Mutts and Mother Goose and Grimm: I don't think I have time to send out Christmas cards this year.

I'm feeling magnanimous, so there are just going to have to be a few best comics of the day today.

The cat in this Mother Goose and Grimm is basically me, and the single best way to get me to mention a comic strip is to appeal to my sense of egotism.

Mutts, meanwhile, is just delightful. I don't know what else to say about it, really. It's just so damn delightful. Which, as a general rule, is pretty much what Mutts usually is when it's good.

Mother Goose and Grimm, Mutts, Rhymes with Orange, and Reality Check: Don't play those reindeer games with me, pal!

AAARGH MAKE IT STOP.

Flying McCoys and Mother Goose and Grimm: Dancer with the Stars

Reindeer puns are going to get old pretty quickly.

Mother Goose and Grimm: Awr kii weyna waha 'unay libaah.

Today's Mother Goose and Grimm is a pale shadow of this Medium Large from last year:

Mother Goose and Grimm: I call it ... "The Bark."

Yes, The Scream is the only work of art anyone in the comics section has ever heard of.

Mother Goose and Grimm: There was no tern left unstoned.

This pun deserves props. In general, Mike Peters makes pretty good use of the much maligned play on words, and is probably second only to Stephan Pastis as the pun master of the comics section.

Mother Goose and Grimm: I like Doris Kearns Goodwin.

I take my enjoyment of his comic to mean that what the comics section needs is more Doris Kearns Goodwin and less gratuitous squirrel butt.