The Daily Comics Review: Inaugural Edition!

Today was a big day for the world and for the USA. Because we're not a politics blog we'll keep the Obama loving down to our first comic only. GOBAMA!

Diesel Sweeties 1/20/09

Diesel Sweeties wins the award for best inauguration day themed cartoon! There were a ton of them out there, mostly horrible, but not all of them!


Alley Oop 1/20/09

Change is all around us! As you can see the Bender's (the couple that draws/writes AO) finally decided to get the story moving along again. Nevermind the story though, Doc Wonmug has a computer that he can use to look in on anything in the past! How is that at all possible? Second question: where can I get one? Talk about a voyeurs ultimate dream.


Judge Parker 1/20/09

So we go from a murdering sexy striper storyline to some middleschool cat fight? This might be the biggest swing from semi-interesting to utter boredom JP has managed yet. They could fix it all by throwing in handful of car bombs; you can have that idea for free JP writers.


Reality Check 1/20/09

Have you ever noticed how all stereotypical cavemen speak awful basic english? REALITY CHECK: english didn't even exist back then. OOGA BOOGA OOOOOOOGA.

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Go Fug These Comics

New goal for 2009: if I have time during the day I will update for sure Monday-Friday. Even if I can only find one comic to comment on and it's just a one-liner, it keeps you guys knee deep in content. I want to give a huge shout-out to Kaitlyn and XY. They have been bringing their voices to the DCR for a bit now and I really appreciate their work.

That being said, we are looking for a fashion consultant to regularly give advice to the ladies and gentlemen of the comics pages on the latest clothing trends. Anybody interested should drop me an email!

Diesel Sweeties 1/12/09

R Stevens turned 32 today! Yay for him being alive! Pixel-y comic lovers everywhere should drop by his site and send him some happy birthday wishes!


Hazel 1/12/09

"You are a genius."

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New Saturday for the New Year

So, the first Saturday of a New Year. Most people make resolutions for New Year's, but I never have, mostly because I don't need to change anything. I am perfect in all ways, bask in my glory! Mwhahaha!!


Just kidding. Here's the comics that Bryce liked this week along with my awesome commentary:

Bizzaro 12/31/09This actually brings up a good point. Almost every region and religion on Earth has it's own definition of when the calander ends. How does one decide if your ancestry is of several places that each have a different New Year? Personally I would go with Chinese New Year cause they have those cool parades and kick ass fireworks.


Diesel Sweeties 1/2/09Here we have a prime example of web comics. Diesel Sweeties, while contained to the internet again, was in papers and really shares the same sensibilities as print comics. It has a story line, for the most part, and it's not really interesting. The main difference between Diesel Sweeties and print comics is smut. Diesel Sweeties isn't afraid to go low to score laughs, but really why is it called "fapping"? And I don't think that robots have anything to fap or jerk, so going low for laughs doesn't really work in this one.


XKCD 1/2/09This is one of the few comics that I've ever read (not named Calvin & Hobbes) that made me laugh out loud. Of course, I then announced that I knew that they were listening because it really is fool proof.

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The Weekly Comics Review?

God damn I am lame, sorry, I'm trying to prove myself at work.

Diesel Sweeties 11/21/08

There need to be more foods, placed inside other foods, then again inserted in a larger food and cooked. Mish-mashed and smashed combined food names For The Win. Pumpertato is the best I have heard about since the Macatacahodo 360.

F- Minus Collection


Say hello to Gary Larson for the year 2008.


Get Fuzzy 11/17/08

This scene just begs to be animated, but who the hell could you get to do Bucky's voice with any credibility? Maybe that Gilbert Gottfried guy.


Least I Could Do 11/17/08

I was just thinking to myself "Man it has been a really long time since there were any completely inappropriate and misogynistic jokes in LICD and therefor reposted on my blog." Thanks for reading my mind Ryan Sohmer, and have a great wedding/Honeymoon!


Bob The Squirrel 11/21/08

This maybe be the only time you will ever see a squirrel with half his body inside a little girl's mouth. It's kind of one of those things you can't unsee, but it isn't that gross compared to the other "wonders of the internet".


