Josh grumps out

$ · May 15, 2024

Mary Worth, 5/15/24 Oooh, look everyone, Mary Worth is doing a bit where Wilbur is shouting "Stella!" like Stanley from A Streetcar Named Desire, except it's...

Ancient ways, modern art

$ · May 14, 2024

Gasoline Alley, 5/14/24 Ha ha yes, last week I had some fun imagining Walt encountering some biblically accurate angels, but this week Walt is has entered a...

Nightmarish Monday

$ · May 13, 2024

Daddy Daze, 5/13/24 One of the most fascinating and bonkers "big ideas" books of the '70s was The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral...

Walker-Browne quickies

$ · May 12, 2024

Hi and Lois, 5/12/24 The "joke" of today's strip is that the Flagston children have announced that their mother now has to share Mother's Day with their...

MOTHERS ARE GREAT, I LOVE MOTHERS, THEY DESERVE ONLY THE BEST

$ · May 11, 2024

Blondie, 5/11/24 Look, obviously saying anything against mothers and motherhood is a swift ticket to getting abruptly cancelled -- and rightfully so! [laughs...

Metapost: The comments, the comments ... they're good

$ · May 10, 2024

There were many comments this week, but to me, this one was tops: "Ha, look at that sad look on Lois' face, she knows that Ditto will indeed be following in...

The fish are the new Adam and Eve

$ · May 10, 2024

Beetle Bailey, 5/10/24 The thing I like about this strip is how numb Sarge looks in the second panel. He scarfed down two plates full of burgers and fries...

Family life

$ · May 9, 2024

Mary Worth, 5/9/24 Dawn is reconnecting with her Connecticut WASP mother by attempting to enjoy high-prestige social pursuits like the ballet. Wilbur,...

Neologistic nights

$ · May 8, 2024

Tina's Groove, 5/8/24 So Tina's Groove is one of the "new" comics I've been reading lately, though in the interest of total accuracy I should note that these...

Big developments, for certain definitions of "big"

$ · May 7, 2024

Shoe, 5/7/24 A classic Shoe bit is to use the structure of a test question at Skyler's school to deliver a bad joke, even though the result is a test...

Hagar [experiences] the Horrible [way to die]

$ · May 6, 2024

Gil Thorp, 5/6/24 Milford has its own Native American reservation and, we learn today, its own institution of higher learning. Soon, having accrued all the...

Mostly Walker-Browne Sunday

$ · May 5, 2024

Hi and Lois, 5/5/24 I guess the point of this strip (to the extent that any given Hi and Lois comic can be said to have a "point") is to shore up the Walker-...

Josh gets critical

$ · May 4, 2024

Daddy Daze, 5/4/24 Look, I'm just going to say it: I find the Daddy Daze baby, with his fixed, manic smile, his uncanny ability to move about and manipulate...

Metapost: Comments, we get comments (of the week)

$ · May 3, 2024

cotw COTW COTW COTW! "Amen, sister. Don't we all wish we were Kristy? I have no idea what this is about, and I don't care: being Kristy just seems right."...

That's his "decoy wallet"

$ · May 3, 2024

Judge Parker, 5/3/24 Hey, guys, remember Pavel, a Russian crime boss and the first interesting new character Judge Parker introduced in years? In the old...

All of his "adventure stories" involve almost dying on a cruise ship

$ · May 2, 2024

Shoe, 5/2/24 Yeah, man. Giant bird with prehensile hands and opposable thumbs? Wears clothes and plays guitar? Not part of any Earthly biome I'm familiar...

It came from the deep (erotically)

$ · May 1, 2024

Pardon My Planet, 5/1/24 I don't generally have anything nice to say about Pardon My Planet, but I will say this: this lady (I think the Pardon My Planet...

Filmmakers ... always trying to create "drama"

$ · April 30, 2024

Gil Thorp, 4/30/24 This week in Gil Thorp we've learned that star Mudlark pitcher Leo Atazhoon is Native American (this may actually not be new info but...

Monday quickies

$ · April 29, 2024

Mary Worth, 4/29/24 Nothing but respect for this old man, who continues to mentally use some truly obscene epithet to refer to Wilbur even while...

Mostly thowaways

$ · April 28, 2024

Panels from Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 4/28/24 Remember the "30-50 feral hogs" guys? He briefly amused Twitter in 2019 when he demanded to know how he...

From hell's heart, I stab at thee

$ · April 27, 2024

Gil Thorp, 4/27/24 I'm not sure what the current consensus on how to win over the teenage kids of the divorced dad you're currently fucking, but bribing them...

Metapost: It's all happening, COTW-wise

April 26, 2024

This week's top comment -- ta da! "It's not enough that Zak is a gorilla. He is an ugly gorilla. Man, that Wilbur is a master of nuance." --Bob Tice And the...

Quicksand isn't real, also, but we don't have time to go into that

$ · April 26, 2024

Suburban Fairy Tales, 4/26/24 Suburban Fairy Tales is one of the new strips I've been reading, and it's a basically funny and enjoyable strip about cute...

Slouching Towards Charterstone

$ · April 25, 2024

Mark Trail, 4/25/24 Mark, I don't know if I'd trust a horse with my life in this scenario. Have you ever seen a horse race? They're just running in circles,...

This strip is NOT sponcon, I'd respect it more it more if it were

$ · April 24, 2024

Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/24/24 OK, fine, I admit it, I'm a hypocrite: after many years of complaining that Rex Morgan, M.D., doesn't do high-stakes medical drama,...

