Metapost: THE 20MICS 2URMUDGE0N
Folks, I want you to cast your minds back to the long-forgotten year 2004. A young man not yet 30 had decided to try out this "blogging" thing that seemed to...
"I was picked on for being too smart AND too pretty" Buck says confidently
Rex Morgan, M.D., 7/11/24 As a guy who was once a kid who was picked on as kind of a weirdo myself, I am, of course, pulling for Parker. They seem smart and...
Enter, pursuing a bear
Six Chix, 7/10/24 Comics coloring errors have been a source of cruel mockery and speculation on this blog for decades now, but I think that the rate of these...
Gross and grosser
Mary Worth, 7/9/24 OK, here's the thing: we know really next to nothing about Dawn's mother, and I admit that I've been projecting a lot onto the image of...
Frog and Toad are not friends, and are about to face the Prisoner's Dilemma
Slylock Fox, 7/8/24 For hundreds of thousands of years, between H. Sapiens, Neanderthals, Denisovans, and H. erectus, there were multiple human species...
Dads (no grads)
Mary Worth, 7/7/24 For months now, I've been pretty disappointed that what I thought was going to be an incredible story about Dawn attempting to bond with...
Life is very long when you're lonely
Blondie, 7/6/24 I can't believe I've lived long enough to become the kind of nostalgist who says things like, "Remember when this legacy comic was only 75...
Metapost: Early bird COTW
Would you like a comment of the week for your long holidy weekend, or perhaps your one-day return to work, or perhaps you don't even live in America or have...
When to give up and when to persist
Hagar the Horrible, 7/5/24 I know the joke here is that you think the buffet owner has "won" this coin toss because it means someone will be patronizing his...
U-S-A! U-S-...A?
Happy 4th of July, everybody! It's the day when everyone, Americans and non-Americans alike, comes together to celebrate America. How are you spending the...
Never has the word "unique" been so obviously used as an insult
Mary Worth, 7/3/24 Do you, Jeff? Do you know what's like to go through a rough patch? Because I've been reading this strip for a while, and as near as I can...
Soapy stubble Tuesday
Mark Trail, 7/2/24 You can make your old-school soap-opera comic character as hip and bestubblèd and "nu-look" as you want, but you will never be able to...
Why is Chip dragging Trixie into this. What went on in that house
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 7/1/24 Obviously Snuffy Smith's whole deal is that the doesn't care about the greater good of the polity and routinely...
"Conditions" could also refer to access to alcohol
Beetle Bailey, 6/30/24 Once again, the throwaway panels across the top of this Sunday strip deepen the narrative considerably. Without them, we just have a...
Pray for the fallen
Rex Morgan, M.D, 6/29/24 Like most observers of Rex Morgan, M.D., I assumed this plot was going to amble on interminably with some low-stakes, low-violence...
At sea
Mary Worth, 6/28/24 I've been accused, with perhaps some justification, of being a "coastal elitist". It's hard to keep track of what interests do or don't...
Itchy/gross/spinning
Gearhead Gertie, 6/27/24 I find Gertie's husband extremely relatable here. Sometimes, when your loved one just shouts jargon from their special interest that...
Absolutely not looking up what "The Dowe" is. You can't make me
Gil Thorp, 6/26/24 It took me a long time staring at the the first panel to put together what's going on here: Gil's new squeeze Beth was a server at some...
Let's get biblical
Hi and Lois, 6/25/24 Over at here at Hi and Lois, we're working to reassure you that it's not just desperate old people falling for those "Make Money At Home...
Red-hot SHK! SHK! action
Family Circus, 6/24/24 I think it's a not uncommon phenomenon to have one grandmother who, while still loving, is just less on your wavelength than the other...