[bravely] Andy Capp
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Andy Capp, 2/21/25
Among the strips I’m starting to revisit is Andy Capp (never forget: ANDY CAPP!), and of course, there’s an important question one asks when starting to read this beloved British comics institution after the better part of a decade: is Andy Capp still a drunk? He’s a drunk, right? That’s his whole thing? Today’s strip, in which we learn that Andy would rather die horribly than spend his precious beer money on professional services of any kind, affirms this timeless truth.
Dennis the Menace and Bizarro, 2/21/25
One of my comics pet peeves is characters saying stuff they would never actually say (or having it implied that they said it moments before the in-strip action) just to set up a punchline. Take today’s Dennis the Menace, for instance: Surely a mail carrier would be much more likely to ask “Is he friendly?” or “Does he bite?” in a scenario where he’s encountering an unfamiliar and unleashed dog, as that would be relevant to his professional interests. Why on earth would he care about the dog’s peeing/pooping situation? I was planning on going on a whole diatribe about how cartoonists are simply obsessed with peeing and pooping, but then I read today’s Bizarro and immediately thought “Wait, is the implication here that Jesus drinks water and pisses out wine? Because that’s what the ‘In’/’Out’ labels pretty heavily imply to me,” so you know what, maybe I’m part of the problem.
Archie, 2/21/25
Reggie Mantle generally gets a bad rap, as he primarily exists in the Archieverse as an antagonist for our pals, but you know what? He’s absolutely in the right here. Is the student newspaper a joke to you, Jughead? Some of us are trying to learn about the practice of good journalism here!
Judge Parker, 2/21/25
Being best college buds with Sophie seems like fun — like, you get invited to bumpin’ party weekends out in the Hamptons. There are downsides, of course — like, said party weekends involve discovering corpses — but you have to take the good with the bad. Still, I don’t think it’s right that Sophie made Reena watch dronecam snuff footage without any warning or even anything fun as a lead-in (having to hang out with Randy Parker does not count as fun).
Daddy Daze, 2/21/25
Oh, Daddy Daze daddy, you and I both know that none of that ever happened! Why would you lie to your son about this?
145 replies to “[bravely] Andy Capp”
JP:
“What the pound sign dollar sign asterisk percentage sign question mark exclamation point?”
“Reena, you have to stop that fixation of yours with the upper case top row of a keyboard. It’s unhealthy!”
Andy Capp: Maybe the humor will be included in tomorrow’s installment.
MW: Dawn has a case of giraffe neck again.
RMMD: It’s honestly impressive, in a way, Beatty’s ability to make everything boring. Being stalked by a malignant narcissist ought to be terrifying, or at the least maddening and deeply annoying, but no. That’s what we’d expect. It’s like a few years back when a janitor broke with reality and began a fight against crime culminating in a hostage situation wherein he wanted to perform untrained lobotomies in a random hotel room. How could that be anything but fascinating? And yet Beatty managed to make it dull.
DtM: The mailman has been seeing this full grown dog for years and only now is asking if he’s housebroken? Exactly what kind of odors assaulted his senses when Alice opened the door?
If I’m not mistaken, Reggie’s thing is that, while not quite as rich as Veronica, he’s still a child of immense privilege, and also he’s very much a “dish it out but can’t take it” kind of guy, belligerent while also extremely thin-skinned. If he actually does go into journalism, his social media accounts are going to be friggin’ intolerable.
Ahahaha, it’s funny because Reggie is raging against the spread of misinformation and malicious propaganda in our news that is poisoning our democracy, but that battle is already lost!
DD: So that explains why a certain spinach-eating sailor hates this guy. Tough luck, Popeye. All of us want to beat up this schmuck, so take a number and get in line.
Daddy Daze is wearing Ukrainian colors instead of his usual tribute to Freddy Krueger.
“Andy Capp” is famous for putting “fun” in “domestic abuse”! Wait a minute, you say, the letter sequence f-u-n is not in the expression “domestic abuse”. Of course it isn’t! This is a serious matter, why are you trying to joke about it, you monster!
Bizarro: When one spends 10 minutes racking one’s brain on what the joke is supposed to be, it probably isn’t a very good joke to begin with.
Jesus is using a Mac knockoff, because “it’s easier for a camel to pass through the needle’s eye than for a man who can afford Apple prices to enter the Kingdom of Heaven”
The question about “Is Andy Capp still a drunk?” Well… he’s dead now, so we’ll never know.
