Love to make dozens of muffins for nobody
Mary Worth, 4/30/22 Yes, Toby and Ian certain seem to have a good marriage, Mary! Say, remember the time Ian made Toby pretend to cook dinner for his boss...
Metapost: Comedic comments of the week!
Folks, it’s coming! It’s happening! The Internet Read Aloud is back on stage at its new time, ONE WEEK FROM TONIGHT, Friday May 6 at 7 pm in Los Angeles!...
Aannnnnd here comes the losing
Gil Thorp, 4/29/22 Folks, you know a Gil Thorp plot is kicking into high gear when you get a close-up on some teen’s sweaty face, sweating due to equal parts...
I'm middle-aged, so my heart is literally getting heavier, from cholesterol plaque
Pluggers, 4/28/22 One of the most controversial takes I’ve ever unleashed on Twitter is that the Lockhorns are Millennials. Conversely, reporting that...
Man is the cruelest animal of all
Dennis the Menace, 4/27/22 I guess you eventually get bored revealing your parents' shit-talk in front of their guests and have to move onto some real...
IAN'S NEVER HAD A MUSTACHE AND HE NEVER WILL
Mary Worth, 4/26/22 Oh snap, shocking twist! Young Helen used to be young Ian’s … student? Coworker? It’s honestly not clear to me how old either of them is...
Look, man, all your kid can say is "ba," he's doing fine here
Gil Thorp, 4/25/22 We all know the sad story of Gregg, the pitcher who secretly can’t see. Now we’re learning that his dad desperately doesn’t want to be...
I'm sure there are other plumbers named Andy, why base your branding on being a bear
Pluggers, 4/24/22 When I lived in Oakland, California, there was a plumber's truck that parked near my apartment building all the time with the business name...
Coded signals
Gil Thorp, 4/23/22 Despite having become, late in my life and to my own surprise, a fervent Dodgers fan, at first I was unable to get that worked up about...
Marriages are complex
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 4/22/22 "Not only that, but his extreme laziness has inspired this whole town to shun honest work in the only profitable...
Thursday is for gentlemen of a certain age
Mary Worth, 4/21/22 I hope I have made it very clear on this blog that I love snide, catty Ian much more than I do boring, supportive Ian, and if you need...
Is the shape of her earrings related to the name somehow????
Dick Tracy, 4/20/22 One thing that's been bothering me about this Dick Tracy storyline is the name of the character who dated the dead real Tonsils and is...
The weird overalls and polka dot shirt are embarrassing, to be fair
Mary Worth, 4/19/22 Oh ho ho, our man Ian has finally found out what’s troubling his young-ish bride and isn’t going to fly into one of his trademark rages...
Breaking Ed
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/18/22 We talk a lot about Rex's permanent state of misanthropy, but we don't really talk about the damage his refusal to engage with his...
Seriously, how does she chew
Funky Winkerbean, 4/17/22 If you went back from the Funkypresent to the Funkypast with a medically minded mission, you would probably tell young Lisa to get...
The kids today *are* into overly complex insulting rejections, so that tracks
Dustin, 4/16/22 Look, I'm not saying there shouldn't be a comic strip that makes fun of young people who move back in with their parents. We already have...
Metapost: COTW: The saga continues
Is it Friday? Is it time for the comment of the week? You better believe it buster! "Toby is wearing two black armbands: one for her job, one for her...
"Modern art? *I* could draw like that" thinks Billy, incorrectly
Dennis the Menace and The Family Circus, 4/15/22 Oh, man, this is it. This is the nadir. The Keane Kids have ruined their parents’ outing to an art museum,...
Chag squawk-meach
The Lockhorns, 4/14/22 Really loving Loretta’s expression here. Instead of starting a sentence to sound like a compliment but twisting it into a cruel taunt...
Aged Wednesday
Crankshaft, 4/13/22 Once, many years ago, there was a comic strip called Funky Winkerbean about the antics of teenagers. Then someone got the bright idea to...