Out of the past
Marvin, 6/23/24 Not to brag or anything, but after nearly 20 years of my doing this blog, my archives page has become a valuable historical resource that...
Dumb little guys
Beetle Bailey, 6/22/24 My wife and I are aficionados of real, non-microwave popcorn, and there are two ways to make this at home: you can do it in a metal...
Metapost: Midsomer murderously funny COTW
The days are at their longest at the comments ... they're at their funniest: "I like imagining Ian looming over the much shorter Wilbur with a belly laugh,...
World-historical dumbness
Family Circus, 6/21/24 Lord, I am a simple man, and one of my favorite Family Circus bits is when Jeffy just says some of the dumbest shit imaginable....
Is this the same redhead as in the pictures yesterday? What am I a detective? That's Dick's job
Bizarro, 6/20/24 Happy Solstice, everyone! Do you think these ladies are supposed to represent the changing seasons, or that they're just hanging out at a...
Don't hold back, Ian. We need you now more than ever
Mary Worth, 6/19/24 One of the things one must always be on guard against is the brand of nostalgia that convinces you that the past was always better and...
Tuesday quickies
Blondie, 6/18/24 Originally read that first panel as referring to "verse" as in poetry, then was briefly disappointed when it turned out I was incorrect,...
Guys, I don't ... I don't really know much about sports
Beetle Bailey, 6/17/24 OK, it's probably just a clip art compositing error, but I actually think it's very in character that Plato is abruptly swapped in for...
Dads and sads
Blondie, 6/16/24 Even in a recurring narrative, it can be difficult to accommodate the full network of an average person's social relations into the story,...
Mostly suburban trauma
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 6/15/24 Today's Barney Google and Snuffy Smith punchline isn't bad exactly. It's a perfectly serviceable newspaper comic...
Metapost: This is the weekly comment of the week post
Interested in reading this week's top comment, as chosen by me? Well, good news: it's here. "What family does Declan have now? Not the one he's marrying...
Grompy Friday
Judge Parker, 6/14/24 Hey, remember "Declan," Neddy's fiance, who in previous appearances on this blog gave the general vibe of "amiable enough" and "amiable...
Various foodstuffs
Tina's Groove, 6/13/24 Say, it's been a while since we've checked in with the anxious depressive food service workers over at Tina's Groove. What are they up...
Wednesday quickies
Blondie, 6/12/24 Hmm, you're saying that every time Dithers is in a room with Dagwood, his strength is being sapped by powerful Bumstead Radiation? No wonder...
Walt, do NOT inform God that His plan to smite you failed
Gasoline Alley, 6/11/24 So, the reason the electricity went out at Walt's is that a big tree fell over and pulled down the power line running from the...
Pretty sure there's a verse in Leviticus that forbids interring a freshwater fish in the ocean
Mary Worth, 6/10/24 The thing about disposing of a dead fish is, honestly, that there isn't a particularly dignified way to do it, and if you're as...
Love, death, etc.
Crock, 6/9/24 Crock is a strip in perpetual reruns for obvious reasons, and today's ("today's") strip is a delightful puzzle to try to figure out when...
Crankiness ... intensifying
Dennis the Menace, 6/8/24 "Dennis shit-talks his mother's cooking" isn't my favorite trope in this strip, but I feel you at least have to respect the form:...
Metapost: To C, perchance to OTW
This week's top comment? It's right here and right now: "I hope the duck cop in this town realizes how more effective superhero cosplayers are than Sherlock...
Sad man-children and actual children
Dustin, 6/7/24 "Dustin can't get a date" is a running bit in Dustin that usually I hate because the strips on this theme inevitably happen with supposed...