You are going on Rat’s list. 
Such vitriol! If those comics aren’t among the 5 best dailies in America, I need to know what you think are. And don’t say Cathy. Please. Don’t say Cathy.
My list would probably be:
Get Fuzzy
Mutts
Rhymes with Orange
Zits
Foxtrot
All of those with a big disclaimer that on any given day I might find them stupid. I do miss the pirate one…what was it called? (consults Google oracle…) Overboard. That one was good.
You can get it on the web.
http://www.ucomics.com/overboard/
Well, I agree with Foxtrot, at least. Pearls and Foxtrot (if they were together in the same paper here in Chicago) would be the ones I read.
As for not likeing Pearls, what can I tell ya? Pastis has good weeks and bad weeks (personally, I don’t like most of the croc skits, although this week’s is funny. The croc dressed as an Easter bunny is simply adorable! I hope I don’t lose too many manliness points for saying that:)) If you don’t like stupid puns, that eliminates about 20% of strips. However, it’s the personalities of rat and pig that just tug at my heart. I’m just a big softie, I guess.
Yesterday morning the mini-mart was out of the L. A. Times, so I had to pick up an Orange County Register (so I could have change for the bus). For reasons of my own, I always read the funnies page from bottom to top, and the Register lays out these two strips in the same way as does the Oregonian. With a fold between them.
When I first saw Get Fuzzy, I thought they’d screwed up at the Register. Then I looked closer and saw Satchel. And then I remembered Monday’s strip.
I count myself fortunate that the bus driver allowed me to stay aboard.
Well, we agree on those. Although Mutts isn’t a fave, it’s at least quality. Same goes for Zits: not my style, but there’s thought behind it & the art is phenomenal. What’s the issue with Pearls, I must ask? I’ve always thought it was a breath of fresh air, along with Get Fuzzy, Boondocks, and the-artist-formerly-known-as-Non-Sequitor-which-now-for-some-reason-is-atrocious.
Bill Watterson, meanwhile, laughs from his throne.
What are you, some kind of freak?
I want to be Rat when I grow up. I also believe other people are stupid, and I too hate them.
My favorites are the Pearls Before Swine strips involving the dumb crocs and ‘zeba’. Definitely one of the few strips I read regularly. Cross-overs are not that uncommon, but the current one with one artist flagrantly ripping off the other is hilarious!
Do you have a date? Because I’ve forced myself to trawl the Baby Blues archives for March and April 2006, and I can’t find a continuation of the “Rat babysits the kids” storyline.
You ees gettin a veesit from de crocadills! 
The story continues in the following Pearls Before Swine strips.
In the Sunday Baby Blues, there have been several panels with Wren chewing on dead crocs in the background. More of a nod than a continuation.
This past sunday? I don’t see it.
Go to the Baby Blues archive for Monday March 27, 2006. It’s the Monday after the crossover.
Ah, thanks!
I have never understood the love that Mutts & Zits get. Mutts is never funny (the artwork is nice though); it’s seems so glurgy to me. And Zits is just so middle-of-the-road with a boring and unlikeable main character. He’s such a cliche.
Pearls Before Swine is almost always at least mildy amusing and frequently hilarious.
I’ve never read PBS - my paper (Chicago Trib) only carries GF.
So the joke wasn’t very effective for me.
Not a big fan of GF anyway.
Well drawn, and the dog is okay, but if I had a cat like that I’d kill it.
Yeah, it’s not funny, but I like the artwork.
Dinsdale: Pearls is on the net.
I don’t take a daily paper and read the comics on the web.
It was funny once, but now that it’s been going on all week it’s getting annoying.