“I know somebody probably just woke her up but I’d be more interested in her as a character if Neddy waited until she was nice and cozy in bed because it soothes her to get Randy all agitated and that makes for a pleasant, restful sleep.” –Tabby Lavalamp

“Imagine if when you die, you’re transported to the bardo and your entire vision is filled with the face of a universe-sized Barry booming ‘Suppose our souls are here to fulfill some grand purpose?’ I’d begging for good old Judeo-Christian Hell after that sight.” –Schroduck

“Cody has made the rookie mistake of predicating his next move on something happening in Rex Morgan, M.D. He could be well on his way to his next reincarnation before one of his half-sibs decides to respond to or even read a message that begins, ‘I am your long-lost half brother.’” –But What Do I Know?

“Why are there large ensembles of characters in every single Slylock Fox tableau? Can’t there ever be one-on-ones between characters? Every displayed panel makes the strip seem like a Fellini comic for kids.” –Bob Tice

“Herb goes full jailhouse lawyer when he gets a fix or desist notice from the board of health. Jamaal thinks; ‘Just shut up and clean the damn grease hood.’” –Hibbleton

“Cody’s on the road while he waits for a response from his half siblings. He probably should have set up his stage in an arena instead of in the middle of I-30 during rush hour, but he didn’t quite understand what ‘being on the road’ meant. It’s only a question of whether the commuters or the cops get him first now.” –Voshkod

“The lines of prejudice are already drawn in the post-Animalpocalypse world, with the hippos being profiled as lumbering and clumsy. They will retaliate by waiting until Granny and her grandson are walking by the pond in the park, grabbing them in their powerful jaws, and dragging them to a watery grave.” –TheDiva

“Today’s Slylock Fox answers the tail question: The tail comes out over the pants and under the jacket. This is perfectly modest because even when a fox is bipedal, his tail is above his butt. I’m sure a lot of information on the anthropomorphic fox tail/butt question can be found on the internet, where I will not look for it.” –matt w

“Goat kid has a modern gaming console, but has to wait until grandma is out shopping to indulge in that most popular of activities among the youth, indoor hopping on a pogo stick.” –Comrade Gordon

“It adds an extra layer of humor for me to imagine that Andy is only just coming home well after sunrise, having spent most of the night in hospital or, more likely, unconscious behind the bar. His wife is only a little curious about what happened to him, having resigned herself to the fact that he’s never going to die.” –Spunky The Wonder Squid

“No, no, no! Whatever else is true about Gertie, she’s not wearing bootleg Earnhardt shirts in public! She’s going to shell out the money for a decent font with a border, not this teal-and-black nightmare!” –Victor Von

“Really love the middle-distance stare Mary gives as she spits out those local beach names. I guess the Google Brain chip installation really took!” –pugfuggly

“If NOT ME is transparent, then why does his forearm partially obscure his face, even as the beach behind is fully visible? Is this consistent with the rules of phantasmoptics?” –Guts Dozier

“Yes, New York City is a dangerous place. Not the people; the inanimate structure of the the city itself is violently rejecting Mary, like T-cells attacking a foreign organism.” –Peanut Gallery

“Ha, silly millennials, quitting their jobs because they find them uninspiring. No, the real way to do it is to never quit, and just double down on your napping and goofing off! Also, dress like an off-duty hearse driver. Not sure how that one helps, but don’t mess with the formula.” –pugfuggly

“There’s something haunting about Mary’s expression as Olive pulls her aside; her mouth is agape and her eyes are fixed ahead. It’s as if her soul has already left her body and begun its ascension, but Olive has unnaturally dragged it back to Earth. Once again, God’s Will that Mary Worth die in New York has been thwarted. But He will surely try again. Just as He has tried countless times to see Wilbur die at sea.” –Guts Dozier

“Dithers should ask the vending company to stock the machines with beverages fortified with vitamin D because it looks like everyone there has rickets.” –nescio

“Let’s say hypothetically, I was a criminal. And I ended up being arrested by a ventriloquist dummy wearing a enormous red bow-tie. The humiliation would prepare me for anything prison has to offer.” –The Rambling Otter

