“Mrs Wilson’s smiling face makes the gag work. ‘Enjoy hell, George.’” –Hibbleton

“That hot dog is clearly too big to be anything but an actual dog. I’m guessing dachshund, primarily for the ‘weenie dog’ jokes, although based on the size and shape, Scottish terrier is also a possibility.” –Veronica!

“It’s morally wrong, if not always technically illegal, to taunt someone on a hunger strike with delicious food. On the other hand, if anyone knows about the ins and outs of force-feeding, it’s a duck. ‘Looks like this time you’re the pâté, eh, human?!’ says Officer McQuacky as he ominously pushes the giant tube of grains and fat toward Weirdly’s mouth.” –BigTed

“Sorry, we’re supposed to believe a lot of things about Wilbur, but the first panel just breaks my suspension of disbelief. There is no way Wilbur owns that many books, let alone has read that many in his lifetime.” –Philip

“Dagwood must be on fire! He’s paying the bills for every family on our block! He’s really in the zone right now!” –Just John

“Lady Luck has seen the striped horrors on Dagwood’s feet and decided that, yes, daddy does need a new pair of shoes.” –Guts Dozier

“Lmao that Lois went to the library in her realtor blazer and everything to trawl for leads. ‘ABC. Always Be [hanging out in the middle of the workday around the library’s] Computer.’” –Schroduck

“Green-shirt companion is clearly talking — mouth open eyebrows raised — yet has no word balloon. There must have been a line cut for space. Perhaps, ‘Who even are you? Have you been stalking us online?’” –Stuart F

“What really sells this as menacing is the way that Dennis clambers up the back of the chair like a spider monkey to deliver that line right into Mr Wilson’s ear. Do you think he’s whispering it in a sing-song voice? I’ll bet he is.” –pugfuggly

“Okay Wizard of Id, I know you beat Hagar the Horrible to the whole faux-medieval shtick by a decade, but they have the whole battlefield joke beat on lockdown. Your thing is jokes about kings and other powerful figures, and the prisoners they keep locked up, secure in their castles on the core European continent, while they handle the ragtag armies of Scandinavian barbarians come to take your characters’ wealth. Know your strengths and stick to your turf. I helped fend off those 20th century insurgents, the least you could do is return the favor for me.” –Morgan Wick

“Let’s see: mouth mirror, dentist chair, smock (actually a lab coat, close enough), and gaping yaw. You’ve hit all the iconography; I really don’t see the need to have the word ‘dentist’ spelled backward on the window.” –Weaselboy

“The existence of a yellow coat and a green coat imply an equally-sized blue coat, now missing. Get a warrant while you’re out, Lee: someone’s broken the law — the Law of Color.” –I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV

“The Blondie writers seem like the kind of folks who would pull out some 2012 meme like Overly Attached Girlfriend and smile smugly about how they’re with it. As opposed to me, pulling out Overly Attached Girlfriend and smiling smugly about how I’m ironically dated. They annoy me!” –matt w

“So is Dagwood’s carpool just waiting outside his house thinking he’s going to come running out late as usual and he’s plum forgotten, or have they had enough of his BS and now he has to take the school bus to work?” –Tabby Lavalamp

“Mary Worth reworked as a moody A24-style horror, where the murderous house guest is a metaphor for Wilbur’s (waves hand dismissively in Wilbur’s direction) whole deal, and they can’t get rid of her but also nobody ever quite dies, everyone just lives in terror of the next awful event.” –Dan

“I love how fast the sheriff drops his phony hick act when it comes to money. Oh, he’ll say ‘shore’ and ‘ain’t’ and ‘fer yore’ along with the other townsfolk, but at the realization of just how steadily he’s literally nickel-and-diming the impoverished locals by bending the law to let let crooks go free and innocent people linger in the ancient one-room jail, he gets all excited and the phrase ‘negative effect on our supplemental income stream’ comes rattling out of his mouth faster than you can say ‘civil forfeiture.’” –Chance

“Love how the marriage counselor has given up on taking notes. He just sits back in his chair, letting the dysfunction wash over him, knowing that although he has found the most toxic relationship in existence, no one would believe him and they’re beyond help anyway. He’s as trapped as they are.” –Tristan Olson, on BlueSky

“Pretty sure Leroy is musing about dying himself. He’d never be under the delusion that Loretta dying would solve all his problems — he knows he’d still be a Jets fan.” –matt w

“The joke here is that Leroy and Loretta saw the shrink’s name was ‘Dr. Pillman’ and assumed this was an easy way to score some painkillers.” –Where’s Rocky?

