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1. about 15 hours ago on Peanuts

   I generally don’t think of Peanuts having a lot of long running arcs but it seems like the last year and a half or so we’ve been lousy with them. Sparky must have been going through an experimental phase.

2. 1 day ago on For Better or For Worse

   Other commenters often complain about how a number of different characters are drawn so similarly that it’s hard to tell who’s who without context. Today I definitely see it, especially in the first panel.

3. 1 day ago on Peanuts

   What’s the kid going to do, measure her?

   But seriously Sally, you owe him a replacement.

4. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Wouldn’t he trip over the rope?

5. 1 day ago on FoxTrot Classics

   I can’t decide whether to ask what pork sausages have to do with Groundhog Day, or why this strip isn’t running two weeks from now.

6. 1 day ago on Baby Blues

   Was your dad not very, very, very, very successful?

7. 1 day ago on Mother Goose and Grimm

   Mm, yes, that would be alarming.

8. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Which would be fine if in their ignorance they didn’t keep pulling us down under the water with them.

9. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Zebra was a much more well-rounded character early on, and made for a good Only Sane Man in the face of Pig’s stupidity, Rat’s cynicism, and Goat’s pomposity. Then Goat started becoming a lot less pompous, which has made him a much more likable character but has also largely eliminated Zebra’s place in that dynamic. So Zebra’s role in the strip was increasingly reduced to dodging predators. Then that got repetitive and I guess Pastis can’t come up with any other use for the poor guy.

10. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

    Which is a positive only if citizens have the critical thinking skills to recognize that they’re seeing microtargeted messaging and discard incredibly sophisticated manipulation, half-truths, and distraction in favor of a more honest but much less comfortable and often more complicated account of things. It’s getting harder and harder to argue that that’s what we have.