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Friday morning means COMMENT OF THE WEEK!

“I’m intrigued by Gil’s ‘Did I forget to…’ What rituals does he usually perform to ensure those ‘OK to Burn’ days on Bonfire day? What or who gets sacrificed? What does the Milford annual bonfire REALLY cost?” –Pak-Man

And wonderful, beautiful runners up!

“Not only did Mr. Dithers splurge on a 3D printer to create that figure, he also had to pay someone (or divert some underling’s time from ‘real work’) to paint it, and he had to pay for whatever sacrifice the local witch’s coven needed to put a human soul into the figure.” –taig

“Joke’s on you, chin man! All our family shits a lot.” –Ettorre

“I don’t think you can even set up an iPhone without a passcode or scanner ID. I guess after paying for Marvin-related cleaning supplies, all Jeff can afford is one of those ancient, barely functional Android phones you get when you buy 1,500 pay-as-you-go minutes on a home-shopping network. Luckily, purchasing multi-packs of toilet paper is one of the preset buttons!” –BigTed

“I was going to rant and rave about an alternate universe where baseball still commands the hearts of America’s children as it did in the 1950s — did Humphrey beat Nixon or did Ford beat Carter in this timeline? — but that colorful abomination in the second to last panel has eclipsed everything else. Is that a plane? A bird? A spaceship? I don’t know, but whatever it is is waiting for Hank — just like Dennis planned. Baseball is just a lure. Clearly Dennis has come up with an elaborate way of eradicating his father at 3 am.” –KMD

“‘Coo, what a mess!’ –me, trying to fit in at the pigeon orgy” –Brian Bergstrom, on Bluesky

“It’s been sixteen years since the iPhone launched, and still every Mary Worth character holds their phone like it’s the size and weight of a credit card and might explode if they aren’t careful.” –Schroduck

“So, the turtle finished last, presumably because he’s slow, and the bear finished first because he put a lot of effort into it. Somehow, this updated version of the Race of the Tortoise and the Hare is a lot less morally elucidating than when Aesop did it.” –Thelonious_Nick

“Pluggers need an entomologist to take care of their fleas.” –Schmeedle

“Today’s Beetle Bailey is funny because we get to see the exact moment the Chaplain stops believing in God’s existence.” –nescio

“Jenny finally got tired of being married to a man with a nose larger than both her breasts combined and has left the Miller family following brutal divorce proceedings. In the end, Jeff received custody of his son and the dog, but alas, Jenny got the power cable for the alarm clock.” –jroggs

“Foot fetishists, Daddy Warbucks fetishists, recap fetishists — we’ve really got something for everyone today.” –I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV

“So this is the fabled ‘dog beach,’ huh? I’m underwhelmed. I count two (2) dogs, two (2) humans, and two (2) palm trees, and that’s it. This place should be lousy with dogs. I should be seeing Labs and Goldens, Corgis and Shepherds, Samoyeds and Bassets and Schipperkes and Pulik. (Look, I watched the Westminster Dog Show a lot when I was a kid, and if they felt the need to tell me, every year, that the plural of ‘Puli’ is ‘Pulik,’ then I’ve gotta be precious about it in a comment on a comics blog, I don’t make the rules.)” –els

“‘Wait, was that just one day?’ is the perfect tagline for Judge Parker.” –pugfuggly

“Gen-Zers today, who spend so much time on their phones they can hardly handle an in-person conversation, let alone the complexity of negotiating your way out of the international intrigue and murder plots that was all too common for those who grew up in the Cold War.” –Philip

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After a long vacation sojourn, the comment of the week is BACK, everybody, and this is it:

“‘Truck? It’s Mud.’ Yep, that’s how I expect Rex Morgan characters to greet each other in person, all right. What, did you think we’d get out of listening to middle-aged phone conversation dialogue just because Truck and Mud are two feet away from each other?” –jroggs

And here are the runners up!

“Doctors have easy access to pharmaceuticals, right? Liberal use is the only way Jeff could be that excited about this conversation.” –Hibbleton

“I’ve tried to imagine what the funniest possible reveal could be here. So far, I think a big glossy photo of Elton John is the front runner. Not present-day Elton, mind you, but 1970s ‘Crocodile Rock’ Elton.” –pugfuggly

“Is there any pronouncement more ominous than Mary’s ‘Even so, who knows what’s happening in this town sight unseen?’ I’d be less horrified if she stuck out a forked tongue, spit fire, and declared ‘I am Moloch, Destroyer of Worlds.’” –Lawyerbob

“I hope Pop turns out to be a crackpot local inventor who made that watch that Gil is speaking out of. Has he implanted a mind-reading chip into Gil’s head? Or is some dark sorcery at work?” –Philip

“I feel like we’re spending a lot of time dancing around this being Dagwood’s dispensary.” –Daniel Schultz, on BlueSky

“You’re just a few minutes away from a fiery crash off a cliff when your getaway driver is so crazed and nihilistic that his motto is ‘Why live?’ (oh, he’s probably pronouncing it ‘leyeve,’ isn’t he?)” —
Handsome Harry Backstayge, Idol of a Million Other Women

“‘It looks like you’ve already found her, and trapped her in that tiny piece of paper!’ ‘That is a photograph, Mister Driver. You’ve never seen a … never mind … I’m beginning to reconsider my plan.’” –Voshkod

“It’s nice to see that Mary is finally coming to the realization that she tried to get Estelle and Wilbur to hook up.” –Tabby Lavalamp

“I don’t know who decided to give a pair of twin children a single Super Soaker™ to share, but whoever they are, they’re a master at trolling parents.” –Roto13

“Your kids sure know heat transfer and fluid flow science.” –Just John

“Usually business people accounts for earnings and losses of a company on a three-month period, and even then many consider that too short-term. Who knows what happened in July that affected sales. Production chain disruption, restocking, Dagwood accidentally ate a contract…” –Ettorre

“I want them to get into a fight, so the headlines will read ‘Truck-Mud Flap.’” –grsblvnyk

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