Metapost: 1st of the month, 1st COTW of the month
Happy November, all! And there's nothing happier than the comment of the week! "The robot looks like he's been waiting a long time to squeeze this question...
Wilbumiliation
Mary Worth, 11/1/24 Aww, who came to Dr. Ed and Estelle's last-minute, let's-make-it-legal-before-we-have-another-dumb-fight wedding? Well, from left, we...
Spooky, soapy, etc.
Gil Thorp, 10/31/24 Oh, huh, Gil Thorp as a vampire is gonna be a cherished annual tradition now? I'm not complaining, mind you. Far from it! I do question...
Classic enemies-to-lovers arc
Hi and Lois, 10/30/24 Never mind Trixie's baby brain being incapable of parsing this metaphor. What kind of fool's paradise have Hi and Lois been living in...
Doc Pritchart has never heard of Pagliacci and wouldn't recommend this costume
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 10/29/24 No. Sorry. Call me a coastal flatlander elitist if you must, but I do not buy today's Barney Google and Snuffy Smith...
I wish ill upon the New York Yankees, and urge others to do the same
Dennis the Menace, 10/28/24 Dennis lives unbothered by the linear flow of time, existing in an eternal "now" from which there is no escape. When Margert...
I'm not afraid of these little guys!!!!
Dennis the Menace, 10/27/24 The Sunday Dennis the Menace strips always come with a title in the first panel, and usually it offers little pun or light...
Gettin' old and crusty
Blondie, 10/26/24 Look, clearly I'm not as young as I was when I launched this blog back in 2004, and if I had a chance to tell that 29-year-old what what...
Friday is for ladies who deserve better
Crock, 10/25/24 Of all the characters in the comics, few are subject to as much indignity as Crock's Grossie. I mean, forgetting the fact that she's named...
Metapost: Quick COTW
Here it is! Your comment of the week! "You know land lines are becoming archaic when even comic strip artists forget how you're supposed to hold a handset...
Honestly curious about Hagar's and Helga's relative social positions before they married
Mary Worth, 10/24/24 If I know Mary Worth, and I'd like to think at this point that I do, I'm reasonably sure that Estelle and Dr. Ed will, in fact, end up...
Soapy boredom
Dick Tracy, 10/23/24 Dick Tracy has spent a lot of this week getting into the architectural history of Neo-Chicago and the state of local landmarked...
Tuesday downers
Gil Thorp, 10/22/24 Oh hey, remember the new guys introduced this year on the Mudlark football team? Well, I forgot to mention that one of them has this...
Out of the past (in various forms)
Crock and The Phantom, 10/21/24 One of my longest-running bits on this blog is pointing out strips where the colorists have very clearly not read the comic...
High-falutin' Sunday
Hi and Lois, 10/20/24 It's a bold choice to have Hi and Lois make direct eye contact with you, the reader, in the final panel here. This isn't just a cute...
Mild Saturday enjoyment
Shoe, 10/19/24 To be sure, the human heart is a mystery, and nobody can say why anyone does anything, really, but that hasn't stopped me from wondering why...
Metapost: C-O-T-W-T-O-G-O
It's Friday, it's COTW time, let's get all comment of the week up in here! "Gasoline Alley is really adamant about stating and restating Ida Noe's central...
Walker-Browne strips to kick off your weekend
Beetle Bailey, 10/18/24 This Beetle Bailey honestly feels kind of grim to me, as banal as it seems on the surface. Sure, Sarge is joking around with Beetle...
Thursday is for phones
Dick Tracy, 10/17/24 One of the subtler conundrums created by the "comic-book time” phenomenon is the question of how the characters themselves experience...
Space is the place!
The Phantom, 10/16/24 The Avarice AI's suicide attempt was actually a murder-suicide attempt, but it failed in both respects ignominiously, so now the poor...