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I think that old comic book writer who got hounded by HUAC is there, even, what on Earth
Premium post · March 7, 2022
Gil Thorp, 3/7/22 You know, I make fun of Gil Thorp a lot for focusing on its characters' insane hijinks rather than actual high school sports action and...
Sunday is for animals
Premium post · March 6, 2022
Panel from Slylock Fox, 3/6/22 Look, Slylock Fox may be a comic about a fox detective who uses the powers of ratiocination and species stereotyping to...
Mostly frisbee content
Premium post · March 5, 2022
Shoe, 3/5/22 Look, I’m not saying the creators of Shoe are trying to get us to think about the weird anatomical mechanics of their bird-man character’s asses...
I know it's paradoxical, but you will never initiate sex by using the word "initiate"
Premium post · March 4, 2022
Mary Worth, 3/4/22 Here's a weird thing that happens sometimes in Our Dumb Dystopia: people will make storefronts on Amazon even though they don't have...
Mostly smug dads edition
Premium post · March 3, 2022
Marvin, 3/3/22 Man, Jeff's facial expressions here are a real journey -- and not, to be clear, a journey I enjoyed. In panel one he's very excited, and if...
Mopey Pete aims to shatter the mope barrier into megamope status
Premium post · March 2, 2022
Funky Winkerbean, 3/2/22 I truly enjoy the fact that these two old timer comics artist have been dragged out of retirement (one of them was actually dragged...
Not sure what else Leroy would be doing other than this, I guess, this is his only hobby
Premium post · March 1, 2022
Blondie, 3/1/22 Sorry, I know Blondie loves nothing more than mash together their characters’ extremely broadly defined character traits with whatever...
He's definitely going to call her "Ms. C" in bed
Premium post · February 28, 2022
Mary Worth, 2/28/22 Look, folks, if you can’t handle “Josh falls in love with a new Mary Worth plot” after so many damn years on this blog, then I don’t even...
Sunday quick takes
Premium post · February 27, 2022
Funky Winkerbean, 2/27/22 “Ha ha, get it? Because of the pandemic? Which is actually only a couple years old at this point? But seriously, have any of you...
Remember, the other plot is a PANIC some girls who drank exactly one-third of a can of hard seltzer
Premium post · February 26, 2022
Gil Thorp, 2/26/22 The thing about Gil Thorp and its teenage hijinks is that they do occur in the very restricted world of the newspaper comics section,...
Metapost: Comedy + COTW 4 U
Premium post · February 25, 2022
Hello everyone! Do not forget, the Internet Read Aloud, America’s favorite live comedy show about the Internet, is COMING BACK, in just a week! There’s still...
Distressing Friday
Premium post · February 25, 2022
Family Circus, 2/25/22 I was going to do a joke about Dolly undermining her parents’ Flat Earth beliefs in front of PJ, but then I got a look at the utter,...
Soapy Thursday
Premium post · February 24, 2022
Rex Morgan, M.D., 2/24/22 Ahhh, today in Rene Belluso catchphrases you can use to liven up work meetings, we have “Nonsense! Lies! All lies!!!,” which I...
Sincerely hope everyone else who got an invite got there, muttered "the hell is this?", then left
Premium post · February 23, 2022
Dick Tracy, 2/23/22 Kind of weird that Dick Tracy, the man who had a portable voice communications device decades before the rest of us had cell phones,...
Lillian will not be involved (too boring)
Premium post · February 22, 2022
Crankshaft, 2/22/22 God, I certainly hope this is the setup for an Agatha Christie-style locked room murder mystery, where all of our beloved Crankshaft...
Theft, wage and otherwise
Premium post · February 21, 2022
Blondie, 2/21/22 You all hopefully know my strong feeling on putting a hat on a hat, which is to say combining two jokes together in a way that each of them...
Rene's "lawyer" answered a Craigslist ad that said "Do you own a tie and a briefcase?"
Premium post · February 20, 2022
Panels from Slylock Fox, 2/20/22 Today’s Six Differences offer an even more disturbing and nightmarish world than usual. The vision of a giant bottle...
Actually good comics
Premium post · February 19, 2022
Crock, 2/19/22 Giant zipper running down the middle of the desert, revealing the Crock-world to be a baffling simulacrum that defies all attempts to make...
Metapost: TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO LIVE COMEDY (for real this time?????) PLUS COTW
Premium post · February 18, 2022
FOLKS!!! With the receding of Omicron, our beloved janky LA theater the Clubhouse is reopening for real and the Internet Read Aloud is COMING BACK, in just...
More age business
Premium post · February 18, 2022
Mary Worth, 2/18/22 Look, I'm not going trying to draw any particular conclusions here, but it is really true that a surprising number of Mary Worth plots...
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