On Mondays, I check the comics that ran over the weekend, including Day By Day by Chris Muir. For a few months, Muir has been doing new Sunday strips, and frankly, they kind of suck. The first panel promotes the fact it’s a Sunday strip, leaving only two panels for the joke which isn’t much of a payoff. I really didn’t see the appeal.

Yesterday, in the middle of a tiring spring cleaning, I decided to pull up the comic at home. I typed in the URL and was shocked to see an entire separate cartoon below the daily strip-sized comic. The intro section which I’ve been seeing is the equivalent of that optional top third row in your Sunday paper. You know, the part that has a logo and then a meager one or two-panel joke or just an unimportant first panel to the right of it. Comic strips do that for newspapers that would like to jettison the top row to make the comic fit better.

The top part, unfortunately, is the only part of Day by Day that shows up when viewed using the calendar archive. I have no clue what the technical problem is, but until it’s fixed, I’m going to have to remember to check in on Sundays.