Get Fuzzy: Bucky, China didn't build a wall to keep Muppets out.

Today's Get Fuzzy is about the great Muppet menace, which is disappointingly unlikely to become a New Year's Eve trope.

Get Fuzzy: There'll be more Smurfs on you than Ugg boots at a Bieber concert.

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.

Get Fuzzy: Why are you so obsessed with how dangerous kids' TV characters are?

In all honesty, I just never want this arc to end. Ever.

At the very least, it needs to become a running gag. I will be very disappointed if this doesn't happen.

Prickly City and Get Fuzzy: ...

Maybe I'm getting soft, because I sure am picking a lot of best comics of the day these days, but both of these comics are very funny in a completely different way than today's 9 Chickweed Lane is funny. 9 Chickweed Lane is funny because of its strong dialog. It features no action of interest.

Today's Prickly City and Get Fuzzy, on the other hand, are notable for their limited--or complete lack of--dialog. While the humor in Prickly City is dependent on the dialog, the punchline is image-based.

Get Fuzzy, meanwhile, has been set up by the last couple weeks of Bucky's insane communist Muppet conspiracy theories. Today's strip is Satchel's silent reaction to them. The whole thing is the punchline.

Get Fuzzy: Even ELMO, the cutest thing EVER?

I actually hate Elmo, but I love that Satchel loves him.

Get Fuzzy: We're lucky in this country that most of the Muppets have been domesticated.

Actually, there's no part of this entire Get Fuzzy storyline that is not amazing.

Get Fuzzy: The Russians were WAY ahead of us in the Muppet Race.

There is no part of today's Get Fuzzy that is not amazing.

Get Fuzzy: So now you're saying that Oscar the Grouch is the toughest children's character?

Look. The punchline to this joke about Oscar the Grouch and the Grinch involves Ellis Island. You need more?

Get Fuzzy: So in your opinion, Barney is the toughest children's character?

Bucky's deconstructionist analysis of children's characters is not all together different from my analysis of the Keane children. Of course, Bucky's completely serious about. And I'm not. Not completely, anyway.

Peanuts and Get Fuzzy: I would like to say I enjoyed this first day at school...

Today's Peanuts includes some very nice character work and an impressive, intricate set-up leading up to a short, emphatic and very funny punchline.

Today's Get Fuzzy, meanwhile, includes the phrase "cow-based art."

Get Fuzzy: All hail the box monkey!

Oh, Get Fuzzy, I think I missed you most of all.

Get Fuzzy: Stop! I'll kill you!

Bucky wearing a onesie wins the day.

Get Fuzzy: I don't think you should be calling Satchel a name that means "dense."

Bucky's unwavering self-confidence is pretty much the epitome of comic gold.

That said, Peachy-Not-So Keen really is a pretty awesome derogatory nickname.

Get Fuzzy: Why did you think Don Quixote had fur?

Best. Malapropism. Ever.

Get Fuzzy: Ha ha ha ha

If Get Fuzzy were nothing but context-free drawings of Satchel looking sheepish and sad, I would probably still love it.

Get Fuzzy: Each color is represented by an iconic fruit, thus providing both coloric and iconic representation.

This Get Fuzzy has excellent comic timing, and "Did you just eat the threat banana?" is just a funny line.

Get Fuzzy: Morning, Rob.

Why do I love Get Fuzzy? Because of the sandwich in Satchel's thought balloon.

Get Fuzzy: You realize you're tiny, right?

Every single character in Get Fuzzy talks differently than every other character in Get Fuzzy. Likewise, every relationship between any two characters is different than every other relationship. As today's comic shows, this goes for the bit characters too.

Get Fuzzy: Reflections on a vase

The punchline to this comic exists in the unseen fourth panel and is funnier for being unseen. The third panel, meanwhile, is made funnier by the moment of uncertainty the absence of the obvious punchline causes. The second panel is made funnier when we realize--the uncertainty of the third panel having passed--that Bucky's not actually looking at the vase. And the first panel is made funnier by knowing just what kind of reflections Bucky means. And so maybe the punchline is in the first panel. And so maybe the first panel is the fourth panel. And it's at its funniest the moment you just catch sight of that.

Get Fuzzy: the foLowiN messij Haz BiN BRot to yoo By Buckco.

You don't seriously need me to explain why this is the funniest comic of the day, do you?