Another Tuesday, more soaps
Dick Tracy, 10/8/24 New Dick Tracy story, everybody! It's with a guest writer and guest artist but in keeping withe vibe of present-day Dick Tracy, it's...
If Curtis starts talking about blogs, it's over
Curtis, 10/7/24 While we all like to see a syndicated newspaper comic keep up with times, I'm afraid the occasional bit in Curtis where Curtis faithfully...
Sunday is for lore
Judge Parker, 10/6/24 You might recall my earlier irritation that both Sophie and Neddy were involved in family romance drama structurally similar enough...
We all want to do this when our computers make us mad, honestly
The Phantom, 10/5/24 One of the more, uh, problematic aspects of the Phantom lore is that the Phantoms have been resident in Africa for 23 generations but...
Metapost: It's Friday, I'm in love (with the comments of the week)
There's nothing I enjoy more than reading your funny comments and selecting my favs! Speaking of which, here's this week's top contender: "Those are some odd...
Friday is for the elderly
Mary Worth, 10/4/24 Look, Stell, you're clearly a vibrant, attractive woman with an active romantic and sexual life. Nevertheless, you're a woman of a...
I should relate to Gertie's pencil-neck husband, but all I feel for him is endless contempt
Gearhead Gertie, 10/3/24 Now, I might be an Ivy League-educated coastal elitist, but the Ivy League school I attended was in fact located in the Finger...
Sexy beasts
Beetle Bailey, 10/2/24 Hello, faithful readers! You might recall that last week I opined that Beetle Bailey had abandoned the spirit, though not the letter,...
Soapy Tuesday
Gil Thorp, 10/1/24 Ah, well, it seems that Gil's airborne lovefest under old artist Rod Whigham was some kind of hallucination he was having during a massive...
Food for thought
Beetle Bailey, 9/30/24 Today, most food service in the U.S. military is outsourced to contractors, and one of the military's most awesome powers is the...
Josh rattles off some lists
Mary Worth, 9/29/24 I'm going to remain neutral on some the big moral questions being raised by this storyline for the moment (Is it fair to fall in love...
I always cry at endings
Gil Thorp, 9/29/24 As Uncle Lumpy noted last week, longtime Gil Thorp artist Rod Whigham is retiring from the strip, with today being his last entry. I've...
Metapost: New comment of the week, at long last!
Shoutout to --2+2=7's long reign at the top, but after my vacation respite, it's finally time to crown a new COTW: "I just realized that I have no idea what...
You don't want to know what a pain it is to get that giant button through the hole
Shoe, 9/27/24 I guess if all you want to get out of the daily comics is to briefly linger on each little joke and then move on to the next one, you might be...
The menace and the menaced
Dennis the Menace, 9/26/24 Here, in no particular order, is a list of possible menacing reasons why Dennis is wearing street clothes in this exchange when...
They don't have file cabinets on the Moon, they all use computers up there
Beetle Bailey, 9/25/24 Once upon a time, your average newspaper reader looked forward to the middle of the week with eager anticipation. That's because they...
Notice how far away Henry is standing. He wants no part of this
Dennis the Menace, 9/24/24 Despite being a resident of California for more than a decade, I'm not a woo-woo person who talks about a situation's "energy"...
Sad, unsettling Monday
Pluggers, 9/23/24 An oft-noted source of malaise in American life is a rise of loneliness, as "third spaces" -- places where people socialize that aren't...
TRIUMPHANT RETURN COMICS
Hello everyone! I am back from my vacation! Did you miss me? Did you realize you liked Uncle Lumpy better? Did you not even notice any changes? Feel free to...
Mostly gripes
Daddy Daze, 9/21/24 How it started. Blondie, 9/21/24 How it's going. Archie, 9/21/24 Veronica tries a little too hard to sell Archie's lame observation—not...