I never read the local newspaper(s), but I did manage to randomly see the Sunday comics this week. Which, of course, are awful. But what was funny was this unexpected convergence:

Dilbert, which stopped being funny about five to seven years ago, offered up this minorly scathing editorial.

And directly above it, Fred Basset - which has never, ever been funny - went with this typically banal and strained piece.

Man, the Sunday comics just suck.

Other items that came to mind on reading the Sunday comics, because it really is a depressing place:

I have no idea who any of the current cast members of For Better Or For Worse are, and I'm glad for that. If I wanted what FBOFW is selling, I'd watch Lifetime.

Marmaduke - always smelling freshly exhumed from the Mesozoic Age of newspapers - still runs that final panel "Dog Gone Funny" bit. Only now things have gotten so bad that they've resorted to listing dogs that chase each other. Dogs that chase each other! My lands! I'd suspect Marmaduke of being written by the World's Oldest Confederate Widow, but she's dead now. Or stuck in contract to Fred Basset.

Once again, Family Circus throws out the traditional holiday-timed Christian reference, for which I wish someone would get fired. This one featured Ghost Jesus and the little black maze path. Good thing everyone in America believes in Ghost Jesus, or someone might be offended!