Sadly, I understood that reference in Funky Winkerbean
Crankshaft, 8/19/22 “Slight markup” is my favorite part of this. Crankshaft isn’t doing this for the money! He’s doing it so he can make a big show out of...
Jared Strikes Back
Mary Worth, 8/18/22 Oh, man, Mary is truly, truly cruel, because after having a brief cafeteria talk with Jared, she's decided she's going to force Dawn to...
"Inconstancy," the adjective normal college students use all the time
Family Circus, 8/17/22 The Keanes have been on vacation in New York City for a couple weeks now, in a series of panels that are actually reruns from decades...
Is Dawn going to stop talking long enough to choke down that muffin
Beetle Bailey, 8/16/22 Feel like it’s been a long time since I saw someone actually smoking a tobacco cigarette in a newspaper comic strip, and while I...
By Friday someone had better either be terminally ill or so healthy they have superpowers
Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/15/22 Ah, good news, everybody! It looks like Andrzej and Tildy may have had some health scares, but they're on the mend and all this...
The Metawilburphis
Mary Worth, 8/14/22 Behold DaWnilbur, everyone! I love the way this matches up with realistic dream logic in that Dawn was spending hours before falling...
I enjoy "confronting my 'ambassador'" myself, if you know what I mean
The Lockhorns, 8/13/22 The thing about the Lockhorns is that, while in one sense they’re millennials, in another sense they’re trapped in an eternal present...
Metapost: Hot hot hot COT COT COTW
Is it time for your comment of the week? You know it! "It's good to know that this guy specifically chose a chunky, heavy gold wedding ring. He's so married...
They won't even release the podcast until Marty nails down another mattress ad
Beetle Bailey, 8/12/22 Wow, we all spent a lot of time making fun Beetle Bailey as a "lazy bum" and a "moron" and a "disgrace to the U.S. military," but it...
![Ghost-who-cannot-die [an aide whispers in my ear] wait what](https://joshreads.com/images/22/08/i220811gilthorp.jpg)
Ghost-who-cannot-die [an aide whispers in my ear] wait what
Gil Thorp, 8/11/22 Inveterate heel Marty Moon has done exactly two nice things in his entire life: in 2008 he pretended to be a kid's dad so the kid and his...
Dream hater
Mary Worth, 8/10/22 A relatively recent and welcome addition to the Mary Worth storytelling canon is the wacky dream sequence, in which the characters...
Feel like I could waste a LOT of time figuring out which comics characters subscribe to which streaming services
Dustin, 8/9/22 Look, you and I both know that today’s Dustin is entirely the result of the Dustin brain trust getting wind of the kids today sharing...
Camp Swampy's first court martial is truly going to surprise everybody
Blondie, 8/8/22 The non-Dagwood, non-Herb members of Dagwood’s carpool are named “Dwitzell” and “Claudia,” and any and all attempts to give them inner or...
Dorky Sunday
Beetle Bailey, 8/7/22 Say what you will about Beetle Bailey – and lord knows I’ve said a lot over the years – but it can be extremely comforting in its on-...
The thrill is gone for some but still here for others
Shoe, 8/6/22 The original iteration of Shoe was created by Jeff McNelly, a political cartoonist who presumably actually worked in a newsroom, some of the...
She's only doing it to establish Worthy Award eligibility in the Best Floating Head category
Dick Tracy, 8/5/22 Oh, I guess I forgot to mention that Marina did end up throwing herself at Detective Tracy, sexually, but don’t worry: his sense of...
WILBUR: ORIGINS
OK, fine, it looks like this is "one of those weeks" on this blog -- you know, the kind of week where I just kind of end up talking about Mary Worth every...
Shocking that she went with rhubarb and not bacon, since this strip does the obvious thing 100% of the time
Blondie, 8/3/22 I feel like it goes without saying that today’s Blondie is some real sicko shit. Obviously it’s very gross that Blondie made this nightmare...
Soapy Tuesday
Mary Worth, 8/2/22 I have to admit that I have no idea how we’re supposed to understand the flow of time in Mary Worth; for instance, early in this Jared-...
At last, someone is finally joining their father and embracing the power of the Dark Side
Mary Worth, 8/1/22 Oh hell yes, while Jared is off getting weaksauce advice from Mary, Dawn has decided to instead turn to the #1 relationship expert in her...