telegraphy? I'd like to see the variant they'd do with telegraphy
Herb and Jamaal, 8/5/25 "I guess this would be considered illegal..." Hmm, what's he reading about? Sounds juicy "...if they didn't call it a law." Ah, I get...
Weirdly's logo-portrait is pretty cute honestly
Slylock Fox, 8/4/25 You might remember a few years back when supposed genius entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes started a company called Theranos that could run...
Curtis will be sorry when Barry achieves samsara and he has nobody to harass
Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/3/25 Cody may not be a blood relative to Truck, but they do have stuff in common: they're both musicians, and they're both aficionados of...
What if all the kids at her school are psychic and Olive is just a loser
Mary Worth, 8/2/25 Not sure what's funnier here: That Olive says it's hard to "ignore the critics," as if there's a Yelp category specifically for tweens and...
Metapost: It is time for COTW
No fuss no muss just comment of the week! "Yes, New York City is a dangerous place. Not the people; the inanimate structure of the the city itself is...
All old people problems, this time
Crankshaft, 8/1/25 OK, fine, I guess if I'm doing Crankshaft two days in a row, I will explain why Ed and Jeff were in an airport yesterday: It's because Pam...
Problems of youth, problems of age
Mary Worth, 7/31/25 I guess the "Olive uses her psychic powers to save Mary from certain death” moment was just a prelude to the main plot, "Olive gets...
It's actually short for "Truckington"
Herb and Jamaal, 7/30/25 It seems like just yesterday that Herb stormed into Rev. Croom's office, declaring that he was ambivalent about believing in a...
Comic strip jokes (mostly not funny) (not my jokes, my jokes are all funny)
Beetle Bailey, 7/29/25 There's a lot of Beetle Baileys where the joke is that Sarge has beaten Beetle into an undifferentiated mass of broken limbs and...
Hope Jami gets involved in the underground electronic music scene
Gil Thorp, 7/28/25 There are two types of Gil Thorp summers: the wacky ones, with plotlines like "Kaz punches his way to a bodyguard job for the Rock 'n'...
We know not what may be, and what we may be is smooshed flat
Blondie, 7/27/25 The Blondie creative team has never met a young person that it didn't want to call a lazy sack of shit, but ... I kept waiting for this...
The battle of the generations is OVER
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)
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.
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
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
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
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
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...