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Killjoy Thursday
$ · March 30, 2023
Hi and Lois, 3/30/23 "Oh, are you giddy with anticipation over a fresh new year, full of infinite possibilities? Well, have you considered that, since those...
Cyber-Wednesday
$ · March 29, 2023
Blondie, 3/29/23 I've always been a "work at home in my pajamas" guy rather than a "carpool" guy, but my understanding is that carpools that consist of the...
She's already wearing her sexiest vest
$ · March 28, 2023
Judge Parker, 3/28/23 Look, we’ve had a lot of dragged-out and sometimes baffling emotional processing between these two over the past few years, and I for...
Monday quickies
$ · March 27, 2023
Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/27/23 SMASH CUT TO: a group of furious middle-aged cruise-goers dangling “Mud Mountain” Murphy off the side of the ship, threatening to...
Walker-Browne errors
$ · March 26, 2023
Hi and Lois, 3/26/23 Hi, you are ... 45 years old, tops? You are probably never going to become a famous guitar player but you absolutely can still write a...
Metapost: Joe Giella, 1928-2023 (plus COTW)
$ · March 25, 2023
Some sad news for folks who are longtime fans of Mary Worth (which, I assume, is all of you): Joe Giella, who was the strip’s artist for more than 20 years...
Perfect thing to mindlessly chew while staring at your phone
$ · March 25, 2023
Gasoline Alley, 3/25/23 Not that there's much by way of competition, but Ida Knoe, the evil talking doll who can travel through time, is now officially my...
Friday is for a sense of unease
$ · March 24, 2023
Dennis the Menace, 3/24/23 Ha ha, that is not the face of a lady who is amused or a little perturbed at the memory of of what went down during her last visit...
Problems and solutions
$ · March 23, 2023
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 3/23/23 I think it’s worthwhile to occasionally reflect on how weird the newspaper comic Snuffy Smith is, as a cultural...
Cries for help
$ · March 22, 2023
Beetle Bailey, 3/22/23 Miss Buxley's baggy, shabby outfit today is going to disappoint both General Halftrack and the legions of Beetle Bailey fans who find...
Can't believe they're trapped on a boat with that guy
$ · March 21, 2023
Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/21/23 Ha ha, I was right, this cruise is going to get a healthy dose of Mud Mountain's musical scheming! I'm taking "privy" in that last...
Monday is for the children
$ · March 20, 2023
Daddy Daze, 3/20/23 OK, I know we're all in agreement that the Daddy Daze daddy is deep in the throes of some kind of kind of seriously delusional state, but...
Deadly Sunday
$ · March 19, 2023
Mary Worth, 3/19/23 It’s true and tragic that the veterinarians have higher than typical rates of death by suicide, and it’s also great that there’s a...
Is it March where Dustin and Meg are, do you think
$ · March 18, 2023
Dustin, 3/18/23 A fun fact is that Dustin premiered in January 2010, at the low point of the Great Recession, when unemployment was at nearly 10% and entry-...
Metapost: Top o' the COTW to ye
$ · March 17, 2023
This week’s top comment won’t drive all the snakes out of your peaceful island, but it will make you laugh: "I'm so glad that Slylock does the dopey, overly...
TGIF, fellow office drones!!!!
$ · March 17, 2023
Marvin, 3/17/23 Most people would tell you that Marvin’s main innovation is that it’s a newspaper comic strip that’s mostly about peeing and pooping, but...
"Massing," "mobilization," same diff
$ · March 16, 2023
Crock, 3/16/23 A fun fact is that this is literally how World War I started -- or, I guess, is literally why World War I couldn't be stopped after it started...
Does Hootin' Holler actually have a golf course, or are they just in an open field somewhere
$ · March 15, 2023
Family Circus, 3/15/23 I don’t have kids, but I am given to understand that your child handing you a crumb-covered piece of garbage and explaining how its...
All the delivery guys can tell they aren't getting any tips
$ · March 14, 2023
Blondie, 3/14/23 Normally, the purpose of Blondie is to deliver laughs to comics lovers everywhere assure its readers, who are on average shockingly old,...
Stay Thirsty, friends
$ · March 13, 2023
Hi and Lois, 3/13/23 You know, I’ve often wondered how lovable disheveled loser Thirsty manages to hold down his job at Foofram Industries, but today we...
Best Makeup and Hairstyling goes to the comic strip Blondie for somehow doing [gestures vaguely at Dagwood] that
$ · March 12, 2023
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 3/12/23 Barney Google more or less vanished from his namesake strip in the 1930s as it pivoted to cruel jokes about...
Wow, just an out-of-nowhere slam on the Ritz Brothers
$ · March 11, 2023
Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/11/23 Hank Jr. and his new bride live with comic book artist "Horrible" Hank Sr., and the most likely interpretation of today's strip...
Metapost: Towering COTW
$ · March 10, 2023
Folks!!!! Are YOU in or near Los Angeles right now? Do YOU want to hear Josie Riesman, author of the upcoming Vince McMahon book Ringmaster, talk about the...
Friday (mostly) one-liners
$ · March 10, 2023
Blondie, 3/10/23 Newspaper comics version of horseshoe theory: when new-look Mark Trail and eternally old-look Blondie come to the same position on...
Aggressions, macro and micro
$ · March 9, 2023
Gil Thorp, 3/9/23 We all of course remember that time that Mudlark basketball star Ted Pearse was living in a homeless shelter and the fans of one of their...
Dagwood's making direct eye contact with the reader, daring you to imagine his awful clothing line
$ · March 8, 2023
Blondie, 3/8/23 I’m intrigued here by the transition from light to dark between panels two and three – how much time has elapsed, and what conversation, if...
