Mmm ... quality pellet food
Intelligent Life, 11/19/25 For my sins, I have come to be able to recognize the various recurring characters in Intelligent Life, even if I often forget...
There was a 6-7 meme joke in "Pluggers" today, go look it up if you dare, I refuse to deal with it
Hi and Lois, 11/18/25 Sorry, Lois. The latest Gen Alpha trend is eldermaxxing. Kids are putting on their grandpa's clothes, and they're so young they don't...
Don't even think we need to get into why this bird-lady did it, we can all guess
Shoe, 11/17/25 I was about to get really mad and go on a diatribe about how graves are famously clearly labelled with both the occupant's name and date of...
It's not the clam's fault it's very quiet
Panel from Slylock Fox, 11/16/25 Poor Slick Smitty. He thought he had found a way to beat Slylock at his own game by not technically lying as part of his...
Being cool is not a SIN, Dennis
Pardon My Planet, 11/15/25 Truly, this is a dark vision of an alternate timeline where the British won the American War of Independence and brought Patrick...
Metapost: Gonna comment all up in your week, baby
Yeah, man! It's the COTW! And it goes a little something ... like this! "It's been obvious for a while that these two aren't humans exactly, but today...
Yes, Crock's middle initial is "P", I don't care for it but there it is
Pluggers, 11/14/25 I have to admit that I'm intrigued by the "come out here" formulation. This isn't a plugger who has walked into the living room and...
You can fly, man. Why even bother running. Makes no sense
Shoe, 11/13/25 "Plus I forgot we live in a tree! Like where am I even supposed to go? The end of that branch is maybe fifteen feet away, tops!" Garfield,...
Streaming doesn't count, people on streaming shows don't have souls
Dick Tracy, 11/12/25 New Dick Tracy storyline, everybody! This one involves (a) a guy named "Rojo Ozob," and (b) a sheriff who accidentally drove over a...
Josh has some second thoughts
Family Circus, 11/11/25 One of my favorite unintentional running Family Circus bits is when panels drawn decades ago that depict the Keane Kids in a car have...
I think coffee tastes great, that's why I put so much cream and sugar in it
Shoe, 11/10/25 "48 years" is relevant here because that's how long Shoe has been syndicated. Shoe, dimly aware of the contours of his universe, knows that...
Please do not peck my eyes out, bird lovers, you are valid
Crock, 11/9/25 Now, obviously part of the whole deal of Crock is that it takes what's objectively a pretty grim situation -- a remote outpost of an army...
The spices go ON the pumpkin, they're not IN the pumpkin
Hi and Lois, 11/8/25 In addition to being a coastal elitist who knows about academia, I contain multitudes and am also a Rust Belt native who was in a...
Metapost: The week that was, and the comments of it
Ready or not, Friday has arrived, and with it this week's funniest comment, chosen by me: "Kudos to Lou for being thematically consistent by mounting the TV...
I guess if you learn things about him in conversation, he becomes less unknown and it kills the vibe
The Phantom, 11/7/25 The Jungle Patrol, like most military and paramilitary outfits, is mostly composed of young people, but the nature of those young people...
Nothing worse than finding trust fund kids in your canal
Andy Capp, 11/6/25 I know increasing globalization means that cities around the world are becoming more and more similar to one another in their interlocked...
The hills have eyes, and lolling tongues
Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/5/25 Oh, wow, it turns out that this Rex Morgan, M.D., plot is going to involve -- brace yourself -- interpersonal conflict???...
Whose luggage is that and why did they bring it on their date
Mary Worth, 11/4/25 Sorry to be a "liberal coastal elitist" who "has a basic understanding of how academia works," but a "teachers conference” isn't really a...
Toby has journeyed far from Charterstone, so nobody can see her shameful between-meals nosh
Alice, 11/3/25 Today's Alice will I think be particularly inscrutable to non-Alice regulars, but in my late blog era I have myself become an Alice regular...
Bad romances
Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/2/25 So the big news that Augie delivered over pad thai is that not one but two publishers are interested in his manuscript and are...