“Jesus, what’s your password?”
“None”
“But this is not safe!”
“Gate-keeping access behind the secret word (logos)? That’s Gnosticism!”
MW: If Mary had seen Dirk in action, would she be shaken out of her usual bland platitudes, or is she just programmed?
RMMD: In the back room, June senses trouble and slips on her brass knuckles.
Andy Crap – Is that a 1966 25” Zenith B&W floor model? Three hundred twenty lines be plenty when yer drunk enough….
DtM – Please – no wordplay on Rough sex….
Bizzaro – Jesus is just alright with me. Now, if he had an Apple product….
Archie – Ah – the old unreliable narrator bit. The journalist in yellow….
JP – Nothin’ from nothin’ is nothin’ – except here where there’s exciting footage of the Pope shitting in the woods….
DD – Ba-Ba-Ba bad – bad to the bone….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
@MKay: Please! Dawn has seen Dirk in action, and she isn’t shaking from her usual naive dumbasserry
@Ettorre: Now that Bringing Up Father is no longer even in reruns someone has to carry on the tradition of throwing skillets and rolling pins at her husband, or else the kids aren’t going to learn that this was once a thing in comics.
JP: Ah, they’ve come to the part in the drone footage where the Russian gangster is feeding somebody to the Cavelton bear!
RMMD:
“You’re an encyclopedia salesman, aren’t you?”
“No, no. I’m the guy who harassed you yesterday evening! — honest!”
When did Andy Capp turn into ‘Pickles’?
And what happened to their dialect?
MW: Dawn is too intimidated to pick up her sandwich and eat it with her bare hands in front of Mary. And we wonder how she became so submissive.
“When God closes a door, Jesus opens Windows. That’s how the phrase goes right?”
~Dan Piraro (probably)
ARCHIE: Archie and Jughead are laughing because they know with these stellar journalistic credentials, Juggy easily has a lucrative job waiting for him as a Politico columnist .
CS: “Ed, as bad as your back is, have you considered dying? You’re at least 105 years old, and it really would solve a lot of your problems.”
MW: Remember when Dawn’s story stopped to show Mary and Jeff going to the Bum Boat for Valentine’s Day? It’s as if the comic strip was saying “we interrupt this sad tale of misguided youth to show you what a correct relationship looks like.”
All the other couples in the strip are always having drama, but at least they’re trying to make something happen. Mary and Jeff are rarely together, and seem to barely tolerate each other. But they’re perfectly cordial, and can get through an evening without embarrassing themselves. It’s kind of sad how passionless they are, and how much this world seems to hold that Mary as the ideal. Even though her level of insight is “sometimes things don’t turn out the way we want”, said to a woman who’s lucky something much worse didn’t happen to her.
JP:
“What the #$*%?!? We’re getting a peek at future installments of our strip, and they’re (a) abandoning gratuitously-depicted violence completely, (b) actually resolving a story arc, and (c) resolving it happily, yet? I don’t believe it!!!”
GT: Why is horseface standing in the bus when there’s plenty of empty seats?
GT: Does the horsey girl have acromegaly? She looks like Rondo Hatton in drag.
Andy Capp is basically the British Leroy Lockhorn/Snuffy Smith, only he doesn’t seem particularly British anymore. I miss the old Reg Smythe days, when you needed subtitles to figure out what Andy was saying. (He could at least toss in a “Blimey!”)
AC: Punching doesn’t work for everything, Mr. Capp.
DtM: I’m pretty sure the mail carrier did ask a sane question, but Dennis decided to just blurt out this as a response. I’ve seen some interviews like that.
Archie: What’s worse is that Jughead is the student paper’s food critic.
JP: “The tree! It fell and didn’t make a sound!”
DD: That’s OK. The child isn’t real either.
JUDGE PARKER: Reena: “WHAT THE ^%#@$#? He started recapping Luann and Herb and Jamal again?! Holy $h!+! I can’t believe it!”
Zits is telling us about the kind of colleges Jeremy’s hoping for, seeing how his “moon shot” application costs $50 instead of $100. The honesty is actually refreshing.
FC: “…because Mom’s mayo-on-Wonder-Bread lunches aren’t cutting it since she decided Mrs.Dash was too ethnic.”
BG&SS: The “wimmin” are acting uppity. Good thing for the menfolk that Hootin’ Holler’s paper is stuck in time. Now let’s see how that Battle of the Somme is going.
RMMD: Summer’s clinic needs to hire security. Not the office park kind, but the halfway house kind.
