Tales out of school
Luann, 9/11/25 Many years ago, when I was a TA in grad school, I had a very precocious undergraduate student who used to come to office hours to hang out and...
The fish skeleton I just accept. There's always a fish skeleton in these
Slylock Fox, 9/10/25 This is one of the most baffling Six Differences cartoons I've seen in quite a while. Why does the horse have a butt wound? Why does he...
She's flying AWAY from New York, she should be singing "California" by Phantom Planet
Mary Worth, 9/9/25 Mary Worth's use of bold font is ... let's say, unconventional, but I do think that Olive's word balloon in the second panel being...
A real force of alcoholic nature
The Lockhorns, 9/8/25 Now, one of Loretta's running gripes with Leroy is that he doesn't make enough money for her tastes, so we can be certain that her shoe...
Does he think she can buy her own plane tickets or what
Mary Worth, 9/7/25 I myself am not a parent and don't presume to fully understand how they have to balance between fiercely protecting their children and...
Saturday is for death
Beetle Bailey, 9/6/25 Hmm, Sarge managed to knock himself unconscious after landing on his tailbone, presumably from some shockwave that went up his spine,...
Metapost: Slightly delayed COTW
Sorry, a little late in the day I know, but here ... is your comment ... of the week! "Poor Charlie Brown. Once, he was a global icon, the Everyman...
RIP Norway, 872-950 AD
Hagar the Horrible, 9/5/25 Real Hagar heads know that Hagar is illiterate, and while Lucky Eddie also was at one point, he later learned to read and write. I...
Wednesday quickies
Family Circus, 9/4/25 Ha ha, look at Jeffy's face! He knows it's not good! But he doesn't have the gumption to be mad about it, just sad! Hagar the Horrible,...
What about women's driving ability, relative to men? Some delightful material there, I'm sure!
Mother Goose and Grimm, 9/3/25 Hopefully by now you are all well acquainted with my beef with how comic strips depict the relationship between dogs and fire...
Measured criticism for Tuesday
Beetle Bailey, 9/2/25 Now, I'm not a big shot syndicated newspaper comics artist, but I think that if you have a joke where a general tells a subordinate...
Some cyber-gripes
Crock, 9/1/25 Even if you hate Crock with a passion, you don't read it every day for 20+ years without learning a little something about its character...
Egyptomania
Mary Worth, 8/31/25 Yes, Olive, you "saw" that she was struggling in the water, with your "eyes," as she was immediately in "front" of you as you stood on...
Ancient-ish times
Hagar the Horrible, 8/30/25 Look, despite the fun ("fun") I have here detailing all the anachronisms in Hagar the Horrible, I do in fact get that the...
Metapost: Summer's end COTW
Forget the equinox: We all know September and the school year herald the end of summer as we know it. So enjoy this last pre-fall comment of the week:...
Hell is for (and created by) children
Dennis the Menace, 8/29/25 We take the eternal struggle between Dennis and Mr. Wilson so much for granted that it rarely occurs to us to ask what Dennis gets...
Troubling biology
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 8/28/25 Imagine: You've just finished putting together the script for a perfectly serviceable Barney Google and Snuffy Smith...
Belated change belatedly acknowledged
B.C., 8/27/25 A fun thing that happened in B.C. about halfway through the decade or so when I was ignoring it is that the Cute Chick and the Fat Broad got...
Tuesday quickies
Six Chix, 8/26/25 Look, in the Tuesday Chixiverse, people have sex with sandwiches and pizza, so I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss out of hand anything...
Real sad situations
Beetle Bailey, 8/25/25 Comedy is, in large part, the art of subverting your audience's expectations in ways they find pleasing. So you could see how it might...