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"For example, I like the other thing that apparently everyone else in this town likes"
Premium post · November 5, 2021
Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/5/21 Well, it looks like Griff’s loyalty to his old friend – who was, let’s be real, pretty rude to him when he made a perfectly polite...
The butterflies are like three feet tall, this is an understandable mistake
Premium post · November 4, 2021
Gil Thorp, 11/4/21 The ... B? C? ... plot of the fall Gil Thorp storyline is that star running back Chance Macy isn't really interested in the enticements of...
Cigars, definitely the thing we associate with the word "bogart"
Premium post · November 3, 2021
Dick Tracy, 11/3/21 I know I shouldn’t quibble about “realism” in a strip that features a seedy bar called “Bucket of Blood,” one of the patrons of which is...
Pierre is far too indignant to speak, so you're spared my faux French accent bit
Premium post · November 2, 2021
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 11/2/21 When it comes to elected officials, Snuffy only wants to know one thing: will they stand firm in the face of the...
Moderately morbid Monday
Premium post · November 1, 2021
Crock, 11/1/21 I'm going to take a break from my long-running feud with Crock to offer some helpful humor advice: in the third panel here, Crock and Poulet...
Exasperated Sunday
Premium post · October 31, 2021
Shoe, 10/31/21 This is clearly a Macbeth-themed restaurant, but the Perfesser does a Hamlet joke when he orders and isn’t just immediately ejected onto the...
Hell is other fish and/or parents
Premium post · October 30, 2021
Marvin, 10/30/21 I’ll say this for Marvin: when it introduced its new fish characters a few weeks back, it could have played it safe and just used them as...
You have to pay a real professional for Cryptkeeper-style scary puns
Premium post · October 29, 2021
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 10/29/21 Today's "punchline" is some seriously low-rent "The real scary clowns are those clowns in Congress, amiright people"...
Metapost: Surprisingly timed COTW
Premium post · October 28, 2021
Your COTW is early this week but do not be alarmed! It is due to an Unavoidable Schedule Thing and the rest of our publishing schedule will proceed as...
How DARE you reduce Pierre to a mere "and company"
Premium post · October 28, 2021
Mary Worth, 10/28/21 Wilbur! ... And Company? sounds like a mid-'80s sitcom that would be the retooled version of Wilbur! with most of the cast replaced and...
Would love to get an update where Wilbur gets really into Instagram stories
Premium post · October 27, 2021
Mary Worth, 10/27/21 I hate to ever use the phrase "I would respect Wilbur more" so let's just say that I would respect Wilbur a very small albeit still...
Wait, Mysta got a cool bodyguard outfit and I missed it somehow?
Premium post · October 26, 2021
Dennis the Menace, 10/26/21 [sputtering indignantly] Martha! You completely misunderstand me! Why, I wasn't planning on slipping this loathsome tyke a...
Meltdown Monday
Premium post · October 25, 2021
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 10/25/21 Do ... do the good folks of Hootin' Holler not know about air conditioning? The low-key single most important...
Sam was actually banned from the coffee place because he kept telling them "funny" names to write on the cup
Premium post · October 24, 2021
Judge Parker, 10/24/21 OK, I just want to establish a few facts here. The reason Abbey is so upset is that, now that the mayor is publicly accusing her of...
Saturday quickies
Premium post · October 23, 2021
Daddy Daze, 10/23/21 Looks like the Daddy Daze daddy died doing what he loved: projecting his weird esoteric internal monologue onto the nonsensical babbling...
Metapost: Hey, real quick: COTW
Premium post · October 22, 2021
Ka-blam! It’s your comment of the week: "Sorry, the only QR Dagwood recognizes is 'Quiznos Reuben.’” --Pozzo Ka-POW! It’s your runners up: "The Hootin'...
How far are you YOU willing to go to celebrate Halloween like it's meant to be celebrated?
Premium post · October 22, 2021
Gasoline Alley, 10/22/21 So Gasoline Alley is meandering along with one of its typically shambolic plots about a park ranger's kids (the same ones who had to...
"@realMarkTrail" was somehow already taken
Premium post · October 21, 2021
Mary Worth, 10/21/21 You ever get a terrifying moment of clarity and insight into a situation that you wish you really knew no details about whatsoever? That...
It's not just their horns that are locked together ... it's also their hearts
Premium post · October 20, 2021
The Lockhorns, 10/20/21 If you’re reading this blog, I assume you’ve dedicated at least a little bit of your brain space to the question of why Leroy and...
Wilbur has definitely ordered this restaurant's trademark "Royale With Cheese"
Premium post · October 19, 2021
Gil Thorp, 10/19/21 Much as I make fun of Gil Thorp, I do think it puts in slightly more of an effort at keeping up with trends young people might be into...
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