Chip is trying to hold it together and not doing a great job
Hi and Lois, 1/29/22 Man, all the facial expressions in that last panel are great: Hi and Lois, desperate to salvage whatever joy they can from their planned...
Circle of live and/or death
Funky Winkerbean, 1/28/22 Sad (?) news, everyone: it turns out Lisa didn’t fake her death after all. Instead, it seems that Les literally couldn’t tell the...
Metapost: End-of-month COTW
Your top comment? It's right here, for you! "Nothing but wholesome tap water for our boy Dick, thank you. And no ice. Don't forget, people in hell want ice...
Plus the bird medical system! They're a better race than us
Blondie, 1/27/22 Definitely my favorite character in today's Blondie is Dagwood's nameless co-worker, who's just sipping his coffee and watching Dagwood post...
Your tears will salt his next margarita
Mary Worth, 1/26/22 I hate to say that Mary doesn't understand even the basic outlines of the personalities of the people she spends all her time with, but I...
Three panels of Dustin flailing wildly would've been infinitely better than this
Dustin, 1/25/21 Dustin of course has a core mission of depicting the life of the shiftless, no-good kids today, as interpreted by someone who’s only heard...
Plus does Wilbur even have a "soul," honestly
Mary Worth, 1/24/22 It’s definitely an interesting choice to show Wilbur’s loved ones sobbing over his death after we’ve already been shown that he’s not...
Your hate just makes Wilbur STRONGER
Mary Worth, 1/23/22 Oh my GOD, the island ISN’T EVEN DESERTED, Wilbur is going to be FINE, just FINE. I don’t want to overstate things, but this is...
Walker-Browne weekend
Hi and Lois, 1/22/22 You have to respect the unspoken shorthand these two best pals share. If they were mere acquaintances, Thirsty would have to do a lot...
Friday mostly quickies
Mary Worth, 1/21/22 Look, would we all be happier if Wilbur were dead? Absolutely. But, things being as they are, can we at least look forward to watching...
How did he lose his shoe and not his glasses???? I hate him
Marvin, 1/20/22 Today’s Marvin is a good Rorschach test for readers. Where did your mind go immediately after reading this? Are you a pedant who looked up...
The only thing more boring than art crime is art perjury
Rex Morgan, M.D., 1/19/22 Well, it looks like Rex has only one chance to stave off total financial annihilation in the Case Of The Intellectual Property...
Did they try to make his eyes kind of sexy? I hate this
Dick Tracy, 1/18/22 Oh, look, everybody, it’s another quick Dick Tracy Minit Mystery, starring [steadfastly refuses to do any actual research on the relative...
HE SHOULDN'T BE ALIVE
Marvin, 1/17/21 Man, say what you will about Marvins where the joke is about pooping or peeing, but at least I have some grip on what’s happening in those...
Crime and punishment
Panel from Slylock Fox, 1/16/22 I just want to offer my 100% unironic appreciation of everything going on in this panel. I love the weird angle we're seeing...
Mostly one-panels
Mother Goose and Grimm, 1/15/22 One of the last pure pleasures of social media is when some bizarre bit of pop culture ephemera from decades past gets...
Metapost: COTW + WILBURMERCH
Folks, do you want to spend seventy-two American dollars for a framed print of the strip where Wilbur Weston may have fallen off a cruise ship to his death?...
"Increase our speed! He's swimming closer!"
Dick Tracy, 1/14/22 When Apple rolled out the Apple Watch in 2015, probably a lot of comics nerds out there were like "Oh, a watch computer that helps you...
Today's Lockhorns is just a joke about Leroy liking TV, I'm not even going to bother with it
Dustin and Funky Winkerbean, 2/13/22 The general vibe of the newspaper comics industry is small-c conservative -- that is, it's mostly created by older...
Pleasure cruise
Pluggers, 1/12/22 At long last, we get an answer to the eternal “what is a plugger?” question, and it’s this: a plugger is anyone who isn’t afflicted with...