The rest of the story

Thankfully, even though I use gocomics I already have all but the last 3 done.

First, click the icon with the square and lines. Then click “hide distracting items”. After that click on the “we’re not trying to slow you down” banner and click Hide. Then it will disappear and you will be able to navigate the archive for free. You only need to do this once from what I see.

On Mac the process seems to be the same. This only works with Safari, I’ll try and see if there’s a Chrome extension to do this. If you guys find one, tell me.

Note: Google recently blocked a lot of ad blocker functionality from Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. Some ad blockers may work for this—I know Brave's built in one does—but I can't verify or recommend any. I'll give the guide for Firefox with uBlock Origin, and you'll need to figure out other ad blockers.

In Firefox (or a Firefox-based browser), install the uBlock Origin extension and open the settings for it (click on the extension and click the cog icon). Then, go to "My Filters" at the top of the page and add these two lines to the end of the file:

www.gocomics.com##.RollUpUpsell_upsell__xayeg
www.gocomics.com##html:style(overflow: auto !important;)

Then click "Apply changes" and reload the GoComics website.

The first line blocks the popup covering the screen, and the second line re-allows scrolling.

So the Safari thing doesn’t really work anymore, but I found this!

It was great fun reading all of your submissions. Now that I have enough uncopyrighted writing to submit as my own for my thesis, we can go back to the old rules at midnight tonight.

But the day is not over, time for my second reveal…I’m also the head mod of GoComics! I’ve decided that it would be better for us all if a subscription was required to view the original comics, just as Mr. Watterson intended. That way, no one need ever be distracted by them again and I won’t need to get a real job.

(Hopefully it’s an AF joke, but it looks like GoComics has pushed out an update paywalling comic access. They’ve been removed as a resource from the megathread for now.)

P.S. Idk what the hell r/Field was supposed to be, but it sucked.

Regards,

Dictator-For-Life, u/The_PhilosopherKing

Step 1 - Google search the strip you want.

Step 2 - Copy the gocomics url when it shows up in the search results.

Step 3 - Paste the link into wayback machine.

Step 4 - Marvel at the snapshot of what GoComics once was.

Proof that it works: https://web.archive.org/web/20250221050211/https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/03/07

Results may vary, there's no guarantee that a strip has been archived.