Can't stop staring at that blatantly traced grill

$ · May 20, 2023

Blondie and Hi and Lois, 5/20/23 As a participant in the childfree lifestyle, I appreciate what representation I can find in the comics, even if it's just...

Metapost: C! O! T! W!

$ · May 19, 2023

It’s that time of month, y’all … time for the comment of the week! "I see why Jeff bought a much bigger boat. If you want to discuss Wilbur's sex prowess and...

Several opinions from Josh about comic strips

$ · May 19, 2023

Beetle Bailey, 5/19/23 It is of course a long-established joke in Beetle Bailey that Sarge is a cartoonish glutton, but every once in a while they also do a...

Only Thirsty has the wisdom necessary to transcend samsara

$ · May 18, 2023

Dick Tracy, 5/18/23 A question I have often had reason to contemplate is “Who is [any given legacy comic strip still being produced in the year 2023] for,...

It's hard for Mud to think clearly, up there where the oxygen is so thin

$ · May 17, 2023

Gil Thorp, 5/17/23 How is Gil’s arch-rival Luke Hernandez dealing with Gil’s secret baseball weapon, a blind pitcher teaching the Mudlarks to open their...

No Apologies Needed For Being Basic As Hell: The Jeff and Mary Story

$ · May 16, 2023

Mary Worth, 5/16/23 Look, I'm a guy who likes to eat out, and LA has an great food scene with amazing high- and low-end restaurants, but definitely at the...

Also that rocket doesn't have the fuel capacity to reach orbit, like at all

$ · May 15, 2023

Slylock Fox, 5/15/23 I genuinely love the contrast in Max and Sly's affect here, in line with the tale spun by the mystery. Max is just in the midst of a...

Even more sexual Sunday

$ · May 14, 2023

Hi and Lois, 5/14/23 This is truly one of the wildest throwaway panels I’ve ever seen. Readers of space-constrained newspapers are just getting a classic...

Sort of sexual Saturday

$ · May 13, 2023

Shoe, 5/13/23 We talk a lot on here about the Shoe goggle eyes of horror, with the horror in question being experienced by the Shoe character and the goggle...

Metapost: COTW (and virtual laffs only)

$ · May 12, 2023

Folks! Apologies to anyone who had planned to come to the Internet Read Aloud in LA tonight – the theater is having both plumbing and HVAC problems so I had...

The shirt was designed by someone who likes mud as a concept, it's not licensed merch

$ · May 12, 2023

Gil Thorp, 5/12/23 Gil Thorp is notorious for bringing back beloved characters from years past, and so when I recognized Gregg Hamm’s name I was excited to...

The frolicking dolphins are eager to welcome Wilbur to the watery grave he keeps dodging

$ · May 11, 2023

Six Chix, 5/11/23 So the thing about "sudden," as a noun, is that it has completely fallen out of use in English outside the set phrase "all of a sudden,"...

Grim scenes

$ · May 10, 2023

Gil Thorp, 5/10/23 Still not sure what a “Milford juvenile sports program manager” is or does, but apparently it pays pretty well, enough to get a penthouse...

Medical maladies

$ · May 9, 2023

Daddy Daze, 5/9/23 Daddy Daze is one of the more recent additions to my stable of commented upon comics, and yet I have been commenting on it for more than...

(Mostly) soapy Monday

$ · May 8, 2023

Mary Worth, 5/8/23 Welp, looks like Ed and Estelle are happy and Ed’s workplace problems are squared away, and Wilbur is emotionally processing his...

Billy's mustache, Dolly's neck ... it's all very, very wrong

$ · May 7, 2023

Marvin, 5/7/23 Like Hagar the Horrible, Marvin hasn’t exactly introduced a ton of new characters over in recent years. I’m pretty sure “Marty” is new,...

Various types of manimals

$ · May 6, 2023

Daddy Daze, 5/6/23 I definitely wouldn’t say I have a “favorite” Daddy Daze character – why would anyone say that, that would be insane – but I will admit...

Metapost: Laff at comments of the week -- and laff at Josh in person!

$ · May 5, 2023

It's the first Friday of the month again, so you know what that means: we're one week away from the second Friday of the month, the day when The Internet...

Parental-ish fast takes

$ · May 5, 2023

Mary Worth, 5/5/23 Since Dr. Ed's big problem was that he felt terribly overworked, I feel like we're really glossing over what's actually turned his life...

Is this an attempt to make Lute jealous that's gone awry?

$ · May 4, 2023

Hagar the Horrible, 5/4/23 I know it’s a little hypocritical, because I always complain about legacy comics being static and hidebound, but I also am always...

Someone's just gotta hug Rene until he GETS IT

$ · May 3, 2023

Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/3/23 You know, the story of Rene is a true tragedy, and not just because he tried and failed to kill a late-middle-aged man, who then...

Crock is going all "CSI: Sign Handles" over here

May 2, 2023

Crock, 5/2/23 Clearly a lot of Crock strips will have you saying "What on earth is going on here," but today's Crock really has me saying, "No, really, what...

Hank Jr. and Rene didn't drown, everybody, sorry to disappoint

$ · May 1, 2023

Dustin, 5/1/23 A truly incredible thing to keep in mind about Dustin is that it’s a comic that debuted in January 2010, when, in the aftermath of the global...

Rustic Sunday

$ · April 30, 2023

Gasoline Alley, 4/30/23 I thought perhaps we were going to get the beginning of a heartwarming arc where Joel learns to read late in life (hey, it worked for...

