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You don't have to clear your cache to get the latest page. If I said "every site on the internet seems to not update", your statement would make sense. However, pbfcomics.com is unique in this regard. I never see outdated Penny Arcade strips at www.penny-arcade.com/comic, or an outdated Digg front page at www.digg.com.
Caching is a very big, very complicated thing. You can cache anything, in many places, and it can be configured in many ways. The caching we see most commonly is done by our browser, but they all do different things. In this case, I was referring to server-side caching. Every competently-programmed dynamic site caches their content, especially their front page content. CNN.com's front page is huge, and probably takes a significant amount of processor power to generate. However, they almost certainly cache the HTML output of this page, probably at regular intervals (say, 5 minutes), so the server need not execute the code every time the page is called.
I suspect that either pbfcomics.com has some odd caching settings, or my browser (on all 3 of the different computers I'm using) is getting mightily confused. Considering Firefox on my primary computer has stopped reporting downloads in progress (even after uninstalling and upgrading to version 2), that's not entirely out of the question.
You either have already tried doing so and have just not acknowledged it, or you are resisting doing so to be as arrogant as possible.