Comment of the Week

When Prussian gymnast and bodybuilder Joseph Pilates developed a mind-body method of strength training with a spring-based apparatus in the early 20th century -- one that would become popular with ballet dancers and eventually enter the mainstream fitness world -- he never could have known that many decades later, a U.S. federal court would declare that his very last name was a generic term, and that anyone could use the word 'Pilates,' whether or not they joined the Pilates Method Alliance professional organization. Heck, they could even have a talking dog mispronounce his name in a comic strip as a way of making a cheap pun, if they wanted to. It's a funny, funny world sometimes, even if you wouldn't know that from the punchline.

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Dennis the Menace, 11/27/15

Dennis is not acting as some kind of pseudoscientific anti-vaxxer here; in some ways, he’s being even more unsettling, asserting his desire to opt out of the more uncomfortable aspects of the social contract while still benefitting from its protections. The fact that this urge lurks within each of us is what makes this truly menacing.

Hagar the Horrible, 11/27/15

The Friday after Thanksgiving is always one of the lowest-traffic days on my blog, and I assume this is true for most forms of media, both in print and online. So I guess it’s pretty much as good a day as any to transition your long-running legacy comic strip to its new focus: centaur erotica.

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Funky Winkerbean, 11/26/15

Are you all enjoying Thanksgiving dinner, surrounded by your beloved family and friends? Well, too bad. You’re not experiencing the best Thanksgiving. The best Thanksgiving, if you’re wondering, involves eating crappy frozen pizza while standing up and FaceTiming with your former landlord.

Mark Trail, 11/26/15

NOOOOOOO BIG GOVERNMENT FINALLY BANNED FISHING

THANKS A LOT OBAMA