The world's worst comic strips.

[Sunspace]

My clicking on that link got me this:

Error Occurred While Processing Request
Error Diagnostic Information

An error occurred while evaluating the expression:
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Error near line 23, column 71.

The element at position 0 in dimension 1 of object “application.ARComicNames” cannot be found. The object has elements in positions 1 through 187. Please, modify the index expression.
The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (#application.ARComicNames[uc_comic_index]#), occupying document position (23:46) to (23:87) in the template file /usr/local/apache/ucomics_com/fredbasset/viewtmfba.cfm.
Date/Time: Mon Aug 27 11:42:18 2001
Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
Remote Address: 207.219.2.101
HTTP Referer: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=35013&pagenumber=2
Query String: uc_fn=1&uc_full_date=20010825&uc_daction=P&uc_comic=%20tmfba

Pretty unfunny indeed.

[Slacker]

*Originally posted by kiz *
**…and has anyone noticed in reading “Classic Peanuts” that it actually was a somewhat depressing strip back in its early days? **

I sure did, I actually started liking them. The older strips (at least some of them) had a sense of angst behind them. I dig 'em.

[BobSchroeck]

Momma.

I’ve hated this strip with a passion since the late 1970s. “Momma” is the only cartoon character I’ve hated to the point of rage and premeditated murder. The power games, the guilt trips, the attempts to control the lives of her adult children for her own benefit. I never found any of it funny; every strip was the heartfelt expression of a control freak in her element, using, abusing and puppetting her mostly-helpless victims and enjoying every minute.

– Bob

(Issues? Why, no, I don’t have any issues. Why do you ask?)

[BobSchroeck]

Oh, and another vote in favor of “For Better or Worse”. Dunno what it is about that strip, but it draws me in and keeps me interested. It also has a nice sense of internal continuity… I was very surprised when I found a published collection of early strips and discovered that Mike’s new wife (then girlfriend) was the little girl who had acted so snotty to him in elementary school, and on whom he had a crush…

– Bob

[pulykamell]

Hmm…don’t know why that link did that.
Try this and click on Aug. 24.

[BobSchroeck]

On the subject of internal continuity, can I just point out a good example from Doonesbury, much as it is getting reviled here? How many Dopers remember, from the 1970s strips, the little Vietnamese girl adopted by an American family, who could only speak English in product names and slogans? How many Dopers realize that Mike’s twenty-something wife Kim is that same little girl?

– Bob

[invisibleOLDlady]

B.C. is the worst most annoying comic strip ever. The “artist” crams his religion down my throat everytime I read that thing. On the rare occasions he isn’t trying to save someone, he’s making fat jokes, or making a native american speak like an idiot. I just do all I can to avoid the crap that B.C. is.

[RickJay]

*Originally posted by invisibleOLDlady *
**B.C. is the worst most annoying comic strip ever. The “artist” crams his religion down my throat everytime I read that thing. On the rare occasions he isn’t trying to save someone, he’s making fat jokes, or making a native american speak like an idiot. I just do all I can to avoid the crap that B.C. is. **

Just for the hell of it, I found the online site for “B.C.” and went back over the last few weeks. There was one strip that might vaguely be construed as having a religious message. The rest were just jokes, albiet not very good ones.

I don’t get the opposition to “B.C.” based on Hart’s being a Christian. So every month or so he has a religious message. So what? I don’t think it’s very FUNNY, but that’s a different issue.

[rjung]

*Originally posted by BobSchroeck *
How many Dopers remember, from the 1970s strips, the little Vietnamese girl adopted by an American family, who could only speak English in product names and slogans? How many Dopers realize that Mike’s twenty-something wife Kim is that same little girl?

Oooh! Oooh! Me! Me! I caught that!

Seems like the Mike-Kim relationship is rather odd age-wise, but if they’re all happy… Shrug

“Big Mac! Big Mac! Big BIG Mac! … Creamy coleslaw.”

[Mr.Miskatonic]

*Originally posted by BobSchroeck *
**On the subject of internal continuity, can I just point out a good example from Doonesbury, much as it is getting reviled here? How many Dopers remember, from the 1970s strips, the little Vietnamese girl adopted by an American family, who could only speak English in product names and slogans? How many Dopers realize that Mike’s twenty-something wife Kim is that same little girl?

– Bob **

I’ve been waiting for her to be traumatized by raisins.

I didn’t realize it at first, but then her parents showed up and I went “Hmmmmm.”