Suburban ennui
Hi and Lois, 4/7/25 Ah hell yeah, Hi and Lois is at it again, with "it" being a mostly punchline-free strip about the formless but omnipresent disquiet in...
When you get peeled in a dream, you get peeled in real life
The Phantom, 4/6/25 One thing I respect about the Phantom is that, for a strip that started out with a fairly dubious colonialist attitude, it now makes a...
Don't really like that Snuffy and Granny Creeps are just kind of friends now. Seems wrong
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 4/5/25 Wow, I had always assumed that Hootin' Holler was cut off from outside civilization to the extent that it's blessedly...
Metapost: It's Friday, time for the [bursts into song] comment of the WEEEEEEK
That's right! Enjoy your COTW, right here, right now! "No, I don't mean your face is familiar from the radio, you nitwit. I recognize you as the man who...
Friday is for Pop(s)
Beetle Bailey, 4/4/25 That's right, Zero! Article 17 of the Third Geneva Convention establishes that POWs are only required to give their name, rank, and...
Daddy-daughter Thursday
Mary Worth, 4/3/25 The thing about Belle is that frankly nobody is operating on her level, at least not yet, and that makes her extremely dangerous. Look at...
Yeah, I'm using brand names and generics interchangeably. Deal with it
Shoe, 4/2/25 You know, I was going to joke here about how the snuggie's brief moment as a cultural sensation came and went in 2009, which I regret to inform...
Time makes fools of us all
Blondie and Hi and Lois, 4/1/25 I know I'm "old" and "out of touch," but I always thought April Fool's Day was about cruel pranks. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe...
Read to the end of this post for a surprise! (The surprise is butts)
Luann, 3/31/25 So last week's "Brad and Toni are trying to have a baby and it's making their sex life miserable” riff ended with the two of them (on TJ's...
Metapost: Safe and sound COTW
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Maybe he's just very sleepy. From all the stalking
Panel from Slylock Fox, 3/30/25 This is at least the second time that Slylock Fox has proposed the old "one person divides, the other chooses" solution to...
One-ish panel Saturday
Six Chix, 3/29/25 Look, man, everyone claims to love mermaids in theory, but a chimeric monster that's half mammal, half fish was not meant to swim in the...
Housewives ... cooking steak? This I gotta see
Blondie, 3/28/25 There is, as is often the case with Blondie, a Lot Going On Here, but let's not sleep on the TV announcer appearing to react to Dagwood's...
Spring has sprung
Family Circus, 3/27/25 I'm not entirely sure what this is even supposed to mean, but I guess it has to do with the fact that Big Daddy Keane can do math...
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Meditations on aging, plus [extremely heavy sigh] Wilbursex
Gil Thorp, 3/26/25 A thing about getting old that is absolutely a cliche but also 100% true AND also something that you can't really understand until you...
Time keeps on slipping
Marvin, 3/25/25 "Wow," many of my longtime readers have no doubt concluded, "So Josh makes money by flying into a rage whenever the comic strip Marvin does...
Jokes, drugs, etc.
Mother Goose and Grimm, 3/24/25 One of my favorite terms of art from the world of standup comedy is "street joke." A street joke is a joke a comic tells on...
Metapost: WOOO COTW WOOOO
YEAH BOY IT'S TIME FOR THE COMMENT OF THE WEEK! WHEEEEEE "When you walk around on a video call, how often do you keep the phone camera carefully framed to...
Gloomy Sunday
Hi and Lois, 3/23/25 Look, you know I'm a genuine fan of Hi and Lois's new melancholy, punchline-free vibe, but I'm sorry, "spring is here, time to ramp up...
To be fair to Lois, the lawn appears to be strewn with debris
Hi and Lois, 3/22/25 "Wow, my wife/mother sure is a BALLBUSTING HARPY" is one of my least favorite genres of domestic comic strip, but I gotta say, Hi and...