Last year, nearly half the comics in the comics section featured New Year's Eve jokes about how hard it is to stay up until midnight. Only one of those comics features the same joke this New Year's Eve. That comic is The Family Circus.
Hi and Lois is easily the most interesting legacy strip, if only for its wide variety of tones. It usually settles for simple gags, but occasionally forays into more controversial territory (I can't find it now, but it has explicitly acknowledged global warming in a nonjokey way before) and at times into outright misery, as is the case today.
Kelly and her icky, womany vagina have so upset Mark that he is reduced to using contractions.
Oh good. Torture humor. My favorite.
This is why Jeffy prefers serial killing to so many other activities. His ability to murder people is never dependent upon the weather.
Garfield is the sort of comic that does so many things wrong that it's easy to forget the things it does right. Garfield Minus Garfield has sort of rectified that, but today's installment is the rare instance in which the titular character's presence actually makes the comic better and, in this case, sadder.
Not all comics contain jokes. Some comics are meant to impart some other sort of meaning besides humor. Sadly, I'm pretty sure this comic was meant to contain a joke.
Gasp! Requesting a glass of milk! My lands, that Dennis is just so rude!
In the next very special installment of Stone Soup: Alix and, um, the other one learn a valuable lesson about old people.
And so the Olive Garden is just a little too high-class for pluggers.
The censors unfortunately butchered this one. You just have to imagine the robot as a dead body to get the full effect.
AAARGH. If only Les had died horribly like he was SUPPOSED to, we wouldn't have to put up with this inane awkward love triangle.
This comic is hilarious because General Halftrack appears to be depressed and potentially suicidal.
I know that picking Get Fuzzy as the best comic of the day every day is kind of lame. But this story is just so good. And that line is amazing.
The Born Loser is not the worst strip in the comics section, but it is probably the hackiest. So it's not exactly a surprise to see a holiday fruitcake joke today. It's just kind of sad.
After the big Funky Winkerbean fake-out, I know I shouldn't get my hopes up over the prospect of Herb and Jamaal possibly each getting shot in the face. BUT OH MY GOD HOW AMAZING WOULD THAT BE?
Apparently Billy and Dolly are on good terms again, because this is some pretty harsh mockery. Thel doesn't stand a chance.
In all honesty, I just never want this arc to end. Ever.
In the month or so that I've started reading the comics section again, The Quigmans hasn't been showing up on my Chron comics page. I was hoping this was because it had gotten unceremoniously canceled during the time that I was away. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be the case, as it unexpectedly appeared before me today.
And so the Wizard wants to have a threesome with his wife and his new winged-lizard pet.
Even in the midst of being sexually assaulted by her idiot brother, Dolly takes a moment to criticize and condescend to her mother.
I had somehow managed to forget about the annual Curtis Kwanzaa Extravaganza, and now I am perhaps disproportionally excited about it. But excited about it I am!
This comic is hilarious and adorable because PJ is an idiot.
