# Funniest comic strip and your favorite character **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 23, 1999, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-comic-strip-and-your-favorite-character/7220 "1999-08-23T10:16:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 1999, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-comic-strip-and-your-favorite-character/7220/41 "1999-08-26T00:16:00Z")
Best current newspaper strip–For Better or For Worse Best Classic newspaper strip—Pogo Best on line strip—Kevin & Kell Worst comic book publishing firm–Marvel Comics ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 1999, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-comic-strip-and-your-favorite-character/7220/42 "1999-08-26T00:17:00Z")
Best current newspaper strip–For Better or For Worse Best Classic newspaper strip—Pogo Best on line strip—Kevin & Kell Worst comic book publishing firm–Marvel Comics ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 1999, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-comic-strip-and-your-favorite-character/7220/43 "1999-08-26T23:33:00Z")
Say, Papa Bear: Can you give me some examples? I remember seeing Juilette and Edda embracing, and Juliette sitting on a fence with her knees about three feet apart (she was wearing slacks)…are these the examples you mean? ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 1999, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-comic-strip-and-your-favorite-character/7220/44 "1999-08-26T23:51:00Z")
Dougie- There have been several strips where Edda and Juliette have been depicted in dream sequences as scantily clad superheros. Lots of cleavage and bare hips; that sort of thing. The adjective that comes to mind is “shapely”! ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 1999, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-comic-strip-and-your-favorite-character/7220/45 "1999-08-26T23:56:00Z")
I’ve seen a few of those. 🙂 I think these women are larger-than-life \* without \* super-powers. But as they said once in DC Comics, “We are not responsible for logic in dreams.” You should see some of the stuff in MY dreams! 😉 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ConMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@ConMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ConMan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 1999, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-comic-strip-and-your-favorite-character/7220/46 "1999-08-27T01:52:00Z")
#1 - The Far Side #1 - Bloom County #1 - Calvin & Hobbes #4 - ??? I used to read many of the cartoons mentioned on this thread at The Cartoon Cornucopia but the web site had to shut down due to damn lawyers! Anyone know of any good cartoon links? * * * “Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’” E A Poe ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 1999, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-comic-strip-and-your-favorite-character/7220/47 "1999-08-27T02:12:00Z")
Calvin & Hobbes was by far the most consistantly funny strip. Next was The Far Side. Cathy and Peanuts were funny in their day but should’ve been retired years ago. Peanuts is especially boring now. Dilbert is best current strip. Though I must add Blondie’s held up through time. I like For Better or For Worse. I especially like the fact the kids and adults age and people get born and die like in real life. I keep wondering when the For Worse part (one of the parents dying) will come into play ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 1999, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-comic-strip-and-your-favorite-character/7220/48 "1999-08-28T20:02:00Z")
sorry about mult. posts. dont know what happened, though.nothing i did. ??? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 1999, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-comic-strip-and-your-favorite-character/7220/49 "1999-08-28T20:06:00Z")
To Markxxx: Don’t hold your breath. The characters in “Gasoline Alley” grow and age too, but Wilt and Phyllis–who must be in their nineties now–are still very much alive. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 1999, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-comic-strip-and-your-favorite-character/7220/50 "1999-08-28T20:21:00Z")
I have to agree about Calvin and Hobbes, at least among recent strips. But Pogo has to be the best ever (and, yes, Porky was the best character). And on another note, PapaBear said: > [@](#): > > Am I the only male who finds some of the depictions of the teenage daughter and her mom in 9 Chickweed Lane to be…uh…shall we say arousing? The fact that one of them is supposedly 15 is just as disturbing as the fact that they are comic strip characters! The TV show Red Dwarf raised a similar point, when Lister and Cat were watching The Flintstones (from memory, but close to right, I think): Lister: I think Wilma may be the most beautiful woman who ever lived. […] What do you think about Betty? Cat: I could _go_ with Betty, but I’d be _thinking_ of Wilma. ## Lister: This is crazy! She’d never leave Fred! Bob the Random Expert “If we don’t have the answer, we’ll make one up.” ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 1999, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-comic-strip-and-your-favorite-character/7220/51 "1999-08-28T20:44:00Z")
My personal faves are Calvin & Hobbes, Baby Blues, Far Side, Close to Home, Foxtrot, and Rose is Rose. I like Jumpstart too, when the kids are talking. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 1999, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-comic-strip-and-your-favorite-character/7220/52 "1999-08-28T20:47:00Z")
I only see \* Rose Is Rose \* occasionally because our local paper doesn’t carry it. I used to like Pasquale’s garbled speech–kids his age always talk like that–and the way his mother used to be drawn, a few years ago. She wasw prettier then. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-comic-strip-and-your-favorite-character/7220/53 "1999-08-29T07:08:00Z")
FBOFW is quite good, I agree. Am I the only one who likes Geech and dislikes Dilbert? ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-comic-strip-and-your-favorite-character/7220/54 "1999-08-29T11:22:00Z")
I know this is OT but I used to like Family Circus. But now those kids are just idiots. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-comic-strip-and-your-favorite-character/7220.md?page=2)