Metapost: The comments, the week, and so forth

Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Let’s skip the pleasantries and get to the most pleasant thing of all: the comment … of the WEEK! “When Prussian gymnast and bodybuilder Joseph Pilates developed a mind-body method of strength training with a spring-based apparatus in the early 20th century — one that would become popular with ballet dancers and eventually enter the mainstream fitness world — he never could have known that many decades later, a U.S. federal court would declare that his very last name was a generic term, and that anyone could use the word ‘Pilates,’ whether or not they joined the Pilates Method Alliance professional organization. Heck, they could even have a talking dog mispronounce his name in a comic strip as a way of making a cheap pun, if they wanted to. It’s a funny, funny world…