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The gorgeous fall weather is arriving (your geoclimatic mileage may vary), so let’s enjoy it, and this comment of the week:

“Wow, good for Mother Goose — I’m so glad she’s finally living her truth! Now if only we could learn the truth about her alleged motherhood, or whatever nightmare creature she actually is because last time I checked geese don’t have enormous angular brow crests or shark fins(?) coming out of their heads? At least now we know her posterior head triangle is actually hair, which geese also don’t have.” –Manjack

Your runners up are also autumnally fantastic!

“Are the Crankshaft characters insulting their creator’s own art? This is a direction I could really enjoy.” –Nevin, on Patreon

“The funniest bit of this to me is that fact that Leroy and Loretta seem to be completely alone in there. It’s hard to imagine what kind of behaviour would clear out a bowling alley, but if anyone could do it, these two could.” –pugfuggly

“Sorry, not only do I not want to think of my carpet as being sentient, the thought of it having vision is absolutely terrifying. Full disclosure: I am nude sometimes. I have not found a way yet to change my underwear without getting into that state. Do I need to start rolling out a floor-sized blindfold to hide my shame from the Berber voyeur in my bedroom?” –Tabby Lavalamp

“Some people say baseball is a slow, boring game, but give credit where it’s due, it’s a drug-free means of curing Hi’s insomnia in the throwaway panel.” –Philip

“What I love most about this is that a) that text box gives us way too much information and b) that information doesn’t even seem to be correct? I mean, is she putting mail on his desk, or pulling a (hopefully pre-opened) credit card bill from the middle of the [squints] notebook corral? Also, side note, but Toby — I know the print isn’t the biggest on those things, but that paper is two and a half centimeters from your face, so maaaaaaybe it’s time to visit an optometrist. Better or worse, Toby? Better or worse?!” –els

“Yesterday’s strip was the first time I noticed how low on his face Hi’s eyes are. Now when I look at him, it’s all I can see! That man’s visage is at least 40% forehead!” –Victor Von

“Now that a critical mass of newspaper comic strips have touched upon AI, it’s probably a good time to wager on the ol’ economic bubble popping in a matter of days.” –InvasionOfTheZIM

“That’s not football, Alexander. That’s someone’s innovative variant on the clingfilm fetish. You’ll be famous!” –matt w

“Crazy to think we got a ‘Toby thinks Ian is cheating because she heard a rumor’ plot before an ‘Ian thinks Toby is cheating because she is married to Ian and who could blame her’ plot.” –Dan

“I’d like to think that panels 1 and 2 are unrelated, and Toby is just horrified because she remembered that Mary exists.” –Mr. A

“We were taking in the fall colours — literally taking them in! We’ve absorbed them all, draining them between Sunday and now, and only we can enjoy them! Bwa ha haa! Have fun in the dull boring green world while we’re looking inwards at gold and ruby-tinged nature!” –CanuckDownSouth

“He’s also got two different copies of The Watchtower to give us, Mommy, if you’ve just got a moment to listen to him!” –A Grave Mind

“Thel looks exactly the way you’d expect from a housewife from the early 1960s hearing about divorce for the first time. ‘You mean I can just … end my marriage, and everyone will be okay with that? Why didn’t I hear about this sooner?’” –TheDiva

“‘What brings you to the PARK!?’ ‘We were just enjoying the GRATUITOUS BOLDING!!!’” –Peanut Gallery

“In comics, characters rarely age or change. Gertie will remain in stasis, even as the memory of Dale Earnhardt recedes further and further into the past. There will come a time when the comic strip (produced by Mike Smith’s grandchildren or the AI content creators of GG Humor Amalgamated Inc.) depicts Gertie worshiping a race car driver who died before she was born. At that time, it will appear that she is longing for the days when NASCAR competitors were human beings rather than self-driving machines.” –Danny

“Wedding crashers Gerads and Darby have been the talk of the town. People have so many questions. Which one is which? Are they gay? Who does that blond guy think he’s fooling with that long hair when we can see that he’s balding on top, where it counts? What kind of pathetic loser crashes a wedding to intimidate a high school football coach? Yes, they’ve got people talking, all right!” –Joe Blevins

“Kudos to Brigman for having the evil parrot, El papagayo siniestra, depart from Toby’s left shoulder. It’s this level of attention to detail that pushes the suspension of disbelief.” –Hibbleton

“The Phantom’s first panel is funnier if you picture Mollusk sitting in a giant car seat.” –lynn

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