Recent Comments

1. almost 14 years ago on New Adventures of Queen Victoria

   My only beef is, I like to read comics via RSS feed, and comics.com has the actual comic in the RSS, whereas here at gocomics.com it’s just a link and I have to actually open the site, which is a pain even though I understand why they do it.

2. almost 14 years ago on FoxTrot Classics

   Piracy actually got me to buy a lot more than I did before. Before Napster/Kazaa/BitTorrent (yep, it’s 10 years old!) I rarely bought any music, just listened to whatever was on the radio, not realizing that they almost never actually put the best stuff (even from popular artists) on the radio.

   Plus, it removed the need to pay $20 for an album you may or may not like just to listen to it. Now I listen first, then I buy the stuff I like and delete what I don’t like. At first this meant tracking down a physical CD in a store, but nowadays you can even just buy the tracks you like off any album for $1-2 each, which is even better. I’d actually stop “preview piracy” even if they’d put full-song previews on legal downloads rather than just 30-60 seconds.

3. over 14 years ago on Andy Capp

   Night blindness? More like blind drunkness.

4. about 15 years ago on One Big Happy

   @lakita_lover: I hated tag when I was a kid for that very reason. I wasn’t obese, just shorter than most kids and couldn’t run as fast, and always ended up being “it” until the end of recess–if I agreed to play. After a couple of times of that I’d just refuse to play tag and do something else instead.

5. about 15 years ago on One Big Happy

   You know, I’ve never actually heard the last half of that “great oaks from little acorns” saying. Everybody always trails off like I’m supposed to know what the rest of it is.

6. about 15 years ago on Last Kiss

   I have a now-retired relative who was a nurse for decades, and yes, nurses were expected to wear stockings and heels while they were on their feet for 12 hours a day. This didn’t start to change until the ’80s.

7. almost 16 years ago on Lio

   Hm, I can’t actually type in the comment box, but I can cut and paste text into it. Weird.   Anyway, I was going to say that I turn 28 later this week, and, growing up in the ’80s watching old TV shows on cable, I always wanted to deliver the paper when I got old enough. However, in my lifetime, the paper has always been delivered by adults in cars. I remember reaching the age of 10 or 11 and finding out that you had to be 18 and have a driver’s license to deliver the paper and being seriously disappointed.

8. almost 16 years ago on PreTeena

   I never even looked for my presents. But my parents assumed I did, and anytime I acted surprised my mom would go “that must be one you found! I’ll know not to hide anything there again!”   …and thus I stopped caring what I got for Christmas at a pretty young age.

9. almost 16 years ago on Momma

   It’s not about the happiness, it’s about paying your parents’ bills and being able to not work, so you can care for them in their own home when they get too old and senile to do it themselves… That’s why my mom wants me to marry a doctor.

10. almost 16 years ago on Home and Away

    The previous two commenters are examples of exactly what’s wrong with print comics. The first two panels were just a normal conversation. Completely boring, and slightly schmaltzy. The last two panels are the whole point of the strip. Go back and read Fred Basset if you want cute scenes of domestic life.