We’re approching the 10,000th comment since the site resurrected in January.
A lot of them were even related to the day’s comic!
(This number does not, of course, include spam or otherwise deleted comments: just what’s actually on the site)
We’re approching the 10,000th comment since the site resurrected in January.
A lot of them were even related to the day’s comic!
(This number does not, of course, include spam or otherwise deleted comments: just what’s actually on the site)


I have a fairly good guess, but it’s not clear why the Joker is calling Batman that.
Unless I’m looking for more than what’s here, which is why I’m posting this mid-day.

If I were manufacturing a line of back-to-school backpacks for 6-year-olds, I would totally license Kiss and AC/DC logos
… or have there been a whole lot of “magician sawing somebody in half” comics the past few weeks (not all of them finding their way to this site, of course)?


How old would y’all say Gramma’s supposed to be? Because horrifyingly enough she can’t be a whole lot older than I am, and the things she says don’t reflect the world of my youth.
I think a lot of cartoonists (and other writers) have a fixed mental image of grandparents being of the same generation as their own grandparents, forgetting that time has passed: today’s grandparents came of age in the 1950s, 60s, or even 70s, not the 20s, 30s or 40s.

We’re currently having some very expensive work done on our kitchen and basement. Got an e-mail this afternoon from a contractor telling me that while working on our basement, they noticed that our gas furnace needs immediate replacement.
Fortunately, I noticed a 206 (Seattle) area code.
I was sorely tempted to respond “Sure, go ahead, and only top-of-the-line will do.”
I was given my nephew’s new street address today, and I realized he’s too young to remember when that would have been accompanied by “and his new telephone number is…”