Bizarro: I for one am deeply offended at this insult to our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. At the wedding at Cana in Galilee, he transformed six stone jars of water, “each holding twenty or thirty gallons,” into wine. He’s far more productive than this!
JP:
“Go # sand, you overprivileged suburban elitist!”
Blondie – Wait, Blondie! Think again about giving Maya a bonus. You’re a legacy comic star. You don’t want to encourage a secondary character too much. Remember how your pal Barney Google got fucked out of his strip by Snuffy Smith? And that goth chick Dethany took over the whole Fasttrack lead. Do you really think MAYA and Blondie will look good on the title? And think about poor Dagwood. A comic where he’s the elderly food-addicted secondary character always drooling over the cooking of the sexy lead character isn’t a good look… wait, that’s what he is now. Nevermind.
Luann: It sure is an eye full. Or maybe it’s just eyefull.
CS: {Depression-filled trombone}
9CL: Look how special Edda is. She’s writing in cursive.
DENNIS THE MENACE: Marvin (reading today’s strip with a smug sense of superiority): “Ha! Trying to horn in on my territory! Amateur!” (defecates)
DENNIS THE MENACE (2): Actually the mailman was asking that about Dennis.
The correct expression is “take the BAD with the GOOD,” not the other way ’round.
GRRRRRR!!!!
[assumes lotus position and breathes deeply]
MW: “I did my best. Right, Mary?” “Sure, Dawn. Sure.”
FC: Seconds later: “Not like that, Jeffy!”
Dustin: Don’t you have women to annoy at a fern bar, Dustin?
Dennis the Menace: A necktie? Triangle patch rather than a U.S. flag on his sleeve? Gray Hush Puppies rather than comfortable walking shoes? [Squints] Cell phones rather than letters poking out of his bag? Asking whether the dog is housebroken, expressing his intention to come into the home? That’s no mailman, that’s the local marching band leader, arriving with his “oboe” to teach Alice about triple-tonguing.*
*I seem to make a lot of jokes about Alice having an affair. Look at what I’ve got to work with, Lord knows that kid doesn’t give much to build on.
MW: I may be reading the subtext incorrectly but holy COW…is Mary sort of half-blaming Dawn here?
Judge Parker: a) Bow-chicka-wow b) That second panel needs to go on the next Josh Reads fundraiser t-shirt.
MW: Good God Almighty, Dawn, what exactly did you *think* he was? Hugh Grant?
CS: That’s a lie, Crankshaft. You know it, I know it, the American people know it.
JP: “Oh my God, they’re doing it in a tree!!!”
Now that I think about it, for Catholic priests drinking on the job is not an infraction but a requirement
JP: A shocked Reena exclaims; ” WHAT THE &%#?!? The writer of The Chambers Affair shot a man!!!”
@Pet Peeved: Apparently Josh is not the only one who makes this mistake.
JP- Now we’ll have to endure a week of “I have to tell Sam”, “Sam you’re not going to believe what I saw” etc without ever telling us what she saw
@ValdVin: Who will continue the tradition of mocking the Irish?
RMMD: “Oh, hello again. I’m sorry, but we don’t do personality transplants here. You’ll have to find somewhere else. Bye.”
Dustin: Is there ever a time or a location in this country that does NOT have a new Italian place?
GT: Milford has local train transit? Who knew?
AC: On the one hand, it would be quite embarrassing to call an electrician just to flip a switch on a fuse box, but on the other hand, Andy Cap did get electrocuted? Anyhow, RIP to this
belovedlong-running comics page character.Archie: I know that these are just old re-run strips that are probably selected by a random-number generator, but this feels like kind of a dark one to run in the current media context. We’re all living in the puzzle section now, Jughead…
Daddy Daze – “But enough about how you were conceived. You were a mishap-py accident!”
FC: Wait, won’t their tongues stick to the…..
Go ahead, kids. Nevermind.
Ah, Reggie… that kind of attitude is why you’ll probably end up a jouralism professor and Jughead will be a New York Times columnist.
MW: “Our wishes don’t always come true, Dawn. I wish you were smarter instead of the dumb bunny you are. Genetics dealt you a cruel blow! Muffin?”
Andy Capp – Josh’s long return comes just as Andy Capp manages to kill himself. Let that be a warning to any other long-running and neglected comics getting a revival. 2025 is not the year to trifle with Josh.
