# current godawful comic strips **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 12, 2001, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950 "2001-08-12T22:22:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/1 "2001-08-12T22:22:30Z")
Well, we needed the yin to the yang. Start nominating the baddies, folks. As for the newspaper, I can’t stand the Lockhorns. Didn’t those jokes get old about 60 years ago? Mutts is another one I never liked, especially because it replaced Outland, which was my all-time favorite newspaper strip. Online, there are possibly billions of bad comics. There’s a [Portal of Evil directory](http://www.portalofevil.com/archives/EntertainmentBad.html) on them. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/2 "2001-08-12T22:30:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Daowajan \* > \*\*Well, we needed the yin to the yang. > > Start nominating the baddies, folks > \*\* There’s simply nothing worse than “The Family Circus.” Some are so bad now I can’t even remember their names. There’s one with a computer hacker and his cat and his dog. It’s awful. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/3 "2001-08-12T22:40:01Z")
It’s far easier to name the good ones. You start naming the bad ones and next thng you know you’ve died from hunger. Newspaper strips are uniformly sanitized, since they have to be inoffensive to everyone from 8 to 80. Internet strips can be created by anyone - and are. And many of them, to rebel against the sanitary newspaper strips, try to be offensive and end up just stupid, except to people who think bodily fluids are just riotously hilarious. Actual true wit is in short supply in this medium. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/4 "2001-08-12T22:43:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RickJay \* > **Some are so bad now I can’t even remember their names. There’s one with a computer hacker and his cat and his dog. It’s awful.** I believe you’re referring to “Get Fuzzy,” and yes, it is horrible. I also hate “Fred Basset.” “Mixed Media” was never funny. “Bound and Gagged” sucks. “Blondie” seems to use the same jokes over and over. I haven’t even bothered with “Hi and Lois” in over five years because I hate it so much. There are a few new ones, “James” and “Agnes,” and those are crap as well. I don’t understand the popularity “Garfield” has enjoyed. I’ve never found him funny. Where have all the Gary Larsons and Bill Wattersons gone? ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/5 "2001-08-12T22:46:14Z")
I used to like **Garfield** , but now it’s the same stupid comics over and over: \*Conversations and ultimate killings of the different spiders in Garfield’s house. \*How John is a dateless wonder. \*How, if John can get a date, the date hates him. \*Garfield hates Odie. \*Jon is pitiful. \*Garfield is lazy. Whatever happened to Garfield’s bear? Or the grey kitty (her name started with an ‘N’–Nurfle? Nurble? Ah, I forget)that used to annoy the hell out of Garfield? **Marmaduke** also gets old. There’s only so many ways you can tell your audience how big Marmaduke is. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/6 "2001-08-12T22:56:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bean\_shadow \* > **Whatever happened to Garfield’s bear? Or the grey kitty (her name started with an ‘N’–Nurfle? Nurble?** Nermal, the world’s cuuuuutest kitty cat. The bear’s name is Pokey. And I agree. Garfield used to be alright. It’s gotten steadily worse over the years. Garfield could have been great, but was over commercialized and is way past its prime. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/7 "2001-08-12T22:58:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BlackKnight \* > **The bear’s name is Pokey.** Actually, wasn’t it Pookie? ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/8 "2001-08-12T23:03:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by RickJay \* > > **Some are so bad now I can’t even remember their names. There’s one with a computer hacker and his cat and his dog. It’s awful.** > > I believe you’re referring to “Get Fuzzy,” and yes, it is horrible. > > I also hate “Fred Basset.” “Mixed Media” was never funny. “Bound and Gagged” sucks. “Blondie” seems to use the same jokes over and over. I haven’t even bothered with “Hi and Lois” in over five years because I hate it so much. There are a few new ones, “James” and “Agnes,” and those are crap as well. > > I don’t understand the popularity “Garfield” has enjoyed. I’ve never found him funny. > Where have all the Gary Larsons and Bill Wattersons gone? \*\* Screw Bill Watterson. Fuck Gary Larson. Whatever happened to Walt Kelly and Al Capp? Oh yeah, they’re dead. It makes me ill to see reruns of the Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes running in the daily paper. I only thought they were moderately good when they first ran, and now every day I see these reanimated corpses drudging across the page, exclaiming “we’ve been dead for ten years, and this is still the best comics you’re gonna get here! Nothing published since even rises to the few notches we’ve carved out above the usual swamp of utter mediocrity!” Whatever enjoyment I originally got out of these strips has long since been leached away. It’s like I’m hearing a popular song that I kind of enjoyed in high school, but now I’m hearing it on oldies stations constantly to the point that it makes me sick. At least Bloom County had the decency to stay dead, so that I can still look back at it fondly. ---
