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Mother Goose and Grimm, 6/27/25

Look, we all associate Cinderella with trying on glass slippers, but canonically, the Prince’s retinue repeated the process over and over again with different girls, and once Cinderella put it on and proved her identity, that was the end of the glass-slipper-trying-on process. She only had to do it once! And she didn’t really wear glass slippers after that! Why would she want to wear them again as an old woman, as if she were in the habit of it? I know that fact-checking a cartoon is boring and lame, but I feel like we should hold a strip that’s literally called Mother Goose and Grimm to a higher standard.

Alice, 6/27/25

I know you all rely on me for keeping you up to date on the lore developments in the insane fever dream comic Alice, so here’s the latest: the weird Alice aliens live underneath Alice’s floorboards now, and one of them is in love (?) with her? More on this as it develops in new and insane ways!

Dennis the Menace, 6/27/25

Look at Mr. Wilson’s face. That’s the expression of a guy who’s either going to get rich at the blackjack table or die via suicide by casino security. Either way, he’s not gonna have to deal with this brat again.

Heathcliff, 6/27/25

They banned spiral hams and are putting our Heathcliff in prison, when are people gonna wake up to what’s going on in our country

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Blondie, 6/20/25

Imagine how much funnier this strip would be if Blondie had spent any of the past 90 years or so developing the characters and backstories of Dagwood’s coworkers. Instead, we’re left staring blankly at the antics of the guy who apparently thinks he’s fat, doesn’t-want-to-be-upside-down guy, and Garfield lady, DithersCo’s #1 Garf superfan. Honestly the most intriguing person to me is the guy Dagwood runs into in the elevator, who is absolutely seething at the idea of an office having “funny t-shirt day,” a proposal that is simply wildly out of step with the current sociopolitical climate. How dare they!

Mother Goose and Grimm, 6/20/25

Look, I get that when you have comics with dogs in them, you’re gonna do some jokes where the punchline is “a fire hydrant or a tree is for them what a toilet is for us!” and that’s fine. But please, I’m begging you to fully think through that metaphor when you do strips like this. Would you draw a person lurking in a room of giant toilets thinking “I’ve died and gone to heaven!”, the message clearly being that they love pissing? Of course you wouldn’t. They’d put you on a list and they’d be right to do it.

Pluggers, 6/20/25

It’s very distressing to me that this plugger is wandering around outside, with no visible houses or any other kind of structures to be seen. If he were in his living room, I would be like, “Ha, pluggers do be losing track of stuff! Relatable!” But as it is, I feel like we need to issue a Silver Alert post-haste.

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Mary Worth, 6/8/25

Many of our most beloved deranged Mary Worth storylines end abruptly, with antagonists just straight up driving off a cliff or whatever, but I’m sorry, there is a lot to take in just in this single strip. The bell by which the Westons were saved was rung by … Belle’s brother? Who has tracked her down somehow because he suspects she’s off her meds, probably because she failed to check in with him? And also (and sorry, but this is much more important), he’s literally just a taller version of Wilbur? Like she spotted Wilbur across a TGIFridays in Tampa and thought, “Oh my goodness, he looks just like my beloved brother … but more squooshed! I’m gonna FUCK HIS BRAINS OUT AND MURDER ANYONE OR ANYTHING WHO COMPETES WITH HIM FOR MY ATTENTION!” Because that’s wild, possibly the wildest proposition this strip has ever asked me to buy in the 20+ years I’ve been reading it. And it’s clearly not the first time something like this has happened! “I’m sorry about this, shorter me!” Avery says. “I hope I came in time … there are no visible corpses, so I’m assuming I did, but sincere apologies if not!”

Mother Goose and Grimm, 6/8/25

The joke here is whatever, but I want to point out that it’s weird that Grimm is in the corner there watching this breakup go down. It’s a long-established aspect of this strip that it alternates between jokes involving the well-established cast of characters and sub-Far Side one-off gags. Feels like some new executive in charge of the syndicate sent down a note like “In order to reinforce Mother Goose and Grimm’s brand identity and lay the groundwork for future merchandising initiatives, every strip needs to feature one of the two beloved title characters, who casual readers definitely know by name and can identify.”

Panel from The Lockhorns, 6/8/25

Funniest thing here is that this is, I assume, their own house. Not sure if Leroy is very drunk or very sleepy — or, more cruel and therefore more likely, if he’s doing a bit and Loretta refuses to even give him the satisfaction of acknowledging that he’s doing a bit.