Cow and Boy 11/17/08

I got really excited when this strip came out Monday, thinking it meant we would be seeing the results of Boy's lack of.... intelligence, for the rest of the week. Alas it was not to be, and we can only hope the creator decides to return to this potentially great storyline some time in the future.


Crock 11/17/08

Is this really appropriate for the comics page? You pass a kidney stone by peeing it out, and those things can be very jagged. And two pounds? The idea of something like that coming out of me through a spot like that..... ::shudder::, not the ha ha ha you'd think they were going for.


Judge Parker 11/20/08

Ok everybody get this: Sam Driver is taking a taxi! Get it? Driver - taking a taxi, god I kill myself.


Zits 11/18/08

Yes a bad comic but it remind me of a funny story. I had these buddies in college who took highlighters and wrote stuff ALL OVER their dorm room walls. When highlighter dries it is very hard to make out on off-white walls so they never got in any trouble and it's not like the college took great care of the place so they never painted the walls. They drew pentagrams and scary devil things along with awful song lyrics and other drug-induced rantings. Imagine moving in to a room as a freshman and you think you're all cool with your blacklight and you turn it on one night and discover all the horrible things on your walls that have been hiding there all along.


Alley Oop 11/18/08

Gravity in Oop's land is roughly 1/4 that of earth's so having conversations while in a free fall is a pretty normal occurrence. God the Bender's are some lazy ass cartoonists.

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The Occassional Comics Review 10/27/08

Overcompensating 10/27/08

Ashley Todd is my God now.


Blondie 10/27/08

It only took a couple extra years, but Blondie writers finally hosted their first cross strip humor, if you can call it that. Too bad they missed the boat THREE YEARS AGO when Pastis and others started the damn idea.


Slylock Fox 10/27/08

The real mystery here is what the worlds largest pearl was doing at the Forest Museum? If I could choose my reincarnation for the next life, it would definitely be a gorilla in a purple suit.


Zits 10/27/08

Obviously someone could, or we wouldn't have today's Zits strip, which would just be such a loss.


Frog Applause 10/27/08

Take one strip that knows it is bizarre and have it make fun of another strip which is just naked children who need antidepressants and you have today's Frog Applause.


Garfield 10/27/08

Wait, what? No lasagna, animal-on-animal violence, or inept relationship happenings... this can't be Garfield.


Diesel Sweeties 10/23/08

Halloween is a special time of year when the deformed and hideous can, if only for one night, be the envy of everyone else who had to buy their costume.

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The Funny Got Broken

Just because you have 3 panels doesn't mean you need to use three panels, and just because you think of a pun doesn't mean it's good or that anyone wants to hear it. Also, please learn to draw.

Diesel Sweeties 10/8/08

People might question the "Have to ask the girlfriend" excuse but nobody fucks with "Gotta ask my wife." It is the ultimate for reasons why you can't do something lame that your friend wants to do and I believe if more men knew about it there would be much less hesitation on their part towards getting hitched.


Mother Goose & Grimm 10/8/08

Does Grimm remind anybody else of Adam from Adam@Home? This joke sucks.


Close to Home 10/8/08

Take a minute to just look at this panel without reading the dialog. Neither the desk nor the lady have any legs and this guy's lower half is twice the size of his upper torso. He looks like The Penguin. There is also nothing on his computer screen to indicate his neighbor or a leaf-blower.


Kit n' Carlyle 10/8/08

If you have to explain the whole point of your daily comic by using an asterisk then the joke you're trying to tell is either crap or you don't have enough talent to convey it. In both circumstances you should throw the idea in the trash.

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Trudging Trough the Week with the Daily Comics Review

Some day soon I am going to introduce some more randomly circulating theme review days. A day where all reviews are yelling reviews, little kid reviews of adult oriented comics, any thing that strikes my fancy. Holy crap there are 3 comics reviewed here today that have never been on DCR before. It's almost like we're growing or something. As always we welcome and feed of your suggestions and if you'd like to take a shot at reviewing comics, send me an email!

Diesel Sweeties 9/30/08

You're not a real web comic unless you have referenced goatse at least once. We're still waiting for you Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics!


Judge Parker 9/30/08

"Yeah, it's right over there next to the list of strippers whose asses he'd snorted coke off of."


