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A criminal AND a judge? Bad news
Premium post · February 22, 2024
Beetle Bailey, 2/22/24 Beetle Bailey has always added new characters to cash in on the latest fads, and a fun fact is that "Rocket '88'," considered by some...
And what about those car warranty calls, amiright folks
Premium post · February 21, 2024
Blondie, 2/21/24 I am coming around to the opinion that the primary value of the syndicated newspaper comic strip Blondie is to provide anthropological...
Keith loses his cool
Premium post · February 20, 2024
Mary Worth, 2/20/24 OK, I'll officially be back on this storyline's side again if instead of manfully failing to mention those inconvenient paternity test...
Josh has advice
Premium post · February 19, 2024
Dennis the Menace, 2/19/24 Let me tell you, as a guy who writes jokes for a living, that no matter how bad you think the jokes on this website are, there...
Sunday short takes
Premium post · February 18, 2024
Family Circus, 2/18/24 "Oh, hey, does my toddler have a bunch of friends who I don't know, who somehow got into the house without me having noticed? Sure,...
Saturday is for the terrible children
Premium post · February 17, 2024
Hi and Lois, 2/17/24 In a happier family, Hi would relay this story with a rueful smile on his face, acknowledging that it was a disappointing game while...
Metapost: Slightly lackadaisical COTW
Premium post · February 16, 2024
Got a late start this morning but a comment of the week is welcome any time of day, I feel: "'Keith! How things are with your former girlfriend and your...
Friday is for fluids
Premium post · February 16, 2024
Shoe, 2/16/24 I was about to start this post with "Sorry I'm the Perfeser facial expression parser now," but why should I apologize for that? You, my...
Coffee is for Thursdays
Premium post · February 15, 2024
Rex Morgan, M.D., 2/15/24 Welp, I guess we've finally wrung all the narrative content we can out of Rene getting extremely injured and also involuntarily...
Love is in the air
Premium post · February 14, 2024
Arctic Circle, 2/14/24 Arctic Circle is usually a strip about climate change and other environmental issues, but on this special day of St. Valentine, it...
Tuesdays are for awful chimeras
Premium post · February 13, 2024
Pluggers, 2/13/24 Wow, I feel like the backstory that lead up to today's Pluggers is even grimmer than usual. Chicken-lady is thrusting this inoffensive but...
Honest Josh's Comics Emporium
Premium post · February 12, 2024
Gasoline Alley, 2/12/24 Good (?) news, everybody: Slim didn't freeze to death in his car, and it turns out that the supposed "love note" his wife found was...
Multiple no-necks in today's strips, honestly
Premium post · February 11, 2024
Crock, 2/11/24 You know, some days I open up the ol' comics in my newspaper web browser and think, "After all these years on this blog, do I truly have...
Even his perm is wilted
Premium post · February 10, 2024
Mary Worth, 2/10/24 While we've heard a lot about how Keith is a good romantic partner and putting in the work as a father figure, we haven't actually seen a...
Metapost: Look upon these comments, and rejoice
Premium post · February 9, 2024
Would you describe yourself as "working for the weekend"? Well, good news: It's almost here, and this week's top comment heralds the fun: "Wouldn't it be...
Kids these days
Premium post · February 9, 2024
Hi and Lois, 2/9/24 I have not been on the "dating scene" since I met my wife-to-be back in 2002, but I try to keep abreast of the discourse and the lingo...
Love and death (mostly death)
Premium post · February 8, 2024
Mary Worth, 2/8/24 Move over, "celler door!" There's a new most beautiful two-word phrase in the English language, and it's "odd rock." "Race you to that odd...
Hell is other people and also other animal-people
Premium post · February 7, 2024
Six Chix, 2/7/24 I said my piece a while back about why I'm not the biggest fan of cartoons about hell, but you know me: I can't resist looking at a comic...
Tuesday is for the children
Premium post · February 6, 2024
Hi and Lois, 2/6/24 God, this one is super bleak. Lois has convinced herself that, sure, things are tight and they can't afford to order pizza very often...
Medical monday
Premium post · February 5, 2024
Mary Worth, 2/5/24 Say, remember way back at the beginning of this storyline, when Sonia showed up at Keith's doorstep insisting that he was her father, and...
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