Good news and bad news
Mary Worth, 6/10/23 Look, I am a huge animal lover. My wife and I have two cats that we dote on and spend a probably unreasonable amount of time thinking and...
Metapost: Comedy toooNIGHT (plus COTW)
That’s right folks: it’s the 2nd Friday of the month, and you know what that means: LIVE ON-STAGE COMEDY IN LOS ANGELES, FROM YOURS TRULY! Here is the...
Friday is time for me to educate you about CINEMA
Dustin, 6/9/23 Under The Skin is a truly great and unsettlingly weird movie that is, probably, about an alien who’s been sent to Earth to capture and harvest...
Dog dads and ward grads
Mary Worth, 6/8/23 Looks like Santa Royale Action News has gotten wind of the van-based dognapping gang haunting the region, and thank goodness they're...
Wednesday is for weird office stuff
Dustin, 6/7/23 I would hesitate to ever say you have to hand it to the syndicated comic strip Dustin, but you do have to hand it to the syndicated comic...
The Perfersser usually wears a shirt and no pants, but at the gym he reverses it I guess
Pluggers and Shoe, 6/6/23 How are the various human-animal hybrid monstrosities of the Jeff MacNelly Extended Universe grappling with the concept of the...
Suburban disquiet
Mary Worth, 6/5/23 Haha, remember how when Saul Wynter was first introduced to this strip, Toby made a big show of not liking him, and when his original,...
People on the phone can't tell you're barefoot, true story
Dennis the Menace, 6/4/23 Part of my whole shtick on this blog is making fun of comics that just do the same jokes over and over, which itself has become...
No, it's a real scam. If a scam was "phoney," it would be a legitimate business offer
Gil Thorp, 6/3/23 Keri, I'm not really sure that you need preternatural powers of empathy to "sense of jealousy" from a guy whose dad is lavishing so much...
Metapost: It's comedy ... it's comments of the week ... it's BOTH
That’s right folks: next Friday is the 2nd Friday of the month, and you know what that means: LIVE ON-STAGE COMEDY IN LOS ANGELES, FROM YOURS TRULY! Here is...
Adventures in time
Family Circus, 6/2/23 Nextdoor, the social network that's like Facebook except instead of people who you actually like or at least know it's full of people...
Yet more youths
Rex Morgan, M.D., 6/1/23 Many, many years ago, God, so many years ago, what have I done with my life, is this all there is … wait, what was I talking about?...
That chicken is ready to do some karate chops
Beetle Bailey, 5/31/23 The whole “Beetle and Miss Buxley are dating” bit is a recent development in this strip and I’m on the record as strongly opposed to...
Mostly teen Tuesday
Gil Thorp, 5/30/23 One of the things I’ve always respected about baseball (the men’s version) is that, as with all sports, sometimes a level of disrespect is...
Spiritual Monday
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 5/29/23 You might think that the inhabitants of Hootin’ Holler would object to the fact their only clergyman is a grifter and...
Unfortunately, heaven is other people too
Family Circus, 5/28/23 The Good Place was a great philosophical afterlife sitcom, and in its later seasons you learn that the titular Good Place (its...
Soapy dullness
Judge Parker, 5/27/23 Oh, can’t remember if I mentioned that the CIA let April out of prison, but: the CIA let April out of prison, presumably because they...
Metapost: Long weekend COTW
Whether you have Monday off or you’ll be working hard on Saturday and Sunday, let today’s comment of the week lift you up: "Harwoods! Just checking to see if...
Please do not mistake me for a snob, I love a starch
Shoe, 5/26/23 I know that restaurants generically calling side dishes like potatoes or rice or whatever “starches” was a thing at one point, but is it still...
Mostly baseball
Shoe, 5/25/23 I'm not sure if we's supposed to understand here that Skyler is literally running away from home (if he is, he's violating the cardinal rule...