Heresy, hats, etc.
Beetle Bailey, 12/17/24 A thing that fascinates me is that deep in the DNA of the daily comics is the idea that their artists conceive of them as a black-...
Space continues to not be the place
Gasoline Alley, 12/16/24 So the whole point of these uncanny children going to space in the first place was so that they could write a school report about...
Indignant Sunday
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 12/15/24 Geez, man, what kind of weird Slylock Fox-ass riddle-telling meteorologist do these Snuffy and Lukey listen to....
Dawn will absolutely never learn anything about herself, are you kidding
Mary Worth, 12/14/24 OK, reading this almost sent me into a downward spiral -- and here I will pause to tell you that after typing that, I thought, "Hmm, is...
Metapost: Friday the 13th COTW
Don't be nervous about this unlucky Friday the 13th! Just like every Friday, we pick one lucky commenter and acknowledge them as the top commenter ... of the...
Friday quickies
Judge Parker, 12/13/24 "I mean, we haven't seen a panel showing anyone below the shoulders for weeks now, but I'm pretty sure there's no bed in here and...
Also, the patient very much is uncrustable, so the whole premise is faulty
Six Chix, 12/12/24 OK, I get the impulse to turn a bitten-out semicircle on this pastry-shrink into his mouth, but the execution is very uncanny. Like I...
Wednesday is for dumb kids
Hi and Lois, 12/11/24 Wait a minute, wait a minute, hold the damn phone, six months ago Hi seemed genuinely depressed to not receive golf gifts for Father's...
Maybe she's fallen in with Sonia, or, worse, Brad
Mary Worth, 12/10/24 I guess (for once) Wilbur leaving town is providing us with an opportunity not to see what Wilbur gets up to outside of town but rather...
Lotta carnivore action today
Suburban Fairy Tales, 12/9/24 I was going to give you the deep lore behind today's strip but I think it's pretty obvious from context, right? Third little...
Is blogging cringe? We investigate
Mary Worth, 12/8/24 Hello, fellow young people! Like me (a young person), you have no doubt been using the word "cringe" in its relatively new slang sense,...
Ha ha, it's funny because the old men hate their wives
Marvin, 12/7/24 Black Friday? Enh. Small business Saturday? Whatever. Cyber Monday? Who cares. The real biggest shopping day of the year, as anyone tapped...
Metapost: Keep on COTWing on
It's Friday? And that means it's COTW time? You know it's COTW time. "Dr. Jeff notices Mary eating her dessert with a canapé fork and immediately calls 911...
Mostly soapy Friday
Judge Parker, 12/6/24 Oh, yeah, my prediction that Judge Parker Senior has his fugitive daughter Anne living in his basement turned out to be correct, much...
Love a newspaper headline that eschews proper nouns
Crock, 12/5/24 If these two guys have names, I don't know what they are -- the Wikipedia Crock article just calls them "the men of Outpost 5," and they don't...
No AI could come up with ideas as "complex" (polite euphemism) as "Alice"
Slylock Fox, 12/4/24 An extremely fond memory I have from my youth is seeing Fugazi playing an outdoor show in San Francisco sometime around the turn of the...
He shouldn't be alive -- and I for one think it's time to do something about that
Mary Worth, 12/3/24 It can be hard to remember sometimes that Wilbur doesn't dedicate his full energy to being a sad loser with a host of emotional problems;...
The dog smells the chicken and wants to eat it, simple as
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 12/2/24 I had never really thought about it, but if you had asked me before today, I would've told you I was pretty sure that...
Mary is about to enter her shut-in era and I'm here for it
Six Chix, 12/1/24 Often after reading the daily Six Chix comic strip, I use this weblog to express opinions along the lines "I have no idea what the fuck is...
I could be wrong, it could just be a bunch of skeletons or ghosts or something
Judge Parker, 11/30/24 Hey, remember at the beginning of this year, when we found out that the Judges Parker had a secret daughter (to Judge Parker...