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$ · June 28, 2024
Mary Worth, 6/28/24 I've been accused, with perhaps some justification, of being a "coastal elitist". It's hard to keep track of what interests do or don't...
Itchy/gross/spinning
$ · June 27, 2024
Gearhead Gertie, 6/27/24 I find Gertie's husband extremely relatable here. Sometimes, when your loved one just shouts jargon from their special interest that...
Absolutely not looking up what "The Dowe" is. You can't make me
$ · June 26, 2024
Gil Thorp, 6/26/24 It took me a long time staring at the the first panel to put together what's going on here: Gil's new squeeze Beth was a server at some...
Let's get biblical
$ · June 25, 2024
Hi and Lois, 6/25/24 Over at here at Hi and Lois, we're working to reassure you that it's not just desperate old people falling for those "Make Money At Home...
Red-hot SHK! SHK! action
$ · June 24, 2024
Family Circus, 6/24/24 I think it's a not uncommon phenomenon to have one grandmother who, while still loving, is just less on your wavelength than the other...
Out of the past
$ · June 23, 2024
Marvin, 6/23/24 Not to brag or anything, but after nearly 20 years of my doing this blog, my archives page has become a valuable historical resource that...
Dumb little guys
$ · June 22, 2024
Beetle Bailey, 6/22/24 My wife and I are aficionados of real, non-microwave popcorn, and there are two ways to make this at home: you can do it in a metal...
Metapost: Midsomer murderously funny COTW
$ · June 21, 2024
The days are at their longest at the comments ... they're at their funniest: "I like imagining Ian looming over the much shorter Wilbur with a belly laugh,...
World-historical dumbness
$ · June 21, 2024
Family Circus, 6/21/24 Lord, I am a simple man, and one of my favorite Family Circus bits is when Jeffy just says some of the dumbest shit imaginable....
Is this the same redhead as in the pictures yesterday? What am I a detective? That's Dick's job
$ · June 20, 2024
Bizarro, 6/20/24 Happy Solstice, everyone! Do you think these ladies are supposed to represent the changing seasons, or that they're just hanging out at a...
Don't hold back, Ian. We need you now more than ever
$ · June 19, 2024
Mary Worth, 6/19/24 One of the things one must always be on guard against is the brand of nostalgia that convinces you that the past was always better and...
Tuesday quickies
$ · June 18, 2024
Blondie, 6/18/24 Originally read that first panel as referring to "verse" as in poetry, then was briefly disappointed when it turned out I was incorrect,...
Guys, I don't ... I don't really know much about sports
$ · June 17, 2024
Beetle Bailey, 6/17/24 OK, it's probably just a clip art compositing error, but I actually think it's very in character that Plato is abruptly swapped in for...
Dads and sads
$ · June 16, 2024
Blondie, 6/16/24 Even in a recurring narrative, it can be difficult to accommodate the full network of an average person's social relations into the story,...
Mostly suburban trauma
$ · June 15, 2024
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 6/15/24 Today's Barney Google and Snuffy Smith punchline isn't bad exactly. It's a perfectly serviceable newspaper comic...
Metapost: This is the weekly comment of the week post
$ · June 14, 2024
Interested in reading this week's top comment, as chosen by me? Well, good news: it's here. "What family does Declan have now? Not the one he's marrying...
Grompy Friday
$ · June 14, 2024
Judge Parker, 6/14/24 Hey, remember "Declan," Neddy's fiance, who in previous appearances on this blog gave the general vibe of "amiable enough" and "amiable...
Various foodstuffs
$ · June 13, 2024
Tina's Groove, 6/13/24 Say, it's been a while since we've checked in with the anxious depressive food service workers over at Tina's Groove. What are they up...
Wednesday quickies
$ · June 12, 2024
Blondie, 6/12/24 Hmm, you're saying that every time Dithers is in a room with Dagwood, his strength is being sapped by powerful Bumstead Radiation? No wonder...
Walt, do NOT inform God that His plan to smite you failed
$ · June 11, 2024
Gasoline Alley, 6/11/24 So, the reason the electricity went out at Walt's is that a big tree fell over and pulled down the power line running from the...
Pretty sure there's a verse in Leviticus that forbids interring a freshwater fish in the ocean
$ · June 10, 2024
Mary Worth, 6/10/24 The thing about disposing of a dead fish is, honestly, that there isn't a particularly dignified way to do it, and if you're as...
Love, death, etc.
$ · June 9, 2024
Crock, 6/9/24 Crock is a strip in perpetual reruns for obvious reasons, and today's ("today's") strip is a delightful puzzle to try to figure out when...
Crankiness ... intensifying
$ · June 8, 2024
Dennis the Menace, 6/8/24 "Dennis shit-talks his mother's cooking" isn't my favorite trope in this strip, but I feel you at least have to respect the form:...
Metapost: To C, perchance to OTW
$ · June 7, 2024
This week's top comment? It's right here and right now: "I hope the duck cop in this town realizes how more effective superhero cosplayers are than Sherlock...
Sad man-children and actual children
$ · June 7, 2024
Dustin, 6/7/24 "Dustin can't get a date" is a running bit in Dustin that usually I hate because the strips on this theme inevitably happen with supposed...
