The kids are not all right
Marvin, 6/23/22 Now, I'm not one of those fancy "body language experts" who get paid by Us Weekly to analyze paparazzi pics of Ansel Elgort or whoever, but I...
More like Shattered Dumb-Ass, amiright folks
Gil Thorp, 6/22/22 As a certified coastal elitist, I usually take umbrage when someone says "Nobody cares about this outside your liberal bubble,...
Mostly unpleasantly horny Tuesday
Mary Worth, 6/21/22 One of the minor world-building things in the Star Wars movies that has always bothered me is how languages work. The humans speak...
You never want to miss a spit take
The Lockhorns, 6/20/22 A fun thing to do with the comics (for certain limited definitions of “fun,” but those limited definitions are pretty important for a...
Normally I say "shoot your shot," but even I have limits
Dustin, 6/19/22 Earlier this year, my faithful readers were treated to what I assume was an enlightening etymological journey in which they learned that the...
Saturday quickies
Dustin, 6/18/22 "What I'm trying to say, kid, is that when you get old, your body goes to shit. But also, you stop feeling inconvenient emotions. So it...
Metapost: Please, my comment of the week, it's very funny
Your comment of the week ... has ARRIVED: "Hoping for three solid weeks of Curtis trying to drum up a whisper campaign for what is clearly his webcomic. 'Oh...
Friday is for naked butts (NOT A METAPHOR) (TRIGGER WARNING: NAKED BUTTS)
Funky Winkerbean, 6/17/22 Hi, guys. Happy Friday. It’s been a tough week and I hope you’re all looking forward to the weekend. To celebrate, here’s Funky...
They ordered the piranhas on the Dark Web, maybe
Dick Tracy, 6/16/22 Oh, right, I guess I never mentioned that the owl guy had, pre-owl-stuff, been seen using hypnosis (?) to convince people to hand over...
Breakin' the law (of common decency)
Gil Thorp, 6/15/22 “Look, I’m only asking this because one of my dumb students put me up to it, but: were you guys in the mob or what? It’s ok, you can tell...
MORE MURDERS DAMN IT
Blondie, 6/14/22 The first panel of today's strip sent me into an emotional state that, if you're a frequent reader of this blog, you know I experience far...
Monday is for callouts
Crock, 6/13/22 Crock has been in perpetual reruns ever since its creator died and his son decided that doing the thing so many people in this industry do...
Soapy TWISTS!
Mary Worth, 6/12/22 The thing about Mary Worth, the character, as well as Mary Worth, the strip, is that they are both very moralistic in tone but their...
Saturday is for pain
Six Chix, 6/11/22 It’s not quite “guy in a gimp suit gets eaten alive by rats” but “guy in cargo shorts gets eaten alive by [squints] giant mosquitos, I...
Metapost: Comments? Of the WEEK? In THIS economy????
It’s here, everyone: your top comment of the week. "Objection! The defendant is using his hat like a stupid prop! In fact, it looks like he's trying to...
Rustic horror
Pluggers, 6/10/22 I have been writing this blog for far too many years, and a trend that I have noticed over that entire period is that syndicated newspaper...
What if we just make him bad in the sense that the kids mean when they say something they like is "bad"
Blondie, 6/9/22 We all talk a lot about how Dagwood wears a full-on tuxedo every day to work, which none of his coworkers do -- Mr. Dithers doesn't even wear...
Wednesday quickies
Dennis the Menace, 6/8/22 Damn, Dennis is trying to talk Joey into pulling off some Munchausen syndrome by proxy ... by proxy? I guess that would just be...
Also survived by a dog and a duck
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 6/7/22 I assumed that the distant “Newnited States government” to which Hootin’ Holler owes vague allegiance long ago...
Nice begloved butt swat in panel two
Gil Thorp, 6/6/22 Look, folks, I’ve never claimed to be particularly “baseball savvy,” so I apologize for failing to follow Saturday’s disjointed jargon...