Comment of the Week

Tune in tomorrow as Rev. Croom embarks on a new life of selective observance. He'll dine and dash (thou shalt not steal), covet Herb's wife, murder Jamaal, and make a graven image, but he'll at least call his mom to wish her a happy birthday (honor thy father and mother). The funnies haven't been this theologically bold since Judge Parker financed the construction of a giant needle big enough for a dozen camels to thread.

Abram Beazer

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Luann, 8/1/26

Much as it pains me to give Luann some credit, and much as it pains me to say anything positive about the “Brad and Toni have sex in the shower” interlude, I will admit that it’s a positive step that the strip has finally moved beyond ribaldry and is now admitting “Yes, the couples in our strip have sex, like normal people do.” Or at least some of the couples! Because I guess Phil and Luann might move in together, but possibly in separate bedrooms, and Luann is like “Oh, huh, well, this is … not what I expected?” Very odd situation for college (or older?) age adults to find themselves in, but at least we’re back to the old sexually confusing and/or gross Luann scenarios we all know and love.

Gil Thorp, 8/1/26

Quite an interesting list of wedding guests vendors Gil has assembled: his enemy-turned-pal/employee Coach Luke is his officiant, his enemy-turned-frenemy(?) Marty Moon is his DJ, and his still-current-enemy Coach Gerads is, nonconsensually, his bartender. Ha ha, he’s wearing Groucho glasses as a disguise, what a kook! I assume that he murdered the bartenders Gil hired and, via a slow-acting poison in the drinks, has also murdered most of the guests at this point.

Hi and Lois, 8/1/26

It’s not clear to me if Thirsty failed to make his usual golf time with Hi because he’s passed out drunk so Hi has been assigned a partner on the course, or if Hi has decided to make a new friend because Thirsty is chronically drunk and unreliable, but this guy’s shocked expression in panel two shows that he has a lot to learn about Hi’s complex emotional life. A guy who’s playing golf … even though he hates playing golf? Who ever heard of such a thing!

Archie, 8/1/26

So in order for this strip to work, you have to imagine that Archie’s dad abruptly and without explanation told his family to pack, checked out of their hotel early, and now they’ve been driving in silence for hours until his wife finally got the nerve up to ask what’s going on and he replies, heavy lidded, “I’m tired, dear. I’m so tired.” Pretty chilling!

Shoe, 8/1/26

Biz, I don’t think you should be making a sly, flirtatious face at Roz as you explain that all your friends are dead! I think that’s going to make everyone uncomfortable, actually.

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My long vacation and Uncle Lumpy’s fill-in tasks have delayed the unveiling of a new comment of the week, but folks …….. the long wait is over. Here it is!

“Tune in tomorrow as Rev. Croom embarks on a new life of selective observance. He’ll dine and dash (thou shalt not steal), covet Herb’s wife, murder Jamaal, and make a graven image, but he’ll at least call his mom to wish her a happy birthday (honor thy father and mother). The funnies haven’t been this theologically bold since Judge Parker financed the construction of a giant needle big enough for a dozen camels to thread.” –Abram Beazer

And here are the hilarious runners up!

“Of course Wilbur’s changed! He’s parting his combover on the other side, he’s talking a pensive walk at sea level instead of drinking on top of a cliff, and he’s starting wearing a mustard colored polo to hide the inevitable stains.” –Rosstifer

“I was going to make fun of how the plugger is holding the umbrella and I picked up an umbrella to test it and that is how I hold an umbrella! Going to sit with this.” –matt w

“Who wakes up in the morning and thinks ‘Let’s write a joke about mental illness and violence, with Vikings’? Who wakes up and thinks ‘Let’s start that joke with We need to hold Dr. Zook accountable’? Cartoonist, heal thyself!” –I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV

“I like how everyone’s expression is shock except for Moose, who is incandescent with rage. He is going to kick the shit out of his three teenaged friends, and maybe Mr. Andrews to boot. He’s a legit psychopath!” –pugfuggly

