Metapost: Spooky, scary COTW
It's Friday the 13th!!! The first of two such days in consecutive months! Hopefully this comment of the week will assuage your fears: "[patronizingly] That's...
A bullet's too good for this creep
Blondie, 2/13/25 I like the first couple of panels here: Dagwood being somewhat indulgent about his barber's fixation -- he knows a thing or two about...
Children who I dislike
Marvin, 2/12/26 A thing about Marvin is that over the years it has strayed further and further from the one thing that made it unique -- a comic strip? about...
Various sadnesses
Shoe, 2/11/26 Shoe is a comic strip about depressed bird-people that is pretty committed to the gag-a-day format, but it's actually been doing a continuing...
Bygone times, mostly
Mary Worth, 2/10/26 OK, finally, finally we have absorbed the lessons (?) of the great Toby-Ian parrot story, and after eating those vegetables we get our...
Not sure why he's so sweaty, it looks pretty cold out
Dick Tracy, 2/9/26 I haven't really been keeping you up to date on this guest-written Dick Tracy storyline, but the short version is that a watch Dick gave...
Sunday highs and lows
Heathcliff, 2/8/26 I gotta respect these guys for saying to hell with the NFL's trademarks and hanging a giant banner that says "SUPER BOWL" from the ceiling...
Best wishes (not to anyone in "Marvin")
Rex Morgan, M.D., 2/7/26 Hey, I have been behind on reporting on this news, but, just as both Rex and little Johnny are recovering from surgery in-strip, Rex...
Metapost: The polar vortex will continue but the comments offer some relief
Warm your icy mitts/heart with this week's top comment: "Of course Tildy's confused. Your kids should by all rights be named Carter and Mason, or Hunter and...
Working (kind of) for the weekend
Wizard of Id, 2/6/26 Happy Friday, everyone! What are your weekend plans? Are you thinking about getting extremely high and catapulting some toilets at...
Family drama
Mary Worth, 2/5/26 "Good lord," you're no doubt thinking, "how is it that, more than two weeks after Ian ended his war against Sunny the parrot by...
"Honorable" may be overstating the case
Beetle Bailey, 2/4/26 Hey! Miss Buxley Wednesday is an honorable tradition, and it was specifically created so that elderly pervert comic strip fans could...
I'm not convinced Rex is absolutely certain of his kids' names, for what it's worth
Dennis the Menace, 2/3/26 OK, this is, no joke, some significant menacing here. First of all, this guy has never appeared in the strip before, so I assume...
Damn, they made Max put on a suit for this, but Slylock gets to keep wearing his goofy cape
Wizard of Id, 2/2/26 Thanks to the several faithful readers who pointed out that the Wizard of Id I featured a week ago is reusing the exact same art as a...
Sexy (?) Sunday
Heathcliff, 2/1/26 Before the heavy crown of Heathcliff stewardship descended upon Peter Gallagher from his uncle, he contributed comics panels to Weird NJ...
Something must've happened? In THIS strip? Unlikely
Andy Capp, 1/31/26 I've been reading Andy Capp daily again for about a year now, and on the one hand that isn't very long, given that the strip has run since...
Metapost: HAPPENING NOW: COMMENT OF THE WEEK
You want this week's top comment? Well HERE YA GO: "I was going to make a comment about Gearhead Gertie's inconsistent leg length across different strips,...
Hanging on by a thread
Daddy Daze, 1/30/26 To me, the jury is still out on whether the Daddy Daze baby is actually expressing meaningful language in the form of a series of "ba"s...
Pleas for sanity (metaphorical and actual)
Heathcliff, 1/29/26 Grandpa Nutmeg typically gets mad at Heathcliff for failing to deal with his house's endemic mouse problem, but I actually think his...
Things that are and are not new
Blondie, 1/28/26 Oh, man, I was all ready to go on a riff about how this is clearly a joke about the idea of a celebrity "hall pass," e.g., the idea that a...