Either/Or Comics Review

Alley Oop 4/28/09

Either the Bender's just don't care any more, or 7-year-old August can fit more entertainment in to a single panel line drawing than "professional" cartoonists can write in MONTHS.


Ferd'nand 4/28/09

Either perspective drawing is very hard or Ferd'nand is a full grown human living in Hobbiton.


Apartment 3-G 4/28/09

Either Apartment 3-G is a public housing unit for mentally ill people with violent tendencies or it's a collection grounds for all the previous staffers of the US rendition and secret prison camps overseas that we've just closed down.


Dennis the Menace 4/28/09

Who is talking here? Either the Wilsons bought a parrot so they wont have to keep repeating the same old tired lines or Mr. Wilson has accumulated so much raw hatred in his heart that he has acquired the ability to speak with only his mind.

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Friday Comics for YOU!

Two days of comics in one? Who could ask for more! This weekend we will be welcoming our newest contributor, Kaitlyn! She is the proprietor of the amazing blog Plug It Up which ridicules the daily chronicling of Pluggers - a God awful excuse for single panel cartooning. She brings some life on the weekends back to the DCR and we think you will like her style and humor.


B.C. 12/12/08

Look, I know comics are supposed to be G-rated and take things out of context and abuse puns, etc to oblivion. I just feel they totally missed a chance to make a hilarious sex joke, one which I will now make for them. Just replace "Algebra" with "fucking". Hmm, that actually works for almost any sentence with algebra in it.


Apartment 3-G 12/12/08

Apartment 3-G - The land that "innocent until proven guilty" forgot. BORING


Gil Thorpe 12/11/08

Look look look! A character in a comic strip that has the same name as me! We all know I presume any connection I find between myself and what I do on this blog with actual comics is always on purpose, it seems a creator has finally decided to honor the DCR by naming a character in their strip after me. Suck on that Fruhlinger!


Herb and Jamaal 12/11/08

Would it be a week in the comics without one character hoping another character was dead already? I know it hasn't been a full week of reading the funnies unless I'm daydreaming about a Keane family minivan rollover accident.

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Additional Comics Review For You

It's been awhile since I've posted here as I've been busy with my own site (www.tauycreek.com) but I'm gonna try to post at least once a week but we'll see how that goes.

9 Chickweed Lane 11/15/08

Why is the competition filming secretly outside the hotel rooms?  I call invasion of privacy on that.

Momma 11/15/08

I don't know what would be more embarrassing:  still being under your mother's control at that age, letting each passer-by know you still recieve an allowance or that Mell Lazarus is still putting out this horrible comic after 38 years.

Family Circus 11/15/08

Has what in forward, reverse or park?  Billy does realize that worms don't have gear shifts right?  They are too small and are not cars.

Apartment 3G 11/15/08

Oh boy!  Everybody knows people with neckerchiefs are AWESOME!!

Mallard Fillmore 11/15/08

I used to work customer service and Mallard is an idiot.

Luann 11/15/08

All right, it's time for this storyline to end.  I'm tired of all this calendar fawning.  It's growing old and my head is about to explode from all the innuendo.

Marvin 11/15/08

"Ming-Ming, please don't talk to me while I'm changing your diaper.  It's kind of disturbing."

Pluggers 11/15/08

Well, from reading the last few years of Pluggers, pluggers would like more money, better cars, better jobs, well-behaved pets, loving wives, smart kids and healthy bodies.

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Massive 4 Day Comic Strip Bonanza

So I have a feeling posts like this will become more common here at the DCR, which is now a totally inappropriate name for this website. I am still reviewing the daily comics, just not... daily. Some day we will get back to 5 updates a week but right I hope you're happy with two.

Apartment 3-G 10/28/08

Blaze is apparently battling a fashion demon of his own. Gayest black ascot ever.


Between Friends 10/28/08

Double Homicide! Double Homicide!


Judge Parker 10/30-10/31/08


This has to be the sexiest strip on the comics pages. Dixie Julep's parents named here intentionally because they were both life-long Carnies and they dreamed of a brighter future for their young one. The second image is the closest comic strip emulation of a cheap porno intro I've ever seen. I mean Christ, his name is MR. DRIVER, think of all the horrible one liners!


Ballard Street 10/31/08

Good idea, very good idea!


Cow and Boy 10/30/08

A child who is already considering life's implications and thinking of how to prolong his existence is a little disturbing. I didn't start plotting to transfer from human to disembodied brain form until I was 23 and had to find a way to make myself immortal.


Dinosaur Comics 10/30/08

I'm cuckoo for intercourse! It works great for most breakfast cereal slogans, Intercourse-Breakfast of champions! Mikey likes it! Gotta have my pops! Kid tested-Mother.... awww shit.


