More Les, more or less
Heathcliff, 9/14/24 One of the hazards of the Backup Comics Blogger business is that you start musing about the interior lives of comic strip characters. To...
When you call me, you can call me AI
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No one will be seated during the thrilling "Parker sits" sequence, except of course Truck
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The horror! The horror!
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Hey Truck, is that Lisa's bench you're monopolizing?
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Magnets, how do they work? Thorin knows!
Dustin, 9/9/24 Deckhand on an Alaskan crab boat. Choker setter for a logging crew. Apprentice roofer. C'mon, Dustin—get it over with. Dick Tracy, 9/9/24...
Sad Sunday
The Phantom, 9/8/24 Phantom was growing increasingly vexed That the proles would identify him as John X. So by making up missions and playing a role He set...
Weekend wisecracks
Gil Thorp, 9/7/24 Best. Gil Thorp. Ever. Flash Gordon, 9/7/24 Ergon, leader of the Power Men who maintain the capital's tunnels, negotiates concessions from...
Marital mirth
Luann, 9/6/24 I won't trouble you with the months-long "Brad and Toni consider having a child, then reconsider after caring for Toni's niece Shannon"...
Metapost: Early vacation-heralding COTW
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Thursday quickies
Beetle Bailey, 9/5/24 Sarge is correct: his men are extremely vulnerable to the range weapons that are fated to kill them when they finally enter combat....
Jokes and japes for the aged
Beetle Bailey, Blondie, and Shoe, 9/4/24 Look, we'd all like to believe that works of art spring from the pure, isolated genius of their creator's mind, but...
Soapy Tuesday
Gil Thorp, 9/3/24 I always joke about how the population of the Milford and the greater Valley Conference catchment area at large are completely crazed over...
Don't even get me STARTED on why we don't celebrate on May 1 like everyone else
Gil Thorp, 9/2/24 Happy Labor Day, everybody! I guess it's now an annual tradition for a continuity strip character to appear as Rosie the Riveter to promote...
Don't want my furniture talking or even thinking. Sorry if that's not "politically correct"
Mary Worth, 9/1/24 Hey guys! Sorry I didn't keep you up to date on the big drama at the Santa Royale Veterinarians Convention, which is that Dr. Ed ran into...
Sammy, stand up for yourself. We're on a deadline here
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith 8/31/24 You know, I've been doing this blog for two decades now, and yet somehow until today I've never paused to ask myself...
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Looks like somebody got ... [puts on sunglasses] ... burned
Gil Thorp, 8/30/24 America yearns to know: What's up with the beloved new character "Torch" in Gil Thorp? Have we figured out if "Torch" is his first name,...
Somebody else planned this convention, so no, you'll actually find it considerably more difficult
Beetle Bailey, 8/29/24 I was going to say that Beetle's whining here is unrealistic, as well as being literally, legally insubordinate, but you know what?...
There's not a MONOPOLY on violence exactly, but those IOUs are essentially legal tender
Dick Tracy, 8/28/24 I guess the woman in the final panel is supposed to be looking up at a big screen, but it really looks like she's rolling her eyes in...