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The Lockhorns, 3/5/26

I love that Leroy has decided to turn what could’ve been a brief snide remark into an act out, as if he could peel off the vinyl siding to find the giant gumdrops underneath. Never doubt this man’s commitment to a bit, or to the larger bit that is his wildly dysfunctional marriage!

Hi and Lois, 3/5/26

This is no doubt supposed to be a boomer slam on “kids today and their participation trophies, it makes them weak,” but that’s undermined by how happy and well-adjusted Ditto and his friend look. Yeah, he’s great at participation! And who wouldn’t want to be an enthusiastic participant in all that life has to offer?

Gil Thorp, 3/5/26

[Coach Thorp is still without his best three players.] “Hey, you guys considered showing depth of character and winning?” [Final: Tilden 54, Milford 60!] The man’s still got it!

Beetle Bailey, 3/5/26

“Also, he’s an adult! Why did you think this was even vaguely appropriate?”

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Wizard of Id, 2/6/26

Happy Friday, everyone! What are your weekend plans? Are you thinking about getting extremely high and catapulting some toilets at somebody? Because that appears to be what Sir Rodney is up to in the Wizard of Id.

Gil Thorp, 2/6/26

Or were you thinking about going out and “tagging” a rival high school? If so, you should definitely choose Milford High as your target, as the coach to whom the principal has ominously delegated the task of doing what they must do can’t muster up any epithets stronger than “rats,” with a period, not even an exclamation point.

The Lockhorns, 2/6/26

Leroy! I think most people already know what their payment package will be when they accept an offer of employment. Not everyone is so bad at money as you. This young up-and-comer is right to look at you so warily. Honestly I assume that he’s probably already been warned about you by his other new coworkers. In conclusion, I like the Lockhorns strips about Leroy’s work life because they confirm that, much like his home life, his work life is pretty miserable.

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The Lockhorns, 1/16/26

I accept that, for narrative convenience, sometimes the Lockhorns need to passive-aggressively try to destroy each other emotionally with some silent stranger there for one of them to rhetorically address. However, in this scenario, Leroy appears to be standing on a yoga mat wearing workout gear and Loretta is standing within earshot in street clothes, which makes it difficult to parse where this void might be situated so that those two facts dovetail with the possibility of some random person wandering by in order for Loretta to quip at her for Leroy’s benefit. You have to assume that Loretta got tired of just walking around the house with that first aid kit and demanded that Leroy accompany her to the sidewalk in front of their house so that they could involve a nonconsenting third party in their kink.

Hagar the Horrible, 1/16/26

A fun fact is that the unique physical features of a golf course as we know them actually mirror the landscape of the game’s birth in coastal Scotland: long stretches of flatland or gentle hills with low grass and very few trees, dotted by occasional ponds and sand-filled hollows dug out by sheep for protection against the wind. Another fun fact is that during the Viking Age Norse warriors carved out an separate kingdom along the coast of Scotland and the nearby islands that lasted for centuries. So I declare this Hagar the Horrible mostly historically accurate, for once! If you ever wonder why Vikings were so eager to sail outward to conquer new lands, just think about the fact that coastal Scotland was their equivalent to Cancun.