Starting to see a pattern with all these losers, hmm
Mary Worth, 10/9/22 Oh, God, remember when Tommy proposed to his girlfriend with an onion ring but she rejected him and then thought he had lapsed back into...
How is even saying that? OH WAIT HE ISN'T
Hi and Lois, 10/8/22 A fun fact is that the Major League Baseball postseason expanded to a multi-round playoff format in 1969, and there's no timeline where...
Metapost: COME SEE MY DARN SHOW (plus COTW)
Hello y'all! It's the first Friday of the month and that means if you are in or near Los Angeles, you should be coming to The Internet Read Aloud, live on...
Meanwhile, Loretta is cutting her goop (?) with a knife and fork
Mary Worth, 10/7/22 Ladies! You want to know what it takes to get a man to "put a ring [not pictured] on it"? Well, apparently you just have to cook the same...
Various narrative takes on crime fighting
Judge Parker, 10/6/22 Oh, were you excited about Sam's old partner Steve making a triumphant return to the strip? Well, too bad, it's been less than three...
Let's make Skeleton Wednesday a thing, folks
Slylock Fox, 10/5/22 I'm very tickled by the fact that a mystery comic strip for kids (it's right there in the title! Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids! surely...
"Zak", "Kaz," hmm, there's something there, I think
Gil Thorp, 10/4/22 Oh, isn't that nice, the Thorps are being hosted by Kaz and his girlfriend [record scratch] Rachel????? Huge news! Kaz had been dating...
Tasty Monday
Mary Worth, 10/3/22 Ahh, after a little stalling, it's a new Mary Worth plot, and it looks like we're finally going to see the magic that makes the...
Also, Ed is absolutely going to destroy something in that yard in short order
Crankshaft, 10/2/22 Huh, I'm a little surprised by "the Crankshafts" in that final panel. I guess I actually don't know off the top of my head what Pam and...
Sam and Detective Yelich are doing shots of Tang, I see
Judge Parker, 10/1/22 Look, Sam is being yanked out of years of tedious domestic drama and thrown back into his derring-do role kind of abruptly, so I...
Friday quickies
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 9/30/22 "So, guys, it's been a couple years and we've crunched the numbers and the new 'Sparkplug's Grandson Li'l Sparky'...
Some Thursday soapers
Judge Parker, 9/29/22 Now that Sam Driver is extremely divorced, he can really get back to his roots as a character, by which I mean solving mysteries and...
I realize hoping Dagwood will be a responsible adult is a fool's errand, but still
Blondie, 9/28/22 Look, I don’t want to dwell on the technical details here, which seem to be based on the misconception that “well you look at Instagram on...
Timecoach >>>>>>> Timecop
Daddy Daze, 9/27/22 The lure of doing a comic strip about a baby is eternal, but of course each generation will do their own particular version reflecting...
Monday is for strolling
Mary Worth, 9/26/22 A lot of you seemed to think that Mary and Jeff's dinner date was just a little palate cleanser before we moved on to the next, actual...
"I want to show films ... to the three people who are going to show up every night"
Blondie, 9/25/22 This is another great example how the top row of “throwaway” panels can actually really alter the meaning of a strip. Without them, it’s the...
Noir Saturday
Judge Parker, 9/24/22 Oh, gee, I guess we’ve been spending so much time exploring the wildly seesawing emotional conditions inside the heavily fortified...
Metapost: Live laughs and comment-related laughs
Folks! Y'all know what time it is ... actually, it's time for two things, and the first is to remind you that if you're in LA, you should come to The...
One-panel Friday
The Lockhorns, 9/23/22 Ha ha, it's funny because the Lockhorns are about to default on their mortgage, leaving them homeless and destitute! Dennis the...
The God of "Crock" is capricious, and bad at drawing
Crock, 9/22/22 I know in my heart that this strip is 10-15 years old and started off with just “commercial” in the punchline but then at the last minute the...