Dumb and gross
Hi and Lois, 7/31/22 OK, guys, I'm about to go all Pluggers here, but do you (for values of "you" that are as old as I am or older) remember those ads for...
Admonishing Saturday
Mary Worth, 7/30/22 It honestly hasn’t been the greatest week for the comics this week, but I absolutely started hooting and hollering when Mary, bristiling...
Metapost: Comedy-plugging COTW
FOLKS! This month's Internet Read Aloud is happening in a mere seven days, in the city of Los Angeles, California! Got a fun lineup and the price literally...
He's gonna be disappointed when it's just a showing of the 2006 Aronofsky film
Dennis the Menace, 7/29/22 The punchline here is just supposed to be "ha ha Dennis is dumb/a child" but the arrangement of pieces on the board seems to...
I'm a cosmopolitan Coke Zero guy myself
Plugger, 7/28/22 I’m just a little too young to have fully participated in Tab Culture, not to brag, but … Tab Culture was all about sophisticated women who...
Wednesday is for epiphanies
Blondie, 7/27/22 Man, that is a truly bone-chilling facial expression on Dagwood in the final panel. Not sure if his dream included an extended racing...
A Thorp walks into a bar
Gil Thorp, 7/26/22 Wow, sorry, I guess because I'm an effete urban liberal I interpreted yesterday's Gil Thorp scene as a bunch of public school employees...
Soap-ish sadness
Judge Parker, 7/25/22 Say, remember a few years ago when Judge Parker Senior ran for mayor on a NIMBY platform to protect Cavelton’s quaint vibes and their...
This shtick isn't cool when the <i>Daddy Daze</i> guy does it, and it definitely isn't cool here, Jared
Mary Worth, 7/24/22 I am currently reading The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), which I highly recommend if you want a more-or-less accessible...
Troubled youth
Gasoline Alley, 7/23/22 Despite feeling obliged to read Gasoline Alley every day, I often fail to retain the details of its sprawling cast and their various...
Metapost: Summery COTW
As things get hotter and humider, the comments of the week continue and get funnier! "A much worse possibility is that there is no Count Weirdly, just an...
Look at that trophy GLEAM baby
Gil Thorp, 7/22/22 Hey guys! Remember when Gil and his wife Mimi had children who appeared in their Christmas cards, but then they slowly faded out of the...
Thursday is for friendship
Mary Worth, 7/21/22 A lot of you commentors have interpreted my endless rage against Jared as indicating that I somehow don't think Dawn is a bad girlfriend....
Wednesday is for Josh's mild approval
Blondie, 7/20/22 One of my least favorite running bits in this strip is when Dagwood and his work friends enact some elaborate scenario to match up with...
Sexually unpleasant Tuesday
Mary Worth, 7/19/22 You know, you hear a lot these days about “reboots” this and “dark and edgy” that, while media properties like Mary Worth that have just...
Cyber-Weirdly 2.0: Cyber-Weirdly Reloaded
Slylock Fox, 7/18/22 I honestly have quite a few questions about how realistic these Cyber-Weirdlies are. Like, can they talk? Do they hold up a conversation...
Youth, old age, illness, injury, etc.
Mary Worth, 7/17/22 Finally, finally, Jared is experiencing some real emotional pain that goes beyond his standard-issue petulant whining and mild self-...
Kids (?) today
Gil Thorp, 7/16/22 We’re wrapping up the first week of new-look Gil Thorp, which has consisted entirely of one of Gil’s ex-athletes giving a speech about why...
Good news for anvil-melting fetishists in today's comics
Dick Tracy, 7/15/22 Oh so it turns out that the Moon Ambassador (formerly the Moon Governor) has lured Dick to Moon Valley because some of the Moon People...
Grim Thursday
Slylock Fox, 7/14/22 Here’s another sad scene from the tail end of those terrifying weeks when humans lost control of their planet to the Animals that would...