Just wondering which ones and why they may be. I am looking for ones that can actually get a giggle out of you consistently
My vote is Citizen Dog. Look it up if youu have never heard of it before.
I know that I have put you through hell, and I know that I have been one rough pecker. But from here on, you are all in my cool book.- Seth Gecko From Dusk Till Dawn
Yeah, I miss “Far Side”, too. One of my favorites was the strip with a herd (herd?) of lemmings running off a cliff into the sea. Two of them had little doughnut life preservers on. My friend sent it to me, with the note: “Tu y yo.” Spanish for “you and me.” We’re such wimps!
Anyway, the other strips I enjoy are: Dilbert, Baby Blues and Zits. And, while I never got Calvin and Hobbes in my local paper (cretins), I miss it, too.
MadPoet: Along those veins… does anybody actually read Apartment 3G or Mark Worth, or is there just some newspaper law requiring them that I missed somewhere?
Certainly not you. It’s “Mary Worth”
I read it (for some reason) for about 3 months. I finally decided I didn’t like the nosey bitch and moved on.
Dilbert – Dead on about life in the corporate world. I was working at GE a couple of years ago; EVERY OFFICE had Dilbert strips on the wall.
Rose is Rose – the most grown up appreciation of the joys and frustrations of marriage.
Doonesbury – not what it once was, but still an excellent humor strip, and one of the last bastions of continuity in storytelling.
Crankshaft – not a funny strip, but the best pure continuity strip around. There are several story threads in the background, and they are used very deftly. Some great dramatic moments, like when Crankshaft got his World Series ring.
I tend to look to past things to see how good they are (or were, in this case)…
My faves of all time are,
Calvin & Hobbes
Far Side
I dunno, the strips I read now are pretty weak by comparison… but then again, I kinda have a crappy comix page in the San Francisco Chronicle… if I had more variety, then I could perhaps make a better judgement!
Kathy (because I identify with her almost every time!) - Garfield - Dilbert. Also Calvin and Hobbes except I don’t get to read it anymore - the Washington Post dropped it. I too was unhappy about losing Bloom County and The Far Side.