From hell's heart, I stab at thee
Gil Thorp, 4/27/24 I'm not sure what the current consensus on how to win over the teenage kids of the divorced dad you're currently fucking, but bribing them...
Metapost: It's all happening, COTW-wise
This week's top comment -- ta da! "It's not enough that Zak is a gorilla. He is an ugly gorilla. Man, that Wilbur is a master of nuance." --Bob Tice And the...
Quicksand isn't real, also, but we don't have time to go into that
Suburban Fairy Tales, 4/26/24 Suburban Fairy Tales is one of the new strips I've been reading, and it's a basically funny and enjoyable strip about cute...
Slouching Towards Charterstone
Mark Trail, 4/25/24 Mark, I don't know if I'd trust a horse with my life in this scenario. Have you ever seen a horse race? They're just running in circles,...
This strip is NOT sponcon, I'd respect it more it more if it were
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/24/24 OK, fine, I admit it, I'm a hypocrite: after many years of complaining that Rex Morgan, M.D., doesn't do high-stakes medical drama,...
Vote early, vote often
Blondie, 4/23/24 Good lord, when's the last time Blondie introduce a new character? Even Elmo has been around since at least 1954. Despite [gestures vaguely...
Beasts, beast-men, Wilbur, etc.
Pluggers, 4/22/24 John Cougar Mellencamp sits at the intersection of plugger and poet, and I have long believed that "Life goes on/ long after the thrill of...
Iris and Zak 100% will not notice if Wilbur stops talking or just leaves
Mary Worth, 4/21/24 You'd think that boxing talk combined with Wilbur going into a traumatized fugue state would be a perfect opportunity for a return of the...
More like Hi and Bankrupt, amiright
Between Friends, 4/20/24 Not to sound like the old person that I literally am, but TV used to be a lot fewer two-hour movie premises stretched out over eight...
Metapost: The week's top comments ... you want 'em, we got 'em
Your COTW is right here, right now! "Hey guys, an app that can load the dishwasher is called a robot. How soon we forget the tropes of yesteryear."...
STOP THE MADNESS
Dennis the Menace, 4/19/24 There's been a disturbing trend lately of Dennis the Menace panels where Dennis doesn't figure into the gag at all, even as unseen...
Think of the perfectly good car rendered useless for this little gimmick
Six Chix, 4/18/24 I'll freely admit that I find floating Poseidon here very charming, with his cheery attitude and his whole ... diaper? situation and a...
Cyber-Wednesday
Blondie, 4/17/24 Most Blondie strips aren't exactly Shakespeare, but there's usually ... a recognizable jokes? A punchline? People are way too ready to say...
Walker-Browne transcendence
Hi and Lois, 4/16/24 Lois's book group used to be the fun kind, where she and her friends would use the vague excuse of literary pretension to get extremely...
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...