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Premium post · April 9, 2022
Dennis the Menace, 4/9/22 If, like me, you have persisted in the stubborn belief against all evidence that the point of Dennis the Menace is that Dennis is a...
Metapost: COTWabunga
Premium post · April 8, 2022
Folks, it’s your top comment … of the week! "I have to admit, when I got to Panel 3 (otherwise known as the 'She said she'll report me to school management'...
Teens: Good or bad?
Premium post · April 8, 2022
Gil Thorp, 4/8/22 Gil Thorp generally hews pretty closely to the holy trinity of football, basketball, and baseball/softball, but every once in a while it...
Little Toby In Slumberland
Premium post · April 7, 2022
Mary Worth, 4/7/22 Dream sequence, dream sequence, dream sequence, everybody! You might recall that years ago, during one of her fruitless attempts to psych...
Slow Wednesday
Premium post · April 6, 2022
Gil Thorp, 4/6/22 Ahh, we've come to one of my little pleasures in life: that moment in the Gil Thorp season when someone asks Gil who's going be on the team...
Grumpy old bloggers
Premium post · April 5, 2022
Family Circus, 4/5/22 I've been doing this blog for many, many years and my attitude about many of the comics has evolved in ways I never expected, and one...
Slylock Fox And Fun Scams You Can Try At Home For Kids
Premium post · April 4, 2022
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 4/4/22 This strip has honestly sent me into a tailspin trying to figure out what the relationship is supposed to be between...
Glenwood needs to see a doctor, but do they need to see THIS doctor
Premium post · April 3, 2022
Mary Worth, 4/3/22 It's fascinating to me that in the year 2022, the rhythms of soap opera strips are still predicated on the fact that some newspaper...
Metapost: Comedic comedy comic plugs plus comments!
Premium post · April 2, 2022
Whoops, folks, sorry about failing to get this one out to newsletter subscribers Friday! But hey, if you like the radio, but also on the internet, you might...
Soapy Saturday
Premium post · April 2, 2022
Mary Worth, 4/2/22 I love that Mary Worth seems to be edging towards “what if we did a story about cancel culture and #metoo overreach … but we gender...
Betting this isn't even in the top ten dumb things Toby has cried in her car over
Premium post · April 1, 2022
Slylock Fox, 4/1/22 In the Book of Genesis, there is a moment, immediately after Adam and Eve eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, when their...
Not going to bother explaining who "Vitamin" is, you gotta keep up
Premium post · March 31, 2022
Beetle Bailey, 3/31/22 Look, I have carefully curated my entire lifestyle so that I don’t have to know or care about the pop culture references or aesthetic...
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Menace
Premium post · March 30, 2022
Shoe, 3/30/22 The thing about Shoe is that the bird-people have varying character designs that involve varying amounts of clothing. Some are fully clothed;...
Mostly medical Tuesday
Premium post · March 29, 2022
Gil Thorp, 3/29/22 Ahhh, if it's spring, it must be time for ... the Gil Thorp baseball plot, which will definitely involve these young men and their varying...
And the Oscar for longest-winded diatribe about a legacy newspaper strip goes to...
Premium post · March 28, 2022
Blondie, 3/28/22 I honestly kind of respect how Blondie is just absolutely committed to doing jokes about whatever big pan-cultural event is on the calendar,...
Grandma is WAY too excited thinking about that super-old dude
Premium post · March 27, 2022
Family Circus, 3/27/22 I actually think this is a pretty clever strip, though I would argue that, just as the strip sometime updates old art to acknowledge...
The zip-a-tone makes those portraits look like pop art masterpieces, honesty
Premium post · March 26, 2022
Beetle Bailey, 3/26/22 Not sure why but my immediate thought upon reading this was that the Halftracks are fairly old and their parents are almost certainly...
Metapost: More comedy, more comments, more week
Premium post · March 25, 2022
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
Premium post · March 25, 2022
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
Premium post · March 24, 2022
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...
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