Lesser soaper Saturday

$ · August 10, 2024

Dick Tracy, 8/10/24 It looks like Dick Tracy is finally getting back to the "How is B-tier villain Silver Nitrate doing in the joint?" plot they teased us...

Metapost: Time-scrambled COTW

$ · August 9, 2024

Apologies again for, in my COVID-addled haze, posting so many posts on the wrong days this week! Rest assured, however, that I followed the twisting timeline...

Whoopsie Wednesday

$ · August 8, 2024

Alice, 8/7/24 The thing is that your boy Josh came down with COVID-19 last weekend, and while I am currently on the mend it made my brain a little loopy this...

Olympic irritations

$ · August 8, 2024

Family Circus, 8/8/24 "Steve Tracy" here annoys me so much, because it feels like I'm supposed to know who he is, and despite being the Comics Curmudgeon I...

Wednesday one-panels

$ · August 7, 2024

Dennis the Menace, 8/7/24 Look, I respect the effort here -- the fundmental underlying joke is pretty good, Alice's indignant facial expression is funny, and...

Tuesday quickies

$ · August 6, 2024

Curtis, 8/6/24 Oh, you don't think Curtis is cyber-savvy? Well, have you ever seen anyone post on a social media ... in trinary numbers before? Gasoline...

Monday is for bagpipes

$ · August 5, 2024

Dennis the Menace and Hagar the Horrible, 8/5/24 Ha ha, bagpipes, amiright folks? It's, uh, it's honestly pretty slim pickings in the comics today so that's...

Sunday revelations

$ · August 4, 2024

Marvin, 8/4/24 We all find ways justify our worst life decisions to ourselves. Like, just for example, imagine you've spent 20 years of your life reading and...

More like a ... bear-ot? Still workshopping this one

$ · August 3, 2024

Mark Trail, 8/3/24 Bill, I know you're very busy with all the jobs the editor of a modern 21st century publication like Woods and Wildlife has to handle...

Metapost: Commenting, weekly

$ · August 2, 2024

Your comment of the week is HERE! BAM! "For a 'Boy, that scheduled event sure is happening' type of easy 'topical' Blondie strip, today's offering is...

Dagwood should be speed-eating and marathon-sleeping, why are they biffing this so badly

$ · August 2, 2024

Blondie, 8/2/24 It's always been very clear that Blondie takes place in one of the most whitebread towns imaginable, but I still think it's pretty funny that...

Don't think the Amish are really into orange, either

$ · August 1, 2024

Tina's Groove, 8/1/24 I'm honestly really starting to enjoy the 15-years-ago-ness of the Tina's Groove strips offered up daily by the King Features website;...

Babies/baseball

$ · July 31, 2024

Hi and Lois, 7/31/24 Trixie Flagston has, notoriously, been a baby for nearly 70 years, longer than most of us have been alive, and thought-balloons in...

I refuse to believe that anyone in Hootin' Holler actually has that much money

$ · July 30, 2024

Mary Worth, 7/30/24 A recurring question that arises in the increasingly Wilbur-focused era of Mary Worth we find ourselves in is: are we getting so much...

Monday is for dads

$ · July 29, 2024

Dustin, 7/29/24 Absolutely one of the most heartbreaking things about Dustin is that Dustin's dad is a cruel asshole who will never love his son, and Dustin...

Love that Stellan kept the length of his final conversation with Wilbur to an absolute minimum

$ · July 28, 2024

Mary Worth, 7/28/24 Real talk: my initial thought reading the throwaway panels was "Ha ha, Wilbur wet the bed!" But no, actually, he finally achieved...

From "bonkus of the conkus," I confess I also find that funny

$ · July 27, 2024

Judge Parker, 7/27/24 Hey, remember how Neddy's fiance was grumpy about some kind of family business drama? Well, big news: Sophie's not-boyfriend's brother,...

Metapost: Early morning COTW

$ · July 26, 2024

Rise and shine! It's your comment of the week: "Doc faces a classic conundrum: lump-sum one-time payment (by doing expensive surgery that'll probably kill...

Divine Friday

$ · July 26, 2024

Mary Worth, 7/26/24 Oh, man, sorry I thought this was going to be something "normal" like Wilbur deciding to murder his fish for attention, when in fact he's...

Mostly military Thursday

$ · July 25, 2024

Mary Worth, 7/25/24 Hey, remember when Mary threw a surprise funeral for Wilbur's fish? And lots of people Wilbur knew were there, and they all paid...

Terrified to contemplate the really specialized Lucky Eddie stuff on DeviantArt

$ · July 24, 2024

Hagar the Horrible, 7/24/24 You might think this strip is about Eddie being a simple man who has never had the realities of sexual reproduction explained to...

Yummy Tuesday

$ · July 23, 2024

Dennis the Menace, 7/23/24 I'm on the record as saying that "Ha ha, Dennis's mom can't cook" is one of my least favorite Dennis the Menace running bits, but...

More like ZEROES amiright folks (because they are actually quite lame)

$ · July 22, 2024

Dustin, 7/22/24 To me, this feels very much like a strip that was originally going to do some kind of wordplay on the polysemic nature of "alarmed" -- "it...

Look at how thrilled Loweezy is at Jughaid's exhaustion. Truly cruel

$ · July 21, 2024

Hagar the Horrible, 7/21/24 One of the many smarter-than-me commenters on this site pointed out that it's actually pretty grim that Hagar and Eddie are the...

