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Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/1/26

Ah, it looks like our runaway ex-Hollywood starlet, now desperate to eschew fame, is about to run into our own Mud Mountain Murphy, who has something of a complicated relationship with fame himself! You might recall that Mud was so intent on getting a headlining spot at a roots country show that he pretended to shit himself on stage to move his set later in the order; subsequently, however, thanks to the phoney-baloney Mirakle Method, he became a better person. Still, the Method also helped him find fame as “Li’l Fergus”, and he seems very twitchy about how his headshot should be on the wall of this crappy motel lobby, so it might take the love (?) of a good (???) woman to set him straight once and for all.

Mary Worth, 3/1/26

Oh, interesting, it looks like this Mary Worth plot isn’t going to be about sinister AI, but actually about the very grim reality of most so-called pig butchering scams. It turns out that if you got tricked out of tens of thousands of dollars in bitcoin by a fake online romantic partner, the conversations you were having are less likely to be with a cackling Danny DeVito lookalike and more likely to be with one of tens of thousands of people who have been recruited under false pretenses and enslaved in compounds along the Thai-Cambodian border. And sure, AI will end up making lots of white-collar jobs obsolete, but it will probably soon be able to do scam convos well enough that the criminal syndicates that profit off these cons will soon find that kidnapping people is no longer cost effective, so who’s to say if it’s good or bad.

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Marvin, 2/28/26

OK, the question of “What the hell kind of school does Marvin go to” is always a live one, seeing as he’s a literal infant, but it’s really relevant here. What the hell kind of school does Marvin go to where he’s learning stuff about the history of pie? I took a seminar in college taught by a professor who specialized in the history and sociology of French food and I didn’t learn this! Sorry, comics gag writers: you can’t just learn a fun fact and then put it in the mouth of a child in your strip and say he learned it at school and then call it a day. And don’t look so smug, Jenny! It’s not like you invented chocolate pie.

Rex Morgan, M.D., 2/28/26

Oh, yeah, I haven’t told you about it, but there’s a new Rex Morgan, M.D., plot, where a former Hollywood starlet has been living in isolation in her mansion for more than a decade, hiding from the press by pretending to be her own maid. What would end up connecting this woman to our main cast? Something medical, perhaps? Some unique malady that only Rex Morgan, M.D., or perhaps his wife June Morgan, N.P., could solve? Or maybe [watches her turn on her inexplicably old-timey radio and roots country comes out of it] OH COME ON

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Let’s see Friday off with a bang … a comment of the week bang!

“The work/life balance issue is, for me, eclipsed by the hand/finger balance issue. Do pluggers have one hand with seven fingers, or two hands — one with three, one with four?” –Lurker Who Rarely Comments

The runners up are, as usual, all bangers as well:

“I honestly love that Shoe is still sticking it to Tip O’Neill in year of our bird lord 2026. He did like to hit the sauce, didn’t he! Ha ha, that’s probably why he’s been dead for over 30 years.” –Dan

“I’ll believe those two are actual Pluggers if they start ranting about chemtrails.” –Tonio

“Why is nobody at this pool party wearing swimsuits? And no I’m not asking to see Wilbur frolicking in a Speedo but an ascot seems like a little overdressed.” –Professor Well Actually

“Pluggers rarely pleasure themselves because they can’t stay awake long enough to find porn on their computers.” –Tabby Lavalamp

“Dennis doesn’t know why they keep switching churches, but even he has noticed all the clergy are young attractive men and his dad is tired of his mom’s shit.” –Poewar

“Pluggers specifically avoid asking their doctors if they are still healthy enough for sexual activity.” –nescio

“Where else but a Charterstone pool party would three distinct extraterrestrial species wearing ill-fitting skin suits bump into each other? What a country!” –Charterstone: Dune

“Uh, correct, 1455 to 1487! Now, why did the War of the Roses occur? Who were the major leaders, and what significant military-political events can we point to as turning points in the conflict? What was the role of France? Come on, there’s cash prizes for you, and my A-Level exams are coming up. Cambridge, here I come!” –Voshkod

“Hi and Lois got its start in 1954. So if you consider normal, real world-style aging, a 73-year-old Trixie Flagston Mitchell van Pelt Yokum Doonesbury Arbuckle would be completely age-appropriate for our dapper gentleman here.” –BigTed

“I am not a fan of Jamaal’s sly look in that last panel. Is he getting off on Herb’s pain? Does he think we are too? Buddy, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy seeing your friend suffering, but I can assure you it’s not sexual.” –pugfuggly

“Oh, I’m not killing him. I just showed him the next three weeks of ‘plot’ in the strip!” –Bob Tice

“Well, April, I appreciate the breakout, but I don’t actually want to leave. The people you just killed were my mental health counselor, my job coach, the prison guard who brought me a donut every morning, and the warden I was having a civil conversation with. Norwegian prisons are incredibly lenient and nurturing. Or did you not know that, Little Miss CIA?” –Banana Jr. 6000

“‘I chose the stability of a boring normal job instead of the excitement and instability of the arts.’ ‘It’s a either/or choice?’ ‘Well, there was a way to combine boredom with uncertain artistic work in a dying industry. But someone else took up the job of drawing Luann!’” –Ettorre

“Daisy is enjoying watching the Bumsteads kiss WAY too damn much. Spay or neuter, people! Did Bob Barker live his live for NOTHING?” –A Grave Mind

“The difference between Dagwood and a machine is that Blondie has been given orgasms by a machine.” –Schroduck

“Those aren’t black pants. Those are censor bars.” –Chance

“I can’t wait to use this Worthian passive-aggressive gem. ‘It’s UNREAL how young you look, considering we’re the same age!’ ‘It’s UNREAL that you’ve decorated your entire home by yourself!’ It’s the big smile that carries it.” –MKay

“Competitive eating! Dagwood’s Olympic-style skills are in competitive eating! Do I have to do everything around here?” –matt w

“I like how Gina’s smirking as she breaks the fourth wall. There’s no ‘fight’ going on here, just she and Dennis making snowballs which Joey is throwing at a tree. And missing. From about a foot away. If she and Dennis do go after Joey it won’t be a fight. It’ll be a massacre.” –Spunky The Wonder Squid

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