I can’t believe noboby has mentioned “Tumbleweeds.” Blecch.
I’ve been out of the US for a while, so forgive me if this strip’s already been put out of our misery.
The Fusco Brothers
Panel after contrived panel just to set up a pun so old and lame even Rip Taylor wouldn’t deign to take a crap on it. Why is this strip still running?
–sublight.
What’s that? No one’s mentioned “Brenda Starr” yet?
I mean, I like Mary Schmich’s columns in the Chicago Tribune, and she tries her best, but the freaking strip has Starr working as a maid right now, for the love of God!
Time for Starr to retire, drive of with Basil the One-Eyed Wonder, and power-slide the convertible off of Mulholland Drive. Into a power converter. That has nasty and hungry weasels living underneath.
On the other hand, I actually enjoy the “Brenda Starr” movie (which Schmich did not write, in her extreme favor). It’s so bad that it achieves a sort of mad grandeur, ranging from her chaning outfits every five minutes, the complete flouting of every aspect of journalism (though “Never Been Kissed” also cheerfully flouts reality as well), and a wierd highlight of a travelling band of Brazilian Capoeira dancers (for those who have no idea of what that means, take a look at this: http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h96b/h9650297/cap-photos.html. It’s an art and a martial-art style). Damn, what a weird bad movie.
What’s that? No one’s mentioned “Brenda Starr” yet?
I mean, I like Mary Schmich’s columns in the Chicago Tribune, and she tries her best, but the freaking strip has Starr working as a maid right now, for the love of God!
Time for Starr to retire, drive of with Basil the One-Eyed Wonder, and power-slide the convertible off of Mulholland Drive. Into a power converter. That has nasty and hungry weasels living underneath.
On the other hand, I actually enjoy the “Brenda Starr” movie (which Schmich did not write, in her extreme favor). It’s so bad that it achieves a sort of mad grandeur, ranging from her chaning outfits every five minutes, the complete flouting of every aspect of journalism (though “Never Been Kissed” also cheerfully flouts reality as well), and a wierdly wonderful highlight of a travelling band of Brazilian Capoeira dancers (for those who have no idea of what that means, take a look at this: http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h96b/h9650297/cap-photos.html. It’s an art and a martial-art style). Damn, what a weird bad movie.
For Better or Worse is just the worst, I can’t ever remember one funny strip.
Is * Mr Boffo * still around? I used to love that strip.
EVERY comic strip that appears in sunday papers across America, with the exception of Mutts and Dilbert. I mean EVERY LAST ONE. All of them - gone. They all suck. There hasn’t really been anything funny since Calvin and Hobbes and the Far Side. Comics suck ass now.
punk snot dead,
broccoli!
p.s. especially Cathy
What happened to the all time classic comix, like:
DICK TRACY, LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE, MANDRAKE, STEVE CANYON?
I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned Spider Man yet. I mean, he’s probably very good in the comic books where the artists have some time to think up a story and make it interesting, but the daily strip bites ass.
Peter. I gotta go fight the supernatural being that’s making a mess out there.
Mrs. Spidey. No, Peter! You’ll get hurt! thinks Maybe I can mess up his plan and get him to stay home… oops, no, he foiled it.
Third Panel Tomorrow: More of The Same!
errrrrrrrrggggh…
Beating a dead horse, but as regards Family Circus, when I used to complain, as a child, about the insipidity of that comic, my mother used to say, “When you’re an adult, you’ll appreciate it”. Well, I’m all grown up and I still say it stinks!
Also, any strip whose creator has died and been replaced deserves to sink into oblivion.
[hijack]Does anyone else do this? I like to take my little pen and elaborate on the cartoons in the newspaper: add extra dialogue, draw in genitalia, etc. Hell, it makes even F.C. a good read…[/hijack]
Mr. Boffo is indeed still around (the Chicago Tribune carries) it.
As for “For Better or Worse”: not every day has to be funny. Some of the best strips have been on such things as their dog Farley dying after rescuing April from the river, El’s mother dying, El remembering how she used to love watching her mother brushing her long hair on the porch as her daughter (in the present) watches from the window.
I mean, it does have it’s one day jokes. But overall, it’s a life and a family Johnston’s writing there. Note that, leaving aside fan popularity (which it is very high in), it is well regarded in the industry. People from both the light and the heavy side of cartooning praise it’s ongoing storylines and artwork. It also gets points in my book for people actually growing up in it (I’m about the same age as Michael, so I relate to him a bit) and having change happen in their lives. Last thing I read in the morning paper, so I can savor it.
Aaack! I love “Get Fuzzy”. I own two good-for-nothing cats and the strip is very funny in context with them.
Yes, the Fusco Brothers should die a painful death. They are not funny, I repeat, not funny!
I don’t get the paper so I check comics.com every morning for my fix.
Anyone like “Liberty Meadows”? Very fun, great artist.
Another one-gag wonder that won’t die - Andy Capp… I don’t know why I read the comics any longer - they all stink!!
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Damn straight. Let’s hear it for the monkey boy, Frank Cho! Anybody wanting a great laugh should check out http://www.libertymeadows.com. Oh, and for the “B.C.” haters, check out the section on censored strips by Cho, where he had a dispute with this syndicate about making fun of the fundamentalist junk in “B.C.”
Agree.
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Agree. They have heads like sausages.
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Noooo…I love *Get Fuzzy *!! Maybe you have to live with cats to appreciate it. But I totally agree that the other two “cat” comics, Heathcliff and Garfield, are pointless.
It’s old, it’s tired, but I still like it…Mark Trail.
Dilbert is pretty good at times, but that is about it.
Gasoline Alley, Mother Goose & Grimm, Blondie, Andy Capp, Cathy, Family Circus give me a break.
At least our paper stopped carrying that stupid Precious Moments-type cartoon, (“Love is” or some junk like that, I have a mental block about the name).
I vote for The Neighborhood. Can you say ‘grotesque, unhinged fat old people’?!? This is offensive to seniors for obvious reasons. And it’s scary to younger people because you worry you might turn out like that!
Ashtar wrote:
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I’ve heard this colloquialism before, but I’m not sure what it means. What, precisely, is a “cap” in this context, and why?
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Well, as we’ve all pointed out, every strip can be made to sound pointless if we oversimplify them.
Examples so far:
Cathy: Yes, we get it, you’re single.
Garfield: Yes, we get it, you like lasagna and hate Mondays.
Family Circus: Yes, we get it, your family is precious.
And so on.
Why does Calvin and Hobbes seem to be such a sacred cow? Whenever anyone discusses comics in any forum, C & H is one that everyone (of Gen X age) says is the best. I never cared for it.
Yes, we get it, you philosopize with your stuffed tiger.
Anyway, it’s not that I’m disagreeing with anyone; in fact I think most people’s comments are right on. But, geez, anything seems silly if you oversimplify it.
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I’ve heard this colloquialism before, but I’m not sure what it means. What, precisely, is a “cap” in this context, and why?
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It’s really said “busting a cap on his ass”.It is slang dating back to Viet Nam.It means shooting him. As in shooting a cap gun as a kid,you pulled the trigger and the cap “busted”.
Oops, make that “philosophize,” not “philosopize.” Mmmmm, pies.