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Hell is for children
Premium post · June 9, 2025
Luann, 6/9/25 Back when I was last reading Luann regularly, a decade ago, the whole deal with Toni's niece Shannon was that she was a hellion but that was...
Slenderwilbur will haunt your nightmares
Premium post · June 8, 2025
Mary Worth, 6/8/25 Many of our most beloved deranged Mary Worth storylines end abruptly, with antagonists just straight up driving off a cliff or whatever,...
What's the matter, Hi? Are you afraid of the possibilities
Premium post · June 7, 2025
Hi and Lois, 6/7/25 Years ago, I was doing some PT for a few weeks, and at one of my sessions there was an older guy there who was rehabbing a knee injury,...
Metapost: Junetastic COTW
Premium post · June 6, 2025
Let's roll into summer with the comment ... of the week! "I assume this is the same hardware store where Hi buys his hair fixatives." --Joe Blevins And the...
SHOCKING MARTY MOON MUSTACHE REVEAL!!!!
Premium post · June 6, 2025
Gil Thorp, 6/6/25 Deep in the 2020 pandemic lockdowns, I decided that the dream of the '90s had finally well and truly died, and I shaved off my goatee and...
Josh has questions
Premium post · June 5, 2025
Dennis the Menace, 6/5/25 I know that "ha ha, this little boy is repulsed by the idea of heteronormativity” is one of Dennis the Menace's go-tos, but to do a...
You ever heard of this new thing called "e-commerce," Hi
Premium post · June 3, 2025
Gil Thorp, 6/3/25 I'm really coming to enjoy the on-the-nose "sound effects" that we're getting during sports antics in Gil Thorp. Are "catch," "swipe," and...
I too love it when comics and movies exist. Love those content formats
Premium post · June 2, 2025
Mary Worth, 6/2/25 Did you know that the psychological "fight or flight" response is more accurately called "fight, flight, freeze, or fawn"? I think it...
Mostly kind Sunday
Premium post · June 1, 2025
Crock, 6/1/25 Imagine if you petitioned Almighty God for a full accounting of all the evil you've done in your life. This is information that He, being...
Saturday quickies
Premium post · May 31, 2025
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/31/25 Wait, is something happening in Rex Morgan, M.D.? Is something interesting happening in Rex Morgan, M.D.? Wild. Truly wild....
Metapost: [COTW title goes here]
Premium post · May 30, 2025
[Joke or quip setting up COTW and establishing that the reader has been waiting for it all week goes here] "Mrs Wilson's smiling face makes the gag work....
Did anyone really call him Steve "Guitar" Miller or was that just my dad
Premium post · May 30, 2025
Blondie, 5/30/25 Here's a joke for you: a guy with a master's degree in ancient history and a guy with an MFA in poetry were coworkers once, back in the late...
Crime, love, etc.
Premium post · May 29, 2025
Mother Goose and Grimm, 5/29/25 Look, obviously I'm not asking that a comic strip that deliberately has fun with a character that's in some ways like a...
C3P0 would be a great press secretary, actually
Premium post · May 28, 2025
Dennis the Menace, 5/28/25 When you have a long-running strip like Dennis the Menace, where one of the main characters is a child who never grows up and...
Modern-day foibles
Premium post · May 27, 2025
Herb and Jamaal, 5/27/25 Of the 99 most recent Herb and Jamaal strips I've commented on, all but one have four panels, so I guess the strip is pretty married...
Trouble brewin'
Premium post · May 26, 2025
Mary Worth 5/26/25 OK, sorry, it's very funny that Wilbur's instinct upon stumbling onto this perfectly insane scene is to address not Belle, his...
The hottest frat fads from the early 20th century are back! Up next: phone booth stuffing
Premium post · May 25, 2025
Panel from Slylock Fox, 5/25/25 Every once in a while, I get frustrated with myself for not being able to remember my parents' anniversary, or the names of...
Downer Saturday
Premium post · May 24, 2025
Crankshaft, 5/24/25 The wisteria guy from earlier this week is, as Uncle Lumpy remembers so I don't have to, the former paramour of Lilian's now-deceased...
Metapost: The comments ... they ain't stoppin'
Premium post · May 23, 2025
It's Friday and you know what that means: You can't stop the comment of the week. You can only hope to contain it within this metapost: "I love how fast the...
Carpe diem comics
Premium post · May 23, 2025
Shoe, 5/23/25 This strip would be -- well, not funny, exactly, but it would at least make some sort of sense if the Perfesser was married, which to the best...
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