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Trixie will be rendered using what critics are calling "the most unsettling CGI yet"
Premium post · May 24, 2023
Six Chix, 5/24/23 Six Chix is a long-running feature that dares to ask the question, “What if women wrote a comic strip? What would we learn about the female...
How many dead Houndstooths (Houndsteeth?) are there exactly
Premium post · May 23, 2023
Mary Worth, 5/23/23 We don't know a ton about Saul's past, but we do know that he was forced by his family to abandon his true love and enter into some kind...
Soapy catch-ups
Premium post · May 22, 2023
Gil Thorp, 5/22/23 Oh, were you wondering if the Great Vape Caper was still underway and still funding the Milford Athletic Department and/or the lifestyles...
Sunday is for old people
Premium post · May 21, 2023
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/21/23 We all know that newspaper comics in general and newspaper soap opera comics in particular are being kept alive by a readership...
Can't stop staring at that blatantly traced grill
Premium post · May 20, 2023
Blondie and Hi and Lois, 5/20/23 As a participant in the childfree lifestyle, I appreciate what representation I can find in the comics, even if it's just...
Metapost: C! O! T! W!
Premium post · May 19, 2023
It’s that time of month, y’all … time for the comment of the week! "I see why Jeff bought a much bigger boat. If you want to discuss Wilbur's sex prowess and...
Several opinions from Josh about comic strips
Premium post · May 19, 2023
Beetle Bailey, 5/19/23 It is of course a long-established joke in Beetle Bailey that Sarge is a cartoonish glutton, but every once in a while they also do a...
Only Thirsty has the wisdom necessary to transcend samsara
Premium post · May 18, 2023
Dick Tracy, 5/18/23 A question I have often had reason to contemplate is “Who is [any given legacy comic strip still being produced in the year 2023] for,...
It's hard for Mud to think clearly, up there where the oxygen is so thin
Premium post · May 17, 2023
Gil Thorp, 5/17/23 How is Gil’s arch-rival Luke Hernandez dealing with Gil’s secret baseball weapon, a blind pitcher teaching the Mudlarks to open their...
No Apologies Needed For Being Basic As Hell: The Jeff and Mary Story
Premium post · May 16, 2023
Mary Worth, 5/16/23 Look, I'm a guy who likes to eat out, and LA has an great food scene with amazing high- and low-end restaurants, but definitely at the...
Also that rocket doesn't have the fuel capacity to reach orbit, like at all
Premium post · May 15, 2023
Slylock Fox, 5/15/23 I genuinely love the contrast in Max and Sly's affect here, in line with the tale spun by the mystery. Max is just in the midst of a...
Even more sexual Sunday
Premium post · May 14, 2023
Hi and Lois, 5/14/23 This is truly one of the wildest throwaway panels I’ve ever seen. Readers of space-constrained newspapers are just getting a classic...
Sort of sexual Saturday
Premium post · May 13, 2023
Shoe, 5/13/23 We talk a lot on here about the Shoe goggle eyes of horror, with the horror in question being experienced by the Shoe character and the goggle...
Metapost: COTW (and virtual laffs only)
Premium post · May 12, 2023
Folks! Apologies to anyone who had planned to come to the Internet Read Aloud in LA tonight – the theater is having both plumbing and HVAC problems so I had...
The shirt was designed by someone who likes mud as a concept, it's not licensed merch
Premium post · May 12, 2023
Gil Thorp, 5/12/23 Gil Thorp is notorious for bringing back beloved characters from years past, and so when I recognized Gregg Hamm’s name I was excited to...
The frolicking dolphins are eager to welcome Wilbur to the watery grave he keeps dodging
Premium post · May 11, 2023
Six Chix, 5/11/23 So the thing about "sudden," as a noun, is that it has completely fallen out of use in English outside the set phrase "all of a sudden,"...
Grim scenes
Premium post · May 10, 2023
Gil Thorp, 5/10/23 Still not sure what a “Milford juvenile sports program manager” is or does, but apparently it pays pretty well, enough to get a penthouse...
Medical maladies
Premium post · May 9, 2023
Daddy Daze, 5/9/23 Daddy Daze is one of the more recent additions to my stable of commented upon comics, and yet I have been commenting on it for more than...
(Mostly) soapy Monday
Premium post · May 8, 2023
Mary Worth, 5/8/23 Welp, looks like Ed and Estelle are happy and Ed’s workplace problems are squared away, and Wilbur is emotionally processing his...
Billy's mustache, Dolly's neck ... it's all very, very wrong
Premium post · May 7, 2023
Marvin, 5/7/23 Like Hagar the Horrible, Marvin hasn’t exactly introduced a ton of new characters over in recent years. I’m pretty sure “Marty” is new,...
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