“When Chip woke up that morning, he could tell something was different: the angle of the sun, the heaviness of the air, that smell in the breeze. Was it … popcorn? He stumbled out of bed and into the living room as if in a daze. ‘It’s here,’ he said aloud. ‘It’s summer-blockbuster season.’” –pugfuggly

“Wait until Lukey and Snuffy find out it’s not legal advocacy that Barney’s been up to, but the most dangerous art: human taxidermy.” –I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV

“Snuffy is short-sighted, as usual! While a lawyer could help him escape punishment now, it will end up strengthening the rule of law and trust in authorities, making people less interested in engaging in the informal economy. Soon, he will have to get a job, pay taxes and become a cog of the modern state!” –Ettorre

“It’s summer blockbuster season, and I, a teenage boy in 2025, want you, my parents, to take me to the local cineplex so that we can all enjoy some big budget franchise films in the theater on the big screen, the way God intended. Hurry, Mom and Dad! With luck, we can still catch Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning and Thunderbolts before they become available for streaming in a few weeks.” –Joe Blevins

“‘Wisterias?’ the salesgirl says in a surprised tone when the old man doesn’t flash her.” –Hibbleton

“Every day June shaves a bit more off her head, just to see how long it takes Rex to notice. She’s down to ’80s old school hip hop star’, and so far no dice. But to be honest, she could go cueball bald and Rex still wouldn’t realise. Chris Rock could tell June she looks like GI Jane 2 and all Rex would say is ‘I enjoyed the first film. Didn’t realise they were making a sequel, although it seems highly unlikely it would star my wife.’” –Schroduck

“The art in Rex Morgan isn’t anything special, but credit where it’s due, you can practically hear the mechanical creaking in the first panel as Rex comes out of rest mode to interact with his wife.” –Rosstifer

“By ‘cake’ the boys mean cake. By ‘cake’ Rex means booze.” –Tabby Lavalamp

“Belle is sporting an almost wistful look in panel two. Deranged, yes, but wistfully deranged.” –LTJpezcore1

“Why is mini-Kadia squatting on the rim of Kit’s mug like that? Is she putting something extra into his coffee? God, I hope so.” –Veronica!

“Man, that genie is cool. He’s too cool for a Healthcliff cartoon. He ought to be the 90s throwback mascot for sunbutter, with a catchphrase like ‘It’s got Vitamin B1, yo!’” –BillieVee

“This is probably the closest this comic has ever gotten to acknowledging that hardly anybody uses the ‘Dick’ shortening of ‘Richard’ anymore, not to mention why that is the case. Hopefully, Tracy will get the point and change his name to the much more respectable Penis Tracy.” –ectojazzmage

“If I were a ruthless feudal overlord like Mr. Lodge, I’d be very hesitant to paint something that could be ignorantly or willfully misconstrued as an anarchy symbol on my door. Rivers of blood indeed!” –Violet

“So there’s this committee, see, made up of mothers-in-law, who manage all neighborhood device configurations, and they’ve got a parental lock on yours, sorry bud. I could ask about an exception at the next CAB meeting but that’s not for a couple weeks. Did you even read the HOA contract?” –Tyler Wengerd, on BlueSky

“I dunno. Archie and co have been teenagers for roughly forever and a half. Hard to blame them, really, for treating every day as a blur, just one more rotation on the endless and endlessly boring hamster wheel of their existence.” –Dmsilev

“And as Pop looked away, the wall tiles took the opportunity to grow their numbers again. Two more rows! Soon … soon they would devour all the walls in the restaurant. Then, from there, all the surfaces in Riverdale! No matter where you looked, there would be nothing but a glorious white background. They had taken over 9 Chickweed Lane this way. But the tiles … they hungered for more.” –Lurker Who Seldom Posts

“YES! The grueling, meaningless life uneventful!! That’s the ticket!!!” –Dennis Jimenez

