Soapy Friday
Mary Worth, 9/25/26 Dang, Alma, you were the most sensible person in this whole situation for about 30 seconds, but now you're out there buttonholing people...
Finally, a website for fans of "Luann"
Luann, 9/24/26 Hey, remember how Toni got pregnant, as a result of shower sex with Brad? Probably you've been trying to purge that information from your...
One-panel Wednesday
Alice, 9/23/26 Faithful readers know that one of my favorite bits of Alice is the little ... caption? extra text? ... at the bottom, and its role in the...
Sparking concerns
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/22/26 OK, fine, just a day after my haughty pronouncement that I was too good for a storyline about "Horrible" Hank Harwood Senior doing...
Eternal return comics
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/21/26 The Comics Curmudgeon has been, in one sense, an experiment to see what writing a blog about newspaper comic strips for 20-plus...
Babies, monsters, bird-men
Marvin, 9/20/26 Now, if you were a normal person, by which I mean someone who has no idea what Marvin's whole deal was beyond "Isn't that a comic about,...
Silas is lucky the Better Business Bureau only works with flatlanders
Hi and Lois, 9/19/26 I genuinely love Hi's distressed facial expression and clenched fists of impotent rage in the second panel here. Damn it, she's spent...
Metapost: Comments? Of MY week? It's more likely than you think
Here ya, go folks: that sweet, sweet COTW: "Oh no! Tommy's going to get addicted to the dopamine hit that comes from spreading juicy gossip!” --Tabby...
Legal trouble
Judge Parker, 9/18/26 For many years now, Judge Parker fans have wondered: whither Sophie Spencer-Driver? The girl who was once a climate-data- and...
Gossiporama at the bowling alley
Dick Tracy, 9/17/26 An aspect of this rapidly concluding Dick Tracy plot that I kind of lost interest in early was that Sam Catchem was sexually coerced into...
Bird poop, Dawn's emotional crisis, etc.
Shoe, 9/16/26 More than 20 years ago, I had the idea that it would be fun to start a blog sharing my opinions about Wilbur Weston's sex life with the world,...
Folks with problems
Pluggers, 9/15/26 Sorry, pluggers! The FDA just declared the cyclospora outbreak over, and we all trust the FDA on this, right? [nervous laughter] Anyhoo, my...
Mostly soapy Monday
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 9/14/26 I guess the point of this strip is "You never get what you want when you want it," but for at least a brief moment I...
Imagine eating some eclairs you find stuck behind some pots in your cabinet. Disgusting
Blondie, 9/13/26 This is, truly, one of the saddest Blondies I've ever seen. Of course, we all know that Dagwood's every waking moment is dominated by his...
Saturday quickies
Beetle Bailey, 9/12/26 "Yeah, man, I know, I was sitting right here when you ordered it 10 minutes ago. I'm past it now." Family Circus, 9/12/26 Look, Dolly,...
Metapost: C ....... OTW!!!!
Comment of the week? COMMENT OF THE WEEK, BABY! "Is this the first time we've seen the Daddy Daze daddy without glasses? There goes my theory that he was the...
Friday terrors
The Phantom, 9/11/26 Happy Friday, everybody! I was going to explain the backstory to today's Phantom to those who haven't been reading along, but, you know...
Tales of Josh's oldness
Hi and Lois, 9/10/26 Now, look, I more or less enjoyed Forrest Gump as a college-aged moviegoer in 1994, but I wouldn't say that it had much of a lasting...
Birds and bird-adjacent business
Mother Goose and Grimm, 9/9/26 "Why do they mention the King's Horses in 'Humpty Dumpty?’” is an extremely hoary bit at this point, but I have to say I like...
Important follow-ups
Mary Worth, 9/8/26 Wow, I'm glad to see that there are still sensible people living in Charterstone! "So what?” is exactly the appropriate response to...