YES it's the same two comics as yesterday, it's MY BLOG, I do what I WANT
Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/28/21 If you want the answer to “Why is Rex Morgan boring now” in a nutshell, here it is: one of the strip’s more devious characters has...
The fact that its formerly rigid body bends doesn't even bother me, I'm becoming numb
Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/27/21 Here’s the thing, folks: I spent a lot of brain power this week remembering the various Funkyverse familial relationships and it’s...
Not sure the <i>Funky</i>verse can resist the temptation to make this a superspreader event
Hi and Lois, 11/26/21 Almost every family patriarch in a newspaper comic is a baby boomer, with tickets to the original Woodstock in a scrapbook and a disco...
Staring at my mashed potatoes, getting increasingly furious about comics continuity errors around a horny old man
Funky Winkerbean, 11/25/21 Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! If you’re looking for something to be thankful for, maybe you should give thanks that you don’t...
These delicious muffins will break down her poor victim's resistance
Dick Tracy, 11/24/21 It really tickles me to think that the various deformed criminals of Dick Tracy have their own fairly normal lives, from which they are...
"Thank goodness we don't have to give her more amnesia!"
Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/23/21 I think it's completely legit to say, "Hmm, when this strip's child character sold a book for a lot of money to a museum somehow...
Just sittin' on the ol' Viking-on-the-lam bench
Hagar the Horrible, 11/22/21 Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas famously begins with its main character, Henry Hill, going on at great length about how much fun it...
Better than playing "inhuman wheelbarrow," I guess
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 11/21/21 Snuffy Smith trufans! Do you want to get hot Snuffy Smith visual content like the turkey in today’s installment?...
Sam should be thrilled that he can finally just throw money at this problem
Judge Parker, 11/20/21 So, see, the mayor has been launching a vendetta against Abbey, falsely accusing her of burning down her own B&B in both the court of...
Metapost: [COTW wordplay goes here]
[Setup for comment of the week goes here] "I'm actually mad at how inaccurate the darndest thing in Family Circus is. Little kids think all grownups are...
Not sure what kind of store "DASHn&OUT" is supposed to be, it has a [squints] barrel full of ice?
Blondie, 11/19/21 I know I spend far too much time going on and on about comic book time here, but it really is an interesting lens for analyzing long-...
The Day The Hippies Came To Town
Mary Worth, 11/18/21 This is, even within the context of a Wilbur storyline in Mary Worth, extremely sad. Remember earlier in this storyline when he was...
Kids today with their cell phones and their TikToks and the unrealistic productivity demands placed upon them
Beetle Bailey, 11/17/21 Miss Buxley's face isn't what you would call "expressive" -- it's more what I would call "blowup sex doll" -- but given that she's...
Title to change to "Funky's Dad's Harem" by 2023
Funky Winkerbean, 11/16/21 Remember how after the big post-Lisa’s-death Funky Winkerbean time jump, all the promotional material around the strip said it was...
Felicitous pairings
The Lockhorns, 11/15/21 I’m really loving Leroy’s little bar cart here. You never know what room in the house you might be in when you abruptly need to...
Honestly shocked to learn the Flagston twins have social lives
Crock, 11/14/21 Crock has a long-running bit about how there’s a talking chicken who’s always on the verge of being cooked and eaten by the strip’s...
"Maybe we SHOULDN'T be bringing them to church, actually," the Keane parents are thinking
Crankshaft, 11/13/21 In one of the more jarring bits of Funkyverse visual shorthand, traditionally panels that are supposed to be flashbacks are depicted in...
Friday quickies
Beetle Bailey, 11/12/21 Plato is exactly the kind of dork who would try to pull off the “the most erotic organ of all is the brain” thing, but declaring that...
I too would rage against the Funkyverse's creator, given the opportunity
Mary Worth, 11/11/21 Wilbur continues to moderately out-hip Estelle in his choice of music, turning for his next number to Gotye’s 2011 hit “Somebody That I...
She might need to eventually get even more "on the nose" and bop him on his actual nose
Beetle Bailey, 11/10/21 Wow, is it up to me now to be the guardian of Beetle Bailey lore? I guess it is, so here's my gripe: this is absolutely not a Zero...