Some might say the mythological Icarus loved the joy of flying a little too much
Archie, 5/22/25 I dunno, Jughead, that looks more like blood to me. Presumably the LORD will be passing through to smite all those who harbor Archie in their...
Are his wish-granting capabilities all sunflower-focused
Heathcliff, 5/21/25 Real heads who read Heathcliff daily know that most weeks have a theme of some sort -- "dirt week", "garbage week", and so forth. This...
Sitcom-adjacent jokes
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/20/25 On Sunday, June got the mail, and told her sons that the family had gotten a wedding invite, and they were like "You get free cake...
Crime and/or punishment
Hagar the Horrible, 5/19/25 I really appreciate how chill Hagar is about his own prosecution here. Based on the wigs, he's probably being tried for his...
Bleak Sunday
Shoe, 5/18/25 You know I'm a fan of the depressing Shoe strips where either the Perfesser or Skyler is sitting in the living room chair and the other one has...
Current and future ghosts
The Phantom, 5/17/25 One of the key ongoing dramas of The Phantom is the question of what woman will contribute her genetic material to the ongoing Phantom...
Metapost: May flowers COTW
Spring has sprung (not eligible in all areas), and now it's time for the comment of the week! "YES! The grueling, meaningless life uneventful!! That's the...
Speaking affectionately ill of the dead
Dick Tracy, 5/16/25 The current Dick Tracy story wrapped up with our criminals fleeing from the cops and in the process conveniently getting into a terrible...
Thursday is for little games and tasks
Hi and Lois, 5/15/25 Sorry, Hi: today's teens would never try to read something and listen to something else simultaneously. Instead, they focus all their...
Wednesday quickies
Mary Worth, 5/14/25 Wilbur appears to be smiling guilelessly, but he has to know at some level that this conversation is not going great. That's why he's...
Tuesday is for death
B.C., 5/13/25 Remember a few months ago, when I criticized Mother Goose and Grimm for doing a take on the classic Far Side "I'm a cowboy!” vulture joke that...
Fish fancy? These fish certainly aren't
Pluggers, 5/12/25 Man, the facial expressions in this one really make it, and by "make it" I mean "make it clear what a grim marital scene these two will be...
Dagwood's "waiter routine" involves delivering one (1) cup of coffee
Family Circus, 5/11/25 My favorite part of this strip about a husband taking exactly one day to help with the domestic labor his wife does all year is how,...
Saturday quickies
Mary Worth, 5/10/25 God, I really want to hear the withering contempt Dawn is putting on the word "love" here, which is being conveyed orthographically by...
Metapost: Slightly late COTW
"Oh no!" you've probably been thinking. "It's getting pretty late in the day! Where's the comment of the week? Where's Josh? Has he forsaken us, for our...
Young love and/or kerchiefs
Dustin, 5/9/25 It's a little weird writing a blog about the relatively small world of the syndicated newspaper comics, because I know for sure that many of...
Tomato sauce is vegan, Mary, c'mon
Mary Worth, 5/8/25 Say what you will about Mary, but she is the master of manners, and one of the keys to having good manners is that if you can't say...
Pride, the fall, and so forth
Heathcliff, 5/7/25 The thing about Heathcliff is that he should be dominant in any situation in which he finds himself, either having established himself as...
Amusing teen Tuesday
Luann, 5/6/25 Luann is perennially on its weird psychosexual bullshit -- Luann and Phil, who are college-aged adults, have already smooched but somehow Luann...
Do people not get what the "anonymous" part of the name means anymore or what
Gil Thorp, 5/5/25 Hey, remember when we met Marty's AA pal, "Clam," and I said, "Ha ha, wouldn't it be funny if that was the same person as Clambake, the guy...