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...
Love that Stellan kept the length of his final conversation with Wilbur to an absolute minimum
Mary Worth, 7/28/24 Real talk: my initial thought reading the throwaway panels was "Ha ha, Wilbur wet the bed!" But no, actually, he finally achieved...
From "bonkus of the conkus," I confess I also find that funny
Judge Parker, 7/27/24 Hey, remember how Neddy's fiance was grumpy about some kind of family business drama? Well, big news: Sophie's not-boyfriend's brother,...
Metapost: Early morning COTW
Rise and shine! It's your comment of the week: "Doc faces a classic conundrum: lump-sum one-time payment (by doing expensive surgery that'll probably kill...
Divine Friday
Mary Worth, 7/26/24 Oh, man, sorry I thought this was going to be something "normal" like Wilbur deciding to murder his fish for attention, when in fact he's...
Mostly military Thursday
Mary Worth, 7/25/24 Hey, remember when Mary threw a surprise funeral for Wilbur's fish? And lots of people Wilbur knew were there, and they all paid...