Yikes! Those two strips are nothing alike. Jump Start’s an actual comic strip, although it’s trite and dopey. It does, however, have a chuckle here and there, as even the most banal strips do. But For Better or Worse is NOT a comic strip. It’s a soap opera. It’s melodrama. Therefore it’s simple to dislike one of those two and like the other. For Better or Worse is, quite simply, one of the worst out there.
Well, it has some VERY rough patches, like the current one, where the little brother is obsessing over someone in jail named Smoothe or Slythe or something. And any of the STAR WARS-based storylines.
Just came off a very entertaining series, though, about buying Grandpa a birthday gift…
“What do old black men like anyway…?”
“Pork.”
Speaking of Afro-Am strips, I was amused to see that on the same day someone posted “You can always see the damn punch lines coming from a mile away in CURTIS!” the day’s punch line involved fish dropping from the sky, a la Charles Fort.
CURTIS IS a lousy strip, but I sure didn’t see THAT one coming.
Ukelele Ike:
Actually, the guy’s name is “Shyne,” a rapper (or rap producer) who’s in jail, and today’s strip on the subject is still making me smile.
This “Boondocks” guy has come a long way toward winning me over in the past year. Not all the way, mind you, but a long way. The use of the grandfather and the new kid from Brooklyn to keep Huey’s radicalism and the little one’s gangsta-ism grounded is very effective; this was missing in the first year or so of the strip.
Chaim Mattis Keller
A few that MUST go!
Ripley’s Believe it or Not
I don’t know if this counts, but it appears in my paper in the Comics section, so I’ll include it. I don’t freakin’ care if Alice Masters from Milwaukee has a cat with teal fur!
Marmaduke
I’m SICK of these “big dog” jokes. No more chasing ice cream trucks! No more trying to push that one guy off the couch! What I really hate is that blasted “Dog Gone Funny” the author puts at the ends! STUPID!
Adding to the list of C&H, Far Side, and others, I really miss L.M. Boyd. Not a comic mind you, but who else can tell you that “Sequoia” is the shortest word in English with all five vowels, or that Uranium was originally used to color glass?
hmmm… pretty orange Fiestaware…
Glad to hear that. But then again, I like Huey’s radicalism.
I’ve been following the comic a while before it got nationally syndicated (it was in a black, hip-hop magazine I occasionally read at my cousin’s house.). Caesar was always a favorite. However, a character is still “MIA.” A asian kid (believe it!) who’s good with the turntables.
And to those who thought “Mallard Fillmore” would get better in an Republican Administration, it still sucks! Still hoary old liberals are stupid jokes and they conspire to make Bush look stupid. You get more balance and humor from a Free Republic discussion.
Most strips in the Singapore newspapers are American, and most suck. Especially Cathy. The only strip in the paper that I often like (and fortunately I think no-one has mentioned it here yet) is The born loser. They stopped the Peanuts re-runs (which I would have liked to see continued) and after a few weeks Liberty Meadows (sometimes funny) was replaced by James, another stinker.
Anime art goddess Elizabeth Kirkindall has a better idea…
Pete
Take off every .sig for great justice!!
In the Sunday May 20 Cathy strip, Cathy went into the dressing room and tried on a bathing suit and felt fat.
How I laughed!
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*Originally posted by Soup_du_jour *
Ripley’s Believe it or Not
I don’t know if this counts, but it appears in my paper in the Comics section, so I’ll include it. I don’t freakin’ care if Alice Masters from Milwaukee has a cat with teal fur!
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The new Ripley’s I can take or leave, but the old strips, from the 20’s to the 60s were interesting. I think the problem with the new strips is all the cool facts from history, etc. that Ripley used to use have been used already.
You might enjoy Don’t you Believe It!, which is a fairly recent book parody of the old Ripley strips.
I like L.M. Boyd too.
I would like to say that I find not a single comic printed in the newspaper funny or worth looking for.