Wizard of Id: What are you going to do?

This cartoon is hilarious because the wizard is going to torture and murder his wife.

Family Circus: It must be hard work being a saint. You hafta pose for a lot of windows.

What Billy means is that it's hard to be saint because of the way you're constantly having to live up to other people's expectations, their perfected image of you, the image they reproduce in windows and paintings and books.

Thel, of course, has no idea what the fuck Billy's talking about; it's especially hard being a saint when you're surrounded by people as stupid as the Keanes.

Kit 'n' Carlyle: Dang! I hate it when she gets a leak fixed!

This cartoon is hilarious because Kit neglects her cat, and Carlyle is going to die from dehydration.

Family Circus: Aw, Mommy! "My Brother's Clothes" isn't really a brand name, is it?

At this point, I think it's safe to say that Jeff Keane is using the family cartoon as an outlet for his exhibitionist (and possibly oedipal) urges.

Born Loser: I saw Ozzy last night, Mr. T! You don't know what you missed--he rocked!

I'm just going to assume that Art Sampson drew this strip thirty years ago, deemed it unprintable, and stuffed it in a desk drawer where it sat for thirty years until Chip Sampson found it a few weeks ago and, being lazy, decided to send it into the syndicate and take a thoroughly undeserved day off.

Because the alternative--that Chip Sampson actually drew this cartoon a few weeks ago, thinking it was a timely and humorous pop culture reference--is just way too depressing.

Mutts: Looks like you gained a little weight this summer, Mooch.

It might seem to the outside observer that Mutts is a comic I should probably hate. It does, after all, consist of overly cute characters telling generally terrible jokes.

The thing of it is, though, I actually really like Mutts. But I'm not sure I can say just why the hell that is.

I think it has something to do with the sense of melancholy it sometimes displays and the traditional drawing style. Even the overly cute characters and terrible jokes are overly cute and terrible in old-fashioned ways. It just has a feel to it that no other contemporary comic strip has. And maybe that's enough.

Family Circus: When I get older, will I hae to pretend to like coffee?

And so Bill continues to prepare Dolly for vague cartoon office life.

Working Daze: The staff is now totally familiar and comfortable with the new software we're using!

The moral of this cartoon is that if you can't think of a decent joke, just distract your audience with a gratuitous ass shot.

Cathy: Khakis, Mother! They're called khakis!!

And so the poor soul who earns a living by coloring Cathy every day has finally had enough and has decided to sabotage the strip from within.

This has been a long time coming.

Born Loser: Okay.

This comic is hilarious because women talk too much and men are inconsiderate assholes.