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A blog started by Josh Fruhlinger in July 2004, under its original title, I Read The Comics So You Don't Have To (a Boston-area newspaper that featured a similarly-titled column forced the name change). In it, Josh selects several [[Newspaper Comics|newspaper comic strips]] every day and offers (usually sarcastic) commentary on them. Over time, the blog has developed a great deal of media attention as the authors of many comics have discovered it. Some comic artists or writers are even fans of the blog, including Chris Browne (''[[Hagar the Horrible]]''), Mark Tatulli (''Lio'', ''Heart of the City''), Francesco Marciuliano (''[[Sally Forth
Josh has also developed a great deal of [[Running Gag|Running Gags]] within the blog, including Aldo Kelrast, a character in ''[[Mary Worth]]'', whose storyline became one of the strip's most popular after Josh began joking about it. ''[[Archie]]'' has even made reference to one of the blog's running gags.
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* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: Much of the blog is based on this.
** His application of plothole logic to ''[[Slylock Fox]]'' can easily make you unable to see it as anything other than a hell dimension populated by poor souls cursed to be animals for all eternity, constantly under surveillance and presumed to be guilty of all accused crimes.
** [[Marmaduke]] is a ravenous, uncontrollable hellhound who regularly consumes his "owner"'s neighbors and buries their stripped bones in the back yard.
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* [[Perverse Sexual Lust]]: Josh has it for Margo McGee.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]
{{quote|'''[[Family Circus|Billy:]]''' Now that we're in bed, they won't have to watch their language on TV.
'''Josh:''' You sure got that right, you little fucker. }}
* [[Promoted Fanboy]]: Josh's constant riffing on newspaper ''[[Spider-Man]]'' got him invited to appear in the Rifftrax commentary track for ''[[Spider-Man]] 2''.
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** The crazy pervert inbound visitors. See, when someone goes to the site from a search engine result, Josh can see what they searched, and he took to posting some of the most [[The Internet Is for Porn|creepy]] and [[Rule 34|outlandish]] ones for the amusement of readers.
** "Ha! It's funny because [some creepy reason]." The best part is that, for once, he's not extrapolating anything; these are always the intended joke.
** It's gotten to the point that he has a [[Running Gag]] where he wonders if he's overplaying a particular gag, only for a strip to take it to new and disturbing heights.
** The characters of ''[[Judge Parker]]'' being smug dicks, who see no problem with using their money to get whatever they want.
* [[Scunthorpe Problem]]: At one point the comment system's spam filter kept catching posts containing "MILF" . . . and ''Gil Thorp'' takes place in ''Milford''.
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** ''Archie'' occasionally drops references to the AJGLU 3000 into background detail.
** The authors of ''[[Mary Worth]]'' have released "Aldomania" merchandise.
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: [http://joshreads.com/?p=3871 Whatever on Earth Rusty is].
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: Josh loves pointing out a) potentially awesome ways the plot could develop and b) how boring the plot actually develops. When it ''does'' turn out awesome, however...
* [[Trope Name]]: [http://joshreads.com/?p=12345 This] entry.
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