Getting access to the comments on the GoComics website is confusing. This is a CIDU, not so much a Comic I Don’t Understand as Commenting I Don’t Understand.

I see this at the bottom of all the comics I follow: an icon with zero comments indicated:

When I click on that icon, I get junk:

This occurs for me on all comics, and I am a GoComics subscriber. I just figured that the “new, improved” GoComics website has somehow messed up commenting.

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BUT:

Dirk the Daring sent me a couple of links from GoComics, one of which is below. In both of these cases, I’m seeing lots of comments (and I’m still signed in to my account; you can see the “Follow” indicator and my alias below the comic).

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and, yet, when I pull up the Wizard of Id page via my favorites, I once again get zero comments.

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DIFFERENCE IN LINKS:

It’s important for this discussion that I mention I am writing this 2025/08/23, although you are reading this a few days later.

https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2025/08/23 is Dirk the Daring’s link, which gives comments.

https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid is the link that connects via my favorites, which does not give comments. But if I hit the “previous” button, I get the previous day’s comic, with a link of https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2025/08/22, which again has no comments.

But if I change that “22” at the end to “23”, then I do get comments on the 8/23 comic, and if I now hit the “previous” button to get the previous day’s comic, the comic comes with comments, even though the URL of https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2025/08/22 is the same!

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NET:

All of this is partly a rant, and partly information that might, or might not, be helpful to those looking for comments on the GoComics website.

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But this is a CIDU site, this Wizard of Id provides a few confusing aspects. He’s dreaming of laptops? He’s tapping into the Sydnew Sweeney jeans “controversy” (hard to take seriously a “controversy” that, IMO, mainly exists in order to provide more publicity to the manufacturer).

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