All old people problems, this time
Crankshaft, 8/1/25 OK, fine, I guess if I'm doing Crankshaft two days in a row, I will explain why Ed and Jeff were in an airport yesterday: It's because Pam...
Problems of youth, problems of age
Mary Worth, 7/31/25 I guess the "Olive uses her psychic powers to save Mary from certain death” moment was just a prelude to the main plot, "Olive gets...
It's actually short for "Truckington"
Herb and Jamaal, 7/30/25 It seems like just yesterday that Herb stormed into Rev. Croom's office, declaring that he was ambivalent about believing in a...
Comic strip jokes (mostly not funny) (not my jokes, my jokes are all funny)
Beetle Bailey, 7/29/25 There's a lot of Beetle Baileys where the joke is that Sarge has beaten Beetle into an undifferentiated mass of broken limbs and...
Hope Jami gets involved in the underground electronic music scene
Gil Thorp, 7/28/25 There are two types of Gil Thorp summers: the wacky ones, with plotlines like "Kaz punches his way to a bodyguard job for the Rock 'n'...
We know not what may be, and what we may be is smooshed flat
Blondie, 7/27/25 The Blondie creative team has never met a young person that it didn't want to call a lazy sack of shit, but ... I kept waiting for this...
The battle of the generations is OVER
The Lockhorns, 7/26/25 The random, silent bystanders who show up in The Lockhorns represent one of the strip's great mysteries. Like, who is this lady, who...
Metapost: Y'all know what time it is (it is time for the COTW, for the record)
Are you emotionally and psychologically prepared for this week's comment of the week? I sure hope so, because here it is: "Wizard of Id has succintly...
Sadness, death, etc.
Beetle Bailey, 7/25/25 This strip is a pretty good demonstration of the fact that comic characters even within the same universe each have their own...
Thursday is for manimals
Slylock Fox, 7/24/25 I gotta say, it's probably pretty annoying to have to write Slylock Fox at this point, because doing cute little animal mysteries...
I believe in everyone. I believe in you
Wizard of Id, 7/23/25 I guess in the extremely sketchy world of Wizard of Id characterization, Sir Rodney's whole deal is that he's supposed to be a...
Spiral into madness
Family Circus, 7/22/25 I frankly am not a fan of the smug looks on Jeffy and Big Daddy Keane's faces here. Oh, you think it's funny to contemplate how...
Monday outrages
Mother Goose and Grimm, 7/21/25 You all know that "fire hydrants are like toilets, to a dog" is one of my pet peeves, but I frankly find it a million times...
Old age, youth, the past, the present, etc.
Heathcliff, 7/20/25 I'm a little obsessed with the tiny fish saying "Welcome to the club!" to Jaws. (Side note: Do we agree that the shark from Jaws is named...
Jon minus reasons to live
Garfield, 7/19/25 True comics internet oldheads remember Garfield Minus Garfield, a webcomic that, as the title implied, took daily Garfield comics in which...
Metapost: You know it, you love it: It's the COTW
This week's comment of the week comin' at ya ... right now: "I'm really uncomfortable with the way Truck is breaking the fourth wall here. 'Are you this...
Using "game" as a verb is a huge red flag, in my opinion
Intelligent Life, 7/18/25 Look, buddy, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, also liked to engage in marathon gaming sessions, but he forced his servants to...
OK, to be fair, that's not really GOOD art
Gearhead Gertie, 7/17/25 Oh, man, the domestic drama in the Gearhead household just gets more fraught! Gertie's husband Harold, in a desperate attempt to...
Wednesday quickies
Hi and Lois, 7/16/25 Hmm, if you have to apply, it isn't really Trixie's pre-school yet, is it, Hi? Really makes you think (about how modern child-rearing is...
Interpersonal relations and their discontents
Pardon My Planet, 7/15/25 My least favorite Pardon My Planets (which is really saying something) are the "Ha ha, gender relations, amiright folks?" ones, but...