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The used they money they saved on Kaz's salary to pay for that fursuit
Premium post · April 1, 2023
Dustin, 4/1/23 Today’s Dustin is based on one of my least favorite (which is really saying something) running strip premises, which is that the supposedly...
Metapost: Comedy and COTW coming at ya
Premium post · March 31, 2023
Folks! Two weeks 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...
Mud goes into his new hit song, "I Wear My Sunglasses Inside"
Premium post · March 31, 2023
Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/31/23 What’s that you say? Prof. Augustus Mirakle? Sounds like TAFKAMMM has fallen under the sinister influence of… THAT’S RIGHT BABY,...
Killjoy Thursday
Premium post · March 30, 2023
Hi and Lois, 3/30/23 "Oh, are you giddy with anticipation over a fresh new year, full of infinite possibilities? Well, have you considered that, since those...
Cyber-Wednesday
Premium post · March 29, 2023
Blondie, 3/29/23 I've always been a "work at home in my pajamas" guy rather than a "carpool" guy, but my understanding is that carpools that consist of the...
She's already wearing her sexiest vest
Premium post · March 28, 2023
Judge Parker, 3/28/23 Look, we’ve had a lot of dragged-out and sometimes baffling emotional processing between these two over the past few years, and I for...
Monday quickies
Premium post · March 27, 2023
Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/27/23 SMASH CUT TO: a group of furious middle-aged cruise-goers dangling “Mud Mountain” Murphy off the side of the ship, threatening to...
Walker-Browne errors
Premium post · March 26, 2023
Hi and Lois, 3/26/23 Hi, you are ... 45 years old, tops? You are probably never going to become a famous guitar player but you absolutely can still write a...
Metapost: Joe Giella, 1928-2023 (plus COTW)
Premium post · March 25, 2023
Some sad news for folks who are longtime fans of Mary Worth (which, I assume, is all of you): Joe Giella, who was the strip’s artist for more than 20 years...
Perfect thing to mindlessly chew while staring at your phone
Premium post · March 25, 2023
Gasoline Alley, 3/25/23 Not that there's much by way of competition, but Ida Knoe, the evil talking doll who can travel through time, is now officially my...
Friday is for a sense of unease
Premium post · March 24, 2023
Dennis the Menace, 3/24/23 Ha ha, that is not the face of a lady who is amused or a little perturbed at the memory of of what went down during her last visit...
Problems and solutions
Premium post · March 23, 2023
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 3/23/23 I think it’s worthwhile to occasionally reflect on how weird the newspaper comic Snuffy Smith is, as a cultural...
Cries for help
Premium post · March 22, 2023
Beetle Bailey, 3/22/23 Miss Buxley's baggy, shabby outfit today is going to disappoint both General Halftrack and the legions of Beetle Bailey fans who find...
Can't believe they're trapped on a boat with that guy
Premium post · March 21, 2023
Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/21/23 Ha ha, I was right, this cruise is going to get a healthy dose of Mud Mountain's musical scheming! I'm taking "privy" in that last...
Monday is for the children
Premium post · March 20, 2023
Daddy Daze, 3/20/23 OK, I know we're all in agreement that the Daddy Daze daddy is deep in the throes of some kind of kind of seriously delusional state, but...
Deadly Sunday
Premium post · March 19, 2023
Mary Worth, 3/19/23 It’s true and tragic that the veterinarians have higher than typical rates of death by suicide, and it’s also great that there’s a...
Is it March where Dustin and Meg are, do you think
Premium post · March 18, 2023
Dustin, 3/18/23 A fun fact is that Dustin premiered in January 2010, at the low point of the Great Recession, when unemployment was at nearly 10% and entry-...
Metapost: Top o' the COTW to ye
Premium post · March 17, 2023
This week’s top comment won’t drive all the snakes out of your peaceful island, but it will make you laugh: "I'm so glad that Slylock does the dopey, overly...
TGIF, fellow office drones!!!!
Premium post · March 17, 2023
Marvin, 3/17/23 Most people would tell you that Marvin’s main innovation is that it’s a newspaper comic strip that’s mostly about peeing and pooping, but...
"Massing," "mobilization," same diff
Premium post · March 16, 2023
Crock, 3/16/23 A fun fact is that this is literally how World War I started -- or, I guess, is literally why World War I couldn't be stopped after it started...
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