Metapost: [To the tune of "Ease On Down The Road"] Comment of, comment of, the week
Your top comment? It's here! "Hey, guy in the back, that's no way to hold a sign! You have your right hand on one end of the sign and your left hand squarely...
Friday quickies
Dennis the Menace, 3/22/24 The most menaced person here is the guy in the background, who spent all day hand-painting this snazzy retro "Information" sign...
Hagar would merely plunder the wabbit's gold
Gearhead Gertie, 3/21/24 Gearhead Gertie is another new strip I've been reading. It's about Gertie, an old lady who's monomaniacally hyperfocused on NASCAR...
Sad that this is the only way they could think of to visually convey the idea of "huge fan"
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 3/20/24 OK, look, I guess I get that there's decades of aesthetic history built into Barney Google and Snuffy Smith and if...
Mostly soapy Tuesday
Tina's Groove, 3/19/24 Tina's Groove is another new strip I'm getting into! Tina is a waitress and is friends with the other folks at the restaurant where...
I appreciate them zapping nuclear weapons. Really doing us a solid in my opinion
Alice, 3/18/24 Happy Monday, everybody! I've decided to add a few more strips into my repertoire, and here's Alice. Here it is! I would describe this art as...
Doesn't say anything about pants, just sayin'
Six Chix, 3/17/24 I caused a bit controversy last year when I said that I found the idea of eternal punishment morally objectionable. Still, no matter what...
Oh, the gun? I guess Bangalla doesn't have a second amendment, huh
Hagar the Horrible, 3/16/24 That's Hagar's mother-in-law as the presiding judge up there, by the way, and really the only way this strip would make sense or...
Metapost: It's all about the COTW, baby
Your comment of the week! Here it is! The best one! I decree it! "Yesterday we learn today is World Sleep Day, and today Dagwood is celebrating by not only...
Friday fast ones
Dick Tracy, 3/15/24 "Orphans are disgusting and deserve their fate! Can you imagine if we brought one into our home?" Blondie, 3/15/24 "...he'd let Dag...
Ahh, the famously sleepy comics characters. Gang's all here
Blondie, 3/14/24 Dagwood Bumstead's inhumanly vast appetite is so well known that it obscures one of his other unnatural qualities -- namely, his ability to...
Mud Mountain Murphy is also a threat to native bird species
Beetle Bailey, 3/13/24 I'm not a huge fan of "Miss Buxley is the only sexually available female at Camp Swampy and the men all line up in hopes of being...
Two Tuesday quickies
Gasoline Alley, 3/12/24 The big news down in Gasoline Alley is that City Hall is finally compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act! It also rejects...
Pre-Daddy Warbucks
Dick Tracy, 3/11/24 OK, fine, after my uninformed joking yesterday, I am back to reading the comics so you don't have to and can inform you that (a) these...
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!...