Recent Comments

1. about 12 hours ago on PreTeena

   The daily and Sunday strips must be on different distribution streams or cycles, which is why the Sunday strips (which were always in color) are still appearing normally, while the daily ones are broken.

2. 1 day ago on Thatababy

   They are so tall with skinny legs, so it’s their legs that get hit by the front of the car and the body goes through the windshield.

3. 1 day ago on FoxTrot

   Before the jokes about Andy not making a “real” pumpkin pie, note that the iconic orange jack’o’lantern pumpkins are not the best for making pies, they are too tough and stringy. Butternut squash are actually the best for making “pumpkin” pie, and the variety of pumpkin that Libby’s uses for its canned pumpkin looks more like a butternut squash than a Halloween pumpkin. This is also the reason for “pumpkin pie spice”.

4. 1 day ago on FoxTrot

   The other family members want more than just one pie, so they “forget” that Andy is making one and bring one from the store.

5. 1 day ago on FoxTrot

   The iconic orange jack’o’lantern pumpkins actually are not the best for making pies, too tough and stringy. Butternut squash ironically are the best for “pumpkin” pies, and the pumpkins that Libby’s uses for its canned pumpkin look more like a butternut squash than a Halloween pumpkin.

6. 3 days ago on Stone Soup

   Well, if you want “real”, there is always Mary Worth or Judge Parker LOL

7. 3 days ago on Stone Soup

   It’s a comic strip; characters and situations are exaggerated for humorous or satirical effect. Holly is a parody of the ultimate self-centered bratty younger teen. Val is a parody of the crusading feminist who doesn’t believe in the traditional ways of child rearing, and so has no clue how to deal with Holly. The humor derives from this exaggeration situation.

8. 3 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   Andy is a caricature or parody of vegetarian health food nuts, who heavily hype up eggplants as a meat alternative in addition to the standard tofu. Andy inflicting tofu, eggplant and beet torture on her family is one of the running jokes on Foxtrot.

9. 5 days ago on PreTeena

   No, GoComics fixed whatever was broken and resumed the strip at the correct spot for today. Maybe the missing strips will be restored, but not yet.

10. 8 days ago on F Minus

    Once the planets were discovered to be other worlds and not just “wandering stars”, Mars in particular has held a particularly strong fascination with people. It was the most Earth-like planet, with an atmosphere, polar ice caps and changing dark surface features which to some astronomers suggested seasonal vegetation areas. Then of course the whole “canal” craze which furthur suggested the presence of an intelligent alien civilization.

    Such things gripped the imagination, and Mars became the subject of many a science fiction and fantasy media, something which continued for a long time until furthur observations and space probes finally put an end to the fantasy of a living, breathing Mars. Still, the fascination continues, as landers and rovers showed that Mars does resemble Earth a lot more than the bleak black-sky barrenness of the Moon does.