Family Circus: Now we get to go back and rerun all the months again.

The sad thing is, Billy's really not kidding at all.

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

AAARGH MAKE IT STOP.

Shoe: Hot air always rises.

I have no interest in taking the time to prove it, but I'm fairly certain Shoe uses the hot air gag at least once a week.

Family Circus: Do you happen to need a taste tester.

This appears to be Jeffy's go-to move when he's on the hunt for non-raw-human-flesh foods.

And let me be the first to say that it just gets more adorable and hilarious every time I see it.*

*Not really!

Ziggy: I've never known a hard drive to crash out of boredom before!

"Except for, you know, that time it happened to you four months ago."

Baby Blues: I think we have a mouse in the house.

Gender stereotypes! They never get old!

Also, either this is a repeat from my very first week of comics blogging (one whole year ago!) or creativity is not Kirkman and Scott's strong suit.

Dennis the Menace: I don't know HOW to act my age. I've neer BEEN this age before.

Considering how long they've been around, Dennis the Menace and The Family Circus have probably been through all of each other's jokes at least three times by now.

Mark Trail: It's going to be a tough decision, Mark, about what to do!

This comic is hilarious because someone actually gets paid to write dialog like this.

In other news, I've found this storyline to be thus far completely incomprehensible. Apparently, I would have felt the same way in 1979.*

*Via friend of the blog Bill Peschel.

Pickles: Just to look nice, I guess.

Having recently discovered that the vast majority of his readers enjoy humor about how ugly they are and are too senile to remember yesterday's comics, Brian Crane has decided that it's not really worth the effort to write any more new jokes.

Pluggers: Why, I'm having apple pie and ice cream. Why?...

I'm not sure if you've heard this one before, but pluggers eat a lot of food that's unhealthy for them, and so they are very fat. This is just one of the many reasons they are Real Americans^TM.

Pluggers: Hmmm...now which was morning and which was night?

I hated this cartoon just as much a whole month and a half ago.