This has huge implications for what "half-assed" means
Mary Worth, 5/20/24 Yeah, sorry I didn't talk about Wilbur making a beautiful flowered coffin for his dead fish Stellan Sunday, but I just sort of stared at...
YHWH cares nothing for the Great Egg from which we hatched
Panel from Slylock Fox, 5/19/24 Now, you all know that I am a fan of Reeky Rat trailer park disputes and have been for a very long time, but it's still nice...
Death and rock
Mary Worth, 5/18/24 Remember when we learned that Old Man Wynter purchased a headstone for his dog that was significantly larger than the one he bought for...
Metapost: May mid-month comments of the mweek
Your week's top comment is here, let its hilarious glow take you through the weekend! "You're a plugger if you plan both your day and night around abusing a...
There was no tobacco in biblical times, what a sad blunder
Gasoline Alley, 5/17/24 OK, see, I get that Assistant Mayor Elbert Imeswine was the villain of the "Electric Acres" arc, but he doesn't seem to be based on...
Sorry about pretty much all of this
Pluggers, 5/16/24 The caption is basic down-home folksiness combined with "pluggers are always hungry," but the facial expression on the man-bear plugger...
Josh grumps out
Mary Worth, 5/15/24 Oooh, look everyone, Mary Worth is doing a bit where Wilbur is shouting "Stella!" like Stanley from A Streetcar Named Desire, except it's...
Ancient ways, modern art
Gasoline Alley, 5/14/24 Ha ha yes, last week I had some fun imagining Walt encountering some biblically accurate angels, but this week Walt is has entered a...
Nightmarish Monday
Daddy Daze, 5/13/24 One of the most fascinating and bonkers "big ideas" books of the '70s was The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral...
Walker-Browne quickies
Hi and Lois, 5/12/24 The "joke" of today's strip is that the Flagston children have announced that their mother now has to share Mother's Day with their...
MOTHERS ARE GREAT, I LOVE MOTHERS, THEY DESERVE ONLY THE BEST
Blondie, 5/11/24 Look, obviously saying anything against mothers and motherhood is a swift ticket to getting abruptly cancelled -- and rightfully so! [laughs...
Metapost: The comments, the comments ... they're good
There were many comments this week, but to me, this one was tops: "Ha, look at that sad look on Lois' face, she knows that Ditto will indeed be following in...
The fish are the new Adam and Eve
Beetle Bailey, 5/10/24 The thing I like about this strip is how numb Sarge looks in the second panel. He scarfed down two plates full of burgers and fries...
Family life
Mary Worth, 5/9/24 Dawn is reconnecting with her Connecticut WASP mother by attempting to enjoy high-prestige social pursuits like the ballet. Wilbur,...
Neologistic nights
Tina's Groove, 5/8/24 So Tina's Groove is one of the "new" comics I've been reading lately, though in the interest of total accuracy I should note that these...
Big developments, for certain definitions of "big"
Shoe, 5/7/24 A classic Shoe bit is to use the structure of a test question at Skyler's school to deliver a bad joke, even though the result is a test...
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Hagar [experiences] the Horrible [way to die]
Gil Thorp, 5/6/24 Milford has its own Native American reservation and, we learn today, its own institution of higher learning. Soon, having accrued all the...
Mostly Walker-Browne Sunday
Hi and Lois, 5/5/24 I guess the point of this strip (to the extent that any given Hi and Lois comic can be said to have a "point") is to shore up the Walker-...
Josh gets critical
Daddy Daze, 5/4/24 Look, I'm just going to say it: I find the Daddy Daze baby, with his fixed, manic smile, his uncanny ability to move about and manipulate...
Metapost: Comments, we get comments (of the week)
cotw COTW COTW COTW! "Amen, sister. Don't we all wish we were Kristy? I have no idea what this is about, and I don't care: being Kristy just seems right."...