I should warn you, these people are real hoarders. They’re not going to be impressed by fake hoarder wannabes like you guys. ‘Oh look at us, the back seat of our car has so much stuff in it there’s no room for passengers.’ Come on! Real hoarders have the whole car filled up to the roof except for a tiny space just big enough for the driver.” –Peanut Gallery

“I was going to say that Reggie is a better friend than I’d assumed — he’s a rich kid, and instead of pushing the car, he could have called a Lyft and abandoned his friends — but then I looked at the group assembled here. Archie, Jughead, Reggie, and Moose? This isn’t a group of friends! I don’t know what they were up to — please let it be a heist! — but ‘lost my keys at the beach’ is an obvious fake alibi for their many crimes.” –Victor Von

“‘Junk luggers’ is the slang for twin siblings in a committed relationship with each other, apparently.” –Tabby Lavalamp

“Here’s the weirdest part: the song being played right now is ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ by Gordon Lightfoot.” –Joe Blevins

“I always thought Hi and Lois were Northeastern suburbanites, but is it possible that they live in the coastal West? Sure, it’s more earthquake-prone, but that would also mean that their huge tract of land — with a backyard so large that you can’t even see where it ends — would be even more valuable. It’s a little strange that they have to rake up so many deciduous leaves in the fall, but then again, so did the Peanuts gang, while Charles Schulz famously lived in Northern California. Anyhow, it’s a good thing they have so much space, because it’s hard to see Chip ever moving out once rock & roll is completely taken over by AI, and the twins don’t exactly seem like geniuses either. (On the other hand, Trixie will move to Arizona to be closer to her beloved sunbeam, and will visit her parents once a year at Christmas, in between sessions with her therapist to talk over her neglect-filled childhood.)” –BigTed

“‘What are they up to?’ ‘I’d say the taller of the two is 4′6″, maybe 4′7″; the shorter one is probably 4′5″.’” –Bob Tice

“Ladies, if you’ll indulge me for a mo, would you do me a real quick favor and lower your arms to your sides? I just want to make sure that they’re both the same length and that the right one isn’t actually some grotesque spaghetti/arm hybrid that’s going to end up draped across the sta– Oh. Oh, no.” –els

“‘We’ll get him back, Mister President,’ the Phantom says, thinking back to the last tragic escape from Bangalla’s prison system which ended in a tragic and ill-advised nude performance of Hamlet.” –Voshkod

“Geez, Mother Goose and Grimm, they ceased operation now. You can just say ‘Spirit Airlines.’” –2+2=7

“I’m reminded of the ending of Avenue Q, when Princeton decides that his purpose is to take everything he’s learned in life and put it into a show. To which Brian replies, ‘Dude, are you high?’ No one is high in Judge Parker, unfortunately. You can tell by the way everyone looks like they bit into a lemon.” –Lauralot

“Herb’s in the kitchen, idly piling mashed potatoes into a graven image of a calf.” –Dan

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Judge Parker, 7/31/26

I guess I had missed it, but Ann has apparently decided that her mission is now “helping people,” I think people who used to be in prison or maybe former con artists specifically, and Neddy and Ronnie got about 30 seconds into their pitch meeting for a show based on Ann’s life before Ann became disgusted by the shallow Hollywood values on display and launched into this self-righteous diatribe. Sadly, I suspect she won’t be the first person to successfully neg her way into a TV deal.

Herb and Jamaal, 7/31/26

Wow, Rev. Croom, for a clergyman who, if I’m parsing this internal monologue correctly, is experiencing some kind of crisis of faith, you sure look awfully smug in that last panel!

Mother Goose and Grimm, 7/31/26

I’d like to believe that the gag writer here submitted something that was very obviously about a specific real airline that they had a terrible experience with, and they had to go back and forth with the syndicate over not doing something that would get them all sued before eventually landing on “Airworst Airlines,” which is so stupid and I genuinely love it.

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 7/31/26

Hey, uh, Snuffy. What’s going on with your skin, man. Did, ah. Did you have Granny Creeps whip up a colloidal silver tincture to cure your syphilis, or what.