Love and vapes
Gil Thorp, 4/19/23 Oh, were you upset that Gil Thorp seemed to have dropped the Great Vape Caper storyline? Well, it seems Toby and his pals are still out...
Tuesday is for oldsters
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/18/23 Oh no, Hank Jr. must either give in to that nagging feeling he has about "Dr. Mirakle" and follow that thread no matter how far it...
Ahh, youth!
Folks, we need to start off on a sad note: Dennis Lien, who for many years posted in the comments here as shrug, passed away last week under hospice care. He...
In search of lost Dagwoodian time
Blondie, 4/16/23 My impression of Blondie and Bumstead’s personal history goes something like this: they has a brief and dissolute young adulthood during the...
Is "gossip fence" the official name? It is now as far as I'm concerned
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/15/23 Aw, shucks, it looks like Dr. Mirakle really is Rene Belluso after all, cleverly disguised via fake eyebrows, though the question...
Metapost: Something exciting .... comedy tonight, COTW today!
Folks! TONIGHT the Internet Read Aloud returns to the city of Los Angeles, with a very special guest: Washington Post columnist/Wait Wait Don't Tell Me...
Friday fast takes
Hi and Lois, 4/14/23 “I mean, look at these drips! None of them are charismatic or even vaguely attractive, and they’re already in high school and yet have...
"Oh dear" is honestly my reaction to most things that happen in the comics
Daddy Daze, 4/13/23 As you know, one of my favorite things to speculate about is the backstory on the relationship between the Daddy Daze daddy and the Daddy...
Rhyming names are my madeleine
Mary Worth, 4/12/23 Of the several minimum wage office temp jobs I held between semesters when I was in grad school, probably the best was the summer I spent...
"We do it," Hi says, and everyone knows exactly what he means
Gil Thorp, 4/11/23 Oh, gosh, I guess I’ve been failing to keep you informed on Actual Sports Action in Gil Thorp, although obviously you’re fully up to date...
Monday madness
Shoe, 4/10/23 I joke about goggle eyes of horror a lot on this site in regards to Shoe but here’s an instance when they’re absolutely justified. Why on earth...
He (Snuffy Smith) Is Risen
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 4/9/23 I actually find Sheriff Tait’s expression in the second panel of the middle row quite poignant. Why, he never meant...
Soapy Saturday
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/8/23 Look, Yvonne, either this guy has gone on a journey of personal self discovery that has resulted in the enshittification of his...
Metapost: Comedy pluggin' COTW
Folks! One week from today, the Internet Read Aloud returns to the city of Los Angeles, with a very special guest: Washington Post columnist/Wait Wait Don’t...
Sadly for Dennis, this guy actually works in safety engineering
Dennis the Menace, 4/7/23 Last month I speculated on Henry Mitchell's career status, based on my half-memory that he might be an engineer, and readers...
Young people annoy their elders
Gasoline Alley, 4/6/23 Oh, hey, Ida Knoe the evil talking doll who can travel through time, wild that you’re only now worried about the consequences of...
Don't worry, Ed, therapists rarely euthanize THEIR patients
Mary Worth, 4/5/23 Ah ha, we’ve finally arrived at the big dramatic twist in this storyline: Estelle has to convince Dr. Ed to go to therapy! I look forward...
Cantankerous Tuesday
Beetle Bailey, 4/4/23 I think an underrated and probably quite realistic aspect of Beetle Bailey is that its motley crew of characters, thrown together by...
I don't think putting a camera into a ceramic frog makes it a "robot"
Slylock Fox, 4/3/23 I genuinely love how flabbergasted Count Weirdly looks here. “Oh my god! Slylock Fox? The detective who foils literally every one of my...
I'm impressed a horse can work the cash register with a single hoof
Panel from Slylock Fox, 4/2/23 I dunno, man, I kind of doubt that the Forest Kingdom’s legal regime says you’re allowed to take away someone’s jar of nuts...