Libya was an ITALIAN colony, you imbecile machine
Crock, 8/23/24 An interesting phenomenon in the daily comics is that often during the strip's genesis, the creators come up with an odd conceit or bit that...
It really is fun. The comics are fun!
Mary Worth, 8/22/24 Oh, he's listening, Estelle -- he's just horrified that you would think that, as a vet, he'd be OK with a zoo themed wedding. He has to...
Hey, have we established whether Estelle has ever had a real job
Judge Parker, 8/21/24 You know, back in the day, young Sophie was real nerd who used to spend a lot of time on laptops analyzing grim data about wars and...
Bad scenes
Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/20/24 Look, I've been to plenty of comedy open mics in my time, and the thing you have to keep in mind about them is that they are...
Estelle's really yelling "ESTRANGED" to try to pique Ed's interest and it's not working
Slylock Fox, 8/19/24 Slylock is not alarmed because he knows about the square cube law, which dictates that this unnaturally enlarged mosquito's body will...
The Ghost Who Metas
The Phantom, 8/18/24 A fun running bit in The Phantom is that we sometimes see original Phantom creator Lee Falk going about his day in pre-war Manhattan,...
Saturday nightmares
Bizarro, 8/17/24 Hey, have you heard of the concept of "burial at sea?" Well, get this, what if there's a sort of cool party guy -- you know, the kind who...
Metapost: Highway to the COTW zone
It's Friday morning, and you know what that means: your comment of the week has arrived: "Folks said please and thankee! That's it! Folks only knew two...
Mmm ... slop
Blondie, 8/16/24 This strip may on first read seem entirely incoherent, but I actually think it nicely captures many people's instinctive take on generative...
Thursday emotional roller coaster
Dennis the Menace, 8/15/24 Spent a long time ... no, that's a lie. I spent like 30 seconds trying to figure if there was a "joke" here per se. Like, is it...
Dennis should be into Charlie XCX, he's been in his brat era since 1951
Dennis the Menace, 8/14/24 Despite the fact that she's a long-running fixture in a 73-year-old comic strip, I don't think Margaret has a particularly...
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Sandwiches? More like SEXWICHES, amiright [everyone gets mad at me] sorry, I will try to do better
Six Chix, 8/13/24 "Hey," you're probably wondering, "What's going on with the Tuesday Chik in Six Chix, who last we saw was in a romantic and sexual...
Orwellian Monday
Sam and Silo, 8/12/24 Man, for a brief and shining moment, I thought we were going to start the week with a truly exciting Sam and Silo moment. "Now what?"...
Swift resolution Sunday
Six Chix, 8/11/24 Honestly, to me, this didn't seem like a very desperate measure at all! It seems like she just mentally recited a nursery rhyme and that...
Lesser soaper Saturday
Dick Tracy, 8/10/24 It looks like Dick Tracy is finally getting back to the "How is B-tier villain Silver Nitrate doing in the joint?" plot they teased us...
Metapost: Time-scrambled COTW
Apologies again for, in my COVID-addled haze, posting so many posts on the wrong days this week! Rest assured, however, that I followed the twisting timeline...
Whoopsie Wednesday
Alice, 8/7/24 The thing is that your boy Josh came down with COVID-19 last weekend, and while I am currently on the mend it made my brain a little loopy this...
Olympic irritations
Family Circus, 8/8/24 "Steve Tracy" here annoys me so much, because it feels like I'm supposed to know who he is, and despite being the Comics Curmudgeon I...
Wednesday one-panels
Dennis the Menace, 8/7/24 Look, I respect the effort here -- the fundmental underlying joke is pretty good, Alice's indignant facial expression is funny, and...
Tuesday quickies
Curtis, 8/6/24 Oh, you don't think Curtis is cyber-savvy? Well, have you ever seen anyone post on a social media ... in trinary numbers before? Gasoline...