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Maybe he's there on a court order
Premium post · April 16, 2026
Dennis the Menace, 4/16/26 OK, since I complained about yesterday's "exciting" tax panel from Pluggers, I have to praise this one. You know what's exciting?...
Taxes, but no death
Premium post · April 15, 2026
Pluggers and Hi and Lois, 4/15/26 Look, I actually feel strongly about this: excitement is very much not "getting [your] income tax return submitted on...
Some old people and their problems
Premium post · April 14, 2026
Herb and Jamaal, 4/14/26 OK, Herb, that's not what the expression is, first of all, it's actually about ugly people, who I get you may not want to insult,...
More like Marty Sun (because of how brightly colored his outfit is)
Premium post · April 13, 2026
Gil Thorp, 4/13/26 Look, in general I've been in favor of Marty Moon's sartorial evolution, but I think that maybe, with this white suit and flowered shirt...
Thank goodness she's not some sort of goose vampire, that would be truly alarming
Premium post · April 12, 2026
Dustin, 4/12/26 To misquote Mystery Science Theater 3000, you should never reference a good comic in your shitty comic, and say what you will about Garfield...
The whackest place to live in America, maybe
Premium post · April 11, 2026
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 4/11/26 OK, there's two things that could be going on here. The first is that we're meant to understand that Hootin' Holler...
Metapost: COTW real quick
Premium post · April 10, 2026
It's COTW time! Here's that top comment! I cannot begin to express how high my anxiety level would be if I received a call or voicemail or even a text that...
To be fair, everyone in Marvin kind of hates each other
Premium post · April 10, 2026
Marvin, 4/10/26 Pixar's beloved Toy Story movies are about, among other things, the complicated emotional relationship between toys and humans, especially...
No AI is perverse enough to take on Mary Worth, I'm safe
Premium post · April 9, 2026
Rhymes With Orange, 4/9/26 I assume the intended joke here is that George forgot his glasses somewhere else -- at his home, maybe, or maybe just in the other...
Love and pee
Premium post · April 8, 2026
Archie, 4/8/26 You know, I had a riff all ready to go about how I hate it when a strip starts with character #1 parroting back something to character #2 that...
Oh, it's OK to punch a guy in the throat, but this goes too far somehow
Premium post · April 7, 2026
Hi and Lois, 4/7/26 You know, if, before today, you had asked me which Walker-Browne character would have been the first to declare themselves a sovereign...
Fraught greetings
Premium post · April 6, 2026
Luann, 4/6/26 So at some point in the long stretch when I was demonstrating self-care and not reading Luann, there was some kind of romantic/emotional...
Mary Worth goes grunge
Premium post · April 5, 2026
Pluggers, 4/5/26 I feel like the way you'd do a panel like this if you thought the overall vibe of the Pluggers comic should be "Pluggers and their foibles!...
More like BogdGGUGH
Premium post · April 4, 2026
Judge Parker, 4/4/26 So I guess I haven't fully spelled out what's been going in on Judge Parker over the past few weeks: Bogdan, Randy's lovable prison pal,...
Metapost: It's that time of week again (comment time)
Premium post · April 3, 2026
Welp, looks like another Friday has come and, in a few hours, will be gone. But we can't let it pass without acknowledging the delightful comments of the...
Friday romance (?)
Premium post · April 3, 2026
Blondie, 4/3/26 I regret to inform you that Dagwood and Blondie's daughter is dating a guy with broccoli hair now. Also she's doing "healthy lifestyle...
Jamaal's actually working, someone has to while Herb ruminates endlessly
Premium post · April 2, 2026
Luann, 4/2/26 "Oh my gosh," you're probably thinking. "Is Luann, the wildly ribald but perversely sexless comic strip about college students, implying that...
April Fool's Comics
Premium post · April 1, 2026
Family Circus, 4/1/26 Happy April Fool's day, everybody! As I've noted over the last few years, the "trick" the passage of time has played on me is my...
Iudex Parker (only real late antiquity heads will get this one)
Premium post · March 31, 2026
Judge Parker, 3/31/26 Ha ha, has this ever happened to you? After generations of coexistence with increasingly tame horses, your tribe of steppe pastoralists...
Gonna need a good editor to put this Nitrate back together
Premium post · March 30, 2026
Pluggers, 3/30/26 Wait, so we're saying that pluggers ... don't like sports? Watching the wildly popular NCAA basketball tournament is non-plugger behavior?...
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