"Honh honh honh," I whisper to myself, sadly
Crock, 10/27/23 If, like me, you have constructed a professional life that requires you to read the syndicated newspaper comic strip Crock every day, you...
Etymology follies
Gasoline Alley, 10/26/23 I don't usually get a chance to deploy my classics degree, but when I do, it's usually to make a joke about the etymology of some...
It's menacing, I'll give him that
Six Chix, 10/25/23 After yesterday's debacle, I'm pleased to see today's Six Chix, in which a corporate dog discusses his frustrations with measured dignity....
Rex needs to sign up to become a certified MM practitioner
Rex Morgan, M.D., 10/24/23 We do know how to cure it, Rex! The cure is called the Mirakle Method, and it broke Rene's will and convinced him to give up his...
Even the <i>Twilight</i> vampires were scarier than this
Six Chix, 10/23/23 This is at least the second time that Six Chix has done a "ha ha, what if vampires got the blood they need to survive in very chill and...
Schrodinger's Mirakle Method
Gasoline Alley, 10/22/23 OK, I dunno, look, maybe weeks and weeks of talking bear bullshit have ground me down into submission, but I find these comical...
Guy in the car is a gender traitor I guess
Dustin, 10/21/23 Dustin is, of course, a comic explicitly created to explore the irreconciliable differences between young people and old people and the...
Metapost: COTW? COTW!
Comment of the week? Comment of the week: "In the first panel, the cow is being affectionate; in the second panel, where the cat watches the cow warily, the...
June refuses to even acknowledge the concept of "sincerity"
Gasoline Alley, 10/20/23 If you were thinking that nothing could make this seemingly interminable talking bear story even more pointless and irritating, you...
"Rewarding financially, I mean, obviously"
Shoe, 10/19/23 I've complained about this before, but Shoe has a long-established setting where the various bird characters get drunk and hit on one another,...
You think those lasers can't simply be danced through? You sweet summer child
Dick Tracy, 10/18/23 Oh no! Why would you build a huge wing on the back of your mansion that has an entirely glass ceiling? Why, you're just asking for...
Tuesday is for the future
Slylock Fox, 10/17/23 Ahh, an idyllic barnyard scene, featuring various animals relaxing and frolicking with one another, showing no sings of the advanced...
Gonna be hard to repurpose that thing if they hire a turtle detective or whatever
Dick Tracy, 10/16/23 Dick Tracy loves gadgets, of course, but I assume he's bored and vaguely disgusted with fancy "forensics," because they allows...
Sunday quickies
Rex Morgan, M.D., 10/15/23 So the exciting (?) Mud/Rene kidnapping plot is over (??), and I gotta say probably the perfect sum up to any given Rex Morgan,...
Fun wordplay, fun wordplay ... oh NO
Mary Worth, 10/14/23 Uh oh! Keith may have been willing to agreed to disagree on whether or not society should be allowed to disintegrate into chaos, but my...
Metapost: Keep on truckin' COTW
It's the freakin' weekend, everyone, and that means it's the freakin' comment of the freakin' week! "Personally, I wish more comics were like today's Beetle...
Does Lt. Fuzz have the same hair situation as Charlie Brown
Beetle Bailey, 10/12/23 I don't know if General Halftrack's rambling comeback here is supposed to be funny (it isn't) or if it's supposed to indicate that...
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...