“I like how Dagwood immediately gets back into bed after doing his one thing for his wife on Mother’s Day. I mean, it was assumed that he wouldn’t be doing the laundry, but he wants to make it crystal clear.” –pugfuggly

“Today’s strips show the duality of Comic Strip Time: I am torn between pointing out that Thel should be listening to a phone, not a boombox, and observing that having Dagwood say ‘chillax’ should be punishable by death.” –matt w

“I get that ‘Old Turtle’ is Boss Tweed, but I’m pretty sure the merry-go-round in the center was supposed to be labeled ‘Teapot Dome.’ Whoever’s in charge of maintaining the Thomas Nast Playground is falling down on the job.” –Peanut Gallery

“Big Daddy Keane has not yet given Thel the Mother’s Day gift she most longs for: a vasectomy.” –Ettorre

“Just spitballing here, but if I’m a homicidal maniac, the focus of my rage would shift to whoever in nearest proximity has just eaten a garlic-cheddar concoction.” –Hibbleton

“I see Plugger Bear and Plugger Kangaroo are watching the movie Spotlight. No, not the 2015 film about the Boston Globe’s investigation into sex abuse in the Diocese of Boston which won an Oscar for Best Picture, but the 2019 movie that just features a spotlight shining for 215 minutes of blinding headaches which nevertheless took first place at a film festival for moths.” –Voshkod

“Honestly, if I become a ghost and it turns out I can still eat, I’m basically going to be Slimer from Ghostbusters. I’m not going to think ‘What’s a healthy breakfast cereal for ghosts that’s low in sugar and good for the digestive system?’ I’m already dead! Who cares?” –Horace Broon

“The real horror will come when they remodel the house and make everything in there flat gray.” –Liam

“The artist put the finishing touches on the haunted house … it was perfect … he could add nothing more. He stared wistfully at his framed degree of Fine Arts from UCLA hanging on the wall of his cubicle, then took a long drink from the bottle he kept in his desk and then sketched in the generic, nearly featureless people and background. He would take an early and a long lunch today weeping in the supply closet.” –Old Man Shadow

“Ahhhhhhh! Weird, looming close-up of Rex Morgan’s nurse lady! Is … is she about to eat my village?” –A Grave Mind

“This strip is painfully out of touch with modern parenting. In reality, there would be precisely one thing Marvin wants to watch, and he would demand to watch it over and over and over and over again. If Jenny’s lucky, it’ll be Bluey. If she’s unlucky, it’ll some unbearable CGI Chinese nursery rhyme slop. If she wished on a monkey’s paw, it’ll be video games. Marvin, too young to understand the mechanics of Mario but yelling at her to do impossible things and jump on spikes repeatedly, then crying every time Mario dies.” –Schroduck

“Augie has now involved a women’s shelter in an active homicide investigation. Not only will the shelter workers have to deal with the cops (who will impound the truck and then auction it off later), they’ll also have to do extra paperwork. And then if the police report and/or court transcript makes their physical address public, they’ll have to relocate for security purposes. So yeah, way to go, Mr. Nice Guy … you just single-handedly shut down the local women’s shelter. Your Nobel Prize is in the mail.” –Veronica!

“Marvin, the first comic of the post-feminism regime, where a woman’s place is being squeezed onto a love seat with her father while her son — literally and with obvious delight — shits on her.” –Handsome Harry Backstayge, Idol of a Million Other Women

“I love that Shoe in general, and the Perfesser in particular, have always been ’70s coded and clearly the product of a political cartoonist. The Perfesser looks like Walter Matthau portraying Tip O’Neill.” –Cris (without an H), on BlueSky

“This isn’t some light self-deprecation from Hi; that’s some serious self-pity. You can tell by the way the Mood Wallpaper has turned from green to yellow.” –Guts Dozier

“I’m not surprised that the Perfesser takes ‘seasick pills’ (aka prescription-grade muscle relaxers) in the bath, since that probably increases the relaxing high. It may not be worth the risk of drowning, but to each their own.” –BigTed

“That’s right, Leroy, keep it up. Hostas thrive on shade.” –I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV

“That’s not a spoon. That’s a straw. Martha has finally decided to wire George’s jaw shut. This time the diet will work, God damn it! Why she decided to also sew his eyes shut is less clear.” –moscowtheclown