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Sad man-children and actual children
Premium post · June 7, 2024
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...
Thursday quickies
Premium post · June 6, 2024
Kevin and Kell, 6/6/24 I know I don't talk about Kevin and Kell, the comic strip about weird corporate furries, very often, but I can't look at the wildly...
Kids these days
Premium post · June 5, 2024
Blondie, 6/5/24 The number one thing that makes me feel like an old person is my stiff right knee and hip, but number two, coming pretty close behind, is the...
Give peace a chance
Premium post · June 4, 2024
Slylock Fox, 6/4/24 I assume that the gentleman who's been tied up is the victim here, some solid citizen who was simply walking around with burlap sacks...
Everyone is not fine
Premium post · June 3, 2024
Marvin, 6/3/24 The very first "real job" I ever had, after I quit grad school, way back in the long past and yet futuristic sounding year of 1999, was as a...
The True Grit REMAKE is already 14 years old, c'mon
Premium post · June 2, 2024
Mary Worth, 6/2/24 I know I've been harping for a while on "why is Wilbur so obsessed with his dead fish and not talking about his alive fish?" Earlier this...
Saturday fast takes
Premium post · June 1, 2024
Gasoline Alley, 6/1/24 Uh oh, looks like the electricity is out all over Gasoline Alley! I guess electricity has decided, in the wake of the rejection of the...
Metapost: Brace yourselves ... COTW incoming
Premium post · May 31, 2024
A comment comes screaming across the sky ... a comment of the week! "Setting aside that this rolling pin is clearly some sort of do-it-yourself erotic...
Romance seems to be going great, getting more efficient by the day
Premium post · May 31, 2024
Dustin, 5/31/24 Look, I get -- believe me, I get -- that it's hard to mine jokes every single day out of a single premise, and sometimes when you're doing a...
Late night madness
Premium post · May 30, 2024
Six Chix, 5/30/24 I "read the comics so you don't have to," and I'm not too proud to acknowledge that sometimes that role requires that I alert you to when...
Some hairs are askew? We call that "Wednesday" around here
Premium post · May 29, 2024
Hagar the Horrible, 5/29/24 One of the great dilemmas of transport is that the more mass you need to move, the more energy you need to move it, which means...
This guy's gonna get linotype ink all over his all-white suit
Premium post · May 28, 2024
Blondie, 5/28/24 I think it's very telling that Dagwood doesn't seem to particularly care about getting to work on time using this new futuristic technology;...
Did he really forget? Doesn't look like it to be honest
Premium post · May 27, 2024
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/27/24 Big news, everyone! Our character wrap-up is finally over and we're getting to our next exciting Rex Morgan, M.D., medically themed...
Walker-Browne-Wilbur alliance
Premium post · May 26, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/26/24 Jesus, Wilbur, did you ever think that Willa has probably even more reason to mourn than you do, and you've never tried to reach out to...
A good joke spoiled
Premium post · May 25, 2024
Dustin, 5/25/24 Syndicated newspaper comic strip creators love golf for some accursed reason, but I have to say that they're generally pretty good about only...
Metapost: C to the O to the T to the W
Premium post · May 24, 2024
Enjoy your weekend in the humorous glow of this week's top comment! "Justin is doing his own thing, as always? No. I don't believe it. Oh, wait ... a lava...
Honh honh honh
Premium post · May 24, 2024
Between Friends, 5/24/24 For my sins, I must occasionally fulfill my oath and keep you up to date on the Between Friends gals, so: the dark-haired Between...
Can this blue-collar/white-collar romance last???? Haha jk I don't actually care
Premium post · May 23, 2024
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/23/24 This week we've been getting a little catchup on what the ancillary Rex Morgan characters have been up to, and it's mostly pretty...
How old is the youngest person alive who knows what the "cola wars" were
Premium post · May 22, 2024
Pardon My Planet, 5/22/24 As a hopeless Coke Zero addict, I of course respect any monument to those who fought and died in the name of delicious soda pop....
Josh reads the implications
Premium post · May 21, 2024
Blondie, 5/21/24 The implication here is that Dagwood has been home for hours while letting his latest workplace blunder marinate in his mind, only having...
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