# Your worst comic in the newspaper.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 6, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125 "2016-03-06T16:47:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/1 "2016-03-06T16:47:49Z")
I love my daily funnies. But Jebus Kripes, the Milwaukee Urinal-Shitnal needs to make some replacements. Marvin, Between Friends, Ziggy, Family Circus, Hi & Lois, Beetle Baily. They all are unfunny, out of date, and need to go.
But keep them all if they just get rid of one: **Mr. Boffo!** :smack::mad:
It is sand in the mouth unfunny, uninteresting, dull, and outright stupid!
So, what is the 1 comic you’d have your paper delete if it were up to you. You get to pick just one. (Dishonorable mentions OK)
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### Author:  [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/2 "2016-03-06T16:58:53Z")
Peanuts.
I liked it in the 60s, but that was a long time ago.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/3 "2016-03-06T17:13:58Z")
**The Fusco Brothers** is pretty awful. A typical strip has a strained set-up leading to an unfunny punchline. J.C. Duffy, the strip’s author, seems never to reject an idea or to hone the ideas he does have. I understand that writing a daily strip is hard work. He should try it.
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/4 "2016-03-06T17:26:49Z")
_Get Fuzzy_. I’ve never got it. It has never been funny. It has never even made much sense. It’s like this hipster inside joke thing that I don’t care to get. If it weren’t for the truly shitty _Close to Home_ (_Far Side_ rip-off) it would come in last.
By the way, \*Tundra \*… now there’s a good _Far Side_ rip-off.
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### Author:  [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/5 "2016-03-06T17:48:02Z")
All the “legacy” comics are awful, and I think the worst is _Marmaduke_ (“what a big dog!” is the only joke ever)
> [@Jack\_Batty](#):
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> If it weren’t for the truly shitty _Close to Home_
[This link](http://blog.tompappalardo.com/?p=895) gives a great takedown of that comic.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/6 "2016-03-06T17:56:27Z")
There’s some stupid unicorn comic strip that has suddenly appeared in the local paper. Actually most of the comics they run make we want to burn down the building.
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### Author:  [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/7 "2016-03-06T18:00:29Z")
Just my opinion. But I think that newspapers are all wrong for comic strips.
A comic book can be saved and it has value and that value increases in the future.
But newsprint is a bad medium. If I’m not mistaken, comic strips tend to erode more quickly when printed on newsprint than they do when printed in a comic book.
Besides, most comic strips in newspapers are black & white even though they are in color in comic books. Don’t the color versions have more value than the B&W versions?
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/8 "2016-03-06T18:13:57Z")
Full disclosure, I only every read the color funnies in the Sunday paper.
I get a paper every Sunday morning just for the comics and the puzzles. I haven’t bought a daily paper otherwise in probably over a decade.
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/9 "2016-03-06T18:25:07Z")
FTR, I happen to like Mr. Boffo.
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### Author:  [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/10 "2016-03-06T18:53:12Z")
I’m not a newspaper comic fan in general, but, please, let me get rid of Marvin. Most of the rest are just bland and unfunny. Marvin is actively revolting.
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/11 "2016-03-06T19:30:20Z")
Mallard Filmore, hands down. The ones already mentioned are lousy. MF is actively malevolent.
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### Author:  [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/12 "2016-03-06T19:59:14Z")
It has not been in my paper for years (thankfully) but the Fusco Brothers seemed like some Newspaper Editor lost a bet. Badly drawn and completely humorless.
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### Author:  [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/13 "2016-03-06T20:59:29Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#):
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> Just my opinion. But I think that newspapers are all wrong for comic strips.
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> A comic book can be saved and it has value and that value increases in the future.
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> But newsprint is a bad medium. If I’m not mistaken, comic strips tend to erode more quickly when printed on newsprint than they do when printed in a comic book.
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> Besides, most comic strips in newspapers are black & white even though they are in color in comic books. Don’t the color versions have more value than the B&W versions?
:smack:
My OP is talking about something I read while taking a dump in the morning. Not investing in a goddamned work of art! Sheesh! :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/14 "2016-03-06T21:33:42Z")
Mutts. So, so dumb. Except when they have a “preachy week”, which is unfunny in a different way. And the cat’s speech impediment is so annoying to try and read through.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/15 "2016-03-06T21:49:04Z")
“Zack Hill” was cute until the strip starting veering off into stories about their boarders. (Zack is a 10-year-old boy who lives in a huge old house with his widowed mother, who rents out their extra bedrooms to elderly single men to make ends meet.) Those stories weren’t funny, or even interesting, and I wasn’t surprised when my local paper dropped it.
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/16 "2016-03-06T22:16:10Z")
Mallard Fillmore, named after one of our shittiest Presidents. I don’t mind conservative humor. It just is also criminally unfunny, and preachy.
Family Circus is useful because it’s inspired so much parody.
Get Fuzzy is the worst? WTF?
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/17 "2016-03-06T22:34:06Z")
_Pardon My Planet_ is the worst in our paper. And that’s saying something because we have _Judge Parker_ and _Rex Morgan, M.D._
We need a strip about the comics we like the best, and why!
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/18 "2016-03-06T23:09:15Z")
> [@LC\_Strawhouse](#):
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> All the “legacy” comics are awful, and I think the worst is _Marmaduke_ (“what a big dog!” is the only joke ever)
Legacy comics remain in the paper for two reasons:
1. Old people have been reading them their entire lives, and old people are the newspapers’ last loyal readers. This is pretty obvious when you consider that _For Better or For Worse_ has been recycling strips since 2008 and _Peanuts_ since 2000!
2. Old people who have grandchildren think their grandchildren will enjoy having things like _The Family Circus_ read to them.
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/19 "2016-03-06T23:17:27Z")
> [@Pai325](#):
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> Peanuts.
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> I liked it in the 60s, but that was a long time ago.
They’re reruns. Not new. They’re the same ones that were printed 40 years ago.
My vote is for Mark Trail.
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### Author:  [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/20 "2016-03-06T23:19:47Z")
Doonesbury. Even the Supreme Court would find it utterly lacking in humor, intelligence or redeeming social significance.
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