This Week in the Funnies Pages
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Let’s start with some highlights.
Hard pressed to a better comic strip than Thursday’s Bok versus The Snowbeast’s battle in Flash Gordon Thursday making the jump from overture to aftermath. Absolutely wonderful was the “Bok draws the warm pelt tight around his shoulders” caption.
Possibly only bettered by Rose’s authoritarian statement in Wednesday’s Wallace the Brave.
“Because under the shadow of the law, we can all live in harmony.”
And then there were the pantomime strips:
The wonderful art and the statement expressed without words in Thursday’s Macanudo.
Certainly it is hard to come up with great silent strip everyday, but Mark Tatulli outdid himself Wednesday and then followed up with a great Thursday Lio strip, returning to the original premise of no words weirdness.
Wednesday perfection was just missed because of the inclusion of the non-essential “exit” sign.
I’m confused (a natural state).
Are there such things as metallic bumpers on cars these days as supposed in Monty this week?
And…
I think asking me to keep track of six separate Popeye storylines every week is asking a bit much for my feeble mind. The daily Popeye and the Sunday Popeye with different continuities, plus the Tuesday Olive and Popeye and the Thursday Olive and Popeye featuring separate storylines, and then the vintage Thimble Theater. Whew.
And now the recently added Eye Lie Popeye! Segar, Sagendorf, Milholland, Burge, Milholland, Williams – who’s who?
Is it my imagination or is Mallard Fillmore not so gung-ho MAGA as it once was?
Juneteenth
As far as I saw the only newspaper syndicated comic strip to mention Juneteenth was Curtis. Granted Studio Jantze and Warped (re)ran Juneteenth panels, but I expected more than Curtis on the funny pages.
Tribute
It would have been nice to see some Jay Ward characters on Jay Wardly’s walls in Slylock Fox Monday.
Have you noticed that Sunday cartoonist Scott Underwood has been taking a more active role in the daily Slylock Fox comics? Now at the end of Spring 2025 he is drawing at least five and often all six of the dailies.
The More You Know
uh, Nope. If youngsters the age of those shown in The Middletons used their heads in soccer games the referees would blow the game dead and warn the the kid about using their head (granted they occasionally unintentionally get a ball planted in their face). Dana has to get out and watch some of his great-grandchildren’s soccer games, they are much more protective of the children’s brains now than when we were young.
It is a part of…
The Times We Live In
as seen in Alice, Intelligent Life, and Comiclicious.
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