Old favorites
Funky Winkerbean, 8/13/21 So, in case you haven't been keeping track and/or want to feel a million years old, Lisa's death in Funky Winkerbean happened...
Can't really explain the ice bucket, maybe he just keeps them stashed all over the house
Mark Trail, 8/12/21 Oh, uh, the “Mark parties with influencers” storyline has wrapped up, and I’m not going to describe everything that happened (it was...
Billy dreams of the greatest Kompound yet
Daddy Daze, 8/11/21 I think we're all well aware that the actual cat poster caption is "Hang In There, Baby," which led to me read this strip and immediately...
This golf grift seems very complicated and honestly deserves to succeed
Gil Thorp, 8/10/21 I’ve been making lots of jokes about not being able to understand any of the golf lingo in Gil Thorp, but guess what: I’ve been carefully...
Funkyverse complaints
Crankshaft, 8/9/21 You know, after many years in the comics-mocking biz, you get somewhat inured to the foibles of the daily strips. That's why it's good to...
"Dubs vs. subs" is the argument that will finally tear Rex and June apart
Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/8/21 ME, MERE DAYS AGO: ugh, this whole thing with Sarah is so boring, can we please move on to someone else, even Buck would be better...
The circle of life
Blondie, 8/7/21 Elmo’s friend – and look, probably, somewhere deep within Blondie HQ, there’s a whole character chart with a name and a backstory for this...
Metapost: Getchya comments of the week right here
Psst. Hey buddy. Wanna buy a COTW? "The whole point of nephewism is that it doesn't come with the baggage of parenthood. When Skyler is unnecessary and...
Gloomy Friday
Mary Worth, 8/6/21 One of my favorite things in Mary Worth is when we cut away from the main action of the current plot to other characters, commenting...
First as hilarity, then as snooze
Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/5/21 It is truly amazing the way this strip has retconned its Sarah storyline from 2014, in which she made a lucrative book deal with the...
Joshreads dot com will NEVER respect the corporate language police!!!! (Unless they even vaguely threaten to sue me)
Baby Blues, 8/4/21 You ever see a tiny, almost invisible piece of writing that just ruins your whole day? That happened to me today, and that piece of...
Tuesday is for praising hayseeds and the hayseed-adjacent
Gasoline Alley, 8/3/21 Folks, let me confide something in you. I was relishing the prospect of just tearing in to today’s Gasoline Alley for using a “joke”...
"Ugh, the wife wants to come, guess I can't spend the whole party telling the actress about how dead Lisa is"
Funky Winkerbean, 8/2/21 "Hey," you almost certainly are not thinking, "Wasn't Mason trying to make a Lisa's Story movie the right way, and they had gotten...
Sunday sadnesses
Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/1/21 "I suppose some people need more adventure in their lives, or in the lives of the people they read about in serialized...
It appears Leroy Lockhorn and I have at least one thing in common
The Lockhorns, 7/31/21 A fascinating thing about longstanding legacy comics is that many of their running jokes are built on cliches pulled from the broader...
Metapost: C to the O to the T to the W
Folks! It’s your comment ..... of the weeeeeek!!!! "You're telling THIS guy he needs to come up with a name? Based on his history, he'll be on the phone to...
Summertime blues of various sorts
Hi and Lois, 7/30/21 "Gosh, I wish there were continuing storylines in Hi and Lois,” said ... someone? One of you, maybe? Well, here you go, it turns out...
Josh discovers the shocking truth: Comics are not realistic
Mother Goose and Grimm, 7/29/21 So, Grimm, who is a dog, got his owner/"mom" a "gift," but the joke is he's too cheap to actually get her an engraved...
Drew's not going to buy this, he knows Ashlee isn't qualified for any job of any kind
The Phantom, 7/28/21 Given how completely superhero franchises have come to dominate pop culture, it’s kind of amazing to think about how relatively recent...
Yeah baby, struggle to get it off, keep squirming, that's the stuff
Dick Tracy, 7/27/21 Look, I have no insider knowledge and I’m not saying that the Dick Tracy creative team is in the midst of a contract dispute with their...