Losing the thread
Judge Parker, 9/6/22 Spencer Farms gets relabeled Spencer Ranch, and now the local news runs a picture of former Mayor Sanderson over the name of current...
Labor Day labor-saving quickies
It's Labor Day in the U S of A and Canada—let's see how our pals in the comics are kicking back on the unofficial Last Day of Summer! Mary Worth, 9/5/22 Mary...
World of Animals V
"Hello kids, and welcome back to World of Animals — I'm your beloved host, Carl. Well, it seems like it's been forever, so let's all catch up — on...
God help us when they get to Pluggers
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Since when did Dick get all prissy about due process?
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Gil, grilled and gutted
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Twee spree
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At least they're not flatworms yo, that stuff is gross
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As the World Thorps
Gil Thorp, 8/29/22 Seems its new author is transforming Gil Thorp from one of newspaper comics' few remaining sports strips into a full-blown soaper, and at...
It's Spencer "Farms," Marie, you're supposed to know that
Judge Parker, 8/28/22 It’s excruciating watching poor Marie’s unspoken pleading as Abbey looks past and through her, slamming back those screwdrivers. “B-but...
Changing lanes
Arctic Circle, 8/27/22 Arctic Circle boldly swerves out of its lane (preachy environmental half-jokes) directly into the oncoming traffic of toilet humor....
Lots of exposition here; not gonna lie
Between Friends, 8/26/22 Between Friends mixes joke-a-day and soapy arcs about three middle-aged women and should therefore be called Among Friends, but...
Metapost: Pre-vacation comments of the week!
FOLKS! You’re getting an early COTW because I, your friend the Comics Curmudgeon, am going on a li’l vacation! I’ll be back on September 10th but until then...
Thursday is for makin' quick jokes about the LADIES, amiright?
Crankshaft, 8/25/22 I love Jeff's sly little smile in the second panel here. He seems to be saying "Ha ha, the ladies, amiright? Can't live with 'em (because...
These guys need a high school DEunion if you ask me
Funky Winkerbean, 8/24/22 This week’s Funky Winkerbean is about Holly and Funky going to their high school reunion, which I think is hilarious, and to be...
She got two words of Spanish into that sentence, just enough to watch them start to panic
Gil Thorp, 8/23/22 Ohhhh, I get it now! All that bluster from Gil’s new nemesis? It was just flirting! His aggressive on-airpod proclamation that he was...
The trades are very lucrative, this is a fact and not funny at all
Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/22/22 Oh ho. Oh ho ho. It's a new week and a new storyline in Rex Morgan, M.D., and the game, as they say, is afoot! Buck's about to be...
Criminal Sunday
Panel from Slylock Fox, 8/21/22 You ever think that Count Weirdly is just kind of greedy? I mean, he already has an extremely cool customized rocket-plane...
Saturday is for ass
Hagar the Horrible, 8/20/22 What do you think the origin is of "grotesquely exaggerated cleft chin" being a comics shorthand for "handsome"? Was it a Cary...