Even passive enjoyment leaves pluggers exhausted
Dick Tracy, 10/5/25 Longtime readers of this blog know that I have a lot of favorite etymological facts. One of those favorites is that the word...
Balloons? These guys know how to party
Rex Morgan, M.D., 10/4/25 Oh, man, Rex and June thought they were going to have an early night of it, but now it looks like they'll be up late spinning an...
Metapost: C to the O to the T to the W
My name's the Comics Curmudgeon and I'm here to say/ It's COTW time in a major way! "Ah yes, the old story of the charismatic front man* being tempted to...
Friday is for drugs
Wizard of Id, 10/3/25 It absolutely makes sense that people hear "New York" and think of New York City -- the city is a world cultural capital, is the...
We haven't even heard "Muddy Boots" yet, come on guys
Gearhead Gertie, 10/2/25 I was actually visiting a friend in Durham on the day Dale Earnhardt died, a date that I will always think of as "North Carolina's...
More comics should be drawn from a ground-level POV
Dennis the Menace, 10/1/25 I was thinking the other day about how Dagwood Bumstead and Hi Flagston have extremely generic jobs. Technically Dagwood is an...
Is there a less plugger sport than tennis? Cricket, maybe
Hagar the Horrible, 9/30/25 Hagar is the protagonist of this strip, so we usually see things from his perspective, and I have to admit I never really tried...
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Can't I enjoy my glass of wine and [squints] potato undisturbed
Crock, 9/29/25 The point of this joke is of course that it's annoying when a telemarketer (perhaps one offering you a "banking credit card") interrupts you...
Sunday is for old people
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/28/25 Well, I guess Truck's not-son Cody did in fact come out ahead of beloved (?) tween neo-vaudeville novelty act "Shorty and the...
Generation gaps
Judge Parker, 9/27/25 Look, we're all young and hip here [laughs nervously], but the truth is that the soap opera strips are a very traditional medium and...
Metapost: Fallin' for the COTW
We're officially in autumn now, folks, so take a big swig of that pumpkin spice latte [note to intern: find more up-to-date seasonal joke here, maybe find...
Unpleasant Friday
Beetle Bailey, 9/26/25 Perverts turned on by crudely drawn cartoons everywhere were devastated this week when Beetle Bailey skipped its usual "Miss Buxley...
I guess technically speaking they still have to get out of the tree first
Mary Worth, 9/25/25 Wow, back in the day, you could write a long, crazy yarn about an unlikely trio hot-air-balloon-crashing into the remote woods, where...
"Dropping" is a much nicer way to put it than "crashing," let's go with that
Crock, 9/24/25 In my freshman year of college, there was an outbreak of E. coli at various Jack in the Boxes that killed four children, and a friend of mine...
"Pluggers" has fallen
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/23/25 Last we saw of Truck and Cody, they had agreed to treat each other as honorary father and son and it was all very heartwarming. But...
Up up and away
Mary Worth, 9/22/25 As promised/threatened, Mary has taken Olive to the Santa Royale Hot Air Balloon Festival! You know, hot air ballooning, the classic...
Odd jobs
Blondie, 9/21/25 Comics Time is a damn complicated thing. Dagwood and Blondie are both relatively young parents of teenagers, which caused some of you to...
Not even going to get into how sad having Buck as your best man would be
Blondie, 9/20/25 My favorite part of this Blondie strip is "40 reps of what?" Like, she knows that this is some elaborate Dagwood bullshit and she's trying...
Metapost: It is time. Time ... for the comments. Comments ......... of the week
Your top comment ............... right here .......................... right now: "I have to assume the Perfesser was examined in the conference room because...
Pluggers and plugging in
Pluggers, 9/19/25 Look, you know I can be a little spicy when it comes to pluggers and their culture and values, but I'm not made of stone. I don't wish ill...