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I don’t think that’s right, actually

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Herb and Jamaal, 11/9/26

Is it, Herb? Is it? Is that what watching for a single kernel of corn to pop is like? It’s like waiting for the next news cycle to occur? Is that right? Is it really?

Hagar the Horrible, 11/9/26

There were two small Norse settlements on the western and southwestern coasts of Greenland in the early middle ages, but they drop out of written historical records by the mid 1300s and archaeological evidence shows that they had ceased to exist by the mid 1400s, and there is a lively and vigorous debate as to what exactly happened. Did the lowered temperatures of the so-called Little Ice Age make it impossible for the Norse to maintain their agricultural way of life? Were they overrun or displaced by the Inuit, who were better adapted to the Arctic and who arrived from the north around the time the Norse settlement declined? Did Europeans find cheaper sources of ivory, which had been the Greenlanders’ main export, making it impossible to import wood and iron and leaving the colonies economically unsustainable? The answer is probably some combination of the three, and we have to imagine that the decline might have produced a scene very much like this, in which, in the absence of native firewood, the Greenlanders burned their own infrastructure, built from materials imported at great expense, to keep away the bitter cold for at least one more night.

Alice, 11/9/26

Hey, did one of you get an email from Alice and not reply to it? Uncool, man! She’s honestly kind of bummed about it.

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We could all use the enjoyment, to be honest

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Pluggers, 11/8/26

This is one of those Pluggers where the art stands in contrast with the caption. We’re told that pluggers have never left the place where they’re from — but here we see a smiling bear-man, striding confidently out of Pluggerville, looking back over his shoulder at his home town with affection but without regret at his new path. Sure, he’s not young anymore, but that doesn’t mean he can’t explore new things, expand his horizons, see the wo[DOG-MAN IS KILLED INSTANTLY BY A SPEEDING LIFTED PICKUP TRUCK DUE TO THE LACK OF PEDESTRIAN INFRASTRUCTURE ON THIS RURAL ROAD]

Mary Worth, 11/8/26

A tweet I think about a lot is from a woman who claimed that her ex-boyfriend would start shit with guys much bigger than him and then successfully defuse the situation by saying “it’s my birthday, I’m a little birthday boy,” and clearly Nelly is also deploying this strategy. It’s very obvious why Mary has come to her apartment, for the first time ever, but she wouldn’t dare unleash a passive-aggressive emotional interrogation on a sad little birthday girl, would she?

Luann, 11/8/26

I guess “I could use the enjoyment” is a reference to the need to offset the physical discomforts of pregnancy and, soon, the pain of childbirth, but maybe it’s just in general? She’s married to Brad, after all! Brad DeGroot. She could use the enjoyment! Any enjoyment at all, really!

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Two-Fisted Tales Of Thrift Store Ennui

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The Lockhorns, 11/7/26

Sure, Loretta is speaking first and foremost as a shopaholic here, but this is the sort of thought process that can really send someone down some rabbit holes. I’m excited for her to develop an interest in the arcane details of the commercial real estate market, learning more and more about prevailing rental prices, zoning rules, and urbanist theories around placemaking until eventually she’s getting into vicious fights about parking minimums on the r/Levittown subreddit.

Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/7/26

This week’s Rex Morgan “plot” has been a series of strips where Mindy has been shopping at a thrift store and having extremely banal thoughts about the items there, and the whole thing has been so full of nothing happening that it’s practically avant-garde, but now … something has happened! And what’s happened is that Mindy has bumped into a lady who looks super depressed. Is she going to take some time to find out what’s going on with this sad sack? Well, probably not, she has Buck to deal with, that’s emotionally trying enough for anyone.

Luann, 11/7/26

Do you have thoughts about what Brad and Toni should name their baby? Head on over to Luann Fan dot com to share them! I assume there’s some way to share them, based on the little message at the bottom of panel three. Not going over there to find out, though. I already checked the website out once for you people in September and don’t plan to do so again. I’m pretty sure doing that gets you put on a list. A list of people who have visited Luann Fan dot com twice! Maybe you’re willing to risk it but I don’t care to.