Metapost: COTW <i>and</i> classic <i>Blondie?</i> Our cup runneth over!
Folks, your comment of the week in a moment, but first: you might remember that a few days ago Blondie made a joke about Blondie's long-ago roommate, which...
Shauna knows EXACTLY how dumb, gullible, and horny Drew is
Mary Worth, 6/18/21 Ah, yes, Shauna and Ashlee “ran in the same circles,” definitely a phrase that someone who ran in those circles would use! Also they ran...
Generational battles (non-"Dustin" edition)
Gil Thorp, 6/17/21 Good news, everyone! The library fight in Gil Thorp has ended in a classic "We're not so different, you and I" situation, in which Abel...
Alexander catches "Party Monster" on Netflix and awkward questions are raised
Slylock Fox, 6/16/21 A human can outrun all of these animals ... over a short distance, yes. But what if the animals started thinking in the long term? What...
Pretty sure Ashlee is arriving, not leaving, Shauna, but that's still a good burn
Blondie, 6/15/21 I continue to respect Blondie's decision to acknowledge the coronavirus pandemic maybe once a month or so, but even with that context...
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT FOR DR. DREW'S LOVE
Mary Worth, 6/14/21 Oh hell yeah, it’s Shauna, everybody! Surely you’ve remembered Jeff’s little story about Drew’s ex Shauna, who was wild and demanding and...
More like BORED games, amiright (because it's all very boring)
Rex Morgan, M.D., 6/13/21 Hello, Rex Morgan readers! In your desperate attempt to grab onto anything of even slight interest in this comic strip, anything at...
Honestly impressive that birds are using money at all
Shoe, 6/12/21 OK, first thing's first: any legacy comics artist convinced they're going to be on the cutting edge with a cryptocurrency joke has to...
Metapost: Early mornin' COTW
Rosy-fingered dawn is here, and she’s brought the comment fo the week! "Diane is cosplaying and posing for no one in particular, and the boys are backlit...
Don't let his communist clinic branding fool you: Drew's a class enemy
Gil Thorp, 6/11/21 I guess what’s going on here is that each of the Coaches Thorp is sitting with their own student-athlete in the teen vs. teen’s...
I assume she's at school and not just randomly standing next to a ... credenza ... somewhere?
Hi and Lois, 6/10/21 I was going to go on a riff here about how women are forced to do this carefully calibrated gender performance where if they don’t get...
Finally, we've discovered a conversation duller than talking about your dreams
Crankshaft, 6/9/21 Congratulations to Crankshaft for delivering a strip whose meaning isn't immediately obvious, but in a way that makes it feel like maybe...
Sincerely hope tweens are out there reading "Crankshaft" to their horrified dads in real life
Mary Worth, 6/8/21 An important aspect of the Ashlee plot is that Ashlee didn’t just grow up with bad parents; she’s also currently poor and living in...
Soaps and old people
Mark Trail, 6/7/21 Mark is off battling influencers, and Cherry is about to do battle with an HOA over native plants, so where does that leave Rusty? Well,...
Sunday is for family time!
Dennis the Menace, 6/6/21 Ha ha, it's another Sunday strip where Dennis does some menacing without even showing up! He's interfering with his parents'...
Unnecessarily horny Saturday
Baby Blues, 6/5/21 Imagine that you were on the verge of experiencing some marital intimacy with your husband, when suddenly you realized your cheek was...
Metapost: Come and get it! ("It" here being your COTW)
FOLKS … it’s time again for the comment of the week "In today’s semifinals of the Who Can Pour More Coffee in Their Lap tournament, we see the different...
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...