Just get a normal damn phone, Dick
Dennis the Menace, 5/17/21 Look, the only time I want Dennis to say "Now he's studyin' for the bar” as a punchline is if he's repeating some crack from his...
Josh gives up, mostly
Marvin, 5/16/21 I was going to go on a real sarcastic riff here about how great it was that comics were a rich, visual medium so that we could get literally...
IT BEGINS
Mary Worth, 5/15/21 When’s the last time Mary had the mission of actually nipping a relationship in the bud? I don’t know if she ever has! Once, long ago, a...
Metapost: Mid-May COTW
Please enjoy the follow comment, deemed by me to be of the top quality! "There is a pill for writer's block. It's called benzedrine and about half of the...
Once we're done with COVID, writer's block is next on the list, we swear
Funky Winkerbean, 5/14/21 Just to bring you up to date on what's happening in Funky Winkerbean: Harry's attempt to raise money for new choir robes using his...
Are the Milfordians branching out to new restaurants, or did the Bucket finally decide its name was too dumb and needed a rebrand
Gil Thorp, 5/13/21 It’s always fun to learn something new about a medium you’ve written about for years, which is why last weekend I followed with interest...
A Greek chorus of vague concern
Gil Thorp, 5/12/21 Today’s a great day in Gil Thorp for groups of three Mudlarks experiencing approximately the same emotion! Panel two is easy to parse:...
Eyes empty of thought or moral agency
Beetle Bailey, 5/11/21 As recently noted, Zero’s one-dimensional characterization has in the past decade or so shifted from “is very stupid” to “is a very...
Soapy Monday
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/10/21 As the world’s greatest newspaper comics strip blogger and also a narcissist, I often just kind of assume that stuff in the comics...
Sunday quickies (mostly yelling)
Crankshaft, 5/9/21 “He says that right before someone burns down a building for the insurance money. Happens more often than you’d think! Anyway, that...
Spys like her
Judge Parker, 5/8/21 You ever spend like 15 minutes of your day staring at a comic strip character's ear? Zooming in on the image file while yelling...
Metapost: It is COTWing again
It's your comment of the week, right ... now! "Don't worry folks, this extremely tedious series of strips where Harry smugly inventories his experience as...
Fun fact: I've written 90% of the posts on this blog in pajama pants
Dennis the Menace, 5/7/21 Hello, everyone! Did you know today is No Pants Day, a day when we're all urged to donate unwanted clothes, or give to a charity...
He's not a CHEF like some snooty French rat, no sir
Six Chix, 5/6/21 Folks, Six Chix sure loves its cryptids, and I for one am on board! The strip long dwelled on a single subject: “What if Bigfoot were...
"Human bodies are STILL frail and mortal? What the absolute hell"
Mary Worth, 5/5/21 Say what you will about this "Drew the dissatisfied Instadoc" storyline, but it's been hard to predict its twists and turns! Like, is Drew...
I will never submit to the easy and morally suspect trend of pro-Buckism
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/4/21 A classic Rex Morgan, M.D., trope is when ancillary characters give Rex and his family free stuff for no good reason -- clothes,...
The not particularly dangerous game
Dennis the Menace, 5/3/21 Man, clearly the menace here is not Dennis, who's merely playfully experimenting with the results of intensifying ontological...
Marvin's grandparents are not in evidence, so it must be a Logan's Run-type future
Mary Worth, 5/2/21 I am honestly not sure where this is going, by which I mean that I am honestly not sure how stupid we’re supposed to think Dr. Drew is!...
One-panel Saturday
Mother Goose and Grimm, 5/1/21 Hey there! Did it ever occur to you, in your (I assume) decades of reading the syndicated newspaper comic strip Mother Goose...
Metapost: COTW WOOOOO
Hell yeah it’s your comment of the week! "This plugger seems to be jiggling both the toilet handle and his genitals simultaneously. And both for the same...