Vote early, vote often

$ · April 23, 2024

Blondie, 4/23/24 Good lord, when's the last time Blondie introduce a new character? Even Elmo has been around since at least 1954. Despite [gestures vaguely...

Beasts, beast-men, Wilbur, etc.

$ · April 22, 2024

Pluggers, 4/22/24 John Cougar Mellencamp sits at the intersection of plugger and poet, and I have long believed that "Life goes on/ long after the thrill of...

Iris and Zak 100% will not notice if Wilbur stops talking or just leaves

$ · April 21, 2024

Mary Worth, 4/21/24 You'd think that boxing talk combined with Wilbur going into a traumatized fugue state would be a perfect opportunity for a return of the...

More like Hi and Bankrupt, amiright

$ · April 20, 2024

Between Friends, 4/20/24 Not to sound like the old person that I literally am, but TV used to be a lot fewer two-hour movie premises stretched out over eight...

Metapost: The week's top comments ... you want 'em, we got 'em

$ · April 19, 2024

Your COTW is right here, right now! "Hey guys, an app that can load the dishwasher is called a robot. How soon we forget the tropes of yesteryear."...

STOP THE MADNESS

$ · April 19, 2024

Dennis the Menace, 4/19/24 There's been a disturbing trend lately of Dennis the Menace panels where Dennis doesn't figure into the gag at all, even as unseen...

Think of the perfectly good car rendered useless for this little gimmick

$ · April 18, 2024

Six Chix, 4/18/24 I'll freely admit that I find floating Poseidon here very charming, with his cheery attitude and his whole ... diaper? situation and a...

Cyber-Wednesday

$ · April 17, 2024

Blondie, 4/17/24 Most Blondie strips aren't exactly Shakespeare, but there's usually ... a recognizable jokes? A punchline? People are way too ready to say...

Walker-Browne transcendence

$ · April 16, 2024

Hi and Lois, 4/16/24 Lois's book group used to be the fun kind, where she and her friends would use the vague excuse of literary pretension to get extremely...

The surreal and the terrifying

$ · April 15, 2024

Alice, 4/15/24 I'm happy to report that, sine I started reading Alice a few weeks ago, I have fallen thoroughly, 100% under its spell. This strip takes...

Ominous soapers

$ · April 14, 2024

Mary Worth, 4/14/24 Are you feeling down, my friends? Depressed? Abandoned? Do you worry that nobody loves you, simply because, in many ways both large and...

Saturday is for the children

$ · April 13, 2024

Hi and Lois, 4/13/24 Two things you have to keep in mind when reading today's Hi and Lois: (a) despite my many jokes about how Trixie is an eternal baby...

Metapost: Friday funtime COTW

$ · April 12, 2024

You want this week's top comment? You got it, buddy! "Now let's be fair, there are plenty of valid reasons for this lady to call Wilbur 'pretty good.' Maybe...

Soapy emotional rollercoasters

$ · April 12, 2024

Gasoline Alley, 4/12/24 It's not news exactly that conflict is the engine of good stories, but I have to say that Gasoline Alley feels like it's...

Add more cats. More dogs. MORE

$ · April 11, 2024

Mary Worth, 4/11/24 Uh, what's that? We sent Wilbur on a solo karaoke journey where he sang Celine Dion and you felt nothing? Well, what if we, uh [sweating...

The War of Electric Aggression

$ · April 10, 2024

Gasoline Alley, 4/10/24 You know, after all these years, I still experience the joy of discovery from reading the newspaper comics. Or, well, at least...

Josh's seal of disapproval

$ · April 9, 2024

Family Circus, 4/9/24 The "fun" of a Dolly Family Circus gag, to the extent that such a thing exists, is often about the gap between her smug, know-it-all...

Ladies can have flattops too, by the way, there's a lady with a flattop IN THIS STRIPa

$ · April 8, 2024

Dick Tracy, 4/8/24 In a lot of ways, it has to be a real pain in the ass to be a criminal in the Dick Tracy universe -- like, you have to have some kind of...

Sunday transcendence

$ · April 7, 2024

Hagar the Horrible, 4/7/24 Hagar has pelted this prophetic orb into the Duke's castle and it has thoroughly demoralized the defenders by showing them their...

Musical weekend

$ · April 6, 2024

Beetle Bailey, 4/6/24 I'm sorry, Sarge doesn't know any "raunchy" songs. He may be a brute who spends his days preparing men for the horrors of war by...

Metapost: Gettin' COTWy with it

$ · April 5, 2024

Comment of the WEEK, y'all! It's here and it's real and it's spectacular: "Reading today's Snuffy Smith, it strikes me that I know a lot about the...

Wilbur and other monsters

$ · April 5, 2024

Arctic Circle, 4/5/24 Arctic Circle is a comic strip about a bunch of penguins that live in the Arctic (YES I KNOW THAT'S WRONG, IT'S PART OF THE JOKE/LORE),...

This lady is taking her LIFE into her own hands here, talking to Gertie like that

$ · April 4, 2024

Gearhead Gertie, 4/4/24 I really enjoy the fact that about half of Gearhead Gertie strips are like "here's a recent NASCAR story or controversy, spelled out...

Old blogger yells at cloud

$ · April 3, 2024

Blondie, 4/3/24 Everyone makes fun of young people for being addicted to social media, but the truth is that old people are also addicted to social media....

Sacred Tuesday

$ · April 2, 2024

Gasoline Alley, 4/2/24 I realize that a lot of fiction essentially consists of making up a guy to get mad at so you can be happy when he loses, but I feel...