Dennis the Menace and Bizarro – Medical literature will be written up about what long-term exposure to critically reading Marvin will do to a person. No matter how they anonymize it, “Patient A, a middle-aged comics blogger” will be obvious to true fans of this blog.
Dennis the Menace – The obvious answer here is that the mailman is setting up a scenario in which Dennis has to walk Ruff and be outside for a while, so he can have sex with Alice.
Bizarro – Christ has become so busy judging all our sins that he doesn’t have time to use the bathroom and has begun pissing in bottles.
Archie – Sadly with the state of disinformation and distrust in the elites running the media institutions, the only reliable reporting is hidden in the Wordle and NY Times Crossword section by the puzzle makers and last reliable journalists operating.
Judge Parker – Bigfoot flashed the drone camera.
Daddy Daze – Look, it’s wrong to judge Daddy a liar without knowing him, and it’s doubly wrong to question the lengths in which he had to go to pay his college tuition without going heavily into debt.
JP-“How does one even get into a position like that?”
FC-“This is how you lick it. From the base to the tip.”
RMMD-This guy has just crossed a line into stalker.
JP-Head tiltingly kinky.
Daddy Daze-And then nine months after that Angus came along.
Archie-Sorry, Jughead, but there is no way you are going to be the next Hunter S. Thompson.
Archie-“Fear and Loathing in Riverdale High”
What a coincidence. “What the @$!#!^@&,” is what I say when I learn Judge Parker still exists.
One of the things about omniscient, omnipresent beings like Jesus and Santa who see everything everyone does means they are watching all of us poop, and that can’t be pleasant. I’d like to think this is why Jesus here is on a laptop, watching videos of his favourite cat videos or playing World of Warcraft or something just to distract himself from all the nose picking that’s going on.
Archie: Today, the AJGLU-3000 is demonstrating class solidarity with its fellow generative AIs. “You make fun of ChatGPT for its hallucinations? Well, it’s not like it could be any worse than you meatbags!”
@Tabby Lavalamp: In a book I read years back, the protagonist, a kid, his Mom told him that all of his ancestors are watching him from Heaven at all times. So he’s picturing his dead ancestors looking on in disgust while he picks his nose.
Then says that it’ll be really awkward once he eventually dies and ends up in Heaven, with all of his ancestors knowing everything he’s been doing. (Arrives in Heaven and all of his ancestors are glaring at him) “Um… hey guys…”
Also he wondered “Does this mean ALL of my ancestors are watching?” and he pictures a bunch of cavepeople watching him play videogames, and are just confused.
Keep trying loyal window cleaner, someone will be butt hurt enough to respond. It won’t be coherent but at least it’s a start.
Ah, I see the boffins at Bletchley Park have finally found all nine milliard names of the Anglican God and now, without any fuss, the tellys are going out.
Ahhh, the old “Olive Oil-Banana-Peel-Trampoline Mishap,” who among us hasn’t had one of those in Thailand?
He’s told his own child about his bizarre Third World sex cavortings, is my point.
Bizarro: “In” and “Out” boxes on an office worker’s desk have always been a cartoon trope, and I never took them to mean that the employee was eating interoffice envelopes and pooping out graph paper.
AC: Have we ever seen anyone call him “Andrew” before? I honestly thought she was calling out to someone else at first. Also, does northern England not use circuit breakers?
DD: A baby that age should not be dangling from the back of an armchair. Apart from making up dialogue, Daddy’s parenting is remarkably indifferent.
Luann: Is the joke here that she’s alone with a boy, and as is normal for middle schoolers, they can’t think of anything to say to one another?
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Jesus, water, wine, yeah, I get the joke. But what’s the story about the lone eyeball, adrift in the clouds of Paradise? Who had an eye that had less sin than the rest of the body? A pirate who lost his eye before he became a debauched reaver? Someone who squinted when watching porn? Someone who took Matthew 5:29 to heart? There’s the story, Bizarro, not Jesus pissing wine.
@The Rambling Otter: That’s good, but I figure Jesus’s laptop has to be running Ubuntu.
And somewhere in heaven there’s a snake who deals exclusively in Apple products.
Don Abundio, translated:
“My dog seems kind of dull. She just doesn’t have much zing!”
“Can you do something to perk her up a little?”
“Of course, Don Abundio!”
“They’re usually best with salt and pepper!”
B. Bailey: Despite his faults as a nebbish pencil-pusher, Lt. Fuzz gets mad respect from the men for wearing roadkill shoes.