The human-animal hybrid thing would seem to make sense in this scenario, but no

July 20, 2024

Dick Tracy, 7/20/24 Loving the MCU gang's expressions here. They are absolutely disgusted that Dick has decided to do a raid that conforms to the fourth...

Metapost: Summer midmonth COTW

$ · July 19, 2024

As we ease into the heart of summer, the COTWs continue: "That's not a collage of photos Lois took around their house -- it's a screenshot of the 'Chores...

Soapy quickies

$ · July 19, 2024

Mary Worth, 7/19/24 The idea that Mary lacks self-confidence is, of course, absurd. What may be surprising is that she also does not lack in self-awareness,...

One-panel Thursday

$ · July 18, 2024

Gearhead Gertie, 7/18/24 Frank Sinatra died in a hospital with his wife by his side, which, when it comes to ways to die, is not the worst by any means. But...

Back in the good old days, the only media products people dumped in the woods were porno mags

$ · July 17, 2024

Mark Trail, 7/17/24 Wow, it seems the Grungey Boys' whole deal was a real "I learned it from watching you" situation, because it started when Ranger Shaw...

Parental problems

$ · July 16, 2024

Judge Parker, 7/16/24 Sorry to sound like, you know, a worrywart, but I think that if I had glimpsed what looked very much like my dead father wrapped in...

So it goes

$ · July 15, 2024

Crock, 7/15/24 Ah, just another day in the French Maghreb, with a difficult march ahead for our Legionnaires, though at least they have a promise from their...

Soapy ... Sunday, too? Sure, why not

$ · July 14, 2024

Mary Worth, 7/14/24 Dawn has said a couple times that she and her mother don't agree on politics but hasn't offered any specifics, and this reminds me that...

Soapy Saturday

$ · July 13, 2024

Rex Morgan, M.D., 7/13/24 Hey, he got made but he didn't get caught, seeing as he's standing right here in front of you a free tween. He can still pull this...

Metapost: Another Friday, another 20 years of COTW

$ · July 12, 2024

OK, not quite 20 years, as I didn't start picking a comment of the week until April 2005, and didn't start doing weekly roundups until September 2006, but...

Highs and lows (mostly lows)

$ · July 12, 2024

Gil Thorp, 7/12/24 The beloved Gil Thorp bonfire tradition has been cancelled forever due to a nationwide wood shortage, which means we must console...

Metapost: THE 20MICS 2URMUDGE0N

$ · July 11, 2024

Folks, I want you to cast your minds back to the long-forgotten year 2004. A young man not yet 30 had decided to try out this "blogging" thing that seemed to...

"I was picked on for being too smart AND too pretty" Buck says confidently

$ · July 11, 2024

Rex Morgan, M.D., 7/11/24 As a guy who was once a kid who was picked on as kind of a weirdo myself, I am, of course, pulling for Parker. They seem smart and...

Enter, pursuing a bear

$ · July 10, 2024

Six Chix, 7/10/24 Comics coloring errors have been a source of cruel mockery and speculation on this blog for decades now, but I think that the rate of these...

Gross and grosser

$ · July 9, 2024

Mary Worth, 7/9/24 OK, here's the thing: we know really next to nothing about Dawn's mother, and I admit that I've been projecting a lot onto the image of...

Frog and Toad are not friends, and are about to face the Prisoner's Dilemma

$ · July 8, 2024

Slylock Fox, 7/8/24 For hundreds of thousands of years, between H. Sapiens, Neanderthals, Denisovans, and H. erectus, there were multiple human species...

Dads (no grads)

$ · July 7, 2024

Mary Worth, 7/7/24 For months now, I've been pretty disappointed that what I thought was going to be an incredible story about Dawn attempting to bond with...

Life is very long when you're lonely

$ · July 6, 2024

Blondie, 7/6/24 I can't believe I've lived long enough to become the kind of nostalgist who says things like, "Remember when this legacy comic was only 75...

Metapost: Early bird COTW

$ · July 5, 2024

Would you like a comment of the week for your long holidy weekend, or perhaps your one-day return to work, or perhaps you don't even live in America or have...

When to give up and when to persist

$ · July 5, 2024

Hagar the Horrible, 7/5/24 I know the joke here is that you think the buffet owner has "won" this coin toss because it means someone will be patronizing his...

U-S-A! U-S-...A?

$ · July 4, 2024

Happy 4th of July, everybody! It's the day when everyone, Americans and non-Americans alike, comes together to celebrate America. How are you spending the...

Never has the word "unique" been so obviously used as an insult

$ · July 3, 2024

Mary Worth, 7/3/24 Do you, Jeff? Do you know what's like to go through a rough patch? Because I've been reading this strip for a while, and as near as I can...

Soapy stubble Tuesday

$ · July 2, 2024

Mark Trail, 7/2/24 You can make your old-school soap-opera comic character as hip and bestubblèd and "nu-look" as you want, but you will never be able to...

Why is Chip dragging Trixie into this. What went on in that house

$ · July 1, 2024

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 7/1/24 Obviously Snuffy Smith's whole deal is that the doesn't care about the greater good of the polity and routinely...

"Conditions" could also refer to access to alcohol

$ · June 30, 2024

Beetle Bailey, 6/30/24 Once again, the throwaway panels across the top of this Sunday strip deepen the narrative considerably. Without them, we just have a...

Pray for the fallen

$ · June 29, 2024

Rex Morgan, M.D, 6/29/24 Like most observers of Rex Morgan, M.D., I assumed this plot was going to amble on interminably with some low-stakes, low-violence...