Crankshaft, 5/9/21
“He says that right before someone burns down a building for the insurance money. Happens more often than you’d think! Anyway, that disinfectant is flammable, right?”
Mother Goose and Grimm, 5/9/21
YES
FINALLY
GRIMM IS GOING DOWN FOR HIS CRIMES
Panels from Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/9/21
STOP TRYING TO TRICK US INTO THINKING ANYONE WOULD BE EXCITED ABOUT TALKING TO BUCK, REX MORGAN, M.D.
ABSOLUTELY NOBODY WANTS TO TALK TO BUCK
Judge Parker, 5/8/21
You ever spend like 15 minutes of your day staring at a comic strip character’s ear? Zooming in on the image file while yelling “Enhance! ENHANCE!” at nobody in particular? No? You haven’t? That’s just me, a guy who started a comics blog on a lark in 2004 and this is my life now? Well, anyway, I’ve spent some time looking in April’s right ear, and it certainly doesn’t look like she’s wearing an earpiece, and you’d think that she would’ve lost access to any truly invisible gee-whiz tech when she parted company with the CIA. Maybe she’s just doing the “putting her finger to her ear so she can listen to her earpiece better” thing to impress Randy? Or maybe she’s just using her spy instincts and I’m misinterpreting it. “Twinge in my knee? That means a rainstorm’s brewing. Twinge in my jaw? That means they’re coming.”
Crankshaft, 5/8/21
You ever open the comics page and get the distant echo of a joke that probably seemed extremely topical and funny a year ago, when it was written? That’s gonna be the experience of reading the Funkyverse strips for the next who knows how long!
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/4/21
A classic Rex Morgan, M.D., trope is when ancillary characters give Rex and his family free stuff for no good reason — clothes, antique furniture, passes to Sea World, what have you. It’s always great fun! But now we’re seeing a new running bit where people effusively thank Buck, a boring drip, for doing extremely boring stuff like recommending comic books to children. No thanks! Somebody give the Morgans an actual human child, we haven’t seen that in years.
Crankshaft, 5/4/21
Normally I’d read today’s strip and think, “Oh, look, it’s yet another Crankshaft where the wordplay that’s the whole central joke of the strip is based on a homonym and so it wouldn’t work at all when spoken aloud, and nobody involved in the production of the strip cared enough to mention it or try to rework it or anything.” But then I saw Crankshaft’s face in the third panel, and I can’t really put my finger on it but he’s giving off very strong, “Listen up, fuckos, a pun is happening” energy, so I guess I’ll allow it.
Dennis the Menace, 5/4/21
OHHHHHH SNAP WHO’S GETTING MENACED NOW