Finally, something that makes golf look tolerable

$ · April 29, 2023

Shoe, 4/29/23 Sure, we make fun of legacy strips where the punchline is “Ha ha, technology, amiright?” a lot, but they do serve a valuable purpose, in that...

Metapost: EOM COTW

$ · April 28, 2023

We are slipping one last comment of the week for April under the wire, folks: "It's the icing on the cake! The cake that we'll have for dessert after we kill...

I just ... B.O. Plenty, you guys, I dunno

$ · April 28, 2023

Dick Tracy, 4/28/23 I sort of forgot to mention that it seemed for a minute like the game-themed crime bullshit in Dick Tracy might take a turn into furry...

The answer is "apples," also

$ · April 27, 2023

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 4/27/23 OK, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, I'm all for mixing things up once in a while, but I'm going to have to ask you to...

He named his cat Odin, yet HE wears an eye patch. Ironic

$ · April 26, 2023

Mary Worth, 4/26/23 OK, look, I was willing to accept it when we only got a day of Wilbur singing karaoke while sobbing openly, but now we find out that a...

Soapy Tuesday

$ · April 25, 2023

Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/25/23 I love how exasperated Hank Jr. looks by this turn of events in panel two. "No, it's not that big a deal, he just tried to kill me...

Loretta's sassy lean really sells this

$ · April 24, 2023

The Lockhorns, 4/24/23 Happy Monday, everyone, and it’s a truly happy Monday indeed when the day’s Lockhorns panel features Leroy openly weeping, or at so...

BOATFALL 2: 2 BOAT 2 FALL

$ · April 23, 2023

Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/23/23 Like all industries, the newspaper soap opera strip game is inevitably prone to jealousies and copycat moves when one strip has a...

Happy ... birthday? ... to the earth

$ · April 22, 2023

Six Chix, 4/22/23 I feel like there are few more depressing sentences in the English language than “cake is biodegradable,” which implies that these people...

Metapost: Comments of the week for your delectation

$ · April 21, 2023

This week’s top comment? Is that what you’re after? Well, good news: here it is. "Being presented with 'so many things to do’ and then opting for 'wandering...

Friday quickies

$ · April 21, 2023

Mary Worth, 4/21/23 I'm not at all a person who's in favor of repressing one's feelings, but Wilbur is openly weeping in front of you, Mary! I don't think he...

All your commenting handles are burned into my memory, weirdly

$ · April 20, 2023

Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/20/23 One of my little life problems is that I have an absolutely terrible memory for names, which as you can imagine is often...

Love and vapes

$ · April 19, 2023

Gil Thorp, 4/19/23 Oh, were you upset that Gil Thorp seemed to have dropped the Great Vape Caper storyline? Well, it seems Toby and his pals are still out...

Tuesday is for oldsters

$ · April 18, 2023

Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/18/23 Oh no, Hank Jr. must either give in to that nagging feeling he has about "Dr. Mirakle" and follow that thread no matter how far it...

Ahh, youth!

$ · April 17, 2023

Folks, we need to start off on a sad note: Dennis Lien, who for many years posted in the comments here as shrug, passed away last week under hospice care. He...

In search of lost Dagwoodian time

$ · April 16, 2023

Blondie, 4/16/23 My impression of Blondie and Bumstead’s personal history goes something like this: they has a brief and dissolute young adulthood during the...

Is "gossip fence" the official name? It is now as far as I'm concerned

$ · April 15, 2023

Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/15/23 Aw, shucks, it looks like Dr. Mirakle really is Rene Belluso after all, cleverly disguised via fake eyebrows, though the question...

Metapost: Something exciting .... comedy tonight, COTW today!

$ · April 14, 2023

Folks! TONIGHT the Internet Read Aloud returns to the city of Los Angeles, with a very special guest: Washington Post columnist/Wait Wait Don't Tell Me...

Friday fast takes

$ · April 14, 2023

Hi and Lois, 4/14/23 “I mean, look at these drips! None of them are charismatic or even vaguely attractive, and they’re already in high school and yet have...

"Oh dear" is honestly my reaction to most things that happen in the comics

$ · April 13, 2023

Daddy Daze, 4/13/23 As you know, one of my favorite things to speculate about is the backstory on the relationship between the Daddy Daze daddy and the Daddy...

Rhyming names are my madeleine

$ · April 12, 2023

Mary Worth, 4/12/23 Of the several minimum wage office temp jobs I held between semesters when I was in grad school, probably the best was the summer I spent...

"We do it," Hi says, and everyone knows exactly what he means

$ · April 11, 2023

Gil Thorp, 4/11/23 Oh, gosh, I guess I’ve been failing to keep you informed on Actual Sports Action in Gil Thorp, although obviously you’re fully up to date...

Monday madness

$ · April 10, 2023

Shoe, 4/10/23 I joke about goggle eyes of horror a lot on this site in regards to Shoe but here’s an instance when they’re absolutely justified. Why on earth...

He (Snuffy Smith) Is Risen

$ · April 9, 2023

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 4/9/23 I actually find Sheriff Tait’s expression in the second panel of the middle row quite poignant. Why, he never meant...

Soapy Saturday

$ · April 8, 2023

Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/8/23 Look, Yvonne, either this guy has gone on a journey of personal self discovery that has resulted in the enshittification of his...

Metapost: Comedy pluggin' COTW

$ · April 7, 2023

Folks! One week from today, the Internet Read Aloud returns to the city of Los Angeles, with a very special guest: Washington Post columnist/Wait Wait Don’t...