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Premium post · August 6, 2024
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...
Monday is for bagpipes
Premium post · August 5, 2024
Dennis the Menace and Hagar the Horrible, 8/5/24 Ha ha, bagpipes, amiright folks? It's, uh, it's honestly pretty slim pickings in the comics today so that's...
Sunday revelations
Premium post · August 4, 2024
Marvin, 8/4/24 We all find ways justify our worst life decisions to ourselves. Like, just for example, imagine you've spent 20 years of your life reading and...
More like a ... bear-ot? Still workshopping this one
Premium post · August 3, 2024
Mark Trail, 8/3/24 Bill, I know you're very busy with all the jobs the editor of a modern 21st century publication like Woods and Wildlife has to handle...
Metapost: Commenting, weekly
Premium post · August 2, 2024
Your comment of the week is HERE! BAM! "For a 'Boy, that scheduled event sure is happening' type of easy 'topical' Blondie strip, today's offering is...
Dagwood should be speed-eating and marathon-sleeping, why are they biffing this so badly
Premium post · August 2, 2024
Blondie, 8/2/24 It's always been very clear that Blondie takes place in one of the most whitebread towns imaginable, but I still think it's pretty funny that...
Don't think the Amish are really into orange, either
Premium post · August 1, 2024
Tina's Groove, 8/1/24 I'm honestly really starting to enjoy the 15-years-ago-ness of the Tina's Groove strips offered up daily by the King Features website;...
Babies/baseball
Premium post · July 31, 2024
Hi and Lois, 7/31/24 Trixie Flagston has, notoriously, been a baby for nearly 70 years, longer than most of us have been alive, and thought-balloons in...
I refuse to believe that anyone in Hootin' Holler actually has that much money
Premium post · July 30, 2024
Mary Worth, 7/30/24 A recurring question that arises in the increasingly Wilbur-focused era of Mary Worth we find ourselves in is: are we getting so much...
Monday is for dads
Premium post · July 29, 2024
Dustin, 7/29/24 Absolutely one of the most heartbreaking things about Dustin is that Dustin's dad is a cruel asshole who will never love his son, and Dustin...
Love that Stellan kept the length of his final conversation with Wilbur to an absolute minimum
Premium post · July 28, 2024
Mary Worth, 7/28/24 Real talk: my initial thought reading the throwaway panels was "Ha ha, Wilbur wet the bed!" But no, actually, he finally achieved...
From "bonkus of the conkus," I confess I also find that funny
Premium post · July 27, 2024
Judge Parker, 7/27/24 Hey, remember how Neddy's fiance was grumpy about some kind of family business drama? Well, big news: Sophie's not-boyfriend's brother,...
Metapost: Early morning COTW
Premium post · July 26, 2024
Rise and shine! It's your comment of the week: "Doc faces a classic conundrum: lump-sum one-time payment (by doing expensive surgery that'll probably kill...
Divine Friday
Premium post · July 26, 2024
Mary Worth, 7/26/24 Oh, man, sorry I thought this was going to be something "normal" like Wilbur deciding to murder his fish for attention, when in fact he's...
Mostly military Thursday
Premium post · July 25, 2024
Mary Worth, 7/25/24 Hey, remember when Mary threw a surprise funeral for Wilbur's fish? And lots of people Wilbur knew were there, and they all paid...
Terrified to contemplate the really specialized Lucky Eddie stuff on DeviantArt
Premium post · July 24, 2024
Hagar the Horrible, 7/24/24 You might think this strip is about Eddie being a simple man who has never had the realities of sexual reproduction explained to...
Yummy Tuesday
Premium post · July 23, 2024
Dennis the Menace, 7/23/24 I'm on the record as saying that "Ha ha, Dennis's mom can't cook" is one of my least favorite Dennis the Menace running bits, but...
More like ZEROES amiright folks (because they are actually quite lame)
Premium post · July 22, 2024
Dustin, 7/22/24 To me, this feels very much like a strip that was originally going to do some kind of wordplay on the polysemic nature of "alarmed" -- "it...
Look at how thrilled Loweezy is at Jughaid's exhaustion. Truly cruel
Premium post · July 21, 2024
Hagar the Horrible, 7/21/24 One of the many smarter-than-me commenters on this site pointed out that it's actually pretty grim that Hagar and Eddie are the...
The human-animal hybrid thing would seem to make sense in this scenario, but no
July 20, 2024
Dick Tracy, 7/20/24 Loving the MCU gang's expressions here. They are absolutely disgusted that Dick has decided to do a raid that conforms to the fourth...
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