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Modern-day foibles

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Herb and Jamaal, 5/27/25

Of the 99 most recent Herb and Jamaal strips I’ve commented on, all but one have four panels, so I guess the strip is pretty married to that format, but I feel like this one should’ve been another exception. It’s already a pretty nothing joke, and the punchline being stretched out over two panels makes you think the second half of it is going to be much more interesting than it turns out to be, and reading it made me genuinely mad. No, Jamaal, that’s not true! This scenario you’re describing is admittedly annoying, but discovering secret government codes is in fact a significantly more difficult process!

Hi and Lois, 5/27/25

Lois knew! Lois knew when Big Government opened commie pinko institutions like the so-called “library” in town, it would destroy hard-working businesses that just wanted to derive profits from the sale of goods and services. First they came for the bookstore, the most obvious target, but now Lois herself is feeling the pinch. Why would anyone engage the services of a realtor if they could simply go to the library and look at Zillow on some grimy PCs running Windows Vista? Your goose is cooked now, Lois!

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Trouble brewin’

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Mary Worth 5/26/25

OK, sorry, it’s very funny that Wilbur’s instinct upon stumbling onto this perfectly insane scene is to address not Belle, his girlfriend/sex partner/whatever who is capable of understanding and responding to normal human speech, but rather his fish, who is not. I guess he really does love that fish and/or is untethered from reality, ha ha! Speaking of which, check out those pinprick constricted pupils on Belle. Clearly she was neither kissing nor preparing to eat Willa, but was rather somehow getting high from interacting with the fish, using some advanced technique currently known only to Florida men and women.

Blondie, 5/26/25

Ha ha, it’s funny because the Bumsteads are in a financially desperate state, and Dagwood has turned to gambling in a last-ditch effort to pay the family bills!

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The hottest frat fads from the early 20th century are back! Up next: phone booth stuffing

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Panel from Slylock Fox, 5/25/25

Every once in a while, I get frustrated with myself for not being able to remember my parents’ anniversary, or the names of people I’ve met socially on multiple occasions, but then on days like today I realize that those parts of my brain are being put to much more important uses, like remembering Slylock Fox puzzles from 2008 so I can immediately recognize when they get repeated. Today’s strip uses the same fake-Weirdly-hunger-strike gimmick as the previous version, but includes all new art, including the particularly grotesque detail of a duck cop sneeringly offering the Count a hot dog. In a world full of sapient pigs and cows, Weirdly may be refusing to eat primarily because he fears he’s being entrapped into a crime much graver than his usual misdemeanors.

Mary Worth, 5/25/25

I think we all kind of knew Belle was going to kill Willa, but I don’t think any of us expected her to eat her. I guess she saw Wilbur demonstrating genuine affection for his little fish friend and decided that she would need to actually consume her rival in order to gain Willa’s totemic power and transfer Wilbur’s affections to her. “But if that’s her M.O., why would she repeatedly try to poison Dawn, then?” you’re probably asking. “Wouldn’t that just befoul the meat?” That presumes Wilbur has ever displayed as much warmth for his daughter as he has for his fish, and I simply don’t believe that’s the case.