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Sunday’s Best: Birds of a Feather?
The Sunday funnies are high quality this week. In today’s classic Peanuts, for instance, Sally treats her attempt at writing as a spy-like cover-up. Then, in this week’s FoxTrot, Peter has to learn to speak Jason’s language as a way … Continue reading
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Sunday’s Best: Open for Interpretation?
A day late but rarely a dollar short with this Sunday’s best comic strip. Yesterday’s standout was a classic Peanuts strip by Charles Schulz that challenges our assumptions on what’s going on when a dog is barking. And here’s today’s … Continue reading
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The Taste and Feel of Summer
This is why corn-on-the-cob is better than creamed corn, all year long. It’s also a great one-liner from Calvin.
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Sunday’s Best: Sunscreen Options
Today was a solid day in the funny pages. Calvin compared bedtime fantasy with reality (and found reality wanting, of course), while Snoopy took Chuck’s newspaper request all-too-seriously. But it’s the sunscreen joke in FoxTrot that takes the top spot … Continue reading
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The Mid-Week’s Best?
I usually wait until Sunday to post links to some great comics, but I think yesterday’s comics call for an exception. First: it’s not every day that you get the word “ontological” in a comic strip. But Calvin does, and … Continue reading
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Sunday’s Best: Meaningful Moments
There’s some good summer humor in the funny pages today. FoxTrot has an interesting take on real pools and the heat index, while Frazz sees Caulfield and Dr. Spaetzle having a philosophical talk about July turning into August. But today’s … Continue reading
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(Super) Mural and Moments
With last week’s release of Fantastic Four: First Steps, the summer movie season has pretty much come to a close. There are still some potentially fun movies coming out over the next month, but they aren’t quite “tent pole” movies … Continue reading
Sunday’s Best: Splishing and Splashing
There’s a fair amount of summer in today’s Sunday funnies. Roger has Jason mowing the yard over in FoxTrot (and Jason responding with some interesting payment metrics). In the world of Calvin and Hobbes, the summertime explorers find themselves walking … Continue reading
Sunday’s Best: Summertime Scenes
It’s summertime in the Sunday funnies. Peppermint Patty and Marcie are spending the day out on a hike and run into something odd in nature. The folks at WuMo bring out a tension that I’ve never understood: reading books at … Continue reading
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Superman and What Works
Thanks to my Amazon Prime membership, I had the opportunity to see an early screening of James Gunn’s new Superman movie. It’s the movie I’ve been most excited about for some time, so I was glad to have the chance … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 