“At this point, I just want to see how long they can milk this. I want to see Roots Country Guy still sitting in the diner talking about not being some rando’s father in November.” –Banana Jr. 6000

“‘You had no idea Varla and Spuds were…?’ ‘None at all.’ ‘Despite the fact that Spuds wrote a whole thinly veiled album about it called I’m Cheating with Carla, Buck’s Estranged Wife, that you sang on, on a track titled Cuckold Blues?’ ‘The man had a way of hiding his crimes behind his art, what can I say?’” –Philip

“‘Horace thinks he’s funny but he ain’t‘: TFW you love the Carmen Saeculare but couldn’t care less for the Satires and Epodes.” –Ettorre

“Okay, so we can’t see his eyes, but we can see his navel? Things have certainly changed since the I Dream of Jeannie days.” –Pozzo

“If I wanted to hear a good joke I wouldn’t be reading Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. Give me the deadline-beating ‘This’ll do’ I’ve come to expect!” –Tabby Lavalamp

“When you’ve got an event called ‘The Meat Games’ with a blazing cauldron, flags celebrating various cuts of meat and thousands of cheering cats, you’d think Grandpa and Iggy would start wondering just why they were invited and what their role in all this is supposed to be.” –cheech wizard

“So of all the words in that last sentence the artist could have chosen to inform Widebody Redshirt’s mouth position, he went with ‘to.’ Huh. I mean, it’s fine, I guess, Baldy McYellow over there can speak every sentence while doing his best impression of a baleen whale, but for some reason I’m hung up on the guy on the right looking like he’s practicing his embouchure. (I guess that’s why the guy on the left lips up in panel 3; he’s just realized that this car that’s inexplicably flying through the air is not doing so to the movie theater, but to his buddy’s trumpet lesson. Hey, Haydn’s ‘Concerto in E-flat major’ ain’t gonna practice itself.)” –els

“You may think ‘the netherworld’ is one of Herb and Jamaal’s textbook nonspecificities, but in fact Herb is just a devout believer in Chinese traditional religion. He knows that after death, he’ll be condemned to Denghuo Diyu, Netherworld Court of King Chujiang, where he’ll be heated until he passes out, and then revived by an icy wind. Maybe if he practices in front of the fan, he can build an immunity.” –Schroduck

“I’d like to direct this plugger to the January 7, 2025, article in the New York Times titled ‘Is Peeing Just in Case Bad for Your Bladder Health?’ The answer is yes, the practice of ‘convenient or proactive voiding’ can lead to an overactive bladder. Doctors recommend mindfulness, working with a pelvic floor therapist, and cutting back on caffeinated and alcoholic drinks as ways of preventing this. I mean, far be it from me to suggest a plugger should listen to doctors, or give up those three hours sitting in a diner drinking coffee every morning, or those three hours in the afternoon drinking beer in his recliner while watching the game — or, worse, that he should read the New York Times — in fact, never mind, just forget I said anything.” –BigTed

“‘Spuds?’ ‘Truck’? Boy that Varla chick sure did have some awful taste in men let me tell you, ha ha ha ha… [Wanda ponders on something] Hey wait a minute… [Wanda’s eyes go wide at the shock of the stunning revelation] Oh no!!” –2+2=7

“Mary needs to get involved here! Nothing will make Olive cooler than a haranguing old lady coming to her defense!” –A Grave Mind

“Mary Worth just taught me that I do not like it when characters in the strip voice what I’ve been thinking for the last week.” –matt w

“Jalapeno poppers … hot wings … spicy sushi rolls … doro wat … revuelto Gramajo … palusami … keubaibat hail … lutefisk … I’m a bit concerned this restaurant lacks focus, boy. I knew we shouldn’t have gone to Random Places, Random Plates.” –Voshkod

“…and from hilarious to introspective and from introspective to soul-crushing. When some of the guys started talking about a suicide pact, I figured I’d better go home.” –Weaselboy

“I’m not sure if the border agent’s interrogation is a sign of the chilly state of US-Canada relations, or an acknowledgement that ‘I came all this way for a CFL game’ sounds like a cover story, and an unconvincing one at that.” –TheDiva

“Wizard of Id has succintly portrayed the difference between Early and Late Medieval modes of warfare: while his Dark Age companions are boldly dying for their feudal lord, the canny Sir Rodney treats war as a profession. He is akin to the condottiere who would dominate later Italian warfare. That sly look and crooked smile is that of a man who sees human corpses as nothing more than money in his purse, arguably far more barbaric than his predecessors. But trebuchets suck for hitting single guys so we’re probably about to see Sir Smarty Pants’ insides in spite of his historically progressive role.” –m.w.

