I dont hate it, but I wish it’d move over and let some new artists/writers get a chance.
Others which can certainly go, but I dont hate:
**Baby Blues. ** Not funny, and they abuse their kids. Blondie: Used to be Dithers was the bad boss, and Dagwood was actually good at his job (despite naps). Now it’s all “Dagwood is a crappy, worthless employee.” I guess the new writer is a republican. Drabble: Just plain stupid. Same with Marmaduke.
Mutts. Meh.
“Love is” (?) (with the naked hippies?). OMG, why is this still around?
I do hate:
Prickly City: has turned into a constant attack on Clinton, doesnt belong on comic pages.
Is this the one that wants to be Calvin and Hobbes with a unicorn in the Hobbes role? If it’s the one I’m thinking of, it wasn’t *that *bad last I looked.
Anyway, comic strips are largely online now. It’s more freeing.
The only non-political comic I actively hate is Frazz.
It can be clever and entertaining, then boom ‘if you have any hobbies that any way involve electronics that aren’t a fitbit, you are doing life wrong, you horrible, awful person, you’.
No, it’s not. It’s also got “What a bad dog!”, which I think it actually uses even more often.
Most of the strips mentioned in this thread, I’d never heard of, which I suppose is a good thing. So restricting my attention to the ones in my local paper, I have a hard time choosing between Mutts and Prickly City.
Mutts only ever has one joke a week, repeated six times, and it’s usually not a particularly funny joke (examples: Crabs are crabby, and March is windy). And that’s when it even makes an effort at a joke at all, and isn’t just “cats are warm and fuzzy, and here’s a quote from Thoreau”.
Prickly City is a political strip about a liberal girl who for some unfathomable reason thinks she’s a conservative, and an idiot coyote who for some similarly unfathomable reason thinks he’s a liberal. Everyone in the strip is so charicatured that I’m still not convinced it’s not some sort of Poe’s Law parody gone horribly wrong.
Cathy probably tales the cake, but there’s also For Better Or Worse, Prince Valiant, any of that dreary serial bumfartyness like Rex Morgan, MD, Family Circus, Garfield
Is Fred Basset still around? If so, that. It’s been about 20 years since I’ve read Mr. Boffo, but I really liked it at least back then. I even had a Joe Martin autograph somewhere via my cousin who was friends with his daughter or niece or something.
Get Fuzzy uses a font that’s too small for me to bother with. There must be an inside joke or a running gag that I’m not privy to to make it worth my time. It’s the only one I skip.
Henry. Never funny. Garfield at least had a funny first year, even if it’s crap now. I have never understood who Henry is supposed to appeal to. I read some Nancys from the 1940s, and believe it or not, it was once very political, and when I was 7 or 8, it appealed to me. But early Henrys are not good, and at no point in my life did I ever like it. It’s never even gotten lucky with a single good strip I can remember, like Family Circus or Beetle Bailey occasionally does.
Get Fuzzy is hilarious, but I think you have to have pets to get it.
Get Fuzzy haters need to read the rest of the comics page, I get that it’s cool to rip on popular things and it may not be your particular cup of tea but damn if it isn’t at least ahead of half of the dreck on your average comic page.
This. By 50 light years. The only “humorist” in the country who found nothing funny about Shrub - except maybe when he proposed some decent immigration reform. Also finds nothing amusing about the current Republican campaign.
We’ll see who his masters are - if the establishment, he might be able to come up with something funny about Trump, but I don’t think his sense of humor stretches that far.
I bet he said “what is everyone laughing about” when Cheney shot his friend in the face.
The humor in Get Fuzzy is based on the distorted world views of Bucky, Satchel and their friends. I realize that explaining it won’t make it funny to those who don’t get it, but maybe I can convince someone that there’s something there to get.
That said, I think the strip was played out some time ago. It’s in repeats every day but Sunday, and the new strips don’t seem as good as the older ones. I miss characters like Mac Manc McManx and Shakespug.
Actually, explaining that makes you sound kind of condescending. You think people who don’t like this particular comic don’t *understand *that the humor is based on the world-view of the talking dogs and cats? Yes, we understand that. We’ve understood that since Snoopy, Heathcliff and Garfield have been around. It’s just that … and here’s the kicker … their world-view isn’t particularly funny.
Cat says or does something rooted in evil or self-centeredness, dog misunderstands a word the cat says, cat and dog spend five panels making Frank N Earnest style puns that aren’t funny until owner pokes his head in and says something about recycling.
That’s pretty much how I see every issue of Get Fuzzy
Nancy. The strip simply isn’t as well drawn as it was in the old Bushmiller days, the strip reeks of being far outdated. And maybe it’s my liberal bias, but I find the concept of Sluggo as being offensive. He’s poor and he’s lazy, reinforcing the right wing belief that people are poor because of their moral inferiority.
Classic Peanuts, on the other hand, is charming and well done. I can’t imagine anyone dissing on Peanuts, save for really silly things like Snoopy and the Red Baron.
Agreed. Incidentally, there was a marginally funny Marmaduke comic once. Kid says to dad “Dad, you remember that trick you showed me with the phone book?” and Marmaduke has the phonebook in his mouth, and holding it down with his paw as he tears in half. RRRRIIPP!