Honestly Alice should be the one snooping rather than Henry, it'd be sexier
$ · March 7, 2023
Dennis the Menace, 3/7/23 You don’t spend [mumblety mubelty] years as The Comics Curmudgeon without endless little bits of comics trivia ending up jumbled up...
Give Dawn a spin-off strip called Weston Trek: The Next Generation
$ · March 6, 2023
Mary Worth, 3/6/23 I have been a Star Trek dork since I was a wee lad in the early ’80s, and one of great joys of having lived as long as I have is that I...
Charterstone SWINGS
$ · March 5, 2023
Mary Worth, 3/5/23 Ah, it looks like Estelle is finally coming to the conclusion that it’s not that she has bad taste in men, exactly, it’s just that she...
Would genuinely love to see Snuffy go down the Sovereign Citizen route
$ · March 4, 2023
Crock, 3/4/23 Hmm, looks like Maggot has bailed on his marital counseling session and now it’s just Grossie pouring her heart out to some dude in a cave....
Death, dogs, and dog deaths
$ · March 3, 2023
Marvin, 3/3/23 If, like me, you are hopelessly addicted to the Twitter dot com website, you've been following the company's latest drama for a while now and...
More like "Hi fashion", amiright
$ · March 2, 2023
Hi and Lois, 3/2/23 I don’t know, man, I don’t think anyone elaborately folds up a handkerchief into a pocket square, its daring bright red color chosen...
Trouble in paradise
$ · March 1, 2023
Mary Worth, 3/1/23 Uh oh! Looks like Estelle is running into the dark side of dating a hot, animal-saving, ivory-tinkling hunk like Dr. Ed: he has other...
"Why can't they spend all their time on mechanical devices, like we did?"
February 28, 2023
Gasoline Alley, 2/28/23 One of the fascinating things about the current state of AI is that in science fiction, we imagined that robots would be able to...
Are there actual zebra-pluggers, or are zebras too "exotic"
$ · February 27, 2023
Pluggers, 2/27/23 Look, I’m not going to say that there are no plugger or plugger-identified referees, but I feel comfortable in saying that for the vast...
This one's got a beehive, the perversions are just going to get more baroque
$ · February 26, 2023
Rex Morgan, M.D., 2/26/23 This whole Truck-Wanda thing has been slow-burning in Rex Morgan for months now, but somehow it's only now occurring to me that...
Gotta hear both sides
$ · February 25, 2023
Slylock Fox, 2/25/23 I have sadly accepted that we Slylock readers can never see past the horizon of whatever Event separates our human world from Slylock’s...
Metapost: Let's talk COTW, kids
$ · February 24, 2023
You want your top comment of the week? You got it. "Once you go Weston, you'll never be restin’!” --MKay You want your runners up? You got that too! "The...
Grim Friday
$ · February 24, 2023
Hi and Lois, 2/24/23 Welp, I guess we all knew this day -- the day when Dot and Ditto from Hi and Lois stand in the middle of the street staring at a...
Mostly Walker-Browne Thursday
$ · February 23, 2023
Beetle Bailey, 2/23/23 The joke here is clearly that Otto is imitating Beetle’s typical slothfulness, but wouldn’t it be funny if this were a lead-in to...
Next week, Dustin dares to proclaim that bacon ... is epic
$ · February 22, 2023
Dustin, 2/22/23 Is a hot dog a sandwich? This question bubbled up from the bowels of the web in 2013, certainly a more innocent time for online discourse,...
This Pluggers panel doesn't even deliver a single beast-man, what the heck
$ · February 21, 2023
Slylock Fox, 2/21/23 So I guess these nightmare-bugs are supposed to be … termites? Or some other horrible bug that feasts on wood, but I’m not going to...
She's going to report him ... to SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
$ · February 20, 2023
Mary Worth, 2/20/23 This upcoming court battle is going to settle an important precedent: can legal action be taken against someone for stuff they do in your...
Hour of the Bewilburbeast
$ · February 19, 2023
Rex Morgan, M.D., 2/19/23 You probably don’t remember (because why would you, remembering inane Rex Morgan plots for you is my job, literally), but way back...
Menace level: Gnostic
$ · February 18, 2023
Dustin, 2/18/23 Look, I’m glad that Dustin’s dad being all “the women all use yoga as an excuse to dress like WHORES now and it makes me AROUSED” is the...
That bull sure has strong feelings about laziness (?)
$ · February 17, 2023
Slylock Fox, 2/17/23 From years of reading Slylock Fox together, we've come to understand that the word it depicts is one where the animals rose up against...
Robust oxy competition is good for consumers, honestly
$ · February 16, 2023
Mary Worth, 2/16/23 Look, I’m not going to say I’m done with Wilbur, like Estelle and Iris justifiably are, but I am a little sick of his shit, and feel like...
Love the headband, I hope Leroy announced that he was about to "get physical"
$ · February 15, 2023
Dennis the Menace, 2/15/23 I know the intended reading here is that Dennis is asking Mr. Wilson, who doesn’t like kids now, whether he (Mr. Wilson) liked...
Love (or something) is in the air
$ · February 14, 2023
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith and Blondie, 2/14/23 One strip you could write off, but two? That’s a trend. Folks, if you didn’t get your beloved a slab of...
Max mouse is NOT an adequate exterminator substitute
$ · February 13, 2023
Slylock Fox, 2/13/23 This deceitful dog may be the one who’s putting the scam into action, but I don’t think he’s the mastermind behind it. Look at that...
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