Trouble brewin'
Mary Worth 5/26/25 OK, sorry, it's very funny that Wilbur's instinct upon stumbling onto this perfectly insane scene is to address not Belle, his...
The hottest frat fads from the early 20th century are back! Up next: phone booth stuffing
Panel from Slylock Fox, 5/25/25 Every once in a while, I get frustrated with myself for not being able to remember my parents' anniversary, or the names of...
Downer Saturday
Crankshaft, 5/24/25 The wisteria guy from earlier this week is, as Uncle Lumpy remembers so I don't have to, the former paramour of Lilian's now-deceased...
Metapost: The comments ... they ain't stoppin'
It's Friday and you know what that means: You can't stop the comment of the week. You can only hope to contain it within this metapost: "I love how fast the...
Carpe diem comics
Shoe, 5/23/25 This strip would be -- well, not funny, exactly, but it would at least make some sort of sense if the Perfesser was married, which to the best...
Some might say the mythological Icarus loved the joy of flying a little too much
Archie, 5/22/25 I dunno, Jughead, that looks more like blood to me. Presumably the LORD will be passing through to smite all those who harbor Archie in their...
Are his wish-granting capabilities all sunflower-focused
Heathcliff, 5/21/25 Real heads who read Heathcliff daily know that most weeks have a theme of some sort -- "dirt week", "garbage week", and so forth. This...
Sitcom-adjacent jokes
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/20/25 On Sunday, June got the mail, and told her sons that the family had gotten a wedding invite, and they were like "You get free cake...
Crime and/or punishment
Hagar the Horrible, 5/19/25 I really appreciate how chill Hagar is about his own prosecution here. Based on the wigs, he's probably being tried for his...
Bleak Sunday
Shoe, 5/18/25 You know I'm a fan of the depressing Shoe strips where either the Perfesser or Skyler is sitting in the living room chair and the other one has...
Current and future ghosts
The Phantom, 5/17/25 One of the key ongoing dramas of The Phantom is the question of what woman will contribute her genetic material to the ongoing Phantom...
Metapost: May flowers COTW
Spring has sprung (not eligible in all areas), and now it's time for the comment of the week! "YES! The grueling, meaningless life uneventful!! That's the...
Speaking affectionately ill of the dead
Dick Tracy, 5/16/25 The current Dick Tracy story wrapped up with our criminals fleeing from the cops and in the process conveniently getting into a terrible...
Thursday is for little games and tasks
Hi and Lois, 5/15/25 Sorry, Hi: today's teens would never try to read something and listen to something else simultaneously. Instead, they focus all their...
Wednesday quickies
Mary Worth, 5/14/25 Wilbur appears to be smiling guilelessly, but he has to know at some level that this conversation is not going great. That's why he's...
Tuesday is for death
B.C., 5/13/25 Remember a few months ago, when I criticized Mother Goose and Grimm for doing a take on the classic Far Side "I'm a cowboy!” vulture joke that...
Fish fancy? These fish certainly aren't
Pluggers, 5/12/25 Man, the facial expressions in this one really make it, and by "make it" I mean "make it clear what a grim marital scene these two will be...
Dagwood's "waiter routine" involves delivering one (1) cup of coffee
Family Circus, 5/11/25 My favorite part of this strip about a husband taking exactly one day to help with the domestic labor his wife does all year is how,...
Saturday quickies
Mary Worth, 5/10/25 God, I really want to hear the withering contempt Dawn is putting on the word "love" here, which is being conveyed orthographically by...
Metapost: Slightly late COTW
"Oh no!" you've probably been thinking. "It's getting pretty late in the day! Where's the comment of the week? Where's Josh? Has he forsaken us, for our...