Recent Comments

1. 4 months ago on Doonesbury

   The negotiations started in yesterday’s strip. He’d already talked himself down to $50,000 without Alex’s help.

2. 4 months ago on Doonesbury

   I think that might be a colorist error. She’s got a black line on her right that I think is supposed to be the hair, but the colorist made the headset on both sides in panel one.

3. 4 months ago on Barney & Clyde

   I know Gene is old, but “clip joint” is pretty dated slang.

4. 5 months ago on Barney & Clyde

   I’m 44 and I get it, for whatever that’s worth.

5. 5 months ago on Bloom County

   This strip was February 8, 1988, so after the affair came to light. Hart had exited the race after the scandal, but re-entered in December 1987, but then performed poorly in the primaries.

6. 6 months ago on Frazz

   Ace Hardware is a retailer cooperative, not a traditional chain, so you will get more of that local characteristic. But we lost our local hole in the wall hardware store where I could go buy a single screw from a bin if I needed it.

7. 8 months ago on Frazz

   Ahh, thank you both! At some point, I realized that the groundhog prediction was basically the opposite of that day’s weather, but I like the rhyme.

8. 10 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Since they noted a date span, I think they meant $15 for that month-and-a-bit, not per day.

9. about 1 year ago on Barney & Clyde

   Hey, if we’re going in for pedantry today (it is a Weingarten strip, after all), it was probably 4:40 AM EDT, since most of the US is on daylight saving time presently.

10. about 1 year ago on Barney & Clyde

    Gene probably didn’t write this one. He would have gone to bat for (or made the joke about) “presently”.