The surreal and the terrifying
Alice, 4/15/24 I'm happy to report that, sine I started reading Alice a few weeks ago, I have fallen thoroughly, 100% under its spell. This strip takes...
Ominous soapers
Mary Worth, 4/14/24 Are you feeling down, my friends? Depressed? Abandoned? Do you worry that nobody loves you, simply because, in many ways both large and...
Saturday is for the children
Hi and Lois, 4/13/24 Two things you have to keep in mind when reading today's Hi and Lois: (a) despite my many jokes about how Trixie is an eternal baby...
Metapost: Friday funtime COTW
You want this week's top comment? You got it, buddy! "Now let's be fair, there are plenty of valid reasons for this lady to call Wilbur 'pretty good.' Maybe...
Soapy emotional rollercoasters
Gasoline Alley, 4/12/24 It's not news exactly that conflict is the engine of good stories, but I have to say that Gasoline Alley feels like it's...
Add more cats. More dogs. MORE
Mary Worth, 4/11/24 Uh, what's that? We sent Wilbur on a solo karaoke journey where he sang Celine Dion and you felt nothing? Well, what if we, uh [sweating...
The War of Electric Aggression
Gasoline Alley, 4/10/24 You know, after all these years, I still experience the joy of discovery from reading the newspaper comics. Or, well, at least...
Josh's seal of disapproval
Family Circus, 4/9/24 The "fun" of a Dolly Family Circus gag, to the extent that such a thing exists, is often about the gap between her smug, know-it-all...
Ladies can have flattops too, by the way, there's a lady with a flattop IN THIS STRIPa
Dick Tracy, 4/8/24 In a lot of ways, it has to be a real pain in the ass to be a criminal in the Dick Tracy universe -- like, you have to have some kind of...
Sunday transcendence
Hagar the Horrible, 4/7/24 Hagar has pelted this prophetic orb into the Duke's castle and it has thoroughly demoralized the defenders by showing them their...
Musical weekend
Beetle Bailey, 4/6/24 I'm sorry, Sarge doesn't know any "raunchy" songs. He may be a brute who spends his days preparing men for the horrors of war by...
Metapost: Gettin' COTWy with it
Comment of the WEEK, y'all! It's here and it's real and it's spectacular: "Reading today's Snuffy Smith, it strikes me that I know a lot about the...
Wilbur and other monsters
Arctic Circle, 4/5/24 Arctic Circle is a comic strip about a bunch of penguins that live in the Arctic (YES I KNOW THAT'S WRONG, IT'S PART OF THE JOKE/LORE),...
This lady is taking her LIFE into her own hands here, talking to Gertie like that
Gearhead Gertie, 4/4/24 I really enjoy the fact that about half of Gearhead Gertie strips are like "here's a recent NASCAR story or controversy, spelled out...
Old blogger yells at cloud
Blondie, 4/3/24 Everyone makes fun of young people for being addicted to social media, but the truth is that old people are also addicted to social media....
Sacred Tuesday
Gasoline Alley, 4/2/24 I realize that a lot of fiction essentially consists of making up a guy to get mad at so you can be happy when he loses, but I feel...
The only fools here are ... all of us
Dennis the Menace and Blondie, 4/1/24 Is there any "holiday" more vile and unpleasant than April Fool's Day, which is mostly marked by "pranks" perpetrated...
Children make the risen Christ cry
Family Circus, 3/31/24 Some might think that Billy's smug expression in the second panel here is just because he thought of a good (i.e., very bad) pun for...
Josh likes exclamation points
Beetle Bailey, 3/30/24 I actually really like Sarge's facial expression in this one. Having been advised that he's walking into a potentially explosive...
Friday feelings
Mary Worth, 3/29/24 Whoops, it turns out Dawn doesn't so much crave maternal affection as she craves not seeing her terrible drippy ex and new girlfriend he...