Luann: I’ve come to realize I hate Mrs Horner.
JP: they have video of Dirk beating the shit out of some girl.
Bizzaro: Jesus is the ultimate nepo baby, complacent with his sweet position in his Father’s heavenly kingdom and doing nothing all day but turning water into wine. Hey Savoir boy, how about churning out some leprosy healings or pulling off a major catering job with a few loaves and fish every now and then, huh?
DD: Aiming for “Noodle Incident” but instead landing in “word salad” territory.
JP: Bad way to learn that the drone operator was spying on Sam and Abbey doing the nasty in their backwoods property.
MW: So they’re eating sandwiches with forks…doesn’t everybody? (Are we sure at this point that Moy *isn’t* an AI bot? What else could explain two humanoids sitting at a table and eating sandwiches with forks?)
Judge Parker Brothers: TWO GIRLS,ONE COP.
C’shaft: This tells you all you need to know about Crankshaft. He’s too cheap to pay for delivery and installation, and none of his younger relatives want to help him out because they’re just waiting on an excuse to push him into assisted living.
Dustin: Why does Dustmom look so shocked? Your husband treats you like crap, and Dustin knows it; there’s no way he’s going to assume Dustdad was proposing anything romantic.
Luann: Maybe it does, in people who are not complete doorknobs.
MW: “Well, your best wasn’t good enough! You’ll never land a man if you can’t put your full energy into fixing him!”
RMMD: Does Goatee McStalker even have a name? Or is he just another in a parade of strawman villains for the man cast to look down on and feel superior?
JP: I’m sure a lot of you have guessed that the bimbos are seein’ Ol’ Rex in action here – no, not takin’ a crap in the woods, you sickos. The drone managed to capture his gruesome mangling of the Bad Guy, previously unseen on panel! All of it ACTING, of course, though he did have a little fun with the scene.
They were gonna actually show it today, but Rex is still in hibernation with his alarm set for March. I think they’ll be able to drag things out without showing the video at least til then….
JP – Calm down, everyone, it’s just Abbey fucking a horse.
“ANDREW ROSEBUD CAPP!!”
MW: “If he wasn’t who he thought you were, just remember the past differently.”
“Oh, gosh, Mary! You’re right! Dirk was actually wonderful and I need to try to win him back immediately!”
“That’s right, Dawn.” Thought balloon: “You little pinhead!”
Bizarro – Can God make a stone so large he can’t move it? And can Satan still infest a laptop if it’s owned by Jesus?
@Cleveland Mocks: #41
“MW: Good God Almighty, Dawn, what exactly did you *think* he was? Hugh Grant?”
He was handsome and well-built, flirtatious and presumably able to excite Dawn sexually. That’s all. She projected all of her repressed fantasies onto a good-looking man who cared nothing at all about her as a person, and consequently did not even see how abusive he was.
Bizarro: Transforming water into wine…there’s an app for that!
MW: “Unfortunately, things don’t always turn out the way we want, no matter what we do. Heh heh, just ask Jeff.”
@The Rambling Otter:
That’s Wayno on weekdays.
@lynn: When did Andy Capp turn into ‘Pickles’?
_______________________________
Andy was pickled the whole time.
Zits: Jeremy should just accept that his best case scenario is working his way up to supervisor position for whatever menial job he ends up taking. He has delusions that he’s going to have a successful career as a rock star and he needs a rude awakening.
S4th: Well, it’s official – we’re outta this deal. The role of Puppy will now be played by a stuffed facsimile – if he’s ever seen again. They seem to have lost interest in the concept as it was originally envisioned – a heart-warming tale of Pet antics mixed with the learning of responsibility for the whole family.
Yeah, I admit we made a mistake tryin’ to place a client with Short-Attention-Span Theater. The actual Puppy… his professional name is Baxter… is gettin’ a buyout from them and looking forward to moving on with his career.
@Voshkod: I guess Earl the Eyeball finally got too many joints in that computer game/PSA.
AC — The pennies in the fusebox just aren’t going to work the same since the new king’s likeness is on them.
Archis — I didn’t have this comic in the pool, but finally someone elucidated the AI conundrum in three panel form. I just had Reggie pegged more as one of the grifters chasing billion dollar valuations . . .
@Peanut Gallery:
Vale, este es el peor veterinario del mundo.
@Chaos: I have no idea what you’re referring to, or who you’re responding to (Josh? One of us?)
But regardless of how incomprehensible something we say is, it’ll make more sense than whatever the hell you said.
