If Dennis finishes with "Get him!" he'll be my hero for life
Gil Thorp, 12/16/21 Oh, boy, the basketball season storyline of Gil Thorp is already more promising than this fall’s snoozefest because it looks like it’s...
The power of learning
Dick Tracy, 12/15/21 Let’s face it folks: between COVID-19, a general prejudice against nerds, and a widespread unwillingness on the public’s part to engage...
Hell is eternal menacing
Hi and Lois, 12/14/21 This is (and here’s a sentence that I’m reasonably sure has never appeared in the English language to date) the most heartbreaking Hi...
"Can't believe they were OUT OF MEATBALLS" he's furiously thinking to himself
Mary Worth, 12/13/21 Oh, man, the Wilbur-Estelle reunion doesn't look to be a dream or a fantasy sequence, just a sad testimonial to what happens in our...
The weather forecast is probably really important to birds, if you think about it
Shoe, 12/12/21 I honestly, and shamefully, would be down for Shoe to mine for laffs the relationship between Treetops' one newspaper and its (presumably) one...
Hope he's getting a lot of spittle on that mic
Rex Morgan, M.D., 12/11/21 GTV8 ANCHOR BRYCE NEWMARK: Tonight's top story: One local big sister, previously believed to be "basically OK," has now been...
Metapost: COTW RIGHT NOW!
WHOOMP HERE IT IS COTW! "This is the most sexual this strip has ever been or will be again. Ten years from now the fans will still be talking about that time...
Fast take Friday
Dick Tracy, 12/10/21 Ever since the raid on Apparatus HQ, Dick's been hard at work down in the phrenology lab, trying to determine if the Ace of Spades's...
"According to YOU" would be a good name for a TV news segment full of wild claims that aren't fact-checked
Rex Morgan, M.D., 12/9/21 I honestly kind of respect how many no shits this local news crew gives about this extremely pointless segment. Like, normally they...
Sunrise, sunset
Hi and Lois, 12/8/21 I’m reasonably sure we’ve never actually seen Trixie walking before? It’s 100% appropriate that this is the context in which she takes...
Doorknobs would be right at eye level for Snuffy, I'll give him that
Rex Morgan, M.D., 12/7/21 So Nancy finally got herself motivated to put an evil scheme in motion, for certain limited definitions of “evil” and “scheme,” and...
New tech for old people
Crankshaft, 12/6/21 Look, it’s not that I want to be a comics curmudgeon, all the time; sometimes it’s just important to me that comics do a better job of...
Can we just transition this strip entirely to Pierre and Libby being best pals
Hagar the Horrible, 12/5/21 Yet another example of why the so-called "throwaway" panels at the top of a Sunday strip, which are excised in some paper layouts...
We won't be laughing when the hillbilles conquer us riding their war salamanders
Mary Worth, 12/4/21 Look, Wilbur, they’re fish. They’re fish! They’re fine, but the gulf between their world and a human’s is much wider than between, say, a...
Metapost: December COTW is go!!!!
Time keeps on slippin' into the future, and it's now the first comment of the week of the last month of 2021: "For all that Mary talks Wilbur up, she would...
Sad couples Friday
The Lockhorns, 12/3/21 That’s right, Leroy! Loretta is old enough to remember the golden age of online discourse, when people wrote long essays about...
Bitter old love
Mary Worth, 12/2/21 “JOSH” I can almost here you yelling, “You haven’t talked about Mary Worth all week! Is there something wrong with Mary Worth, or with...
Dick mostly wants to show off his physique the way a trench coat never could
Crankshaft and Curtis, 12/1/21 I’m genuinely of the opinion that “gaslighting,” as a word, at one point conveyed a useful concept but has had its impact...
Not sure how jaywalking is defined in a town with no real roads
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 11/30/21 I'm reasonably sure that I've never seen the blessings of the Anglo-Norman system of trial by jury granted to the...
Yes, yes, their names are "Maggot" and "Grossie," yes, this is terrible beyond words, yes, we all know this
Crock, 11/29/21 “Hmm,” I bet you’re thinking, “a four-digit number that turns out to be the price in dollars and cents of an entire barrel of wine sure is a...