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Sorry, a little late in the day I know, but here … is your comment … of the week!

“Poor Charlie Brown. Once, he was a global icon, the Everyman incarnate, beloved staple of holiday television traditions and cute birthday cards everywhere. Now in the wake of the Animalpocalypse he’s forgotten, his iconic shirt hanging forlorn on thrift store rack among the detritus of the civilization that bore him. Good grief.” –TheDiva

And your very funny runners up!

“Sure, Mary Worth can have beach fun and ancient Egypt in alternate weeks, but Heathcliff crams them both into the same day. See him pointedly staring away from the water, with a smug smile on his face, as his mummy friend sinks below the waves. Heathcliff knows he doesn’t need to save anyone to make his comic fun!” –Nevin, on Patreon

“The Gospels quote gives the game away. ‘Yeah, we’re all going out to dinner one night next week. There will be thirteen of us in all. But I feel like one of them is going to betray me in the near future. Maybe I’ll bring that up, just to clear the air.’” –Artist formerly known as Ben

“I hope it looks like… [mentally cycles through all the weird humanoid shapes that exist in the Crock-verse] …I take it back, we shouldn’t be procreating.” –pugfuggly

“Look, I know there are only so many ways to dress logic puzzles up as child-friendly detective mysteries, but ‘How did Slylock find the thief? He looked at the security camera footage” is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.” –Schroduck

“Asimov’s Revised Laws of Robotics:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
4. Women be Shopping.” –Philip

“I dream of a world where not only do the garbage men win awards, but also that they wish to discuss it with me, like I’m anything to them beyond a trash-gouting annoyance, and they’re anything to me beyond, well, the garbage men. Also, one of them looks like he was heaved forward via wormhole from a cartoon produced in 1938. I’m pretty sure Joan Baez wrote at LEAST one song about this.” –A Grave Mind

“This, this is classic mid-late period B.C.! There’s a rock with words on it! The words mean ‘Blatant pretext for an incredibly low-effort joke!’ Then there’s an incredibly low-effort joke! The panel is filled out with a stock drawing of a disappointed caveman and … just a lot of white space! Get rid of Satan’s Color Gradient at the bottom of panel two and you’re cooking.” –matt w

“Man, today’s Beetle Bailey takes a deep dive into race relations in the military. During the 60s and 70s, black soldiers and officers were always told something wasn’t regulation — usually their haircut or their facial hair. ‘No Afros, no matter how short! No beard, even if shaving causes skin irritation.’ To have a pompous white general demean one of the most competent lieutenants in Camp Swampy — who just happens to be black! — means Beetle Bailey has finally reached the Vietnam War, and we can look forward to most of these idiots bleeding out in a rice paddy.” –Voshkod

“Maybe it’s just the MG&G team’s subtle way of saying they’re mailing it in today.” –Pozzo

“Fire departments are usually a competence of local government, while the Postal Service is a federal institution. Is being willing to piss on fire hydrants but not mailboxes a celebration of centralised power against the wishes of the framers or an indication that local government is more responsive to the natural needs of citizens? In this essay…” –Ettorre

“The corpses, mother. It is the corpses which draw me to the museum, day after day. Through my second sight, I can’t help but see everyone (except for Mary Worth, the Ageless One) decaying around me. But the mummies lie still, preserved, proof that even death beyond death can have its terminus.” –Guts Dozier

“That’s not Olive’s mom. Mary is going the extra mile to encourage Olive’s interests, acting out the myth of Khonsu, aging and becoming young again with the phases of the moon.” –Dan

“He just now suspects that he might be a dog. The rear-end shot is to verify it. Tail = dog, no tail = a conundrum for another day.” –MKay

“Do you see how eager Snert looks? He definitely understands human language, probably because he’s a man cursed by the gods to live as a dog. The family fears that, by so blatantly thwarting Loki’s will, they will attract his wrath. (Frankly, the hat is already a risk.)” –Mr. A

“He’ll be staying with us for a week or so. Or until his insurance runs out, whichever comes first. He does have insurance, doesn’t he?” –seismic-2

“Fun fact: the nurses I know hate CPR, because it inflicts broken ribs and sternums, even damage to the lung or liver, and for what? Overall survival rates outside of the ER are around 7.5%. For patients over the age of 70, that drops to 6.7%. So if you’re trying to, let’s say, resuscitate a comic strip born in 1948, it’s just not worth it. Get Rex Morgan, M.D., a DNR order, stat!” –I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV

“This puts a new spin on things, as presumably his greatest foe is ‘the Master.’” –Maltmash3r

“Medical dude’s incredulous ‘You’re Jonah’s FAMILY?’ was responsible for what was probably the first time I’ve ever laughed out loud at a Rex Morgan strip. But it was kind of undermined when I read further and realized this guy just has some sort of Tourette’s-like random bolding disorder. ‘We think we’ll be able to treat him with MEDICATION!’” –Peanut Gallery

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Hagar the Horrible, 9/5/25

Real Hagar heads know that Hagar is illiterate, and while Lucky Eddie also was at one point, he later learned to read and write. I suppose it’s possible that he was inspired to learn languages beyond his native Norse — Greek, for instance, which would be useful for reading the scriptures of the new religion from the south, and which he could pick up from Swedish kinsmen who served in the Varangian Guard in Constantinople. This knowledge may have led him to see that streak of light in the sky and dub it asteroeidēs, or “star-like.” Unfortunately, 18th century astronomer William Herschel will ultimately get the credit for coining the term, because the only person to hear Eddie say it was Hagar, and he said it right before they were both vaporized.

Six Chix, 9/5/25

OK, fine, I’ve said my piece about how most comics really lay too hard on the relationship between dogs and fire hydrants, but to their credit, at least they know what that relationship is (it’s pissing). Today’s Six Chix, on the other hand … have they watched Doctor Who? I guess you don’t draw this detailed a version of the 11th Doctor in dog form, and of his TARDIS in fire hydrant form, without having watched some Doctor Who. I myself have watched quite a bit of Doctor Who, and before today I would’ve said that the Doctor did not as a rule piss on his TARDIS, but now I admit I’m starting to doubt myself.

Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/5/25

Really loving Cody’s facial expression in the last panel here. “Hey, man, you can say that, but I know I was just kind of pushing on his chest imitating what I’ve seen on TV, probably inaccurately. The paramedics saved him, it’s OK to say so. No need to be condescending.”

Mary Worth, 9/5/25

“I learned that John Singer Sargent was part of a cosmopolitan milieu, traveling between the great world capitals and painting society’s elite! I want a comparable experience, which is why I want to go with this old lady to her ghastly mid-century condo complex in exurban Southern California for a week.”

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Family Circus, 9/4/25

Ha ha, look at Jeffy’s face! He knows it’s not good! But he doesn’t have the gumption to be mad about it, just sad!

Hagar the Horrible, 9/4/25

Ha ha, look at everyone’s faces in the second panel here. What awful secret are Hagar and his family concealing — and why is Snert so eager to reveal it?

Pluggers, 9/4/25

Pluggers are nightmarish animal-human chimeras, hideous and offensive to human sight. But among their own kind, in their own company, do they consider themselves to be, in their own distorted way, beautiful? Today we learn the answer: no.