The Grizzwells 9/30/08

If you turned Herb and Jamaal in to a bear and a porcupine, you'd have the Grizzwells. This joke would have been much more entertaining with two black guys.


The Born Loser 9/30/08

Is it international irony day or something?


Flight Deck 9/30/08

The message is either kids today are fat and lazy slobs or computers are so evil they turn children in to mouth-breathers. At least they still have giant donkey ears.

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Keeping it Simple Comics Review

Wigu 9/15/08

If you've been reading this blog for a while you know we LOVE Jeffrey Rowland and his web comics Wigu and Overcompensating. Jeff completed a Wigu guide this weekend so that you can easily catch up and understand the bizarre happenings of Wigu Tinkle. Check it out right here!


Diesel Sweeties 9/15/08

Sex jokes and meat jokes go hand in hand and it can be hard to untangle their punchlines. But if you manage to put them in a grinder together, it turns out delicious.


Frazz 9/15/08

That guy goes through suits like nobodies business.


The Phantom 9/15/08

The Phantom: sneaking up on people shitting in the woods since 1936!

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The Wide World of Comics 8/25/08

If you're a political junkie like me then the next couple weeks will be full of events that will effect this country for a long time to come. Strangely enough, I am totally OD'ed on politics and I doubt if I will even watch Barack Obama's speech later on. A mind can only take so much saturation with a particular subject before there is no more room and you've got to let it drain out for a while. In order to facilitate that purge I will be taking a nice long vacation from Thursday-Monday to take advantage of the holiday weekend and enjoy the great outdoors. The Daily Comics Review will still keep kicking in some form over that time, with details soon to follow. Thanks readers!


Diesel Sweeties 8/25/08

You may recall Diesel Sweeties recently stopped its daily print run in favour of returning to just the web comic format. Today's strip (or rectangle or whatever) illustrates perfectly why R Stevens chooses the web and it's lack of editorial oversite to push his awesome humor.


Fred Basset 8/25/08

Does it strike anyone else as odd that a dog would sleep over at someone elses house? At first I was hoping the Tucker twins were female dogs, but a comic about a slutty male dog has yet to hit the big time.


Basic Instructions 8/25/08

Don't get me started on alcoholic babies.


The New Adventures of Queen Victoria 8/25/08

Freakin Mondays have a way of sneaking up on you.


Dinosaur Comics 8/25/08

Robots and dinosaurs? Enjoy!

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The Comic Olympics Get Started!

I should have started the medal competition when the olympics started on Friday but I'm lazy so we'll get it going today! The 3 best comics of the day will be ranked from gold to bronze each day until next monday. We will then post our first readers poll for DCR and you'll get a chance to vote for the best gold medal cartoons for our ultimate top 3 medal winners. Exciting!

Cul de Sac 8/12/08

Cul de Sac gets the gold medal today for funniest Tuesday daily comic. If I could pick one cartoonist to design a banner for my website I think it would have to be Richard Thompson. Whenever Alice gets excited her expressions are priceless.


Adam@Home 8/12/08

Wait, did Adam use a whole strip to make this one joke? Ha ha ha, another joke about how much he likes coffee, how original! Maybe tomorrow we'll hear more about how hard it is to work from home even though he is his own boss and doesn't have to commute or be someone's bitch. If it was about sleeping and lasgna Adam would be Garfield, get some new material!


Lio 8/12/08

And coming in second with the silver medal is Lio! That sandwich actually looks more edible than most of the others Dagwood makes with his wild ingredients.


Curtis 8/12/08

It's really great to see Curtis finally adding some diversity to his inner-city world. Even though he looks pretty stereotypical, Andy seems like an interesting character who has a bright future in the comi...... WHAT IS THAT? TERRORIST FIST JAB!!! TERRORIST FIST JAB!!!


Jump Start 8/12/08

This is the first time in a long time that Jump Start actually made me chuckle. For this return from crappy comic land they've jumped up in the rankings to grab the bronze medal for today!


Diesel Sweeties 8/12/08

As a tempermental aquatarian/vegetarian, this Diesel Sweeties web comic was just what I needed to not take my eating so seriously and not be too hard on myself; plus it's hilarious.

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