(Rabbits Against Magic — AMS)(Prickly City — AMS)Politics are everywhere, and it’s good to see them on the funny pages because it just might get someone who actively avoids thinking to give it a try. That may be a pretty slim slice of the pie: I doubt the people who most need to see these […]
Arlo and Janis (AMS) offers some annoying truth about design over function.Granted, Arlo and I are both old enough to remember life before remotes at all, as well as corded remotes that you couldn’t lose but you could trip over.But flatscreens have done away with easy-to-use backup controls, because there isn’t sufficient depth on the […]
Sage Stossel gets as political as I’m planning to be today, the Yea! factor here being that the minions are being exposed, the Boo! factor being that they exist at all.And Boo! to the sinless purists who condemn people like Leibovich and Miller for having ever been in the mud, even though they stepped out […]
Doing comic strips about the end of the school year — or the beginning, for that matter — is tricky because of how widely school calendars vary, state to state. But, this being the week after Memorial Day, there are a flood of summer vacation strips and this Non Sequitur (AMS) — a rerun, but […]
Edison Lee (KFS) pays tribute to the date, though I’m a little uncertain of the premise, since his father and grandfather would be more apt to recognize a Friday the Thirteenth reference than someone Edison’s age, given that the movie came out 42 years ago.Which, now that I do a little math, means his father […]
The best part of this Daddy’s Home (Creators) is that he’s right, sort of.That is, we shouldn’t believe what they say, because we all use more than 10 percent of our brain, though the people who keep saying this perhaps do not.It’s appropriate that she’s on her laptop, because that’s a flowing river of such […]
Stan’s probably right in this Pros & Cons (KFS). I hope that everyone is watching the world crumble, but I suppose I take the role of the optimist, thinking realistically that people don’t generally change until they hit rock bottom.And hoping they hit bottom is probably a pessimist’s most optimistic take. But Paul Fell is perhaps […]
Big Nate (AMS) has wisely enlisted Dee Dee to help him find a Christmas present for his sister, which sends our brave lad into the forbidden world of estrogen.I like that Dee Dee uses the term “cute,” because it’s one of the most flexible terms in the female lexicon and can be applied to anything […]
It doesn’t take much to make me laugh over a poke at Facebook, but the level of gallows humor in this Joy of Tech gibe makes it more thought-provoking than funny.Will future generations one day look back with the same sense of “What the hell were they thinking?”Of course, the Greeks and Romans had limited […]
Tim Campbell (WPWG)‘s joke notwithstanding, one of the first things we learned in business law is that a price tag is not binding and that both parties are free to bargain until some kind of consideration changes hands.That’s obvious with the sticker on an automobile window, less so with a tag on a can of […]
Andy Marlette (Creators) begins our Halloweeneen celebration with a reminder of what scares at least some of us.The weirdest part of this is that these people are more scared of precautions than they are of actual danger.Wait, no.The weirdest part is that they don’t want to do what experts tell them because they’re following the […]
I’m going to start with something substantive before moving on to trivia today. I don’t entirely disagree with Mike Lester (AMS), but, then again, I don’t entirely agree with him, either.The more argumentative point is that, from my side of things, we are paying for the Pigs in Space Race, based on the way the […]
We start the day, and the week, with a Barney and Clyde (WPWG) in which Weingarten et cie use “beg the question” properly, which is probably too smart for the room, but they redeem themselves by referencing “passive-aggressive,” a phrase that has come to mean any response short of a punch in the face and […]
Lincoln Peirce offered a bit of critical commentary in Big Nate (AMS) yesterday.It’s no secret that a lot of comic strips have outlived their creators, but, when a cartoonist gives up a strip, what happens next varies. If a strip is not in a lot of papers, the syndicate may shut it down, but if […]
I always enjoy Agnes (Creators), but never more than today, when she is slogging through the snow and kvetching over a month that even Gilbert & Sullivan dismissed as “beastly.”Which is a good time to point out that Groundhog Day is ridiculous because it’s far too dependent on location, and was originally a badger in […]