Maybe she likes chaos, Keith, you ever think about that
Mary Worth, 10/13/23 Look, I know Sonia here is supposed to be an angry neo-hippie and is riffing on the fact that she's arguing with her father, or "daddy,"...
Wednesday is for America going down the TUBES
Mary Worth, 10/11/23 Wow, this current Mary Worth storyline is really upping the moral stakes from "Dogs: Are they good, or should we encourage them to fight...
Legacy cases
Blondie, 10/10/23 I once saw an interview with John Singleton and Stephanie Allain, the producers of the movie Hustle and Flow, about a scene where the...
The Perfesser is actually a really successful author, he's just depressed for reasons unrelated to his career
Mary Worth, 10/9/23 An opinion I'm coming around to more and more is that it's kind of silly to expect comics as a medium to be "realistic," as they have to...
Sexy Sunday
The Phantom, 10/8/23 The Phantom is a comic strip first launched in 1936 about a lineage of white guys who've lived in Africa for hundreds of years and...
Mostly children
Blondie, 10/7/23 As a rule, I try to keep my contact with young people to an absolute minimum, so maybe I'm wrong, but it's not really normal for a kid to...
Metapost: The best comment? Of MY week? It's more likely than you think
Folks! It's Friday and here's your COTW! "Rex isn't shocked; he's incredulous. He thinks he can Barney Google his way out of having to appear in his...
Electrifying Friday
Mary Worth, 10/6/23 Oh, root beer? You guys both love root beer? You'd describe it as your "favorite"? Well, I think we can forget DNA tests or the...
The cycle of comics life
Between Friends, 10/5/23 Many years ago, when I first started this blog, it was called "I Read The Comics So You Don't Have To," and sometimes I feel I've...
Dangerous Wednesday
Blondie, 10/4/23 Look, I'm not going to say that this guy is a spitting image rendition of Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men, but his...
Tuesday quickies
Mary Worth, 10/3/23 "I believe otherwise and, I can paint a fuller picture for you"? This isn't an episode of Columbo, just say you got his address from...
He still likes the Mets, though, right? That seems very important to his character
Mary Worth, 10/2/23 Do you think Mary aggressively pesters new Charterstone residents to accept her casserole-based hospitality because she wants them to...
Honestly hoping it's just a slightly smaller version of Keith
Mary Worth, 10/1/23 OK, I had a whole thing ready to go here about how the Sunday strips represent Mary's self-aggrandizing memories/interpretations of...
Mostly criminal Saturday
Hagar the Horrible, 9/30/23 I think it's very interesting that Hagar is ostentatiously drinking from a golden chalice in this strip. He and his warband have...
Metapost: Are you ready for COTW? [dance beats kick in]
Get ready to party all weekend with the comment of the week! "The key to success in crime, Rene thought, is finding people dumb enough not to file kidnapping...
Even the courthouse has a patched blanket wall, sad
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 9/29/23 Believe me, if there's one bit of empathy doing this blog for multiple decades has granted me, it's the understanding...
Dennis is CANCELLED (from existence itself)
Dennis the Menace, 9/28/23 Look, Mr. Wilson, I know your irritating neighbor has pushed you to the brink of madness, but when a couple renews their vows,...
Why does Dagwood go to the barber all the time when his hair is always the same length
Crock, 9/27/23 It might seem incongruent to think of colonizers as sentimental, but many have a certain image of the colonized as a backwards but noble...
The dogs are in on it too, this is worse than we thought
Hagar the Horrible, 9/26/23 That big sweatball coming off of Lucky Eddie in the first panel tells the whole story here. "Ha ha, I'm a guy who's crazy about...
Soapy Monday
Gasoline Alley, 9/25/23 Oh, man, were you wondering what happened in the story of the lost little boy who was about to be taken away from his talking bear...