Soapy catch-ups
Dick Tracy, 12/20/23 So Dick and X. Libris's sword fight ended with X. tumbling to her death from a spiral staircase, which was in a library full of her...
Suburban faces (human and bird)
Blondie, 12/19/23 Of the legacy comics characters out there, Blondie has a less expressive face than most -- I think the word I'd use to describe it most of...
Crying and pouting are fine! Go crazy, everybody!
Dennis the Menace and Gasoline Alley, 12/18/23 Christmas is just a week away, and that means our beloved (?) legacy comic strip characters are starting to...
The buns are also the wrong color, what on Earth is happening
Mary Worth, 12/17/23 Many years ago, something or some collection of things I said on this site convinced some readers that I was a vegetarian, which anyone...
Mostly Christmas quickies
Crock, 12/16/23 The infancy story in the Gospel of Matthew is the one that mentions the Magi, and while it specifies three different gifts they brought to...
Blood bounces on ice
Gil Thorp, 12/15/23 Oh, wow, I think this is the first year we've ever seen ice hockey take its rightful place in the pantheon of Mudlark sports! And it's...
Magnanimous Thursday
Crock, 12/14/23 Not that I will ever give up on my long-running feud with Crock, but even I have to admit that this is a decent joke. Sure, in order for it...
Remember when they drew Mud like was seven feet tall? Let's bring that back
Rex Morgan, M.D., 12/13/23 The real victim of this whole big late-plot Mirakle Method plagiarism reveal will not be Rene, who will manage to weasel out of...
Ha ha, they're going to put that poor dog in the pound
Beetle Bailey, 12/12/23 One of the whole points of Beetle Bailey is that the title character is lazy. Or, I guess if we're being more charitable, despite the...
Moderately funny animals
Slylock Fox, 12/11/23 I think we all (and by "we all" I mean "me and you hapless fools who somehow cannot get enough of my Slylock Fox commentary") have long...
I have a checkbook but I'm a WEIRDO
Dustin, 12/10/23 A problem in comics in which nobody ages is that the viewpoint characters birth year gets later and later, even though their creators get...
I'm glad I have a home office where I can do my computer yelling in private
Pluggers, 12/9/23 Sure, "pluggers lead incredibly boring lives and can't think of anything even vaguely interesting to put into a letter" is a pretty funny...
Metapost: Wintry COTW
As we move deeper into December, zip up your winter jacket (or, if you live in Southern California like me, get into the cardigan section of your closet) and...
Friday quickies
Mary Worth, 12/8/23 Just from the standpoint of hard-hitting social drama, I think "Young Sonia is seduced to leftism by a guy in a dumb hat" is like a...
A fire hydrant but no explicit piss joke? Will wonders never cease
Marvin, 12/7/23 Man, if you're embarrassed about people (and dogs?) seeing the picture of you in the hat why are you ... wearing the hat outside where all...
You could just, like, give him a new head, right. Is that now how Frankenstein's monsters work
Bizarro, 12/6/23 A fun fact is that while "Frankenstein," in the sense of a story about creature sewn together from corpses and reanimated via forbidden...
Brad stays "hot headed" and radical by wearing a dumb hat
Marvin, 12/5/23 I actually really enjoy the implication of this cartoon, which is that Bitsy doesn't understand the idea that having your picture taken...
They live in California, it's not practical headwear
Mary Worth, 12/4/23 Oh, wow, it turns out Sonia isn't the only disrespectful person in Kitty's life, and her smooch with Keith was actually interrupted by...
Panels and more
It's Sunday, folks, the day when newspaper comics include a couple of panels that can be excised based on the vagaries of print layouts. Taken in isolation,...
Hot and cold
Crock, 12/2/23 Today's Crock is just a real rollercoaster and I feel like I have to document my approximate emotional state as it unfolded: PANEL 1: Wait, a...