HO HO HO! I'M OUTTA HERE SUCKERS
Folks, it’s that time of year again: time for me to get the hell out of dodge and gently put this blog to sleep for a couple of weeks for its...
Les's head, still smirking, will be left on the altar
Rex Morgan, M.D., 12/22/22 So Rex Morgan is trying to do a thing where they're aging up the kids a bit, and ... look, as a non-kid-haver, I'm just going to...
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Between Friends, 12/21/22 So Monday and Tuesday’s Between Friends were about one of the families in the Between Friends gang watching the Twilight saga,...
At sea
Blondie, 12/20/22 I'm reasonably sure that we've never seen Dagwood and his "fishing buddy" Herb ever actually go fishing? Maybe there was talk of fishing...
Love Iris's jacket, I think it's inspired by the 1980s Star Trek movie uniforms
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 12/19/22 We’ve all wondered about the circumstances of the elaborate gift-giving sequence in “The Twelve Days of Christmas,”...
Women do be shopping (for necessities, and also luxuries)
Marvin, 12/18/22 OK, today’s Marvin is dumb and bad and revolves around a terrible “women be shopping!!!!” premise, but I still found it very funny, mostly...
Santa Claus: Enter the Santa-verse
Blondie, 12/17/22 I spent a probably embarrassing amount of time staring at this thinking “Which of the third-tier Blondie characters is this dressed up as...
Metapost: Wintry COTW
As the snow comes down and that icy wind begins to blow (on you, not me; I live in Southern California), please warm yourself with laughter at this comment...
Cantankerous Friday
Crankshaft, 12/16/22 Hey, did you know that "deja vu" means "seen again," and that "vu" is the past participle of the verb "voir," which means "to see," and...
You're living life right if you're WALKING AROUND with pants but not WEARING pants
Dustin, 12/15/22 I always criticize the comic strip Dustin for its failure to depict its young-person characters in realistic ways, so I have to give credit...
Grumpy Wednesday
Crankshaft, 12/14/22 I love the idea of this TV station boss threatening to make his staff pick up dog shit if they annoy him. There are just lots of levels...
[Sadly, drunkenly] goooooooaaaalllll
Curtis, 12/13/22 Part of the whole comedic engine that makes Curtis work is that Greg Wilkins is kind of a square. Still, I hadn’t guessed just how much he...
A deady game of peek-a-book
Mary Worth, 12/12/22 Good morning and happy Monday, everybody! Definitely what we all wanted after putting a relaxing weekend behind us to log in and see...
Max will never be swole
Panel from Slylock Fox, 12/11/22 There's a lot going on in this panel -- Max trying and failing to pump iron; how peevish the alligator gym attendent is...
Fathers and sons
Zits, 12/10/22 The thing about dad jokes is that they are corny but actually perfectly constructed. Think about the classic "I'm hungry!" "Hi, hungry, I'm...
Metapost: Crack o' down COTW
Let's get right into the day ... and right into the comment of the week: "As a scholar of game theory and social choice, Elmo knows that any binary selection...
Ah, that Hooper ... always ... giving the signal and such ... classic Hooper
Shoe, 12/9/22 I suppose it’s possible that immediately before the action we see here in the strip, Loon was pridefully boasting of his achievements or good...
I assume that drug gangs put a lot of energy into being cool
Judge Parker, 12/8/22 When I was a teen, there was a syndicated War of the Worlds show that was a sequel to the 1950s movie version, but set in the present-...
Josh contains multitudes
Dustin, 12/7/22 If you had asked me before today, I would have said with some conviction that Blondie and Dustin both fell into the category of “comics I...
The terrorists know Westview must be destroyed
Funky Winkerbean, 12/06/22 It probably shouldn't surprise you to learn I have been a daily comics reader for more or less my entire life. But until I really...