In this weekly series, editor Lucas Wetzel spotlights new and unusual comic features from the GoComics A-Z listing.

 Feature: Up and Out
Creator: Julia Kaye
Format: varies
Frequency: three days a week
Recommended if you like: sadistic cats, creepy uncles, undead friends, hapless hobo-kidnapping criminals, cat-puters

Let me first just say how much I've enjoyed the evolution in popular comic strips over the past decade. While classics like Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbes and Red and Rover will always be regarded as the gold standard of family-oriented newspaper comic strips, the online comics that receive thousands of views these days are often way too weird or subversive for a mass print audience. Which isn't to say either category is better than the other. Just that it's nice that today's cartoonists are able to explore dark, weird and socially questionable material online, whereas on the print side we still get complaints about things like ketchup being depicted as fake blood in a Lio daily. In other words, print comics have to worry about not offending anyone, while Web cartoonists are often all about pushing the envelope.

All of that being said, however, even the open-minded and black-humored among you might well find something to disapprove of in the delightfully sociopathic "Up and Out," a comic written and illustrated by Julia Kaye, in which women are hit on at their husband's funerals and a child is incinerated for messing up the Pledge of Allegiance. "Up and Out" has been online for a few years, with many of the strips popping up on reddit or Tumblr. Kaye also recently ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to publish his first "Up and Out" collection. In the meantime, fans of weird, awkward and sadistic humor should check out "Up and Out" on GoComics. In spite of all the blood, death, kidnapping, meanness and disappointment, I found reading "Up and Out" to be a positive and lighthearted experience.

See for yourself right here on GoComics.