Archive (Page 16) • The Comics Curmudgeon • Buttondown

$ · March 15, 2025

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'

$ · March 14, 2025

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

$ · March 14, 2025

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.

$ · March 13, 2025

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

$ · March 12, 2025

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?

$ · March 11, 2025

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...

For the birds, who are against each other

$ · March 10, 2025

Shoe, 3/10/25 Man, it would be concerning if you were a bird parent from a species that primarily ate fish and your son didn't want to eat fish, especially...

Sunday simmering resentment

$ · March 9, 2025

Mary Worth, 3/9/25 "The past only exists by how you remember it,” Mary long ago told an emotionally scarred young woman, haunted by the man who stood her up...

NEPOS|AVUNCULUS

$ · March 8, 2025

Blondie, 3/8/25 Blondie's longstanding addiction to obscure holiday themed strips and comics crossovers has achieved an uneasy peace today with its searing...

Metapost: Comments funny, you guys funny

$ · March 7, 2025

Laugh ha ha comments good top comment week funny: "I'd like to think that those background panel colors are actually happening in-universe, and that there's...

Billy is what we call a "Texas-sized dumbass"

$ · March 7, 2025

Mary Worth, 3/7/25 We have all, obviously, been thinking about Wilbur Weston's sex life for far too long, but consider the psychic damage these endless...

That's not how eggs work. I don't think? I'm not a biologist

$ · March 6, 2025

Gil Thorp, 3/6/25 Damn, Gil Thorp really has become a playground for amoral narrative outcomes. First Marty falls off the wagon and improves his drip...

Grimmer Wednesday

$ · March 5, 2025

Dick Tracy, 3/5/25 "You telling me this guy died poor or alone, or maybe under strange circumstances so his family doesn't know he's dead and can't claim...

Grim Tuesday

$ · March 4, 2025

Slylock Fox, 3/4/25 They called Count Weirdly mad at Oxford, of course, and the Medical Sciences Interdivisional Research Ethics Committee repeatedly...

Mostly soapy Monday

$ · March 3, 2025

Mary Worth, 3/3/25 Big news, everybody: Wilbur's back! Wilbur's back, and he's giggling coyly about the fun he's been having on the Mayan Riviera. It's...

Comedic (or not) timing

$ · March 2, 2025

Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/2/25 Oh, hey, sorry I haven't kept you up to date on the tale of Summer and Augie and the bad date that Summer ditched to hook up with...

Tales out of school

$ · March 1, 2025

Marvin, 3/1/25 When I was in graduate school, I was the TA for a class taught by an elderly British professor who was eccentric in ways that were variously...

Metapost: Non-leap COTW

$ · February 28, 2025

Sorry, folks: tomorrow just the first of three boring March 1sts that follow February 28ths; we have to wait until 2028 for more leap day glory. I know...

Friday is for avoiding suffering

$ · February 28, 2025

Pardon My Planet, 2/28/25 Not sure how we're meant to understand the scenario here: did this couple literally spend their last dime on this beach vacation,...

Teen faces

$ · February 27, 2025

Hi and Lois, 2/27/25 Now, like me, you probably read this strip and immediately recoiled in disgust at the implications: that Chip is in the living room...