Recent Comments

1. 2 months ago on Tarzan

   “On the rock-strewn grassy plain beyond, the ape-man dropped, exhausted, from his horse.”

   That’s an awkwardly constructed sentence. Better options would be: “On the rock-strewn grassy plain beyond, exhausted, the ape-man dropped from his horse.”

   or: “On the rock-strewn grassy plain beyond, the ape-man dropped from his horse, exhausted.”

   or the best version: “On the rock-strewn grassy plain beyond, the exhausted ape-man dropped from his horse.”

2. 3 months ago on Annie

   Um, Cuba is just to the EAST of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. No backtracking.

3. 5 months ago on Mutt & Jeff

   That joke had whiskers on it before it got to Bud Fisher!

4. 5 months ago on Nancy

   She picked up the “Y” and left the “OU SHOULD”

   In other words, the universe gave her an answer, and she missed it!

5. 9 months ago on Wondermark

   BTW Fort Zinderneuf is a reference to BEAU GESTE.

6. 9 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   This actually happened to my elderly mother when an ancient (and huge) pecan tree fell in her backyard.

7. 10 months ago on Andy Capp

   Americans call them rutabagas.

8. 10 months ago on Wondermark

   Oh good, now I have a name for it!

9. about 1 year ago on Doonesbury

   By the time of Julius Caesar, the Roman constitution was in desperate need of reform due to the nation’s schizophrenic aims. Rome wanted to be a city-state AND a Mediterranean spanning empire. The old political structure was inadequate for running the latter.

10. about 1 year ago on Nancy

    Though the way the window is drawn, it looks closed already.