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...
![Sandwiches? More like SEXWICHES, amiright [everyone gets mad at me] sorry, I will try to do better](https://joshreads.com/images/24/08/i240813sixchix.jpg)
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...
Monday is for bagpipes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...