“Loyal Window Cleaner”? What is that supposed to even…?
Hi and Lois: He’s selling you into slavery Chip, at least now you’ll have some credibility for your angsty music.
Family Circus: Billy is going to either experiment with fellatio or he’s planning to shank this kid, both useful things for him to prepare him for his future life in the state prison system.
@Violet: Where did he even get a can full of fleas? Did he take them off of other dogs? Is he some kind of flea redistributionist?
@Old Man Shadow: Indeed. The correct way to be a journalist is to report every lie made by leaders with whom you ostensibly disagree, causing those who agree with those leaders to complain about your nitpicking — as well as your lack of objectivity because you ostensibly disagree with the person whose lies you are repeating — and those who disagree with those leaders to complain about your platforming lies. Meanwhile, to maintain balance, you will imply that slight exaggerations by people with whom you ostensibly agree are pretty much lies. And you will report the whole thing as if nobody can really know what are lies and what are not lies; it’s your job to report, not to decide.
When both sides criticize you, you then can congratulate yourself for a job well done: “if I’m getting flack from both sides, I must be over the target!”
Pluggers are decrepit and suffering immense physical pain #33618.
@But What Do I Know?: Since the new king is a microcephalic, the new pennies are absolutely useless for anything besides buying stuff that costs a penny.
@Voshkod: “Hmm…let’s start with Nigel, Reginald, Liam, Rupert, Albert…”
CS: It’s ha-ha funny because Ed is so hated that none of his co-workers, friends, or even his own family would help him drag that mattress upstairs.
CS: Uh, don’t mattress stores deliver and install those things? Hell, they’ll even haul away your old one to the dumpster. Let me guess, Ed bought his from Dinkle’s band fundraiser and bungee corded it to the top of his school bus.
Advice to Pluggers:
Take your hands out of your pockets and walk with a normal gait.
Buy more supportive shoes.
Quit whining.
LUANN: Mrs Horner: “I’ll leave you two alone while my one remaining kidney ruptures and fails” (just saying that the guy with one job to do is still on the clock and that “job” is not awkwardly flirting with one of her “special needs” students.)
LUANN (2): Also is Ms Horner trying to turn this strip into a more senile version of Mary Worth?
Mrs. Horner: “My meddle-scheme can’t fail! If I embarrass the girl by publicly implying that her third-grade scribblings are confessions of love and then increase the tension be leaving her alone with her “crush” in a room full of hideous art, they’ll be doing each other in front of the thousand appreciative eyes of Nil in no time! Brilliant!”
Archie: In 1944, when D-Day code words began turning up in the Daily Telegraph crossword, British intelligence was alarmed, figuring a spy was transmitting the invasion plans to Germany. The puzzles’ creator was arrested and interrogated. It turned out that he was headmaster of a school, located near a military base in northern England, who had his students supply words for the grid. The kids had heard soldiers using the code words but didn’t know their significance.
I hope Jughead hasn’t written a bombshell investigative story, and that its fragments in the puzzle section won’t land him and Reggie in Guantanamo. No, wait, I hope that’s exactly what happens.
Bizarro-Jesus is looking up to see what he can inflict on Francis Ford Coppola. “How dare he make a better wine than me,” Jesus declares, “I put my actually body into it.”
Andy Capp: That “BANG!” was actually Andy being shot by a burglar. Sad!
Dennis The Menace/Bizarro: It took me a moment to realize these were two different strips next to each other, so I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out why the punchline of today’s Dennis the Menace was Jesus staring at a computer.
Archie: Reggie Mantle is one of those characters who’s meant to come off as some kind of unlikable stick in the mud or whatever, but the writing on the main cast is so bad that he comes off as the only person you’d actually be able to stand being around in real life. Case in point, the last panel of this comic makes me want to punch Jughead in the throat.
Judge Parker: I’m gonna presume that Sophie and Reena are reacting to their drone accidentally filming a couple banging in the woods because that’s way funnier than anything this comic would give us.
Daddy Daze: This last panel is very obviously the censored version replacing the original last panel in which Angus, after falling off Daddy Daze Daddy’s head, splattered on the floor while his father continued to ramble aimlessly at thin air.
Great, now you’ve ruined the Gospel of John, Chapter 2 for me.
FC – The dirt from the gutters gives them plenty of flavor.
I understand that an icicle is a perfect murder weapon. Just saying.
