Love Is... Passive Aggressive

First and foremost, take a look, the Daily Comics Review got a shout-out in Sunday's My Cage:

It's rather bittersweet, since the strip's days are sadly numbered. Now then, onto today's comics. Oh, and you should go to the Meekrat Entertainment Group. There's comics, fiction, and more over there.

9 to 5

I know the rupees they're referring to, but I can't read this and think that they're getting the ones from "Legend of Zelda". My mind's been warped beyond belief, I guess.

Spider-Man

Spider-Man marches on! After a brief flirtation between the Mole Man and Mary Jane (not abnormal, as most villains in this strip see Mary Jane and immediately want her) the Mole Man does the noble thing and abandons his quest for a married woman. A widowed woman, however, is not off-limits. Oddly, villains lusting after Aunt May is not entirely unheard of, though I think this might be the first time the Mole Man has done it.

The Phantom

After last week's poor showing by the Ghost-Who-Walks, he decided that, "Hey, it'd be really stupid of me to check every cell but one." Just wanted to keep you updated.

Committed

Doesn't every schoolchild know the story of how Teddy Roosevelt didn't kill a baby bear, leading to the creation of the teddy bear? I do like some of the alternate names, though. Who wouldn't want a Otmar Bear?

Love Is

Thanks to being a Daily Comics Reviewer, I've been exposed to more comic strips than I actually wanted to be exposed to. While many are good, and even more are passable, there's also the terrible and downright soul-crushing. "Love Is" falls into the latter group, if only for its saccharine nature and creepy naked baby-people. I've noticed something, though. What if the strip wasn't a diabetes-inducing treatise on love, but rather a series of passive-aggressive notes from the strip's maker to their significant other? For example, today's strip is basically saying, "Stop sleeping around, you cad!" Or, let's take a look at last Friday's:

The message here being, "For the love of God, spend some time with your kids!" Or, here's one from god-knows-when:

The message here would be, "Let's do some role-play." I won't show any more examples, since viewing more than three "Love Is" panels in such a short time will upset your blood-sugar levels, but I think it wouldn't be a stretch to say that every strip could be viewed with the filter of "passive-aggressive significant other" and be, if not enjoyable, then perhaps a tad more tolerable.

The Born Loser

I've never hated Hurricane Hattie more than I do at this moment.