Thursday fast takes
Marvin, 10/16/25 Lately, when I bring up Marvin as an example of a strip that loves talking about peeing and pooping, some people in the comments will try to...
I think I have the genders of these things pegged correctly, but who knows, really
Six Chix, 10/15/25 I genuinely love the open, slightly quizzical expression on the face of the bucket in this panel. He's just a simple bucket! He doesn't...
"Dogs are great ... receivers of my thoughts" is a little unnerving, not gonna lie
Rex Morgan, M.D., 10/14/25 Back in the days when Woody Wilson was writing Judge Parker and Rex Morgan, M.D., one of the running bits was that the characters...
Uncanny Monday
Mary Worth, 10/13/25 OK, sorry, Mary, I know you don't want to think too hard about the strange logic of Olive's powers and the implications for free will...
10/12, uh, blaze it? Do I have that right?
Panel from Slylock Fox, 10/12/25 Look, by anthropomorphic animal logic, it's fine to have an anthropomorphic animal wearing a shirt but no pants or...
Absolutely not necessary to use Muffy's name in dialogue BTW. Adds nothing
Shoe, 10/11/25 OK, the fact that this person she dated is named "Lance" pushes this over the edge and makes me genuinely wonder if he's supposed to be an...
Metapost: KAPOW! It's the COTW
Wham, bam, thank you faithful commenters for your service! Here's this week's comment of the week: "Saul is over in panel one, pursuing his passion:...
They teach you the tip o' the helmet in firefighter school
Mary Worth, 10/10/25 Mary's looking pretty frazzled in panel two, and who can blame her, what with her having just been in a freak balloon accident and then...
Elder Thursday
Crankshaft, 10/9/25 Look, characters in comic strips are, ultimately, not real people, and while you can chuckle at their antics, you ultimately shouldn't...
Remember that comic that used to be about Christian cavemen? Well, I've got some interesting news
B.C., 10/8/25 I find it funny that [pause to once again consult the character list in the "B.C. (comic strip)" Wikipedia article because I can't remember...
It's the greatly attractive pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Mary Worth, 10/7/25 This polite jockeying about who should climb down from the balloon first is getting to "a farmer needs to get a chicken, a fox, and a bag...
Monday is gross and confusing
Alice, 10/6/25 We all know of course about the various beloved characters in Alice, the normal comic strip we all read every day and fully understand: Alice,...
Even passive enjoyment leaves pluggers exhausted
Dick Tracy, 10/5/25 Longtime readers of this blog know that I have a lot of favorite etymological facts. One of those favorites is that the word...
Balloons? These guys know how to party
Rex Morgan, M.D., 10/4/25 Oh, man, Rex and June thought they were going to have an early night of it, but now it looks like they'll be up late spinning an...
Metapost: C to the O to the T to the W
My name's the Comics Curmudgeon and I'm here to say/ It's COTW time in a major way! "Ah yes, the old story of the charismatic front man* being tempted to...
Friday is for drugs
Wizard of Id, 10/3/25 It absolutely makes sense that people hear "New York" and think of New York City -- the city is a world cultural capital, is the...
We haven't even heard "Muddy Boots" yet, come on guys
Gearhead Gertie, 10/2/25 I was actually visiting a friend in Durham on the day Dale Earnhardt died, a date that I will always think of as "North Carolina's...
More comics should be drawn from a ground-level POV
Dennis the Menace, 10/1/25 I was thinking the other day about how Dagwood Bumstead and Hi Flagston have extremely generic jobs. Technically Dagwood is an...
Is there a less plugger sport than tennis? Cricket, maybe
Hagar the Horrible, 9/30/25 Hagar is the protagonist of this strip, so we usually see things from his perspective, and I have to admit I never really tried...
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Can't I enjoy my glass of wine and [squints] potato undisturbed
Crock, 9/29/25 The point of this joke is of course that it's annoying when a telemarketer (perhaps one offering you a "banking credit card") interrupts you...