Frazz – Caulfield is surprised that the employees at the coffee shop like Mrs. Olsen. Let’s take a poll and ask them how they feel about Caulfield.
Ripley’s – Why go through the legal system? It’s a lot easier to not answer the phone.
That Is Priceless – Summer’s blind date guy found another girlfriend.
JP – I’m not a lawyer, but isn’t Sophie interfering with an investigation and tampering with evidence?
Oh, I forgot. The entire police force of Cavelton are the most evil, corrupt force on the planet. Carry on.
Another new comic added to the rotation? Excellent. More comics in the mix makes for noticeably better posts.
The previous — and ONLY — time Josh commented on a specific Andy Capp cartoon was in 2016.
*reading Bizarro rant*
Yes, Josh, you are part of the problem. Please delete your account.
@A: Sick burn, dude!
Archie, 2/21/25: “…the practice of good journalism here!” Really? Come on, are you joshing Josh? YOU more than anybody else knows that today’s public schools are nothing but propaganda mills and have no use for truth! Journalism dies in leftist, hate America first public education!
Judge Parker, 2/21/25: Why would anybody shout in surprise “”HASH TAG, DOLLAR SIGN, ASTERISK, PERCENT, QUESTION MARK, EXCLAMATION POINT, QUESTION MARK”?
RexMD: Little does stalker beatnik guy know that Michelle is an Army veteran skilled in martial arts combat. He is going to get his comeuppance for harassing Summer and how. I’m grabbing my leftover popcorn and stale Coke for this!
@A:
If you’re going to post anonymously, please spell out the name fully so that we will know it is you.
The Lockhorns: Loretta should listen to Aunty Acid.
Back in the Day: Bob Tice?
Are Mary and Dawn eating sandwiches with forks?
CS:. Actually, I feel Ed’s pain here. Mishaps and tasks that used to be worth just a laugh now have week-long consequences.
CURTIS:. Just trying to remember, is this the annual Black History Month fable?
FG:. Good way to make friends, but what does the storyteller get for his self-sacrificing
bravado?
FRAZZ:. I don’t get it. But then, I don’t patronize SBs.
6CX:. Actually, I feel her soreness here. Though my hair is half that length washing it stretches the upper arms. What muscles are those again?
Luann Spanish to English.
What does an anon mouse have to do with anything?
@Activist:
#112. 6CHX:. Oh yeah, biceps!
@anonamouse:
#114:. He’s actually a shrew, but needs z support group to be his true self.
@Lauralot: Re RMMD – This is the strip that managed to make a plane crash boring.
@Daisy: That’s a good point. I had forgotten that Michelle is a combat veteran.
However, Michelle going all Kung Fu on Summer’s date would be interesting action, and we can’t have that in RMMD. See my comment immediately preceding this one.
@BeckoningChasm: It would be appropriate to eat something like a hot turkey sandwich with a fork, but I have no idea what the glop they’re eating is. I’ve already spent too much time trying to identify it, and I give up.
MW: Strange how according to strip canon Mary is supposed to be this great, absolutely fantabulous culinary wizard but all of her food depicted looks like something you’d feed concentration camp prisoners in a dystopian science fiction movie. The Smiths over in Hooten Holler are poor as mice and despite the cartoonish drawing style Loweezy can still whip up some fried chicken and mashed potatoes that actually look like real food.
Bizarro: Jebus works in a cubicle now. He used to work from home, but he was required to come back to the office, and works miracles as they show up in his in-box.
@White Rabbit: Jeeziz is a member of the “deep state?”
Bizarro: Not to question the divine will or anything but if we’re talking single bottles that have to be shipped out from Jesus’s office, it seems more cost-effective and eco-sound to stick with grapes.
DtM: Don’t worry, Mr. Mailman, the dog won’t bite you. As for Dennis biting you, it depends on the day.
JP: “What the #$*%?!? Does Temu have to run those cheapass ads on everything now?”
@I speak Jive: FC: Those icicles also should have a hint of tar in them from the roof and a dash of lead from the paint that was still used back then.
9CL Amos missed his calling. He should have been an Eatanter in BC. There’s more dignity that way.
Blondie: In real life a dad joke this week would almost certainly be delivered with “hilarious” sound effects so there’s an advantage in it appearing in a non-audio medium.
C-Shaft: Former Vice President Henry A. Wallace begins to regret his career change to primary care medicine.
DT: Love how when the tan suit guy says that their nephews had the sense to get away the nephews look at each other all “We did?”
