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Wham, bam, thank you faithful commenters for your service! Here’s this week’s comment of the week:

“Saul is over in panel one, pursuing his passion: narrating events to people in real-time, as they unfold.” –Victor Von

Oh, and you’d better BELIEVE there are funny runners up:

“If I hear ‘Electrothanasia Room,’ I’m imagining a mad science dungeon full of crackling spark generators and beds covered in chains and straps. Discovering it’s just an IKEA-furnished conference room with a complimentary buffet of coffee and cookies … well, it makes me regret modernity a little bit.” –Schroduck

“Never mind ‘Plano, Texas is a suburb where the median household income is six figures.’ That ship has sailed. Plano, Texas is so legendarily dedicated to high school football that I, an arrant Yankee, know about it. Why are you, Plano Plugger, falling asleep in front of a prime-time NFL game instead of falling asleep in the (googles) John Clark Stadium stands, like the good lord intended?” –matt w

“I don’t really know who Tess is, but this is obviously the highlight of her day. She was hoping Dick Tracy would barge in during the middle of the meeting. She would have been disappointed if he hadn’t. I’m 99% sure she even practiced a few quips that she might say under these exact circumstances.” –Joe Blevins

“Stanley isn’t quite ready to admit to himself that his plan for ‘suicide by hot air balloon’ isn’t working out. And this is his fifth attempt.” –Guts Dozier

“Editor: ‘You know, some people find your strip a little hard to follow. Maybe you could take an opportunity to reintroduce your characters. You know, who they are, where they’re from…’ Writer of Alice: ‘Sure thing! It’ll be completely clear after this!’” –pugfuggly

“Without the ‘tiny,’ it’s just ‘women sure are nags, right, fellahs?’ With the ‘tiny’ it’s just ‘Snow White, history’s greatest freeloader, never got over her height-ist mentality.’” –Handsome Harry Backstayge, Idol of a Million Other Women

“Mary Worth is a lot more entertaining if you think of each day’s strip being an actual day later, with the rescue team going home each night begging them to please make up their minds on the rescue order by tomorrow.” –Tabby Lavalamp

“B.C. referencing OnlyFans is maybe the shortest turnaround time between something becoming culturally relevant and it being referenced in B.C. I don’t want to think through the implications of this.” –Alec Baker, on BlueSky

“I think she means ‘best in the business’ of rescuing people from atop pine/palm hybrids. Whether balloons are necessary is unclear.” –Hibbleton

“I swear, in all my years at the festival, a balloon crash has never happened! It’s almost as if we had been visited by some bad-luck magnet, who attracts doom wherever she goes! Of course, if there actually was someone like that, I suppose she would try to hide her terrible dark mysticism … for example, by pretending to be someone who predicts awful events, so it wouldn’t seem so strange that she’s present whenever they happen. Of course, such a person could never actually exist … Or could she???” –BigTed

“We’re going to be okay! I am a little concerned about the physics, though. Shouldn’t our combined masses create sufficient inertia to slide us off these pines’ rather thin outer branches? I’m not afraid of falling, in other words, I’m afraid of why we haven’t fallen.” –I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV

“WORST person to trust with a pile of cash. He won’t WANT to, but his very Dagwoodness will take him straight to the nearest sandwich shop. And won’t his condiment-smeared face be red at pay-off time!” –MKay

“Anyway, turns out babies cry a lot when you take their medicine from them. The moms don’t like it much either.” –Voshkod

“Saul: ‘Mary! Thank goodness you’re okay!’ Mary: ‘Well, I’ll assume you meant to say Mary! Thank goddess! You’re great! and let this one slide!’” –Ettorre

“‘Drone Store’ is actually a judgment value on the customers. The fact that they sell drones is a coincidence.” –Dan

“Thanks for sending the DOGS? That’s no way to talk about our brave first-responders!” –Lord Flatulence

“…and so much outdoors. Do you know how easy it is for a child to wander off and get lost? Listen to me, Katherine — I’m offering solutions here.” –cheech wizard

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Mary Worth, 10/10/25

Mary’s looking pretty frazzled in panel two, and who can blame her, what with her having just been in a freak balloon accident and then brushed off by a fireman who didn’t want to make small talk while he was in the middle of a complex rescue operation. Still, she has to realize that the scenario she’s describing makes no sense, right? Why would Saul and Eve send dogs to find her, when they didn’t even know she was missing? Soon enough she’s going to put two and two together, and then either set up a full-on cult that worships Olive, or sell her to a lab where her brain can be studied and possibly profited from.

Mother Goose and Grimm, 10/10/25

I guess I don’t know for sure that there’s no such thing as a physical drone store, though if I were buying a drone, I’d probably just get one online, like a normal person. But if there are such retail establishments, I feel confident in saying that the staff there does not wear tuxedos to work. I wish we lived in that glorious and classy world, but unfortunately we do not.

Judge Parker, 10/10/25

“She needs someplace where she can be just a kid again … you know, like a vast estate owned by the richest lady in town, where she can ride horses all day. Normal, relatable kid stuff. Will there be other children there for her to play with? Ha ha, goodness no.”

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Crankshaft, 10/9/25

Look, characters in comic strips are, ultimately, not real people, and while you can chuckle at their antics, you ultimately shouldn’t feel bad for them. Especially not Ed Crankshaft, who’s a real asshole. Still, I can’t look at panel three here, where he has an extremely bleak facial expression as he’s compelled, apparently against his will, to make wordplay with “wiener” in it that doesn’t make sense at all but vaguely sounds like he’s referring to masturbation, and not feel a frisson of sympathy. He doesn’t want this! Nobody wants this!

Blondie, 10/9/25

You all know that I depend on Blondie, whose characters are spiritually boomers even if they’re younger in age as drawn, to find out what old people are doing on the computer. It’s not gambling, I guess! They’re still doing that the old fashioned way, by handing over wads of cash to some guy in their office building. They’re leaving losing life-damaging sums of cash on absurd parlays via an app to the young people, and, you know what, good for them.