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Rex Morgan, M.D., 1/22/26

You really gotta give it up for today’s Rex Morgan, M.D.: it truly offers a master class in absolutely nothing happening. Rex asks if his and June’s current situation could get any less interesting, and June counters that she plans to quietly read books on her tablet, something that would be interesting for her but very boring for anyone who might be watching her in a visual medium like the comics. Rex then proposes an extremely low-stakes bit of tension: will they call his name soon, or will he have to wait around for a while? This is resolved in that very panel, as his name is called almost immediately. A truly wondrous series of soap opera panels. These two did not in fact have sex in the lead-up to all this, just in case you were wondering.

Judge Parker, 1/22/26

You know how Alan’s been drunk and depressed ever since Randy disappeared? Well, apparently he forgot that he had another child whose location he could be very sure of, since she was in prison, and that he could’ve confided in her, or at least told her about her brother’s disappearance. They let you get letters in there, you know! And make occasional phone calls! Whoops! It’s easy to let that sort of thing slip your mind, I guess, when you’re very sad and very drunk.

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Mary Worth, 1/19/26

Last week, the main conflict of this Toby storyline — “Toby got a bird and Ian hated it” — was resolved as Ian submitted to Sunny’s charms. Now we can move on to the next storyli–wait, what’s this? Another bird has arrived? Bird number two? The bird drama continues, with two birds instead of one? This is an intriguing development! Will each new bird have to save Ian’s life in turn in order to be accepted into the flock?

Judge Parker, 1/19/26

Oh, hey, remember Randy’s long-lost sister Ann, who showed up in everyone’s lives again not that long ago only to eventually get sent to jail? Well, it looks like she’s once again reappeared in dramatic fashi–hold on, I’ve just read panel two, and it turns out that the fashion of her reappearance is not as dramatic as all that. Ah, well! Adjust your expectations accordingly.

Hi and Lois, 1/19/26

I’m really digging the dramatic change in Hi’s facial expressions between the two panels here. “Oh man, this is great! Wait, I’m supposed to be sober for whatever this is? Absolutely not.”

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Judge Parker, 11/22/25

A few months ago Sophie and Reena experienced a certain amount of panic and anxiety in the wake of witnessing an April-involved spy encounter that turned violent, but eventually things settled down and they went back to what they had moved to Norway for in the first place: working ill-defined jobs for Sophie’s boyfriend’s wealthy family’s charitable foundation, which, as the setup for all this suggests but does not adequately explain, is based in Norway for some reason, where Sophie’s boyfriend and/or his family do not live. Reena has started dating some guy and Sophie has stopped leaving the house, but now, just to feel something and also because as a character in a supposed soap opera comic strip she feels a certain obligation, Reena is attempting to stir up drama by setting Sophie up with a handsome (?) Norwegian in a cat burglar outfit. Would this cause trouble with Sophie’s boyfriend, who, as mentioned, is more or less their employer? Probably! But quite frankly we deserve some not-well-thought-through action in this strip for once. It will beat all the moping!

Blondie, 11/22/25

Dagwood Bumstead is a man who never met a disgusting novelty foodstuff he didn’t like, so clearly his little temper tantrum isn’t because his daughter is promoting the vile turducken over the noble turkey. No, I assume that, while he knows he can’t show it in front of his family, he’s absolutely devastated that he toils away at DithersCo while his daughter has stumbled into his dream job of doing front-facing camera short-form videos about weird food stuff. “It should’ve been me,” he thinks. “She doesn’t even like giant sandwiches. It should’ve been me.”