**Author:** ![Kittie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Kittie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kittie)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/9 "2001-08-12T23:09:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > There’s simply nothing worse than “The Family Circus.” > \*\* Oh my God, I couldn’t agree more! I absolutely loathe \*\* Family Circus\*\*. I hate a lot of comics though. I can’t even read **Cathy** or **For Better or For Worse** without getting angry. Has anyone else heard of **Zippy**? That comic is such a piece of crap. It _never_ makes sense! _NEVER_!! Plus, I can’t recall it ever having a punch line. Same with **Night Lights and Pillow Fights**. All it seems to be about is a Jesus-loving cat. ~Kittie ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/10 "2001-08-12T23:18:26Z")
**B.C.** is lots, lots worse than anything any of you have mentioned here. Not only is it _unfunny_, it’s Fundy preaching can enrage me. **And I don’t go to the comic strip section to be enraged!!!** :mad: :mad: On one of his “better” days, Johnny Hart can make me so pissed-off that I feel physically ill. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/11 "2001-08-12T23:37:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > **B.C. is lots, lots worse than anything any of you have mentioned here. > Not only is it _unfunny_, it’s Fundy preaching can enrage me.** I agree. B.C, Blondie, Beatle Bailey, Hagar the Horrible–I get sick of comics that rely on stupid puns. I like comics with story lines or at least some action. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/12 "2001-08-13T00:31:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by BlackKnight \* > > **The bear’s name is Pokey.** > > Actually, wasn’t it Pookie? \*\* I think you’re right … _checks one of the numerous Garfield books on his shelf-o-many-volumes_ … you’re right. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/13 "2001-08-13T00:43:31Z")
(I’m starting to feel like I’m on a mission, here.) For all those Family Circus “fans”, I bring you the antidote: [The Dysfunctional Family Circus](http://www.zompist.com/dfcindex.html). Living proof that something so bad can produce something so sweet. ---
**Author:** ![little\_me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@little\_me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/little_me)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/14 "2001-08-13T00:46:03Z")
Marmaduke makes me squirm, so I try to skip over it. Also, the rehashed Peanuts is lame. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/15 "2001-08-13T01:05:18Z")
I am a dog person, but Marmaduke is not funny at all. The Sunday comic was a little amusing, but the dailies are truly the pits. But your post also reminded me: didn’t the Universal Press syndicate say that they were going to release “classic peanuts” only for a year after Schulz’s death? I think many papers are continuing with peanuts so the creator must be rolling in his grave. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/16 "2001-08-13T01:18:29Z")
Oh. My. God. Disfunctional Family Circus…HA HAHAHAHAHAH!!! Oh my god…I haven’t laughed so hard since Bronze Lion’s thread. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/17 "2001-08-13T01:22:17Z")
Ah, **Guin** , you made my day. I live solely to bring joy to others. :D:D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/18 "2001-08-13T01:27:22Z")
_steps up to microphone_ _cough_ Sylvia. That is all. _walks away_ ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/19 "2001-08-13T02:07:28Z")
Andy Capp. Andy Capp is terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Rubin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billy_rubin/32/3622_2.png) [@Billy\_Rubin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Rubin)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950/20 "2001-08-13T02:14:37Z")
Just once I’d like to see her under her boss’s desk giving him a hummer, or visit the daughter in the hospital after a botched abortion, or maybe sally’s co-workers could out her husband… But that’s just me. b. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-godawful-comic-strips/75950.md?page=2)