Limp Bizkit Would Also Be Good

Hi and Lois

Time for some commentary on the shrinking state of our comic strips. When you click to zoom in on these strips, they take up almost half the page and every detail is noticeable. The strips on my site and in some newspapers are seen vastly smaller and in the case of newspapers, black and white so you can imagine my surprise when, reading the smaller thumbnail version of today's Hi and Lois on the Comics Kingdom website, I saw what appeared to be a body with no head.

That other garbage man doesn't get clearer the more you stare at him. Can you imagine seeing that ill-defined mess of lines even smaller than this and in black and white?

Funky Winkerbean

"We are 99% sure that this videotape contains the exact moment Bull got his CTE. Let's giver her a watch."

I'd have the same look on my face too. "How do you propose we watch that? I haven't owned a VCR since 2007."

Mary Worth

Please be the Jerky Boys...

Please be the Jerky Boys...

Please be the Jerky Boys...

Sally Forth

From what I can tell, no one is wearing red party cups but instead white party cups with little blue and red stripes on them. I guess the daily colorist was afraid of the wrath King Features might have ensued from the owner of the Solo Cup Company, the Dart Corporation.

Neither Snuffy Or Jughaid Would Go To a Mall

Mary Worth

Usually the Sunday soap opera strips keep us at the same moment that the week ended. Rarely does it move us forward but even rarer does it move us back. Yesterday had us having to deal with Iris wanting something called squid ink pasta and Zak telling her to go for it. Today's strip keeps us at the moment right before she ruined the night by reminding Zak about squid ink.

Hi and Lois

Look at all the cameos in today's Hi and Lois. But that Charlie Brown looks very depressed. I feel like that should be more of a Funky Winkerbean cameo.

Rex Morgan, M.D.

You would think that stop arms come standard on every school bus. I'm wondering if he's talking about the extra long stop arms that reach out six or so feet so the sign is easier to see and read. If not and he's talking about the standard two foot stop arm, then that is very frightening.

Family Circus

I guess it's a good thing that the Keane children love dirty black sludge because that's what that snow is going to look like when Christmas does get here.

Where's Billy?

Sally Forth

That is a really good Christmas song. We should listen to it now.

Saturday Evening Post

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith

Last year we had a female mail carrier who was of the attractive persuasion. But it was never bad enough to want to keep her from her route. Apparently the people of Hootin' Holler don't think twice about other people and their mail.

Crankshaft

I have about 150 students that I see on a regular basis and even I know which ones are left-handed. I know more about 150 different students that will flit in and out of my life than Crankshaft knows about his own granddaughter.

Scary Gary

Interestingly, this is exactly how both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton answer this question. The only difference is that Trump will now have the power to make it happen.

Sally Forth

I'm glad that someone else has thought about the ending of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and how Woodstock is perfectly fine with cannibalism. I guess it's fine since it's a turkey and not whatever bird Woodstock is supposed to be. I just want to know why Snoopy made popcorn and toast for Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving when he had a turkey the entire time. Jerkass dog.

Maybe He'll Die of Cancer Soon

Funky Winkerbean

Goddamnit. People toil for years either sending the manuscript after manuscript only to see it be rejected or posting inane, pseudo-comedic garbage about comic strips and writing ongoing written serials or both and getting nowhere. But some idiotic in a TV show, movie, comic strip, whatever puts in the least amount of work necessary and gets the job of a lifetime. Weren't we just talking about suing this jackass? Let's go back to that.

Family Circus

I often wonder if, when Donald Trump says he wants to make America great again, he's talking about The Family Circus because this panel, right here, is everything that is wrong with our country.

Sally Forth

I honestly wish we were still on Sally and Ted's marriage crumbling without Hilary around. That was a fun week.

More Like "Is Mallard Fillmore Still Being Made?"

Sally Forth

Really. It's teenager for "more than like" but "less than love". See also, "like-like".

Mallard Fillmore

Freedom of speech protects you in the case of the government saying you can't say what you want, it does not protect you if your job, school, or random person doesn't like what you say.

I also went the website listed here and looked at the closest college near me (University of Kansas) and saw that they were a Red Light Policy school!! That means they have at least one policy that clearly restricts to the rights of students to say what they want. The two policies they have listed is the policy saying students can't threaten, coerce, stalk, bully, prank phone call, vandalise, or intimidate other students or their private property. The other policy says students can't sexually harass or do anything even resembling sexual harassment. In my opinion, those are two pretty good policies to have on the books.

