Sexually unpleasant Wednesday
Mary Worth, 5/18/22 Oh, wow, not only has l'affaire HelenCal ended with Ian and Toby's past and potential future (respectively) student entanglements safely...
Tuesday is for jerks
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 5/17/22 Wow, I guess we really are going to get “Snuffy is cruel to his family/Snuff is poor” bits for the rest of the week,...
'There's a HOLE in your story' Sly smirked as Shady was hauled off to the torture chamber
Slylock Fox, 5/16/22 My intense study of the post-animalpocalypse world of Slylock Fox has been ongoing for sixteen years now, but every day we are still...
We can't see how it's progressing, but I certainly hope the tongues are out by the final panel
Blondie, 5/15/22 There are, as you might guess because you’re reading these words on a website called “The Comics Curmudgeon,” a number of things that...
Grim Saturday
Hi and Lois, 5/14/22 As readers of this blog well know, I like that Thirsty has in recent years been allowed to once again be the moderately functional...
Metapost: Weekly comments of the week
Like sands through the hourglass, so go the very funny top weekly comments. Here’s this week’s! "My favorite part of this is the narration box: 'As Toby...
Ian should NOT be this eager about ANYTHING
Shoe, 5/13/22 Sometimes a long running comic strip will dip deeply into its well of accumulated goodwill among its readers and craft a gag that reflects its...
You're going to be doing the voice in your head for at least a week
Blondie, 5/12/22 You ever stare at a sentence for a long stretch of time and become increasingly convinced that it doesn’t really make sense as something a...
Josh contemplates human frailty with varying degrees of sympathy
Pluggers, 5/11/22 The historian Ronald Syme wrote that the Emperor Augustus, who died at 77, "outlast[ed] the friends, the enemies, and even the memory of...
I would go more for a "HACHI-MACHI!" myself
Dick Tracy, 5/10/22 I’ve apparently lived my life either correctly enough or incorrectly enough that I’ve never worked anywhere that’s been subject to a...
Leroy complains about the meals Loretta cooks, but he's buying baguettes at a 7-11
Funky Winkerbean, 5/9/22 Happy Monday, everybody, Funky Winkerbean is starting up the week with a funeral, obviously. I'm pretty sure Mary Sue isn't someone...
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Family Circus, 5/8/22 Wow, Family Circus did not need to go this hard for Mother’s Day, reminding us that, no matter how much your human litter loves you,...
Josh looks back ... and forward
Beetle Bailey, 5/7/22 I have never denied being an effete urban liberal and so it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that I know very little about how...
Metapost: Laffs, from me and from you (the latter in COTW form)
It’s the most blessed time of the month: First Friday! The Internet Read Aloud is back on stage at its new time, TONIGHT, Friday May 6, at 7 pm in Los...
Seriously, Hi, get a grip
Dustin, 5/6/22 Dustin is a truly amazing strip, one whose whole purpose is to poke fun of the foibles of young people despite clearly having no real sense of...
Loretta's mom has to know she looks like Norman Bates's mother, right
Pluggers, 5/5/22 I think I’m discovering the shape that my Gen X pluggerdom is going to take: in constant complaints that Pluggers, the syndicated newspaper...
Josh sputters incoherently
Dustin, 5/4/22 I'm going give the "joke" in today's Dustin the zero attention it deserves and instead will focus on a background detail that is driving me...
Admittedly our bully duo don't seem to have absorbed the meaning of "hubris"
Beetle Bailey, 5/3/22 Man, I really respect the second panel here for unleashing the full-throttle refusal to give a shit that makes Beetle Bailey the strip...
"I think I'm just going to stand here immobile and stare out into the middle distance, actually, thanks"
Marvin, 5/2/22 Ha ha, just look at the dead eyes on Jeff throughout this comic! He has absolutely been anticipating the day his wife is going to leave him...
"Hmm, 'With great affection'? No, that'd be overstating it"
Gasoline Alley, 5/1/22 I gotta say, this Gasoline Alley was a real journey for me, in the sense that the opening title led me to hope that, finally, Rufus...