Metapost: COTW? U know it baby
Folks, it's that time on a Friday ... time for your comment of the week: "You know what? It's refreshing that Crankshaft spends its time working out obscure...
Wait ... Zane and Abel ... Cain and Abel ... HOLD THE DAMN PHONE
Gil Thorp, 7/8/21 Oh, hey, the “spring” storyline in Gil Thorp is still going on [checks notes] several days after the 4th of July, but today’s strip would...
Can't wait for their extremely campy local TV ad
Judge Parker, 7/7/21 Ha ha, ever since Sam was supposed to be guarding Randy and Charlotte but got punched into unconsciousness and Randy and Charlotte...
So many horribles
Hagar the Horrible, 7/6/21 Ha ha! It's funny because Lucky Eddie has made this same silly dad joke repeatedly, every time Hagar's warband comes to sack this...
Defiant children
Family Circus, 7/5/21 Happy 4th of July (Observed), everybody! On this sacred holiday, I have some news for you: The Keane Kids are America. Jeffy, in...
Technically, during the Purge, all crimes are legal, so Thirsty's in the clear
Mary Worth, 7/4/21 Not too much to say about Shauna vs. Ashlee: The Rumble At The Clinic For Drew's Love except that the art here genuinely delights me. The...
Really unsettled by the way that coffee is clinging to their cheeks as dark, viscous blobs
Funky Winkerbean, 7/3/21 You might recall (or you might not, because why would you, honestly) that “Flash Freeman” and “Ruby Lith” are two unjustly forgotten...
Metapost: Declare independence from the hated King George III with this COTW
Whose John Hancock is on this week's top comment? Why, it's Schroduck! "The fact that Marvin wouldn't even use the sudoku brand name but is fine namechecking...
One-panel Friday
Bizarro, 7/2/21 Hey, guys! Do you know how amphibians reproduce? In turns out that in a lot of species, the females lay unfertilized eggs in water, and then...
They have identical cups -- do you think they went to the same coffee shop?
Six Chix, 7/1/21 Man, I don’t want to contradict this extremely confident-looking woman, but I’m not sure I’d refer to a wound that’s quite clearly gushing...
Wednesday chaos
Rex Morgan, M.D., 6/30/21 “Yes, full of surprises. Like remember when we made her start taking the bus to school so she’d get hit by a car and the resulting...
Mostly soapy Tuesday
Hagar the Horrible, 6/29/21 The most unsettling thing about today's extremely gross Hagar the Horrible is Hagar's eager smile in the final panel. I'm not...
More generational musings
Crankshaft, 6/28/21 In the United States, things are increasingly getting back to their pre-pandemic patterns, at least for now, but the scars on our psyches...
"Why should we get to have fun at work? None of our readers get to when they read what we create"
Family Circus, 6/27/21 Big Daddy Keane is, canonically in-strip, a cartoonist; we know this because he occasionally gets his son to fill in for him, and by...
Please hit me with your "the year you had a boy on the team" memories, I think that was before my time in the Thorp mines
Gil Thorp, 6/26/21 So the B-plot to this spring's library administration nonsense has been Corina Karenna nonsense, in which the beloved (?) and sassy new...
Metapost: COTW, baby!!!!!
What's that? Your top comment of the week? That's right! "I'm loving Billy's Rebel-Without-A-Cause-cool lean here. 'What are you rebelling against?' 'Whaddya...
As usual, comics artists are lucky nobody actually reads the comics
Beetle Bailey, 6/25/21 Say, have you ever spotted a uniformed member of military out in public and been tempted to go up and thank them for their service?...
Soapy Thursday
Mary Worth, 6/24/21 Look, folks, some of you are getting a little riled up and need to have your expectations set properly, OK? First of all, there's never...
Just because you can see the future doesn't give you license to be so melodramatic, in my opinion
The Phantom, 6/23/21 I know the Phantom has seen a lot in his decades as a superhero (and, by proxy, in his 20 previous incarnations) and has therefore...
Imagine if Snuffy knew what he looked like, the poor bastard
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 6/22/21 Look, I thought we had a consensus here: Cartoonists draw the people and animals in their strips in all sorts of...