Dustin: This is so tragic. How could Dustin not know that nuking leftovers at home would be much more enjoyable than a night out with his dad?
GT: This panel of a teen wearing a duffel coat and carrying a duffel bag comes with a reminder to look for fine duffel products everywhere.
MW: Okay, now I’ve joined the mad guessing party on what they hell Mary and Dawn are eating. It’s in stacks, but square, so it would be more likely French toast than pancakes. In which case RIP Dawn’s vegan kick I guess. (Oh, and Dirk was exactly who he always seemed to be.)
RMMD: Mr. Goatee Guy now has me wondering if he has a name that contains the word “stalker” if you anagram it. Also whether there are any treacherous mountain roads nearby.
AC: Honestly, this strip is so unmoored from time that I’m slightly surprised that Andy’s first thought wasn’t that he had to put another shilling in the meter. (Note for non-Brits: shilling coins, or anything resembling them, haven’t existed since 1990. Coin-op ‘leccy meters were phased out before this Gen Xer was born.)
DT: I would possibly be intrigued by this cryptic conversation if I had any expectation whatsoever of the eventual explanation making even the slightest bit of sense.
RMMD: Give Beatty his due; unlike Karen Moy, assuring the readers that abusive boyfriends will disappear into the narrative void if you stand up to them, giving you plenty of time to remind yourself that you did everything you could to make them less abusive, so it’s not entirely your fault it didn’t work out, sheesh, what is wrong with this woman… wait, I was talking about Rex Morgan, wasn’t I? Yeah, makes narrative sense, fails to be interesting, whatever.
@White Rabbit: Yeah, C19 and all that. No one was immune
@Guillermo el chiclero: Maybe if we’re all really good we’ll get to see Mary go to culinary boot camp in the Appalachians. Learning to cook and dress a roadkill squirrel won’t be easy but will be worth it (for us.)
@Pozzo: Andy hasn’t been a Cockney since he stopped beating his wife. It was the End of Empire.
@Horace Broon After Brexit and the abandonment of the Euro, hasn’t UK started back to shilling coins again?
@Artist formerly known as Ben: You’ve identified what Mary and Dawn are eating! Un sandwich l’ecuruil au jus!
@I speak Jive: crap! It’s l’ecureuil.
@ValdVin: @White Rabbit: My favorite joke in Jim Carrey’s God movie (can’t remember the name) was that all prayers to God were viewed in the form of e-mails
@I speak Jive: It could just be a croque-monsieur.
Instead of a lovely gold they came out of the oven shit brown, because Mary.
@Ukulele Ike: 120: Jeeziz is a member of the “deep state?”
You might say that. He’s with Amazon Prime now.
DADDY DAZE: I don’t much care for DD, but am grateful for one effect it has. Every DD strip I’ve ever seen has reinforced my conviction that cats and not babies were the right choice for me. Even when the DD characters are having fun, DD is still kinda sad.
@ectojazzmage: Yeah, and I wanted to punch Archie as well.
LUANN: Readers are supposed to like Mrs. Horner, right? We’re not supposed to think it might be sorta nice if Luann learned another Important Life Lesson by attending Mrs.Horner’s funeral in the not-too-distant future.
@Bob Tice: Ah, subtle Python reference.
@Poteet: How about tigers? What’s your take on Calvin & Hobbes?
@Ukulele Ike: “Tigers are nimble and light on their toes, / my RE-spect for tigers continually grows.”
@Ukulele Ike: @Peanut Gallery: C&H was tremendous fun no matter what the characters were doing. I never felt sad for them except for a very few stories like Hobbes getting lost and the baby bird dying. Maybe some readers find DADDY DAZE to be a lot of fun, and if so, more power to them.
@Artist formerly known as Ben:
#123. RMMD:. Aldo! I’ve heard so much about you, hope you didn’t come to RMMD for brains. Ben, great catch.
@Poteet: I apologize — I misread #134 as you saying you wanted neither cats NOR babies, and was wondering if you’d consider living with tigers.
Hunting Tigers Out in India; The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
@142 Ukulele Ike:
Stop that! You’re an editor!
However, it is late night so you’re probably relaxing with a fine libation so I understand. Carry on.
@Poteet: And the baby raccoon dying that Calvin cried over.
@ectojazzmage: Reggie has actually grown to be pretty kind in the final years of the comic. Losing the abrasion that made him what he was, but the rest of the cast still treats him like he’s an asshole… calling him “Rotten Reggie” and such. -shrugs-