Boomers and horses
Blondie, 2/4/24 I am of course more than happy to call Blondie wildly out of touch, culturally. But I gotta say, I trust this strip implicitly when it comes...
Lotta good farming there, "green" is right in the name
Hagar the Horrible, 2/3/24 Man, I remember when poetry was orally transmitted, when anyone could get in front of the assembly and fire off some verses that...
Metapost: Early morning COTW
The best part of waking up is learning what the top comment of the week was on josh reads dot com, the world famous comics curmudgeon blog: "Once again, Shoe...
Beetle and Sarge Face the AI Onslaught: A Comic Strip Odyssey
Bizarro and Six Chix, 2/2/24 Were you, as an adolescent, fascinated by Dante's Inferno, and in particular by the book's weird geography, in which hell is a...
I guess he really is the Man Who Cannot Die
The Phantom, 2/1/24 So, big news everybody: The "Death of the Phantom" arc, which started, I swear to God, way back in 2017, is finally over, and,...
Wednesday horror
Mark Trail, 1/31/24 Having helped a bunch of guys get in touch with their emotions via fishing, Mark is now being dispatched on a much more dangerous...
Is annoying Rex Morgan considered "good," because he's done lots of that
Rex Morgan, M.D., 1/30/24 Oh yeah, so it turns out that Lyle "Old Man" Ollman is actually Rene/"Jimmy"'s uncle! I admit I made fun of Lyle for not having the...
The circle of life
Gasoline Alley, 1/29/24 One of the central and increasingly untenable contradictions of Gasoline Alley is that it is and always has been a strip where the...
Feel like the Uniform Code of Military Conduct is being violated here, just my take
Dennis the Menace, 1/28/24 Folks, let me tell you something about my brain (and yeah, sorry, you're reading a blog with the URL josh reads dot com, you...
Soapy ... conclusions? Fingers crossed
Mary Worth, 1/27/24 Remember when Keith first showed up in this strip as a closed-off, taciturn man who tried to get through his interactions with Mary with...
Metapost: The comments ... the comments are good
FRIDAY MORNING MEANS COMMENT OF THE WEEK TIME EVERYBODY!!!! "Rene's Scooby Doo reference is frankly unearned. The Mystery Inc teens actually put in the...
Friday quickies
Dick Tracy, 1/26/24 Fan fact, everybody: "the Amazing Baxter" is actually Fata, in a very clever disguise as a man, which the square, conventional minds of...
Troubling Wednesday
Hi and Lois, 1/25/24 Wow, that is a sinister expression on Dot's face there in the final panel. "If I had the God-like power to erase anything from...
Soapy catchups
Judge Parker, 1/24/24 Oh, yeah, so it turns out that the long lost Parker sister is in fact a scam artist -- not, to be clear, that she's only pretending to...
They should be marketing a whole line of corpse-guy Successories posters honestly
Dick Tracy, 1/23/24 I think it's sweet that these two ladies keep a poster of their deceased corpse-guy (he was a corpse-guy before he was deceased, to be...
Historical Monday
Family Circus, 1/22/24 Look, I'm not going to stand here and claim that the line between "saying the darnedest things" and "heresy" is a clear and bright...
Sunday sadness
Shoe, 1/21/24 This is a truly terrible joke and I don't want to deal with it on any of it's "humorous" levels but I think we should pause to think about the...
St. Slim preserve us
Gasoline Alley, 1/20/24 Longtime faithful readers know that in most of the strips I comment on here, there's at least one character upon whom I wish every...
Birds? On a boat? Sounds dubious
Shoe, 1/19/24 I was going to go on a long rant here about how comics gag writers so frequently come up with a joke and then work backwards from it even if it...
Nobody in the Dusin family should know real human affection. I forbid it
Dustin, 1/18/24 I think my record on the themes and narrative content of Dustin is pretty clear -- I find them extremely objectionable, perhaps more than any...