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That's his "decoy wallet"
Premium post · May 3, 2024
Judge Parker, 5/3/24 Hey, guys, remember Pavel, a Russian crime boss and the first interesting new character Judge Parker introduced in years? In the old...
All of his "adventure stories" involve almost dying on a cruise ship
Premium post · May 2, 2024
Shoe, 5/2/24 Yeah, man. Giant bird with prehensile hands and opposable thumbs? Wears clothes and plays guitar? Not part of any Earthly biome I'm familiar...
It came from the deep (erotically)
Premium post · May 1, 2024
Pardon My Planet, 5/1/24 I don't generally have anything nice to say about Pardon My Planet, but I will say this: this lady (I think the Pardon My Planet...
Filmmakers ... always trying to create "drama"
Premium post · April 30, 2024
Gil Thorp, 4/30/24 This week in Gil Thorp we've learned that star Mudlark pitcher Leo Atazhoon is Native American (this may actually not be new info but...
Monday quickies
Premium post · April 29, 2024
Mary Worth, 4/29/24 Nothing but respect for this old man, who continues to mentally use some truly obscene epithet to refer to Wilbur even while...
Mostly thowaways
Premium post · April 28, 2024
Panels from Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 4/28/24 Remember the "30-50 feral hogs" guys? He briefly amused Twitter in 2019 when he demanded to know how he...
From hell's heart, I stab at thee
Premium post · April 27, 2024
Gil Thorp, 4/27/24 I'm not sure what the current consensus on how to win over the teenage kids of the divorced dad you're currently fucking, but bribing them...
Metapost: It's all happening, COTW-wise
April 26, 2024
This week's top comment -- ta da! "It's not enough that Zak is a gorilla. He is an ugly gorilla. Man, that Wilbur is a master of nuance." --Bob Tice And the...
Quicksand isn't real, also, but we don't have time to go into that
Premium post · April 26, 2024
Suburban Fairy Tales, 4/26/24 Suburban Fairy Tales is one of the new strips I've been reading, and it's a basically funny and enjoyable strip about cute...
Slouching Towards Charterstone
Premium post · April 25, 2024
Mark Trail, 4/25/24 Mark, I don't know if I'd trust a horse with my life in this scenario. Have you ever seen a horse race? They're just running in circles,...
This strip is NOT sponcon, I'd respect it more it more if it were
Premium post · April 24, 2024
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/24/24 OK, fine, I admit it, I'm a hypocrite: after many years of complaining that Rex Morgan, M.D., doesn't do high-stakes medical drama,...
Vote early, vote often
Premium post · April 23, 2024
Blondie, 4/23/24 Good lord, when's the last time Blondie introduce a new character? Even Elmo has been around since at least 1954. Despite [gestures vaguely...
Beasts, beast-men, Wilbur, etc.
Premium post · April 22, 2024
Pluggers, 4/22/24 John Cougar Mellencamp sits at the intersection of plugger and poet, and I have long believed that "Life goes on/ long after the thrill of...
Iris and Zak 100% will not notice if Wilbur stops talking or just leaves
Premium post · April 21, 2024
Mary Worth, 4/21/24 You'd think that boxing talk combined with Wilbur going into a traumatized fugue state would be a perfect opportunity for a return of the...
More like Hi and Bankrupt, amiright
Premium post · April 20, 2024
Between Friends, 4/20/24 Not to sound like the old person that I literally am, but TV used to be a lot fewer two-hour movie premises stretched out over eight...
Metapost: The week's top comments ... you want 'em, we got 'em
Premium post · April 19, 2024
Your COTW is right here, right now! "Hey guys, an app that can load the dishwasher is called a robot. How soon we forget the tropes of yesteryear."...
STOP THE MADNESS
Premium post · April 19, 2024
Dennis the Menace, 4/19/24 There's been a disturbing trend lately of Dennis the Menace panels where Dennis doesn't figure into the gag at all, even as unseen...
Think of the perfectly good car rendered useless for this little gimmick
Premium post · April 18, 2024
Six Chix, 4/18/24 I'll freely admit that I find floating Poseidon here very charming, with his cheery attitude and his whole ... diaper? situation and a...
Cyber-Wednesday
Premium post · April 17, 2024
Blondie, 4/17/24 Most Blondie strips aren't exactly Shakespeare, but there's usually ... a recognizable jokes? A punchline? People are way too ready to say...
Walker-Browne transcendence
Premium post · April 16, 2024
Hi and Lois, 4/16/24 Lois's book group used to be the fun kind, where she and her friends would use the vague excuse of literary pretension to get extremely...
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