Dad-adjacent Sunday
Crankshaft, 7/10/22 This week, Crankshaft already delivered some “fan service” to that portion of the reader base who, like me, are interested in seeing the...
Mostly soapy Saturday
Mark Trail, 7/9/22 Hey everybody, remember Sassy? He was Rusty's adorable little puppy (distinct from Andy, Mark's big macho dog), and he was always prone to...
Dick just happened to bring that bright yellow parka along for non-Antarctica reasons
Crankshaft, 7/8/22 Look, obviously this blog is about 15% by volume me slamming on Funkyverse strips, so I'm just going to get ahead of things here and say...
Thursday nihilism
Gil Thorp, 7/7/22 I guess the most disappointing thing about this baseball season in Gil Thorp is that there’s usually zany A and B plots that we pingpong...
Funkymancer
Funky Winkerbean, 7/6/22 Man, wouldn't it be cool if Funky Winkerbean made an abrupt change in its narrative style and suddenly became a retro-cyberpunk...
No alarms and no surprises
Rex Morgan, M.D., 7/5/22 Say, were you feeling a little on edge rolling into our four-day week? Need your nerves soothed? Well, remember how beloved (?)...
Monday is for PATRIOTISM
Mary Worth, 7/4/22 Happy Fourth of July, everyone! Did you bake a cake for America's birthday, like Mary did? No? Well, I guess you don't love America...
From the suburbs to the sea
Panel from The Lockhorns, 7/3/22 This one gets even better when you think about the backstory. Presumably the lifeguard jumped down out of his chair and...
Just grinning maniacally, watching that marshmallow melt
Slylock Fox, 7/2/22 I was going to joke about Slylock being extremely high here but I couldn’t bring myself to do it, he is an honorable fox lawman (lawfox?)...
Loving this guy's goatee, his journey is truly a core Gen X experience
Gil Thorp, 7/1/22 I guess we’re finally finding out why Gregg’s dad was so keen to hide his literary crimes: not because he feared the wrath and contempt of...
I certainly hope Jared is left to die on the lava fields of Mustafar
Mary Worth, 6/30/22 Look, I’m not what you’d call particularly “hip” (SAYS THE GUY WHO’S BEEN WRITING A BLOG ABOUT NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS FOR 15+ YEARS,...
One-panel Wednesday
Dennis the menace, 6/29/22 There are so many questions this panel raises – like where are any of these people and why is Henry wearing a suit jacket in the...
Romance is complex
Mary Worth, 6/28/22 Has there ever, going all the way back to the ancient Egyptians, been a more perfect match between visual and narrative art as today's...
Can we get a week of Max trying and failing to do sweet skateboard tricks
Gil Thorp, 6/27/22 It’s that time of year again: the time when the baseball season plot keeps rolling ahead in Gil Thorp and you look at the calendar and...
Sunday is for the decline of civilization
Marvin, 6/26/22 Look, I get it. Marvin, the strip, wants to "have it all" as a comic strip. That means that it wants to be a strip about an infant, and wants...
Mostly mad Saturday
Beetle Bailey, 6/25/22 What really makes this strip for me is how mad General Halftrack looks. Sure, he's off golfing while his soldiers are enduring...
God, I hope it's TJ from "Luann"
Mary Worth, 6/24/22 Wow. Wow. You're telling me that Jared has a friend? A non-Dawn friend named TJ? And TJ also likes to party down at "ROCK IT," Santa...
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...