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Premium post · June 19, 2026
It's here! The comment of the week! Enjoy it! "Garfield, you fool! Never accept food or drink from the Fair Folk! Now you must spend 1,000 Mondays beneath...
Various odd creatures
Premium post · June 19, 2026
Mark Trail, 6/19/26 Oh wow, I think this gorilla sanctuary storyline is adding yet more layers of moral complexity. If you ran a failing gorilla sanctuary...
Thursday dining
Premium post · June 18, 2026
Blondie, 6/18/26 When Blondie started a business, back in 1991, it might've presented the strip with an opportunity to step beyond the tired food-mania...
The white gloves are a nice touch
Premium post · June 17, 2026
Dennis the Menace, 6/17/26 I can see why Dennis thinks that Henry, who wears a bow tie everywhere and thinks that you should change into a polo shirt when...
The arousing, the sublime, the disgusting
Premium post · June 16, 2026
Gil Thorp, 6/16/26 Good news, everyone! Luke has given up on his pagan beliefs that Milford High is haunted by the shades of its dead coaches, and has now...
Starting the week philosophically
Premium post · June 15, 2026
Rex Morgan, M.D., 6/15/26 I genuinely love that Mae Mae and this lady from "the media" are having a respectful argument by making statements that are as...
Vikings aren't pluggers (they love exploring new lands, and are also fun)
Premium post · June 14, 2026
Pluggers, 6/14/26 I'm beginning to suspect that some of my sense that Pluggers is increasingly all over the place on explaining plugger identity is that the...
Remember Wilbur's not-son? Too bad she didn't make friends with him
Premium post · June 13, 2026
Mary Worth, 6/13/26 Dawn's never alone because of her friends! You know, like Cathy, who's always eating giant salads, and other Cathy, who Dawn probably...
Metapost: The comments, the week, and so forth
Premium post · June 12, 2026
Let's skip the pleasantries and get to the most pleasant thing of all: the comment ... of the WEEK! "When Prussian gymnast and bodybuilder Joseph Pilates...
Fast Friday
Premium post · June 12, 2026
Beetle Bailey, 6/12/26 Whoa, looks like America's foremost military-themed comic strip is going to take on the extremely current and relevant topic of women...
Best kind of abyss, right after James Cameron's
Premium post · June 11, 2026
Heathcliff, 6/11/26 It's true that California has higher gas prices than the rest of the country, but I guarantee that every time you've seen a viral picture...
Unpleasant whimsy
Premium post · June 10, 2026
Rex Morgan, M.D., 6/10/26 You know, maybe I'm sheltered, but I think that interpersonal violence happens a lot more often in stories than it does in real...
GORILLAGRIFT!
Premium post · June 9, 2026
Mark Trail, 6/9/26 The "Mark's dad is getting romance-scammed” Mark Trail storyline has had some pleasing twists and turns: we learned Mark "Happy" Trail Sr....
I truly see your sleepy, sleepy heart
Premium post · June 8, 2026
Gil Thorp, 6/8/26 Isis, a Mudlark student-athlete, was taken by ICE earlier this year, and she's now being released after much protest by fellow students,...
Young love (and also pluggers)
Premium post · June 7, 2026
Pluggers, 6/7/26 Look, I know that Pluggers has lost its focus on pluggers being hard-working, blue collar real Americans and now mostly dwells on stuff like...
Young people and their food foibles
Premium post · June 6, 2026
Archie, 6/6/26 I guess the joke here is that Archie, who we mostly know through his romantic misadventures but who is in many ways still a boy, likes Ninja...
Metapost: Summery COTW
Premium post · June 5, 2026
Is it hot enough for ya, bud? Oh, you say it's too hot? You'd rather it was less hot? Well, sorry to hear that. Try to cool down with this week's funniest...
Old age, youth, etc.
Premium post · June 5, 2026
Pickles, 6/5/26 "We're all gonna die eventually, but sometimes our ability to experience even basic pleasures dies before the rest of us" is a pretty grim...
Hollywood elegance? In MY roots country hotspot?
Premium post · June 4, 2026
Hi and Lois, 6/4/26 Honestly there's a really sad story written on Ditto's dumbfounded face in panel two. "Oh, wow, I guess he barks all the time because he...
He'd better have some opinions on who offers the country's best yogurt to prove he's not a phony
Premium post · June 3, 2026
Mary Worth, 6/3/26 Bad news, everyone: Tommy has managed to "seal the deal," as they say in the sex-having community. He's not like the other guys, as...
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