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YOU GUYS I KNOW I AM LATE WITH THE COMMENT OF THE WEEK, but hopefully you will still enjoy it!

“Of course Cayla was going to end up with some disease. I just never guessed it would be Stockholm Syndrome.” –chistery

And hopefully you will also enjoy these runners up!

“You look like a cold drink on a hot day! By which I mean still enticing, no matter how weak and flavorless!” –BigTed

“Kenny’s mom is drinking? And probably emotionally vulnerable? She’s single, right? How’s the caboose?” –Doctor Handsome

“My childhood was a happy time. Then everything changed after Brown v Board of Education.” –Ranger

“‘Why? What have you heard?’ ‘Well, Kenny, actually most of what I’ve been hearing for the last week is a nice, soothing, steady E-flat, ever since I had this tuning fork grafted onto my left hand. You should try it too, since your golf game is going to be pretty much garbage from now on out anyway, what with your Mom being a lush and all.'” –seismic-2

“Yes yes yes. You loved him. He loved you. It was simple innocent time. When do we get to the part about him dying tragically.” –Liam

“This week’s Hand-thing of the Week contest has been opened to the readership. Vote for your favorite: Organ Pipe Cactus (Gil, left); A Failed Salute to Aquaman (Gil, right); Trouble at the Sawmill (Kenny, left); The Unlucky Monkey Paw (Kenny, right). The winning hand-thing will be unveiled this Friday, in your nightmares.” –Walker of Dog

“Only the gazebo heard Les whine, and it sat there, quietly judging, and waiting.” –Voshkod

“My guess is the flying droplets are quite literal. Clearly Betty spits at Veronica through her incisors in disgust because of Veronica flaunting her new school accessories while Betty is forced to wear a truckstop waitress costume. Veronica should be happy that Betty didn’t punch her straight in the nose … flap?” –sporknpork

“After Gina’s Dad got whacked, Gina and her mother would often visit the Lincoln Memorial to reenact this, their final gathering as a family.” –Ned Ryerson

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Mary Worth, 8/19/11

Gruesome mob-related killing, everyone! That … that’s why Gina can’t truly love? Because of the mob? Not because of some kind of freak skateboard accident or anything. Mobsters! This is … I gotta say, it’s pretty disappointing. I admit that for most of my life if you had said to me “gruesome mob killing in Mary Worth!” I’d have been intrigued, but the strip already did a drive-by killing last year, and frankly it needs to up its weirdness quotient if it intends to keep my attention. Are you sure there wasn’t any synchronized skateboarding involved in this gruesome mob killing, Gina?

Archie, 8/19/11

I’ve always kind of enjoyed the comics convention whereby flying droplets of sweat represent a character’s surprise/bafflement/disbelief (at least in non-Cathy contexts). The fact that Betty is completely out of our field of vision, leaving only her three sweatballs to fly into the frame in the final panel to indicate her bemusement, charms me all the more.

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Gil Thorp, 8/18/11

So, just as Kenny helped Molly with her golf swing by filming her so she could see the problems with her technique, so too will he help his mother by showing her detailed footage of her drunken swoons. I like it! Because so far, Kenny’s mom’s alcohol problem has been strictly amateur hour. “See, mom, look at this … you made it all the way to the couch before you passed out, and you even set the wine glass down on the end table before you lost consciousness. If you had fallen just a few steps earlier, you could have spent the night on the carpet surrounded by broken glass; pick a red instead of a white, and you’d even have a permanent stain on the rug for which you’d have to come up with an embarrassingly transparent excuse. And here, in this video, you’re semi-conscious and clinging to the toilet bowl as you puke up all that merlot. If you had some guts, you’d have have just konked out the bathroom floor on your back, upping your chances of choking on your own sick. Are you committed to this drunken lifestyle or not?”

Funky Winkerbean, 8/18/11

Oh my God, I really thought at this little soliloquy, in which over the course of the last few days Les has described the good times he had in this park, like when he took summer strolls with Lisa, but also the bad times, like when Lisa told him she was date-rape-pregnant, or when she found some cancerous lumps, couldn’t get more insulting to Cayla, but then … this happened, holy crap. Les’s smug eyebrow-waggle is definitely the best part, if by “best” you mean “most urgently demanding a punch in the face.”