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Dagwood’s “waiter routine” involves delivering one (1) cup of coffee

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Family Circus, 5/11/25

My favorite part of this strip about a husband taking exactly one day to help with the domestic labor his wife does all year is how, in Thel’s fantasy, Big Daddy Keane is perusing an 8 1/2 by 11 piece of paper with “PIZZA TO GO” written on it and smiling warmly. “Pizza? To go? Restaurant food, available to take back to my own home? I guess I was wrong when I said that these Italians had nothing to contribute to American culture.”

Blondie, 5/11/25

My least favorite part of this strip about a husband taking exactly one day to help with the domestic labor their wife does all year telling his wife she can put off her typical domestic labor until tomorrow is how the Activity Police officer has a gun on his belt. That undone laundry basket is going to get done, and we can do it the easy way, or the hard way.

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Spooky scary

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Six Chix and Blondie, 5/3/25

We have I think pretty conclusively established that the Blondie team mines National Day Calendar dot com when they need an inspiration or a peg for any given day’s strip. That’s why I regret to inform you that, while Six Chix was happy to riff on the very real and very cool holiday of National Paranormal Day, which is today, Blondie just gave us one of the most vapid and toothless “Ha ha, you know what sure are crazy, is current events! I’ll be giving you no further details on that” strips I’ve ever seen. Today could’ve been the day we saw Dagwood eat a bowl of chili so hot that he gains the Sight and can see through the veil into the next world! Instead we get this bullshit!

Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/3/25

Hmm, that crooked smirk … that domineering attitude … is bad girl Kelly back? Is bad girl Kelly going to show up at Niki’s to formally inform him that he was dumped approximately six weeks ago, with her new tall boyfriend in tow? This is a groove that I am very excited to see her get back!

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He is risen, and is demanding chocolate

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Blondie and Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 4/20/25

No one person can know the totality of human cultural practice, of course, even within their own country, and I’ve had the repeated experience on this blog of seeing some odd behavior in a comic strip, posting “Nobody does this, right?”, and then being told in no uncertain terms that said behavior is in fact normal and I’m weird for not knowing about it. For instance, at least one person claimed that “blonde moment” is not just a thing that people say, but is actually more common than “senior moment” in their experience. Life is a rich tapestry! Anyway, my main request to the comics is that they at least stay on the same page when they confront me with some novel practice. For instance, do children actually go door to door during the day on Easter Sunday asking for chocolate, as a spring mirror of Halloween trick-or-treating? Or is this the sort of plan that aspiring hillbilly grifter children would come up with, and we’re meant to understand that nobody would possibly go along with it?

Panel from Slylock Fox, 4/20/25

So, uh, who do you guys think drove that car into the ocean? They’re dead now, right? They received a watery comeuppance for their bank-robbing crimes? Their bones have been picked free of flesh by the crabs, and are loosely piled on the floor of the car?