But then how do they calculate the vig?
Dick Tracy, 8/11/25 Sam, Lizz, and Lee are searching the apartment of loan shark Sphyrna, murdered by tech whiz Theresa Lakoyle with her glowing gun....
Inside ball
Phantom, 8/10/25 One of Phantom's many charms is its meticulous attention to aviation history. That doomed B-17F Flying Fortress is the Miss Nonalee II,...
Water sports
Marvin, 8/9/25 Sincere thanks to the editors who demanded that Marvin's creative team add the garden hose, change the punchline, and recolor the runoff....
Metapost: COTW before the storm (the storm being me going on vacation)
Hi all! Your comment of the week in a moment, but first, a programming note: I'll be on vacation for the next week and change and will leave you in the hands...
Beach troubles
Family Circus, 8/8/25 The whole gimmick of "NOT ME" is that the Keane Kids say "not me!" when confronted with naughty things that they have, in fact, done....
Gertie is possibly already drunk. Trouble brewing
Andy Capp, 8/7/25 You would think that Andy sustaining an injury at "punk rock night" would send me down my usual rabbit-hole of "in what year does Andy Capp...
Wednesday quickies
Blondie, 8/6/25 Look, obviously Mr. Dithers is an asshole, but also Dagwood is talking to his wife on speaker while standing like six inches away from...
Can they do telegraphy? I'd like to see the variant they'd do with telegraphy
Herb and Jamaal, 8/5/25 "I guess this would be considered illegal..." Hmm, what's he reading about? Sounds juicy "...if they didn't call it a law." Ah, I get...
Weirdly's logo-portrait is pretty cute honestly
Slylock Fox, 8/4/25 You might remember a few years back when supposed genius entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes started a company called Theranos that could run...
Curtis will be sorry when Barry achieves samsara and he has nobody to harass
Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/3/25 Cody may not be a blood relative to Truck, but they do have stuff in common: they're both musicians, and they're both aficionados of...
What if all the kids at her school are psychic and Olive is just a loser
Mary Worth, 8/2/25 Not sure what's funnier here: That Olive says it's hard to "ignore the critics," as if there's a Yelp category specifically for tweens and...
Metapost: It is time for COTW
No fuss no muss just comment of the week! "Yes, New York City is a dangerous place. Not the people; the inanimate structure of the the city itself is...
All old people problems, this time
Crankshaft, 8/1/25 OK, fine, I guess if I'm doing Crankshaft two days in a row, I will explain why Ed and Jeff were in an airport yesterday: It's because Pam...
Problems of youth, problems of age
Mary Worth, 7/31/25 I guess the "Olive uses her psychic powers to save Mary from certain death” moment was just a prelude to the main plot, "Olive gets...
It's actually short for "Truckington"
Herb and Jamaal, 7/30/25 It seems like just yesterday that Herb stormed into Rev. Croom's office, declaring that he was ambivalent about believing in a...
Comic strip jokes (mostly not funny) (not my jokes, my jokes are all funny)
Beetle Bailey, 7/29/25 There's a lot of Beetle Baileys where the joke is that Sarge has beaten Beetle into an undifferentiated mass of broken limbs and...
Hope Jami gets involved in the underground electronic music scene
Gil Thorp, 7/28/25 There are two types of Gil Thorp summers: the wacky ones, with plotlines like "Kaz punches his way to a bodyguard job for the Rock 'n'...
We know not what may be, and what we may be is smooshed flat
Blondie, 7/27/25 The Blondie creative team has never met a young person that it didn't want to call a lazy sack of shit, but ... I kept waiting for this...
The battle of the generations is OVER
The Lockhorns, 7/26/25 The random, silent bystanders who show up in The Lockhorns represent one of the strip's great mysteries. Like, who is this lady, who...
Metapost: Y'all know what time it is (it is time for the COTW, for the record)
Are you emotionally and psychologically prepared for this week's comment of the week? I sure hope so, because here it is: "Wizard of Id has succintly...