It's good to know that Mallard is all for students harassing each other and being generally terrible to each other with no consequences.

Shoe

Whoa, Cosmo, not now. A man-bird-thing just died.

Was It During Civil War? Because Spider-Man Was Really Young In That Movie

Amazing Spider-Man

Okay, Mary Jane, we get it. Ant-Man is a terrible superhero. Now quit power-shaming the guy and move on. Or maybe we should talk about your husband's idiotic origin and unbelievable powers.

Sally Forth

One of the dumbest tropes I hate in popular culture is where a character attempts to become something and on the first try achieve that goal. An actress always gets the best part after one audition, an author is published after only one publisher sees their work, you've seen the stories. It makes me hopeful that Hillary won't be a published author right off the bat but as she is about to enter her 40s.

Hi and Lois

I understand what Hi is getting at but taking a vacation at a beach is much different than an important tactical military maneuver that changed the course of a war.

It Was Probably About Alexander Hamilton, the Grandson of Alexander Hamilton

Sally Forth

I love that one summer without Hillary has put a lot of pressure on the Forths' marriage. While I don't think they will actually get divorced and Ted move out, it would be kind of cool to see Ted live by himself with only Hillary's once-favorite stuffed animal for companionship.

I want to know what "Hamilton Musical" Ted took Sally to see.

Family Circus

Why is PJ in the high chair? That seems dangerous.

Popeye

I gave this girl I liked in fifth grade a flower. In sixth grade, I gave another girl this cheap piece of jewelry I had. I never dated either of them, they never became my friend, and my life went on as if I had done nothing at all.

Nancy

A lot of Sunday comic strips have throwaway panels at the top so that, depending on how the newspaper formats their comics page, the strip can be easily stacked. A lot of times, the only way you can see these throwaway panels is either through a printed collection or seeing the original posted online through the syndicate's website. But what happens when even the syndicate removes the throwaway panels. Then I guess you can only see the original when the artist posts the strip on Instagram.

Getaway Car. I Thought It Was a Stolen Car

Slylock Fox and Comics For Kids

No one I know, including me, knows what their license plate number is. Maybe some have memorized it, sure. I memorized a couple because they were fairly easy but do you honestly think that someone who has stolen a car would memorize a license plate. Even if he did, why would they go out if the car's on fire? It's not their car, who cares? My argument still stands. What criminal would memorize their license plate?

Hi and Lois

How long have those fireworks been there? You're not supposed to shoot off old fireworks. Not that it stops people from doing it. Just thought I would point it out. Now douse those things in water and get in the car, Hi.

And now, to end on something funny.

Sally Forth

Brutus Has An Aneurysm

Like I said, Ted has no shame.  Unfortunately I'd probably aim in the same direction but I think I'm smart enough to cover it up.

Maybe we'll finally get to see some hard core robot fighting action.  Hopefully it's not as lame as Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots were.

Also, who says "M'Gosh" to mean "My gosh"?

Is it me or is Chip kind of doing a bit more with the characters?  I mean, that's a facial expression we've never seen here plus adding color (which may have been the syndicate's idea) and since my hiatus ended it seems like the strips have been working harder.  Kudos, Chip.  Kudos.

"Brutus? Who's the Girl, Brutus?"

Yesterday, we had "fencing". Today we have "home economics" and "baby doll". If we continue "quoting" tomorrow, I say "we" should use "finger quotes" in every "panel."


You two do realize what other things you could hear from the women's bathroom right? Plus I've seen what happens to people who bug restrooms. I've seen those Datelines and 20/20s.


It took me awhile to notice that the strip says Van Diesel and not Vin Diesel. This strip actually brings up some interesting things. Is it intentionally Van or did Armstrong forget Vin's name. Did he change it to Van so he could make that vehicle/fuel joke or did he fear repurcustions from Mr. Diesel himself?


I don't care how long it's been, I'm always up for a Peanuts parody.

Well, it's better because not only do I get sex at home, I get it at work now. And with none of that marriage crap attached to it.

No, I don't want a ride. I don't think I could fit in your car anyway...

I always figured Brutus' mom was dead. Hopefully we don't have a Norman Bates situation here.