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...
Friday consternation
Garfield, 3/21/25 Not sure if the implication here is that flies go into some kind of suspended animation over the winter upon being frozen then reawaken in...
Romantic troubles
The Phantom, 3/20/25 The Phantom, it is my task to occasionally remind you, is actually a 22-generation long chain of fathers and sons who each take the role...
Are there tongues involved? Guess we'll never know, thanks to the clipboard
Luann, 3/19/25 Looks like Luann's 40th anniversary celebration is going to roll on all week, or maybe for the rest of the month, who even knows at this...
Blasts from the past and/or eternal persent
Crock, 3/18/25 I kind of admire the thought process that went into constructing the current installment of "The Men Of Outpost 5 Read Letters From One Of The...
Monday is for lovers
Slylock Fox, 3/17/25 Yeah, we get it, Slylock is engaged in a long-running and very sexy game of cat and mouse fox with Cassandra, of which this is merely...
Suffering by comparison
Mother Goose and Grimm, 3/16/25 One of the most famous and beloved Far Side panels involves a group of vultures sitting in a circle on the ground, and one of...
The drool-blob is genuinely upsetting
Blondie, 3/15/25 You gotta imagine that, when you're talking to Dagwood Bumstead, there's always a danger that he's going to stare off into the distance,...
Metapost: The comments, they're a comin'
Start your Friday off right with this week's comment of the week! "Nothing says 'I'm interested in what you're saying' quite like 'Oh yeah? How's that...
Irrational Friday
Six Chix, 3/14/25 Happy Pi Day, everybody! Today, 3/14, is used as a tongue-in-cheek opportunity to celebrate pi, the mathematical constant that is the ratio...
Doom, gloom, Wilbur Weston, etc.
Herb and Jamaal, 3/13/25 Ha, no, see, Herb's mother-in-law, "doomscrolling" just means when you keep going through your social media feeds on your phone,...
Professional mistakes
The Lockhorns, 3/12/25 Why do you think Loretta is in the room with Leroy as he gets his physical? Is it just so she can do little bits like this? If I were...
Do birds even have souls?
Mary Worth, 3/11/25 I have to admit that I've never fully understood the arrangement Wilbur and Mary have where Mary subs for him as "Ask Wendy" when he's...