# Let's Fix The Comics! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 1, 2001, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344 "2001-04-01T05:47:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/1 "2001-04-01T05:47:08Z")
If you could bring back a comic strip from the past, which one would it be, and which comic would you dump to make room for it? IN: Steve Canyon. OUT: B.C. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/2 "2001-04-01T05:53:11Z")
2 in: Bloom County (pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease, gods of comicdom!) Calvin & Hobbes (ditto…I miss my pint-size and plush philosophers) 2 out: Cathy (yes, it’s occasionally funny, but it’s old (ACK! Please…give me a PHBBBBTT over an ACK anytime.) B.C. (agreement, Czar. Jonny Hart gets preachy more frequently every year.) ---
**Author:** ![RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RocknRoll_Killing_Machine)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/3 "2001-04-01T05:59:42Z")
OUT: The Family Circus. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/4 "2001-04-01T06:01:21Z")
Why do I think we’ll get a lot of Calvin and Hobbs? Ok, Calvin and Hobbs and The Far Side Out: Cathy. Not so much that it’s not funny. Just that it’s PURE EVIL. And to make room for The Far Side: Marmeduke? Family Circle? Dennis the Menace? Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/5 "2001-04-01T06:01:34Z")
IN: _ **CALVIN AND HOBBES** _ OUT: Frank and Ernest ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/6 "2001-04-01T06:02:40Z")
Damn you **betenoir**!!! You beat me by seconds! NNOOOOO!! ::sobs:: ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/7 "2001-04-01T06:09:19Z")
Yes, but _you_ spelled “Hobbes” correctly. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/8 "2001-04-01T06:32:51Z")
Hmm. Deja vu. IN: Calvin & Hobbes or The Far Side. Either one will suffice to bring a moment of happiness into my life. I know that others have chimed in with these strips, but I’m chiming in with **my** personal picks, and if they are duplicated, well then, tough. OUT: Garfield. The strip has been dead for years, they just haven’t buried it yet. ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/9 "2001-04-01T06:42:15Z")
Well, even though I don’t think Watterson is coming back anytime soon, _Calvin & Hobbes_ would be my choice for the one in. It was just such a wonderful, imaginative comic. Out…well, of those in carried by my local newspaper I’d have to go with…any of them. I’d specify a couple imparticular that are getting extremely repetitive, but I know they’ve still got loads of fans. On a side note, would it be so difficult for my local newspaper to print the colour comics _in colour_?!? Yep, today I turned to the comics and saw a bunch of great, big…_gray_ comics. What’s the point of having the special section when the majority of the comics are unfunny as it is? ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/10 "2001-04-01T06:44:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Czarcasm \* > \*\*Yes, but _you_ spelled “Hobbes” correctly. 🙂 \*\* Well, there you go. Typing that “e” would have taken crucial seconds off my time. ---
**Author:** ![Studoggie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@Studoggie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Studoggie)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/11 "2001-04-01T07:00:29Z")
Yup, Calvin & Hobbes/ Far Side in I’d say for out: Andy Capp (never have understood this one) Ziggy (ditto) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/12 "2001-04-01T07:56:41Z")
Winsor McCay rules!!! Now that I’ve got that out of my system, here’s a thought for making _Family Circus_, which is currently the worst comic strip in the world, actually amusing. Have Bill Keane continue to submit the strips as he currently does. Then remove the dialogue. Each day, the wordless strip will be run and creative readers will submit proposed punchlines for it. A panel of judges will choose the funniest line and rerun the strip a week later with its new punchline. Those of you who saw the Dysfunctional Family Circus website know that this works really well. My guess is that as long as the checks roll in, Keane will have no problem with this. It’s pretty obvious he has no shame now. ---
**Author:** ![trippy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@trippy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trippy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/13 "2001-04-01T08:14:41Z")
In : Calvin & Hobbes Out : Rex Morgan M.D. (I avoid it by location, that’s how much I hate it.) In: Far Side Out: Family Circus In: Bloom County Out: Cathy ---
**Author:** ![Ma\_Parrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dec6dc/32.png) [@Ma\_Parrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ma_Parrot)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/14 "2001-04-01T08:53:47Z")
in: Little Iodine out: Crabby Road ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/15 "2001-04-01T09:10:39Z")
In: Pogo (Hey, if **Little Nemo** can nominate the really old stuff, then so can I.) [sub]Oh, I was eatin’ some chop suey with a lady from Saint Louie…[/sub] Out: Garfield. On second thought, toss it out, renew it at the last minute, then take back the renewal and give Jim Davis a huge raspberry for coasting that long on no-content crap and merchandising revenue. I feel dirty just being in the same thread with this crap. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/16 "2001-04-01T14:53:32Z")
There is, of course, only one strip that cries for a return (but only if they rerun the original strips), the greatest of them all: Krazy Kat I’d also be happy to see the real Pogo back. To drop? Any “dramatic” strip out there. If we want that sort of thing, bring back Captain Easy, or even Mickey Mouse. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/17 "2001-04-01T15:00:55Z")
In: Ernie Bushmiller’s “Nancy” Out: “Garfield” ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/18 "2001-04-01T15:09:48Z")
IN: Calvin & Hobbes (of course) OUT: Blondie, Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace (hey, C & H is worth at least 3) IN: Far Side Out: Nancy, Garfield (Far Side, while I love it and miss it, is worth slightly less in comic terms to C & H) ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/19 "2001-04-01T15:11:16Z")
Well I hate to follow the crowd but I too would LOVE to see Watterson bring back Calvin and Hobbes. As for what was to go? Well, where would you start? There are a number of Australian ones I don’t bother to read at all. And a number of the already-mentioned would be worthy of spontaneous combustion. But you know what? I’m to excited thinking about C&H (even as a mere dream) to care… ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344/20 "2001-04-01T15:17:38Z")
In: Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend In: Barnaby (by Crockett Johnson…as good as Calvin and Hobbes) In: Calvin and Hobbes In: The first 4 or 5 years of Peanuts strips that Shultz’s estate doesn’t like to see reprinted) In: The first half-dozen years of Blondie, when she was Blondie Boopadoop, Flapper at Large. In: Thimble Theater (“Whadddaya thinks I yam? A Cowboy ‘r sumthin’?” …more-or-less Popeye’s first words!) Out: Marmaduke Out: Heathcliff Out: Any Blondie after the first half dozen years Out: The Born Loser Fenris [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fix-the-comics/60344.md?page=2)