# Comic Strips You Hate **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 2, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524 "2007-05-02T20:41:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/41 "2007-05-03T01:58:23Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny Hildo] Family Circus haters, listen up. Anyone that thinks Family Circus is the pinnacle of Suck has obviously not been reading Marmaduke. Don’t believe me? Take Teh Suck Taste Test. Read Family Circus and then Marmaduke back to back for a month and tell me which is worse. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. [/QUOTE] The pleasant surprise being the month ending? Doug: I preferred the strips where they simply removed Garfield’s thought bubbles. It is amazing how much funnier it was with that small change ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/42 "2007-05-03T02:49:52Z")
I would like to nominate Boondocks. I was glad to see it pulled from my local newspaper about a year ago. I don’t care for Zippy the Pinhead either. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/43 "2007-05-03T03:01:49Z")
[Overboard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overboard_(comic_strip)). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/44 "2007-05-03T03:02:02Z")
[QUOTE=racer72] I don’t care for Zippy the Pinhead either. [/QUOTE] [You just don’t understand it!](http://www.zippythepinhead.com/pages/aaaunderstanding.html) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/45 "2007-05-03T03:10:57Z")
Chiming in on the hate for _Family Circus_ and _Marmaduke_, and adding the lazy, tired, dead exhausted _Blondie_… ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/46 "2007-05-03T03:14:15Z")
[QUOTE=Aioua] [Ctrl-Alt-Del?](http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/) Everyone hates CAD, mostly because the creator is a huge douche. (Look up the ROMicide) I do, dearly, hope you don’t mean Penny Arcade. Because then I have to kill you. [/QUOTE] Clearly he meant PVP…or Penny Arcade…or VGCats (ok, that one’s a bit of a strech, but you gotta admit, lots of slacker-based star-wars reference webcomics out there.) ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/47 "2007-05-03T03:25:38Z")
What is the one with all the babies in diapers and the really really hateful little girl? That one makes me glad I’m childless. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/48 "2007-05-03T03:28:19Z")
[QUOTE=racer72] I would like to nominate Boondocks. I was glad to see it pulled from my local newspaper about a year ago. I don’t care for Zippy the Pinhead either. [/QUOTE] I agree with you about Zippy, but was dissapointed when my Conservative Nazi newspaper canceled Boondocks. I’ve found it in “repeats” on the web. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/49 "2007-05-03T03:33:22Z")
Hmm no mention of [Sylvia](http://www.comicspage.com/sylvia/) so I’ll toss her out there for the wolves to shred. I do like the occasional dialogue involving her cats, but the rest is pretty worthless. I hate strips which have pretensions of being clever but come out as dull, pat or simply incomprehensible. ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/50 "2007-05-03T03:57:19Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] Hmm no mention of [Sylvia](http://www.comicspage.com/sylvia/) so I’ll toss her out there for the wolves to shred. I do like the occasional dialogue involving her cats, but the rest is pretty worthless. I hate strips which have pretensions of being clever but come out as dull, pat or simply incomprehensible. [/QUOTE] I have no idea whether Sylvia has good writing or not, I’ve never been able to read it. ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/51 "2007-05-03T04:11:46Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Socks] I cannot STAND the Family Circus I HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT! The jokes are so stupid. “Mommy, the garage door clicker only has two channels, open and close.” SO STUPID! So anyway, what comics do you hate? [/QUOTE] That stupid comic always ruined my comic strip reading time on Sunday mornings. Stupid idiots. You summed up the content of that dumbass strip quite well in your example. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/52 "2007-05-03T04:49:22Z")
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady] What is the one with all the babies in diapers and the really really hateful little girl? That one makes me glad I’m childless. [/QUOTE] Er … [Marvin](http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/marvin/aboutMaina.php)? I hate Beetle Bailey. Has it ever been funny? Even once? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/53 "2007-05-03T05:36:32Z")
\*Get Fuzzy \* is like \*Garfield \* on drugs–and not the \*good \* ones that make anything seem funny. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/54 "2007-05-03T06:35:43Z")
[QUOTE=racer72] I would like to nominate Boondocks. . [/QUOTE] Yes, IMHO racist and mean. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/55 "2007-05-03T11:07:48Z")
The LA Times has been cutting back on everything. They just cut the comic section down to two pages, getting rid of the third page, which conveniently contained all the truly crappy comics (except for Mutts, which I find amusing sometimes). So, they’ve got all the single frame square comics mixed up together and sometimes I make a mistake and read the Family Circus or Marmaduke. Ruins my day, I tell ya. The only good thing is they killed off Mallard Fillmore. [QUOTE=Dr. Rieux] \*Get Fuzzy \* is like \*Garfield \* on drugs–and not the \*good \* ones that make anything seem funny. [/QUOTE] I like Get Fuzzy. Heathcliff makes Garfield seem funny. [QUOTE=eleanorigby] Dondi, Nancy, FBOFW, FC, Garfield is especially horrid to me, Brenda Starr, Dick Tracy, Marmaduke, Dennis the Menace… [/QUOTE] Gaaack! You had to bring up Nancy! I was at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center and they had 3 strips showing American comic graphic arts. They showed Ernie Bushmiller as a clean stylist. Fuck, sure it was simple clean line art, but it sucked artistically and was anti-funny, truly abysmal. They had the gall to put it in the same display case with Mickey Mouse! Walt Disney is rolling over in his cryogenic chamber! ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/56 "2007-05-03T11:29:45Z")
Another vote for Boondocks. Repetitive, racist and too politically charged for a general-comics strip. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/57 "2007-05-03T13:15:55Z")
My local paper prints Family Circus and Marmaduke next to each other. I like to mentally switch the captions - about once a week they work. Of course right now I can’t think of any good ones… ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/58 "2007-05-03T13:45:27Z")
**Ziggy** stinks like unwiped ass. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/59 "2007-05-03T13:57:44Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] I agree with you about Zippy, but was dissapointed when my Conservative Nazi newspaper canceled Boondocks. I’ve found it in “repeats” on the web. [/QUOTE] Eh? My understanding was that the creator (name escapes me at the moment) decided to spike the comic strip in favor of the animated show on cable TV. The old strips are being published in lieu of new ones. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/60 "2007-05-03T14:06:58Z")
[QUOTE=LonesomePolecat] Eh? My understanding was that the creator (name escapes me at the moment) decided to spike the comic strip in favor of the animated show on cable TV. The old strips are being published in lieu of new ones. [/QUOTE] Aaron McGruder. That would explain it. Thank! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524.md?page=4)