Bad dad Friday
The Lockhorns, 6/4/21 Having done this blog for many years, I can tell you that there is definitely a weekly rhythm to many of the comics. Hopefully if...
Hotboxing, but for meat smell
Blondie, 6/3/21 THING I LIKE ABOUT TODAY’S BLONDIE: The little anthropomorphic power-lifting mascot for Power Burger, holding aloft a barbell with hamburgers...
Can't tell if running the strip sidewise is supposed to be yet another joke or just annoying
Six Chix, 6/2/21 Sorry, folks, I can’t even deal with the ostensible joke here because of the bird’s use of “peeps” to refer to fellow birds, which is both...
Soapy Tuesday
Mary Worth, 6/1/21 Wow, huh, if you had asked me how this was going to go, I would’ve guessed, at various points over the course of this storyline, first...
Pasta family massacre
Crankshaft, 5/31/21 So Crankshaft has spent the last month dwelling on the Valentine Theater and how the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t done it any favors,...
Wasn't stealing his HEART enough for you???
Mary Worth, 5/30/21 Remembrer, folks: if you’re an attractive older woman who’s hit it off with an age-appropriate man you meet online, that man is...
Saturday quick sadness
Beetle Bailey, 5/29/21 I guess it was probably a colorist’s decision/error, but I am truly tickled by Beetle’s slice of pizza, which appears to be devoid of...
Metapost: Hopefully unmoderated comments of the week
Folks! Your comment of the week in a moment, but speaking of comments ... faithful reader/Joshreads dot com tech guy Adam Norwood updated my server and the...
This Ain't The Spring 2021 Baseball Season Plot of <i>Gil Thorp</i> XXX: A Porn Parody
Gil Thorp, 5/28/21 They say a happy marriage is one where each partner can still surprise the other, and by that definition my longtime partnership with soap...
Crimes of fashion
Mary Worth, 5/27/21 We all frankly know that the intertwined personal and (aspirationally, on both parts) professional relationship between Drew and Ashlee...
Would honestly like it if this conversation clarified who Drew's mother was and what happened to her
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/26/21 So Sarah’s been writing this very long fan letter to Kitty Cop scribe and noted local writer’s block sufferer Kyle Vidpa for a...
Sorry, Leroy, but: ya burnt. Ya undeniably burnt
Dick Tracy, 5/25/21 Wow, who could've possibly predicted that taking a protectee who already faced one assassination to the theater would've been a bad idea?...
Kids today! They aren't great
Blondie, 5/24/21 Ha ha, the kids today! Always getting on the online and becoming millionaires! It's almost unfair! Used to be you could get rich doing a...
TRY to tell me it makes sense, I DARE you
Dustin, 4/23/21 So the last time I tackled wordplay in a Sunday Dustin comic strip lots of people got mad at me because apparently they think hanger and...
Sadly, there is no vaccine against the various bird diseases you'll catch
Shoe, 5/22/21 Syndicated newspaper comics are, generally speaking, a relic from an earlier age, when there were only three TV networks and the goal for most...
Metapost: Well the weeks keep coming and the comments keep coming
What's the sound? It's the C to the O to the T to the W! "Mary would rather tsk, tsk about the wild, sexy girl on a bad path than watch the magnificent pod...
Lucky Eddie's Continuing Cryptid Adventures
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 5/21/21 Ha ha! It's funny because Orville in his grief has been forced to part with his ancestral home, his one asset that...
It's quite harrowing to see what comic artists think a handsome man looks like
Mother Goose and Grimm, 5/20/21 I’ve mocked them over the years, but I have come to respect the humble comics colorists as a vital part of the operation on...
Wednesday quickies
Mary Worth, 5/19/21 “I certainly would not have formed a romantic liaison with this family had I known about the lapses in judgement lurking in your...
Mary begins to look ill -- but this time it's not from seasickness
Mary Worth, 5/18/21 Look, I don’t ask for much in this life, and maybe I’m being greedy for wanting anything beyond Jeff hearing Mary’s story and reacting...