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Hagar the Horrible, 2/17/26

This one, I think, adds up: in Viking-era Scandinavia, sugar would’ve been imported at great expense from the Islamic world, but because it was a luxury good those selling sugar and sugar-derived products like rum could charge much higher markups on it than they could on, say, drinks made from local commodity crops like barley or honey. The candle thing was probably real too, but I’m not going to bother looking that one up.

Herb and Jamaal, 2/17/26

Look, if you had been a comics character for 37 years — never aging, never changing, never growing or improving as a person — you might come to feel that you were trapped on the endlessly spinning dharmic wheel, and would pay any price to escape samsara, even if it meant being nice to your mother-in-law.

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Mary Worth, 2/10/26

OK, finally, finally we have absorbed the lessons (?) of the great Toby-Ian parrot story, and after eating those vegetables we get our dessert. That dessert is hot beefcake in the form of Dr. Jeff, who, after fitting a hood that’s too long to close onto his sports car, is taking a break to casually lean back, with his lilac shirt unbuttoned and sleeves rolled up to tease us with glimpses of his James Dean-esque undershirt and rippling forearms, like you do. Who wouldn’t want to go on a “sunset cruise” (wink) with this guy? The Mary Worth trufans certainly can’t resist!

Hagar the Horrible, 2/10/26

I guess we have Lucky Eddie awkwardly announcing that he’s staying outside in the first panel so that it would make sense for him to be asking this question to set up the punchline in the second. But I prefer to think that he knows Hagar all too well, and simply doesn’t want to watch Hagar murder the inhabitants of his former home and plunder whatever wealth they have, just like he murders most of the strangers he encounters on their journeys.

B.C., 2/10/26

I appreciate the single tear the cute chick “Grace” is crying for the farmers here. “Being a farmer sounds tough,” she’s thinking. “I’ll definitely urge my nomadic hunter-gatherer band to avoid agriculture indefinitely, and only interact with settled communities when we raid them for surplus goods.”

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The Lockhorns, 1/16/26

I accept that, for narrative convenience, sometimes the Lockhorns need to passive-aggressively try to destroy each other emotionally with some silent stranger there for one of them to rhetorically address. However, in this scenario, Leroy appears to be standing on a yoga mat wearing workout gear and Loretta is standing within earshot in street clothes, which makes it difficult to parse where this void might be situated so that those two facts dovetail with the possibility of some random person wandering by in order for Loretta to quip at her for Leroy’s benefit. You have to assume that Loretta got tired of just walking around the house with that first aid kit and demanded that Leroy accompany her to the sidewalk in front of their house so that they could involve a nonconsenting third party in their kink.

Hagar the Horrible, 1/16/26

A fun fact is that the unique physical features of a golf course as we know them actually mirror the landscape of the game’s birth in coastal Scotland: long stretches of flatland or gentle hills with low grass and very few trees, dotted by occasional ponds and sand-filled hollows dug out by sheep for protection against the wind. Another fun fact is that during the Viking Age Norse warriors carved out an separate kingdom along the coast of Scotland and the nearby islands that lasted for centuries. So I declare this Hagar the Horrible mostly historically accurate, for once! If you ever wonder why Vikings were so eager to sail outward to conquer new lands, just think about the fact that coastal Scotland was their equivalent to Cancun.