Soapy Thursday
Gil Thorp, 3/28/24 The Milford Mudlarks: the team whose players trust one another so much that they just keep passing the ball back and forth, indefinitely....
Troubled youth
Mary Worth, 3/27/24 God bless Mary Worth for sticking to its strengths, which is putting ordinary people into compelling situations and having them say...
Tuesday twofer
Beetle Bailey, 3/26/24 Does Corporal Yo assume that Sarge would just think "Oh, he finally got that leg-lengthening surgery, that explains why he's taller!...
Somehow ... mother returned
Mary Worth, 3/25/24 Big news, everybody. They did it. They dragged out the Keith storyline and then the Mary and Jeff go on a date transition for so long...
Josh lays down the law
Blondie, 3/24/24 OK, look, syndicated newspaper comic strip Blondie: if you start a comic where Dag gets an alert on his phone that it's time for a "ritual,"...
You DON'T want to know where he got the trenchcoat
Bizarro, 3/23/24 One of my goals in this blog is to get you all to appreciate the comics as a fundamentally visual medium. You could describe a comic where...
Metapost: [To the tune of "Ease On Down The Road"] Comment of, comment of, the week
Your top comment? It's here! "Hey, guy in the back, that's no way to hold a sign! You have your right hand on one end of the sign and your left hand squarely...
Friday quickies
Dennis the Menace, 3/22/24 The most menaced person here is the guy in the background, who spent all day hand-painting this snazzy retro "Information" sign...
Hagar would merely plunder the wabbit's gold
Gearhead Gertie, 3/21/24 Gearhead Gertie is another new strip I've been reading. It's about Gertie, an old lady who's monomaniacally hyperfocused on NASCAR...
Sad that this is the only way they could think of to visually convey the idea of "huge fan"
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 3/20/24 OK, look, I guess I get that there's decades of aesthetic history built into Barney Google and Snuffy Smith and if...
Mostly soapy Tuesday
Tina's Groove, 3/19/24 Tina's Groove is another new strip I'm getting into! Tina is a waitress and is friends with the other folks at the restaurant where...
I appreciate them zapping nuclear weapons. Really doing us a solid in my opinion
Alice, 3/18/24 Happy Monday, everybody! I've decided to add a few more strips into my repertoire, and here's Alice. Here it is! I would describe this art as...
Doesn't say anything about pants, just sayin'
Six Chix, 3/17/24 I caused a bit controversy last year when I said that I found the idea of eternal punishment morally objectionable. Still, no matter what...
Oh, the gun? I guess Bangalla doesn't have a second amendment, huh
Hagar the Horrible, 3/16/24 That's Hagar's mother-in-law as the presiding judge up there, by the way, and really the only way this strip would make sense or...
Metapost: It's all about the COTW, baby
Your comment of the week! Here it is! The best one! I decree it! "Yesterday we learn today is World Sleep Day, and today Dagwood is celebrating by not only...
Friday fast ones
Dick Tracy, 3/15/24 "Orphans are disgusting and deserve their fate! Can you imagine if we brought one into our home?" Blondie, 3/15/24 "...he'd let Dag...
Ahh, the famously sleepy comics characters. Gang's all here
Blondie, 3/14/24 Dagwood Bumstead's inhumanly vast appetite is so well known that it obscures one of his other unnatural qualities -- namely, his ability to...
Mud Mountain Murphy is also a threat to native bird species
Beetle Bailey, 3/13/24 I'm not a huge fan of "Miss Buxley is the only sexually available female at Camp Swampy and the men all line up in hopes of being...
Two Tuesday quickies
Gasoline Alley, 3/12/24 The big news down in Gasoline Alley is that City Hall is finally compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act! It also rejects...
Pre-Daddy Warbucks
Dick Tracy, 3/11/24 OK, fine, after my uninformed joking yesterday, I am back to reading the comics so you don't have to and can inform you that (a) these...