Thursday quickies
$ · June 6, 2024
Kevin and Kell, 6/6/24 I know I don't talk about Kevin and Kell, the comic strip about weird corporate furries, very often, but I can't look at the wildly...
Kids these days
$ · June 5, 2024
Blondie, 6/5/24 The number one thing that makes me feel like an old person is my stiff right knee and hip, but number two, coming pretty close behind, is the...
Give peace a chance
$ · June 4, 2024
Slylock Fox, 6/4/24 I assume that the gentleman who's been tied up is the victim here, some solid citizen who was simply walking around with burlap sacks...
Everyone is not fine
$ · June 3, 2024
Marvin, 6/3/24 The very first "real job" I ever had, after I quit grad school, way back in the long past and yet futuristic sounding year of 1999, was as a...
The True Grit REMAKE is already 14 years old, c'mon
$ · June 2, 2024
Mary Worth, 6/2/24 I know I've been harping for a while on "why is Wilbur so obsessed with his dead fish and not talking about his alive fish?" Earlier this...
Saturday fast takes
$ · June 1, 2024
Gasoline Alley, 6/1/24 Uh oh, looks like the electricity is out all over Gasoline Alley! I guess electricity has decided, in the wake of the rejection of the...
Metapost: Brace yourselves ... COTW incoming
$ · May 31, 2024
A comment comes screaming across the sky ... a comment of the week! "Setting aside that this rolling pin is clearly some sort of do-it-yourself erotic...
Romance seems to be going great, getting more efficient by the day
$ · May 31, 2024
Dustin, 5/31/24 Look, I get -- believe me, I get -- that it's hard to mine jokes every single day out of a single premise, and sometimes when you're doing a...
Late night madness
$ · May 30, 2024
Six Chix, 5/30/24 I "read the comics so you don't have to," and I'm not too proud to acknowledge that sometimes that role requires that I alert you to when...
Some hairs are askew? We call that "Wednesday" around here
$ · May 29, 2024
Hagar the Horrible, 5/29/24 One of the great dilemmas of transport is that the more mass you need to move, the more energy you need to move it, which means...
This guy's gonna get linotype ink all over his all-white suit
$ · May 28, 2024
Blondie, 5/28/24 I think it's very telling that Dagwood doesn't seem to particularly care about getting to work on time using this new futuristic technology;...
Did he really forget? Doesn't look like it to be honest
$ · May 27, 2024
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/27/24 Big news, everyone! Our character wrap-up is finally over and we're getting to our next exciting Rex Morgan, M.D., medically themed...
Walker-Browne-Wilbur alliance
$ · May 26, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/26/24 Jesus, Wilbur, did you ever think that Willa has probably even more reason to mourn than you do, and you've never tried to reach out to...
A good joke spoiled
$ · May 25, 2024
Dustin, 5/25/24 Syndicated newspaper comic strip creators love golf for some accursed reason, but I have to say that they're generally pretty good about only...
Metapost: C to the O to the T to the W
$ · May 24, 2024
Enjoy your weekend in the humorous glow of this week's top comment! "Justin is doing his own thing, as always? No. I don't believe it. Oh, wait ... a lava...
Honh honh honh
$ · May 24, 2024
Between Friends, 5/24/24 For my sins, I must occasionally fulfill my oath and keep you up to date on the Between Friends gals, so: the dark-haired Between...
Can this blue-collar/white-collar romance last???? Haha jk I don't actually care
$ · May 23, 2024
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/23/24 This week we've been getting a little catchup on what the ancillary Rex Morgan characters have been up to, and it's mostly pretty...
How old is the youngest person alive who knows what the "cola wars" were
$ · May 22, 2024
Pardon My Planet, 5/22/24 As a hopeless Coke Zero addict, I of course respect any monument to those who fought and died in the name of delicious soda pop....
Josh reads the implications
$ · May 21, 2024
Blondie, 5/21/24 The implication here is that Dagwood has been home for hours while letting his latest workplace blunder marinate in his mind, only having...
This has huge implications for what "half-assed" means
$ · May 20, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/20/24 Yeah, sorry I didn't talk about Wilbur making a beautiful flowered coffin for his dead fish Stellan Sunday, but I just sort of stared at...
YHWH cares nothing for the Great Egg from which we hatched
$ · May 19, 2024
Panel from Slylock Fox, 5/19/24 Now, you all know that I am a fan of Reeky Rat trailer park disputes and have been for a very long time, but it's still nice...
Death and rock
$ · May 18, 2024
Mary Worth, 5/18/24 Remember when we learned that Old Man Wynter purchased a headstone for his dog that was significantly larger than the one he bought for...
Metapost: May mid-month comments of the mweek
$ · May 17, 2024
Your week's top comment is here, let its hilarious glow take you through the weekend! "You're a plugger if you plan both your day and night around abusing a...
There was no tobacco in biblical times, what a sad blunder
$ · May 17, 2024
Gasoline Alley, 5/17/24 OK, see, I get that Assistant Mayor Elbert Imeswine was the villain of the "Electric Acres" arc, but he doesn't seem to be based on...
Sorry about pretty much all of this
$ · May 16, 2024
Pluggers, 5/16/24 The caption is basic down-home folksiness combined with "pluggers are always hungry," but the facial expression on the man-bear plugger...
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