Ginger Meggs 10/30/08

Apparently in Australia, "Chubb" is not slang for dick. Or maybe it is?


Overcompensating 10/30/08

The more Jeffrey Roland makes fun of the motherland and their slang, the more he deserves some sort of award.


Pearls Before Swine 10/31/08

Aw what a missed opportunity! Pastis why did you deny us a hilarious Zombie Turkey storyline by placing this comic at the end of Halloween week instead of on Monday with a following 4 days of GENIUS!


Secret Asian Man 10/30/08

If you're making jokes about the internet, always make sure it's not something that already exists. Hundreds of men and some women will now go check to see if Booble is a real website (hint:DUH IT'S THE INTERNET)


The Argyle Sweater 10/30/08

The truly bizarre and insulated environment that is Sesame Street almost ensures taking any one of the characters out in to the real world will result in hilarious hijinks. We demand more comics in this vein!


Working Daze 10/31/08

I'm thinking about starting a support group for people who have a boss who actually say this, like mine does. "Maybe if you weren't emailing chain letters to your family and friends all day you could have given it to me yesterday!"

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Return of Saturday Comics

Miss me? No? I know, you just want Saturday comics.

Blondie 10/4/08

Today we learn that Blondie is purposely trying to kill Dagwood for his sweet, sweet life insurance which is the only reason he continues to work for J.C. Dithers.

Gasoline Alley 10/4/08

It's pretty nice that all of Rover's problems went away with one suspicious car accident. Wait, wouldn't a sultan have 900 children to seek revenge?

Family Circus 10/4/08

Then with one swift movement, Billy shows Dolly why he likes to play with crayons. Dolly is then left traumatized and begins refusing to play with crayons ever again.

Garfield 10/4/08

Jon's been yammering about his past girlfriends all week now. Isn't he still dating Liz? Quit talking about your mutant exes and give Liz a call, Jon. Give Liz a call.

Apartment 3-G 10/4/08

Because as we all know, all drug users can't shut up. They just keep talking and talking. And they just get so annoying as they keep talking and talking. And talking and talking. And because they are so doped up on drugs they just don't know when to shut up and you can only take it for so long until you just have to kill Alan.

Mary Worth 10/4/08

What does Mary Worth know about marriage? Her husband is dead.

Brenda Starr 10/4/08

What the--? Nice shiny change of topic. There's a pretty, unconscious woman just lying there and your about his son? Priorties, people!!!

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Daily Comic Strips of 5/20/2008

The Daily Comics Review is happy to bring you Tuesdays fine assortment of crappy comics. I have been searching lately for other people doing what I am doing and trying to make contacts within the small group of people with time to waste on blogging about comics. I have been surprised there is so little discussion by individuals on their own sites but so much commenting by visitors on established sites. Like I have said, if you like critiquing comics I want your help! I envision this site becoming a collection of comics commentators covering web comics, soap opera comics and regular old strips too. Contact me if you're interested.


Apartment 3-G 5/20/08








I am amazed that we have never seen any dope in this comic even though ti has been overwhelming the strip lately. Besides the fact that "Haley" has her vocabulary stuck in the 70's, Alan can't seem just let his inhibitions down to "have some fun". A3G has been the most predictable soap comic lately with this downward drug spiral sure to end in a job ending and/or family intervention. Personally I hope this plot line ends with a drug deal gone wrong and somebody getting shanked.


Over the Hedge 5/20/08








OTH is one of those dailies I read for the slight smirk it gives me almost every day. Today though I got a full chuckle from RJ and Hammy and their Lord of the Rings impersonation. Sorry Verne, nobody loves you.


Red and Rover 5/20/08








NO MORE FREAKIN CROSS-STRIP COMICS Sheesh! Those who have been following Mark Trail know all about the over-zealous dog-nappers but it seems they have gone way too far this time, making off with the next most-famous comic dog next to Marmaduke. Let us all hope for the swift return of Rover, because a strip called Red would just be communist.


Wee Pals 5/20/08







I have to confess something to all my readers today (all 2 of you). I hate Berets. They look bad on pretty much everyone, most people who choose to wear them as a fashion statement think they are being edgy when they are really being lame, and I would be fine if they were outlawed everywhere in the world except for France. Also this comic isn't funny, it's just depressing. I have complained about the mouths in this strip before, but today we have this ugly mug front and center in our final frame and now I'm not even interested in lunch any more.


Wizard of Id 5/20/08










Look, I know that he means what he said symbolically, but the idea of watersports in Wizard of Id was just too much for me to take without saying something. For a strip that has been boring for years, it appears all we needed to spice it up was a little urine fetish humor.

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