Recent Comments

1. about 1 month ago on Barney & Clyde

   If he’s gonna avoid elections, he needs to stay out of Virginia and New Jersey.

2. 2 months ago on Big Nate

   Frazz use to do this week-long build-up at Halloween: What character from literature is Caufield. I missed that this year.

3. 2 months ago on Big Nate

   Ah! The third panel gave it away. Happy 100th birthday.

4. 4 months ago on Brewster Rockit

   The strain had no amino acids, so it was not “carbon-based.” It’s been a while, too (I was in high school when I saw the movie in the theater; I read the book not long afterward). Checking the script (at https://www.stockq.org/moviescript/A/andromeda-strain-the.php), they say what it’s made of—“Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, sulfur, silicon, et cetera.” and no amino acids—but they don’t go further. The strain could not survive in alkaline environments. The old man ingested sterno, the baby was colic and cried almost continually, raising the alkaline content of their bloodstreams.

5. 4 months ago on Brewster Rockit

   Silicon-based? Ever read “The Andromeda Strain”?

6. 4 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Khitan General: Conan, what is best in life?

   Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!

7. 5 months ago on Big Nate

   The first three panels work for any in-the-office day. All that’s missing is the traffic.

8. 6 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Why care what people think? They do it so seldom.

9. 7 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   If it wasn’t for caffeine and alcohol I’d have no personality.

10. 9 months ago on Frazz

    I visited there one Thanksgiving. You could walk around downtown in shorts and sandals.