Hump day is for MURDER
Judge Parker, 9/21/22 Oh, sorry, it seems the Judge Parker brain trust has heard your little diatribes about how Judge Parker is boring now because it's all...
Sorry, young people: You, personally, are responsible for Marvin now
Marvin, 9/20/22 You know I am loath to say anything positive about the syndicated comic strip Marvin, but I have to say that I'm reasonably impressed that...
That plane has no external markings so I assume they're all being flow to a CIA black site for interrogation
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/19/22 Say what you will about the glacial pacing and low stakes of Rex Morgan, M.D., but the art in today's strip really nails the facial...
Emotionally twisted Sunday
Judge Parker, 9/18/22 Oh, hey, you all remember Marie, the longtime Spencer-Driver maid who, back in 2019, found out her husband faked his death because he...
Fighting for strip dominance
Beetle Bailey, 9/17/22 God, I legitimately love this Beetle Bailey. Look at how absolutely miserable Halftrack is in that second panel! Golf is the thing he...
Metapost: THORPIAN DEEP LORE (plus comments of the week)
Folks! Your COTW in a moment, but first: when I asked “who is Mel Gordon to Gil?” in my Thursday wrapup, I was failing my job as a Gil Thorp History Knower!...
Where my Dug-heads at
Dick Tracy, 9/16/22 Say, folks, remember last year, when Sam smiled wryly when he learned he’d be receiving his copy of Derby Dugan: The Geebus Years two...
"Tears at the Bucket" is my new YA romance "Gil Thorp" spinoff
Gil Thorp, 9/15/22 Sure, all the FLASH AND DAZZLE in Gil Thorp lately has been “there are trans and nonbinary characters in Gil Thorp now,” but those of us...
Let's get medieval all up in here
Hagar the Horrible, 9/14/22 Feels like someone over at Walker-Browne Amalgamated Humor Industries LLC is trying to feed into my "when exactly in history does...
Sad react theater
Dustin, 9/13/22 You gotta respect (and by "you gotta respect" I mean "you are not at all required to respect, and in fact I'd think a lot less of you if you...
Soapy Monday
Judge Parker, 9/12/22 Hey, remember when Judge Parker Senior ran a vanity campaign for mayor, and not only didn’t win but ended up dropping out before the...
Sunday quickies
Mary Worth, 9/11/22 Man, I wasn’t sure how Mary was going to use her Jedi mind powers to get Dawn to rationalize herself out of her rage over getting dumped...
TRIUMPHANT RETURN from vacation to comics
FOLKS!!!! It is I, Josh, your Comics Curmudgeon, and I am back from vacation! Let's all say a huge thank you to Uncle Lumpy for his delightful filling in,...
Friday wrap-up
Sam and Silo, 9/9/22 In their book Engineering Happiness, economists Rakesh Sarin and Manel Baucells define the “fundamental question” of wellbeing as...
Into the narrative abyss
Mark Trail, 9/8/22 New Mark Trail introduces new characters and subplots so often that it’s easy for readers to get lost. The entire “Jimmy Songbird geese...
Summoning Shady Shrew
Slylock Fox, 9/7/22 (panel) Well, you could find all the S-words. Alternatively, you could assign names beginning with the letter S to all the elements:...
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
So ends the 2022 Comics Curmudgeon Summer Fundraiser. As much as the blog depends on its regular subscribers, it's one-off, "drive-by" contributions from...