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Premium post · September 28, 2025
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/28/25 Well, I guess Truck's not-son Cody did in fact come out ahead of beloved (?) tween neo-vaudeville novelty act "Shorty and the...
Generation gaps
Premium post · September 27, 2025
Judge Parker, 9/27/25 Look, we're all young and hip here [laughs nervously], but the truth is that the soap opera strips are a very traditional medium and...
Metapost: Fallin' for the COTW
Premium post · September 26, 2025
We're officially in autumn now, folks, so take a big swig of that pumpkin spice latte [note to intern: find more up-to-date seasonal joke here, maybe find...
Unpleasant Friday
Premium post · September 26, 2025
Beetle Bailey, 9/26/25 Perverts turned on by crudely drawn cartoons everywhere were devastated this week when Beetle Bailey skipped its usual "Miss Buxley...
I guess technically speaking they still have to get out of the tree first
Premium post · September 25, 2025
Mary Worth, 9/25/25 Wow, back in the day, you could write a long, crazy yarn about an unlikely trio hot-air-balloon-crashing into the remote woods, where...
"Dropping" is a much nicer way to put it than "crashing," let's go with that
Premium post · September 24, 2025
Crock, 9/24/25 In my freshman year of college, there was an outbreak of E. coli at various Jack in the Boxes that killed four children, and a friend of mine...
"Pluggers" has fallen
Premium post · September 23, 2025
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/23/25 Last we saw of Truck and Cody, they had agreed to treat each other as honorary father and son and it was all very heartwarming. But...
Up up and away
Premium post · September 22, 2025
Mary Worth, 9/22/25 As promised/threatened, Mary has taken Olive to the Santa Royale Hot Air Balloon Festival! You know, hot air ballooning, the classic...
Odd jobs
Premium post · September 21, 2025
Blondie, 9/21/25 Comics Time is a damn complicated thing. Dagwood and Blondie are both relatively young parents of teenagers, which caused some of you to...
Not even going to get into how sad having Buck as your best man would be
Premium post · September 20, 2025
Blondie, 9/20/25 My favorite part of this Blondie strip is "40 reps of what?" Like, she knows that this is some elaborate Dagwood bullshit and she's trying...
Metapost: It is time. Time ... for the comments. Comments ......... of the week
Premium post · September 19, 2025
Your top comment ............... right here .......................... right now: "I have to assume the Perfesser was examined in the conference room because...
Pluggers and plugging in
Premium post · September 19, 2025
Pluggers, 9/19/25 Look, you know I can be a little spicy when it comes to pluggers and their culture and values, but I'm not made of stone. I don't wish ill...
Not going to try to transcribe a comical French accent, just imagine it
Premium post · September 18, 2025
Judge Parker, 9/18/25 I'm never exactly sure how old Sam and Abbey are supposed to be -- yes, they're the parents of two women who are both in their early to...
Too many Harwoods
Premium post · September 17, 2025
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/17/25 I am really enjoying the quiet desperation of Yvonne's facial expression as she tries to convey to Rex and June how crazy-making...
More about time
Premium post · September 16, 2025
Mary Worth, 9/16/25 It's not exactly clear how much time in-strip is supposed to have elapsed between the current storyline and Olive's original appearance...
This is the most unwell plugger I've ever seen, which is honestly saying something
Premium post · September 15, 2025
Pluggers, 9/15/25 A friend of mine in Baltimore, widely known for always looking younger than she was, when asked for her secret said, "Never make a noise...
She can also swim, I guess, but that seems pretty normal
Premium post · September 14, 2025
Mary Worth, 9/14/25 So, adding to the list of Olive's Known Powers: she can predict the movements of air conditioning units, she can "see” people "in front"...
Life is very long when you're Blondie
Premium post · September 13, 2025
Blondie, 9/13/25 Blondie began in 1930, in a world now mostly alien to us, but it was originally a story about urban hipsters: a young woman who the artists...
Metapost: Slightly early comment of the week
Premium post · September 12, 2025
Sorry folks, things to do, places to be, comment of the week to post: "Well, I must admit, I have never seen 'yikes' used in a cartoon that conveys so...
I guess you really have to ... hand it to them [everyone starts yelling at me]
Premium post · September 12, 2025
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/12/25 Say what you will about Rex Morgan, M.D., but it is straight-up killing it in the "characters make interestingly exaggerated hand...
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