Recent Comments

1. about 4 hours ago on Stone Soup

   It’s a comic strip; characters and situations are exaggerated for humorous or satirical effect. Holly is a parody of the ultimate self-centered bratty younger teen. Val is a parody of the crusading feminist who doesn’t believe in the traditional ways of child rearing, and so has no clue how to deal with Holly. The humor derives from this exaggeration situation.

2. about 4 hours ago on FoxTrot Classics

   Andy is a caricature or parody of vegetarian health food nuts, who heavily hype up eggplants as a meat alternative in addition to the standard tofu. Andy inflicting tofu, eggplant and beet torture on her family is one of the running jokes on Foxtrot.

3. 2 days ago on PreTeena

   No, GoComics fixed whatever was broken and resumed the strip at the correct spot for today. Maybe the missing strips will be restored, but not yet.

4. 5 days ago on F Minus

   Once the planets were discovered to be other worlds and not just “wandering stars”, Mars in particular has held a particularly strong fascination with people. It was the most Earth-like planet, with an atmosphere, polar ice caps and changing dark surface features which to some astronomers suggested seasonal vegetation areas. Then of course the whole “canal” craze which furthur suggested the presence of an intelligent alien civilization.

   Such things gripped the imagination, and Mars became the subject of many a science fiction and fantasy media, something which continued for a long time until furthur observations and space probes finally put an end to the fantasy of a living, breathing Mars. Still, the fascination continues, as landers and rovers showed that Mars does resemble Earth a lot more than the bleak black-sky barrenness of the Moon does.

5. 6 days ago on Thatababy

   American football, yes. What Thatadad is hoping for would actually qualify as a miracle, as his team is down by a whole lot of points and is wishing for a most extremely improbable sequence of scoring plays in the last 40 seconds of the game for the team to win.

6. 6 days ago on Frazz

   In the USA at least, most, if not all, of the moon names come from the native tribes, for whom the moon and sun were the calendar. The full moons marked times during the year when different activities would be done.

7. 8 days ago on PreTeena

   The strip that we’re stuck on is from July 7, 2003, so if you go there you can continue the rest of the sequence until GoComics fixes whatever broke.

8. about 1 month ago on Pearls Before Swine

   The main characters aren’t treated as animals but as people who just happen to look like and are named after animals. I can’t be sure about it, but Pastis may have done that to illustrate or caricature different personality traits.

9. about 1 month ago on Peanuts

   Originated in medieval times as a contraction of ‘e’ and ‘t’, the Latin word “et”, which means “and”.

10. about 1 month ago on Real Life Adventures

    Gary and Lance ended the strip some time ago, it is now in reruns starting from 2010.