Sunday simmering resentment
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
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
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"
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Their cruel, vicious hoots echo through the arena
Pluggers, 2/26/25 I've been reading and making fun of Pluggers for nearly 20 years now, and over that time I have against my will acquired a certain amount...
Tuesday is for eating problems
Gil Thorp, 2/25/25 Keri Thorp has been struggling with an eating disorder, and apparently their therapist has recommended equine therapy. Did you know that...
I'm on Mary's side here, that stuff's nasty
Luann, 2/24/25 It's been fun ("fun") revisiting Luann for the first time in years and figuring out what's changed (there are some new characters I guess) and...
Elder Sunday
Crankshaft, 2/23/25 Wait, why does John need Crazy Harry's help? By Spider-Man logic, if he had been bitten by a radioactive cleaning lady, shouldn't he have...
Baffled Saturday
Mark Trail, 2/22/25 Cherry's family drama turned out to be even more dramatic than anticipated, and, as Mark makes clear in the final panel, it was no joking...
Metapost: The comments, they're a-callin'
Enjoy the siren song of this week's comment ... of the week! "I've heard of shaggy dog stories, but this guy actually grew a beard in the course of listening...
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[bravely] Andy Capp
Andy Capp, 2/21/25 Among the strips I'm starting to revisit is Andy Capp (never forget: ANDY CAPP!), and of course, there's an important question one asks...