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Josh has questions
Premium post · July 16, 2023
Marvin, 7/16/23 Setting aside for the moment the entire "how old is Marvin" question -- he's preverbal, at least for this strip, and not potty trained? --...
Saturday is for leisure
Premium post · July 15, 2023
Hi and Lois and The Lockhorns, 7/15/23 Call me "out of touch" all you want -- my family certainly does -- but golf seems like a hugely expensive and boring...
Metapost: Laffs (live)! Laffs (top comments)! Etc.
Premium post · July 14, 2023
Happy Friday everyone! It's the second Friday of the month, and that means ... the Internet Read Aloud, my live comedy show, is BACK and better than ever in...
Coastal Scotland was dominated by the Norse for centuries, so the golf part is accurate
Premium post · July 14, 2023
Hagar the Horrible, 7/14/23 Wait, did we know that Hagar was bald under his omnipresent trademark horny hat? I did some deep research (went to my advanced...
The liberal media gives trepanning a bad rap
Premium post · July 13, 2023
Mary Worth, 7/13/23 Do you think this warehouse is the same one where the famed Operation H-Town shootout went down way back in ought-nine? You know, the one...
Wednesday is for torment
Premium post · July 12, 2023
Rhymes With Orange, 7/12/23 One of my biggest beefs with several of the more popular religious cosmologies is the concept of hell: the idea that anything you...
Mostly soapy Tuesday
Premium post · July 11, 2023
Judge Parker, 7/11/23 Josh, the world cries out with one voice, how's Sam and Abbey's sex vacation going? Well, they just had just gotten out of cell phone...
Receiving the award from one of his own employees is a nice touch
Premium post · July 10, 2023
Gasoline Alley, 7/10/23 Obviously the art in Gasoline Alley is not what you call realistic -- see for instance, Rufus's whole [gestures vaguely at his...
This puts the Peanuts "sigh" thing to shame
Premium post · July 9, 2023
Curtis, 7/9/23 As part of my mission to say nice things about comics when I enjoy them, I really enjoyed this Curtis! Basically I spent the whole strip...
Someday a real rain will come ... a rain named Mary ... and wash all this scum off the streets
Premium post · July 8, 2023
Mary Worth, 7/8/23 Huh, I guess the way that Mary is going to help out the police is to take to the streets herself as a cold-hearted vigilante who doesn't...
Metapost: Comedic COTW
Premium post · July 7, 2023
Folks! Next week is the second Friday of the month, and that means ... the Internet Read Aloud, my live comedy show, is BACK and better than ever in Los...
Madsen's checkered shirt implies an intriguing ska connection
Premium post · July 7, 2023
Dick Tracy, 7/7/23 Would you say that Madsen here has anime hair? I'm not an anime expert, or "otaku", but that's my take on what he's got going on, anyway....
"Hath fallen" is the past tense, which also doesn't work
Premium post · July 6, 2023
Slylock Fox, 7/6/23 I have come to accept that, in the post-Animalpocalypse world of Slylock Fox, one of the Transformations is that the relative sizes of...
Mostly soapy Wednesday
Premium post · July 5, 2023
Gil Thorp, 7/5/23 Ahh, there's nothing like waking up on a fine summer morning, picking up the morning dead tree paper, and seeing the banner headline that...
USA! USA! USA!
Premium post · July 4, 2023
Mary Worth, 7/4/23 Greetings, fellow Americans! Hopefully you are spending today watching fireworks and patriotically contemplating's our nation's successful...
Monday one-panels
Premium post · July 3, 2023
Six Chix, 7/3/23 I like this one! I like this one because it implies either that crabs are the undersea equivalent of Americans, or that in the far future,...
What did Kate do to deserve any of this
Premium post · July 2, 2023
Dennis the Menace, 7/2/23 We don't talk very much about what a truly sad place Mr. Wilson has been brought to by the unending irritations and indignities...
"The Lockhorns" would actually be a pretty funny name for an improv team
Premium post · July 1, 2023
The Lockhorns, 7/1/23 Ahh, another entry in the "Lockhorns are millennials” files: Yes, Leroy got up to 301 at UCB, yes he absolutely was that guy who...
Metapost: June2July COTW
Premium post · June 30, 2023
Last day of the month, last day of the week ... and it's time for your top comment! "'Seriously, brat is an obscenity, right? Like it's really really dirty?'...
Dawg is using his body to heroically protect the Safe Space for the Ladies
Premium post · June 30, 2023
Blondie, 6/30/23 The idea of being put in a situation where you respond to someone awkwardly in the moment and dwell on it later is of course relatable. I...
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