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If Alexander took his place, would anyone even notice

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Blondie, 3/26/26

Every once in a while, you get a hint that Alexander is recapitulating many of his father’s most distinctive traits. This makes sense, as the two are obviously genetically identical, and I assume Alexander was created by some sort of asexual budding process. Still, how does Dagwood feel about all this? Well, not great, if his facial expression in the last panel is any indication.

Wizard of Id, 3/26/26

Imagine if you were a second-generation comics creator, gifted with one of the shrinking number of viable newspaper comics out there, but feeling increasingly uninspired and desperate to find some way out of your situation. I’m not saying I know that’s what’s happening with the Wizard of Id, but I am saying that if you were trying to do the comics version of suicide by cop, then inviting a lawsuit from JK Rowling would be a good way to go about it.

Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/26/26

“I’m sick and tired of all this roots country bullshit!” you’re probably saying. “I want to get this strip’s focus back to its roots: contemporary medical issues!” Well, OK, buckle up for “Rex has pivoted his clinic to mostly writing GLP-1 scrips for anyone who asks and then directing them to a dodgy grey-market compounding pharmacy that he gets kickbacks from.”

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Working (kind of) for the weekend

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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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Damn, they made Max put on a suit for this, but Slylock gets to keep wearing his goofy cape

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Wizard of Id, 2/2/26

Thanks to the several faithful readers who pointed out that the Wizard of Id I featured a week ago is reusing the exact same art as a strip from 2015, except the dialogue has been rewritten to be horny instead of bloodthirsty. Let’s hear it for the victory of eros over thanatos? I guess??? Not sure if this one is a repeat too, but I do find the backstory reveal interesting, in that we learn that it was the Wizard’s wife who turned him on to “this,” though it’s not entirely clear what “this” is (football, the TV set, a dimension outside Id’s pseudo-medieval setting, etc.).

Slylock Fox, 2/2/26

Look, I joke a lot about the arbitrary nature of justice in the Forest Kingdom, but years ago I was a juror on an honest to god drug conspiracy case in Baltimore, and there were significantly fewer witnesses than this, so maybe I’ve been overhasty.

Pluggers, 2/2/26

Oh, what’s that, pluggers? You think you’re trapped in a never-ending slog, where each day is exactly like the last and you never make any kind of forward progress? Well, so do the rest of us! You’re not special!