Goodbye darkness my old friend
Dustin, 3/10/24 Hey kids, let Grandpa Josh tell you about the Do-Not-Call List! Starting in the mid '00s in the United States, you could put your phone...
Does he think the pigs are, like, collectivized or something
Shoe, 3/9/24 The bird-people of Shoe generally have two emotional registers: horrified and very depressed. So I'm pleased that Shoe has discovered a third...
Metapost: Friday time = COTW time
It's the freakin' weekend, baby, and that means it's time for the comment of the week! "It looks like they're paying Grawlix Theft Auto.” --taig Your runners...
TWO! TWO FULL PANELS OF THORPSMOOCH!
Gil Thorp, 3/8/24 Gil Thorp may be a somewhat manic strip at times, but never say it doesn't play a long narrative game. Remember the comely bartendress Gil...
Sweet gamer chair, Alexander
Gasoline Alley, 3/7/24 Man, here's a story of our modern world for ya: You head down to City Hall, because they're trying to rename your town, because of...
Mmm ... horse
Blondie, 3/6/24 Personally, I think the best way to celebrate National Dentists' Day would be to simply to go to the dentist for your twice annual cleaning!...
Aging, dying, etc.
Beetle Bailey, 3/5/23 "Oh, posh," you're probably thinking, "Surely a tech whiz like Spc. Chip Gizmo would simply use a password manager to keep track of all...
Sexually unpleasant Monday
Mary Worth, 3/4/24 Oh, so, uh, it seems like the Keith-Kitty-Sonia family fraud reunion plot has ... ended? With Keith's tiny mind unburdened by his terrible...
Stop talking about MATH, Slylock, your buddy is in DANGER
Dustin, 3/3/24 Much as I enjoy Dustin's "Ooh, a text" betraying his desperate need for even the most tenuous human contact, I have to call foul on this...
Troubling Saturday
Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/2/24 My faithful readers are all familiar with Rex Morgan, M.D., the soap opera comic strip where nothing ever happens. But what if...
Metapost: Horn-tooting COTW
Hi folks! Your COTW in a moment but first ... Dropout, the streaming service from the College Humor folks, has a great geek-culture panel game show called...
Three "anyways"es
Curtis, 3/1/24 The weird thing about arrested-in-time strips like Curtis is that we, who have been reading this strip for decades, have internalized the...
Leap into comics!
Mary Worth, 2/29/24 Yes, blah blah blah, Toby and Mary are still going on and on about Keith's virtues (as a singer and a [squints] farrier?) and unorthodox...
Comical suffering
Judge Parker, 2/28/24 Judge Parker Senior's wayward daughter Ann, having escaped her captor when he decided that Judge Parker Senior was too scary, has...
Thorp-off
Gil Thorp, 2/27/24 Under new writer Henry Barajas, Gil Thorp has introduced a more diverse cast, kept old characters around, and even rescued Gil's children...
Love to sit, and read about sitting
Rex Morgan, M.D., 2/26/24 Every once in a while, the Rex Morgan, M.D., creative team remembers the "M.D." part of the strip title and realizes they're...
Gloomy Sunday
Pluggers and Gasoline Alley, 2/25/24 Old people! Do you enjoy the Sunday comics as one of your last pleasures in life? Well, the whimsical "funny pages" are...
The old, the young, the beautiful
Family Circus, 2/24/24 The Family Circus was originally drawn by Bil Keane, with the characters all being thinly veiled versions of him and his real family,...
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Woo! It's the week's top comment! Woo! "Beasley, you imbecile. That's not an award. The cup with '#1' on it is given out to all the mail carriers, on account...
Friday fast takes
Gasoline Alley, 2/23/24 In 1918, when this strip began, most American cities, even small ones, had electric streetcar networks. These were only beginning to...