“Some bold theological claims on Pardon My Planet: It stipulates that pick-up lines, jaded sarcasm, and calling women ‘baby cakes’ all predate original sin and can be done in a state of perfect innocence.” –Nevin, on Patreon

“Interesting to see that the Garden of Eden may be free of physical pain, but that ‘cringe’ still exists, even (especially?) among the animals. Maybe our heaven on earth was their hell. Makes you think.” –pugfuggly

“I was going to laugh at these village hicks sitting down with big grins to watch two hours of sickening hallucinogenic body horror, but then I realised this is the intermission! They know what they’re watching and they love it. Psychosexual insect drug orgies? To the Vikings, that’s basically regular orgies.” –Schroduck

“I have never seen character designs more built for an animated series that no one will ever fund.” –Tristan Olson, on BlueSky

“The real joke is that the movie isn’t even over, they’re talking right in the middle of it.” –The Rambling Otter

“Grimm has mistaken Ty-D-bol for Blue Curacao liqueur. Right now his head is spinning but no worries, he’ll be dead soon.” –Hibbleton

“Ignoring your direct report because she’s leaving at the end of her contract, so why bother trying to make her feel like part of the team: JERK BEHAVIOR. Ignoring your coworker because you’re leaving at the end of your contract, so why bother trying to make her feel like part of the conversation she is currently attempting to have with you, and also stone cold referring to her as ‘this woman’ in your head: TOTALLY COOL!” –Lomo

“Do you really need a whole book to tell the story of Noah? Doesn’t Genesis get through it in, like, three chapters? Maybe the rest of the book is advertising for Northern Kentucky’s Ark Encounter.” –Pozzo

“If a guy walked up to me bound up on his cot like that, I’d forget the wailing of the siren: ‘came’ would not land as ‘moved from that place to here.’” –Handsome Harry Backstayge, Idol of a Million Other Women

“I like how seriously Killer is treating this. ‘D-do you NOT hear that loud emergency alert, dumpy fat guy and weirdo bed-man? Why are you just standing around? GET OUTTA MY WAY!’” –Astroboy

“The previous version of this gag was only two panels. I hope they keep producing new versions of this strip with more and more panels, until it’s just a series of tiny slivers with one word in each.” –Peanut Gallery

“Mr. Lodge has a point. Clowning has a traditional set of exercises starting with selecting a clown archetype (whiteface, auguste or tramp) and building through gesture, expression, movement and running gags to develop a coherent character, separate and distinct from the person playing the character. Archie’s just Archie with bigger hair, different-colored freckles and the same lack of humor.” –I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV

“Mr. Lodge clearly used AI to write the book and put a picture of the money he saved by stiffing a human on the back as a power move. The proleteriat is on notice now!” –Jerp + Jump

“There is something about the way the barbarian’s weapon is drawn — the perspective, I guess — that makes it look too three-dimensional to be a flat sword. Wait, I have it: it’s a popsicle. The barbarian is trying to eat a popsicle in peace and this idiot keeps sticking a pointed stick in his face.” –Nekrotzar

“The waitress already knew Andy Bear is kidding. He isn’t wanted anywhere.” –matt w

“As he scurried away with the loot, the Millipede laughed. Leaving two of his 1300 right gloves behind … no way the Vulpine Vindicator was going to figure this one out!” –Voshkod

“I, myself, had a pair of eyeglasses that hid my pupils, and disguised normal eye functions. Took ’em driving! Many have died needlessly.” –A Grave Mind

“That TikTok still only got 5 likes. It’s tough out there.” –BillieVee

“In panel two, Killer is holding a bottle of Instant Hat.” –Ukulele Ike