# Who the hell is enjoying Hagar the Horrible? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [December 7, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720 "2015-12-07T17:46:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/81 "2015-12-11T23:02:01Z")
> [@Algher](#): > > Doonesbury shocks me in how long it can do re-runs while Trudeau is on vacation. I have spent some time explaining to my 12 year old politics of the 70s so that he can get the jokes. I prefer Candorville and La Cucaracha for topical humor of a more left wing bent. There are new Sunday strips, but the daily strips are on permanent rerun now, I think. I’m glad since I didn’t get a paper with them when they ran the first time, so I can see some of the continuity now. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/82 "2015-12-11T23:04:55Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > [This one](http://mallardfillmore.com/comics/november-29-2015/)’s good, but nobody bats 1.000. YMMV. > > Regards, > Shodan I think you mean that nobody bats 0.0000 - but Tinsley comes close. In a field littered with comic gold, Tinsley always picks up the rusted beer can. Conservatives can be funny - early PJ, and National Review had a lot of funny stuff in the late '60s and early '70s when I subscribed. Tinsley just isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/83 "2015-12-12T00:57:26Z")
I still wonder why this Liberty Meadows comic has not been linked to yet: Prince Valiant vs Hagar in an epic fight for quality comics against shoddy ones. [![](https://i.imgur.com/A2uO8.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/A2uO8.jpg) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/84 "2015-12-12T02:47:26Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > The list of comic strips that wore out their welcome and became horribly repetitive and unfunny includes Overboard, Garfield, Get Fuzzy and Sherman’s Lagoon. Get Fuzzy might seem repetitive because it’s been in reruns for years (except Sundays). ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/85 "2015-12-12T04:36:44Z")
As for those who despise [Marmaduke](http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/). (Refer to the blog archive for the guts of it.) Anybody read _Rubes_? It’s the poor man’s homage to _The Far Side_, but is rarely memorable. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/86 "2015-12-12T18:38:59Z")
_HtH_? Shakespeare compared to _[The Lockhorns](http://www.oregonlive.com/comics-kingdom/?feature_id=Lockhorns)_. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/87 "2015-12-12T21:16:30Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > I think you mean that nobody bats 0.0000 - but Tinsley comes close. No, I mean what I said. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/88 "2021-02-27T18:15:05Z")
I finally put the work in to finish this idea I posted about years ago. ETA: having the very deuce of a time getting the board to display the image directly, but you can see it here: [![](https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-3eb745287587f3fc8dc3ca0c44110c82) ](https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-3eb745287587f3fc8dc3ca0c44110c82) ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2021, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/89 "2021-02-28T01:02:55Z")
Has, sorry, had it’s moments, just took it off my list. Dan ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/90 "2021-02-28T01:13:44Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Prickly City stars a human who holds liberal views that she thinks are conservative, and a coyote who holds idiotic views that he thinks are liberal. I’m still not sure just how much that reflects the author’s own views, versus what he thinks are the views of typical voters. To be fair, Carmen (the human) is at least acknowledging the madness currently going on in the Republican primary, and is horrified by it. Scott Stantis was probably the only conservative cartoonist that both sides read with pleasure. When Trump slithered in Stantis rendered him as a skunk, and the real conservatives flipped out and jumped ship. I call Stantis fair and reasonable. Plus the terrific art is reminiscent of Krazy Kat. Dan ---
**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:** [February 28, 2021, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/91 "2021-02-28T03:26:33Z")
Nothing is worse than B.C. (not Bloom County, B.C.) anytime post-1990. Hart went full fundie and the comic just died on the vine. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/92 "2021-03-02T05:58:43Z")
OK, a side question. I’ve never understood exactly what I’m looking at with Hagar’s face. Is his face giant eyeballs with hair growing out of them (kind of like Muppets Animal), or is it his skin and he has beady dot eyes? You can’t really go by color images as they are inconsistent. Sometimes he has skin bordering his googly eyes, other times his eyes will be closed and they are little winky shapes just on his “eyes”. [![](https://www.dailycartoonist.com/wp-content/uploads/tdc-images/offensive-hagar-horrible.gif) ](https://www.dailycartoonist.com/wp-content/uploads/tdc-images/offensive-hagar-horrible.gif) [![](https://genauslander.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/hagar_not_easy_800x600.jpg) ](https://genauslander.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/hagar_not_easy_800x600.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/93 "2021-03-02T06:52:31Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Bill the Cat was funny for a few strips, but dull, thereafter. (5 horrible years later). Well of course–look what brain he had. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/94 "2021-03-02T10:42:39Z")
I’m fairly certain B.C. was always bad, going by me reading the older paperback collections when I was young. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/95 "2021-03-02T11:28:11Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > Hagar was great with Dik Browne.lousy when Chris took over. I haven’t read it in years but Hagar was one I liked. I guess this changing of the guard explains the disconnect? Also submitted for your disapproval: Nancy. [https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=657836](https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=657836) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/96 "2021-03-02T12:46:08Z")
The relaunch of Nancy by a new artist (under a pseudonym) is pretty great. [![](https://i1.wp.com/www.comicsbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/nancy_914.png?w=1200&ssl=1) ](https://i1.wp.com/www.comicsbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/nancy_914.png?w=1200&ssl=1) ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/97 "2021-03-02T12:55:27Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Because old people read newspapers (and thus newspaper comics) and bitch when things they’ve been comfortable with for 20+ years are removed. (I know I am responding to a 5-year-old post) I am 63 and still read newspapers and thus newspaper comics. I think all of the strips that I read 50 years ago that are still published (generally with new writers) suck now. So it isn’t old people, it’s something else. Maybe the new creative (and funnier) artists are finding other venues for their work besides traditional newspaper syndication, which probably doesn’t pay as well as it used to. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/98 "2021-03-02T12:57:58Z")
I have heard that newspapers get more complaints about changes to the comics page than any other issue. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/99 "2021-03-02T13:21:30Z")
Oooops - posted in error ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720/100 "2021-03-02T14:21:00Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > > [@Jophiel](#): > > > > Because old people read newspapers (and thus newspaper comics) and bitch when things they’ve been comfortable with for 20+ years are removed. > > (I know I am responding to a 5-year-old post) I am 63 and still read newspapers and thus newspaper comics. I think all of the strips that I read 50 years ago that are still published (generally with new writers) suck now. So it isn’t old people, it’s something else. Maybe the new creative (and funnier) artists are finding other venues for their work besides traditional newspaper syndication, which probably doesn’t pay as well as it used to. Back when I still had dead tree newspaper subscriptions, one of my biggest pet peeves was when a favorite strip would end for one reason or another, and the newspaper would have an article introducing the replacement strip, always with a comment like “We think it’s just as good if not better!” And the replacement was always some stupid dreck that usually didn’t even last six months before _it_ got replaced. The worst example I can think of was when Cul De Sac ended due to Richard Thompson’s terminal illness, and they replaced it with some unfunny, horribly drawn strip called “WuMo”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-enjoying-hagar-the-horrible/739720.md?page=6)