Metapost: More comedy, more comments, more week
Folks, first off, it’s that time of month again: the time were you are required to come to my show in Los Angeles, full of jokes about the internet! Last...
All profits from Shoe go directly into alcohol
Family Circus, 3/25/22 I very distinctly remember the moment more than four years ago when I read this article about the “raw water” movement in the New York...
Tales out of school
Blondie, 3/24/22 This is not the first time I've griped about this, but at one point unseen off-screen characters in Blondie used to be named things like...
Mid-week EGG-citement
Six Chix, 3/23/22 One of those things that I never thought about until I learned it and then I thought about it all the time is that nowhere in the Humpty...
TRIGGER WARNING: Old people gettin' it on
Shoe, 3/22/22 A few years ago during a big family Thanksgiving gathering, I looked up to see my seventysomething mother and her siblings sitting on the coach...
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's crime parody singers, a real thing that exists
Crankshaft, 3/21/22 Pam. Pam. Your father is an enthusiastic gardener who loves to order stuff from the Bean's End catalog. That's a giant bag labelled...
Rex gonna ask Sarah "for an autograph" and it's actually a document legally separating her from their finances, just in case
Rex Morgan, M.D, 3/20/22 So, we’ve already established that Sarah will suffer no consequences for possibly accidentally amnesia-plagiarizing her lucrative...
Grumpy middle-aged men
Mary Worth, 3/19/22 It's been a while since we had a good Ian storyline, and the Ian I know is not a guy who sees that his wife isn't having a great day and...
Metapost: C ......... OTW!
Folks, it’s the comment ........ of the week! "Notice how Mrs. Wilson is on her cell phone keeping up to date with the times by scrolling through TikTok,...
The degree to which I am not a coffee head has been demonstrated by me just Googling "can coffee go stale"
Dick Tracy, 3/18/22 Coffyhead claimed that the coffee over at Coffee Howz was "stale," but I think the truth is that, like any addict, his need for coffee...
Josh gets grumpy
Hagar the Horrible and Hi and Lois, 3/17/22 Most people would say that the Irish Potato Famine is the worst tragedy that has befallen the Emerald Isle; an...
The Worst Years Of Our Deaths: The <i>Funky Winkerbean</i> Promise
Funky Winkerbean, 3/16/22 Harold Russell, a double-amputee Army vet with no previous acting experience, starred in The Best Years Of Our Lives, an (extremely...
I steadfastly refuse to be "relevant" or "with it" in any way
Beetle Bailey, 3/15/22 Guys, I was about to go on a whole smug riff here about how the idea of a “bucket list” – that is, a list of things to do before you...
An '00s-era Volkswagon Neo-Beetle is the perfect car for Toby, no notes
Mary Worth, 3/14/22 I think I speak for those in long-term relationships when I say that in most, you have the ability to call in forgiveness for parallel...
Excited for deep cover agent Mary Worth to finally meet her handler
Mary Worth, 3/13/22 I haven’t discussed Mary Worth all week because it has entirely consisted of Cal ham-handedly flirting at Toby and asking her out to...
Maybe she's going to come to his house and murder him with it
Funky Winkerbean, 3/12/22 Oh my GOD she wasn’t talking about Lisa at all, she was talking about LES, this is a million times funnier than I could’ve possibly...
Metapost: Brace yourself, it's the comments of the week
INCOMING: THIS WEEK'S FUNNIEST COMMENT RIGHT NOW! "I'll suspend a lot of disbelief when it comes to Family Circus but I refuse to believe ANY child would...
She's already been nominated for Best Smug Ghost
Shoe, 3/11/22 We're all of course, familiar with Shoe's patented goggle-eyes of horror and heavy-lidded eyes of ennui. But today we have what I think is a...
Delightful children
Family Circus, 3/9/21 In the interests of fairness and integrity, I will always admit it when a day's Family Circus is one of the good ones, and folks ......
Troubling youth
Rex Morgan, M.D, 3/8/22 Ha ha, so, the funny thing is that Rex and June did some asking around that made it pretty clear that they were in fact very open to...