Forward movement
Mary Worth, 4/12/21 Finally, finally, we are blessedly moving on from Saul and Eve's emotional process and starting a new storyline in Mary Worth, and hell...
Generational strife
Dustin, 4/11/21 Not sure what makes me madder here: that Dustin produces this massive hanger-tangle out of nowhere; that this comic’s writer has apparently...
Love and therapy
Mother Goose and Grimm, 4/10/21 I’m old enough to get the why of it, but it’s genuinely funny to me that “flatscreen” is used as a shorthand for a certain...
Metapost: Comedy (again) and COTW (always)
Folks! Don't forget that tonight at 6 pm Pacific/9 pm Eastern, the Internet Read Aloud returns to your Zoom machines! This show's performers include: Atlanta...
[beep boop] WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED POOP [bleeep]
Marvin, 4/9/21 Since the earliest days of machines that seemed like they could think like human beings, human beings have worried about being replaced by...
Oh, there's an actual joke in Dennis the Menace today? Hadn't noticed
Dennis the Menace, 4/8/21 I’ve always thought Dennis’s affinity for Westerns, a genre very popular among children when this strip began and almost unknown to...
As a former library employee, first of all: How dare you
Daddy Daze, 4/7/21 A thing that irritates me and probably nobody else in storytelling is when the protagonist has to solve some central mystery and for most...
Rex is stealing Tralian valor
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/6/21 Sarah may have forgotten all her magical art skills due to her amnesia, but at least she still has the vague notion that artists use...
No exit (from the food court)
Dennis the Menace, 4/5/21 I like that these two kids and their moms have similar facial expressions, as if both pairs were mirror images of one another. In...
That's the last life-sized snork in North America, you incompetent beasts
Panel from Slylock Fox, 4/4/21 This is not the first time that Slylock Fox has done a strip where the “solution” is “fans don’t actually lower temperature,...
American madness
Blondie, 4/3/21 Not sure why but I’m very fixated on the choice to do a pink-to-blue gradient in the background here. Specifically, I’m very curious as to...
Metapost: Comedy presaging comments ... of the week!
Folks, a quick note! My beloved live comedy show, the Internet Read Aloud, will return to the Zoom-based stage one week from tonight, on April 9, and 6 pm...
Soapy gear-spinning
Gil Thorp, 4/2/21 So there’s been a lot of buzz in this new storyline about the triumphant return of Zane Clark, after the resolution of some unspecified...
Not to brag, but I tell jokes on this website EVERY day
Hagar the Horrible, 4/1/21 Happy April Fool’s Day, everyone! Say, were you concerned that the creative team behind today’s Hagar the Horrible believed that...
Parent traps
Baby Blues, 3/31/21 Look, as a guy with a Gen X beard situation myself (though I finally ditched the goatee for the full mountain man during the quar), I get...
Particularly pointy serpent teeth
Dennis the Menace, 3/30/21 This is one of those comics where I feel like the joke is convoluted enough that I have to reason it out from first principles....
Please do not involve your caterer in your kink, if that's what this is
Blondie, 3/26/21 I can't quite put my finger on it, but every once in a while a character pops up in Blondie who, even though they're clearly drawn in the...