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Given there are several comics that I have dropped because of the fact I couldn’t not read the comments (due to page formatting), this concept just put my jaw through the floor.
(WEBcomics, I generally prefer to have a comment section, but the fact that most of the ones that don’t, it’s because the author doesn’t have the time or inclination to moderate the comments is a good indication of why the non/barely moderated comment sections on syndicated comics are not a good thing.)
Mary Worth is improved by a magnitude of light years by the comments. It’s all in finding the right bad crowd to run with.
The Comics Curmudgeon is the reason I began reading Mary Worth and Apartment 3-G.
G-d help me.
Just one? Hard.
I’d probably get rid of Marmaduke and Fred Basset, and because of this you might think I don’t like dogs, but I do. (I often really like Mutts. Not always, but often.)
My newspaper has been making the funnies smaller and smaller to fit in an ever decreasing space. As a result, things with too many words are impossible to read. Of course Sally FOrth was impossible to read anyway. I wish they’d just gotten rid of some of the ones I don’t read but if I can say that, so can somebody who doesn’t read the ones I like.
I think Rose Is Rose has pretty much exhausted all its possibilities.
There’s a lot of dead wood there, but I guess if somebody likes it (somebody likes Fred Basset?) then just keep shrinking that page.
It was a quirky little comic about a spooky kid, but the whole concept seemed to just wear thin after a while, especially the constant digs at Peanuts and other ‘classic’ strips.
Dilbert really started tanking when Scott Adams started chugging the MRA koolaid.
There’s one strip that used to be in the local paper – I think it was called Pickles – about two grumpy old farts and their grandson. I don’t think many people read this one at all; the one time I did, the punchline was borderline homophobic, but I don’t remember hearing any outcry against the strip.
Mutts is funny (probably unintentionally) when the cat starts singing about how much he loves the ‘little pink sock’.
Apartment 3-G, huh? That was a death spiral for the ages, wasn’t it?
I only read it for a few weeks. Very bizarre. Sunday was a review of the week.
I read Pickles every day, and I don’t remember any homophobic punchline.
Me and all the other old farts where I live love Pickles. He’s never been homophobic since I’ve been reading him.
Jeep’s Phoenix:
Wow. Different strokes for different folks, I guess, this is one of the reasons I listed Mutts as my “worst.” The author will have the cat sing “little pink sock” throughout a day’s strip and consider it a punch line of some sort. It may be cute in some way, but I’ve never thought of it as funny.
My old roommate loved Fred Basset. It was his favorite comic strip.
(I find F.B. entirely boring. Not “bad” really, just dull as nonfat milk.)
I think all newspaper comics are really unfunny and outdated and it’s only old people who still read them.
Anyway I think the worst is Shoe. It’s not offensive or anything but it seems like 95% of the strips are just puns and oneliners that have nothing to do with the characters and don’t need to be in a comic strip form at all.
All the other bad comics, at least at seems to me they usually do stories about the characters or the humor comes from the setting or something.
With Shoe, you could literally just tell allt he jokes in a text form and it wouldn’t be any different. It’s mostly old jokes and reused puns and stuff. It bottles my mind that you could make a living just doing that.
Did you read the OP? Because some of the strips they’re running suck. Not my problem that your local rag runs worse, but I did start this thread so you could list what they are. You’re welcome.
As far as the weird posts a couple of you left: I don’t know anyone who will deliver comic books to my home every morning for 47 cents a day so I have something to read on the toilet. And I’m not taking my IPad into a room that’s all steamed up from the shower. Newspapers are a dying thing, but they’re not THAT archaic yet.
It’s also a lot easier to take the crossword to the restaurant and do it with your sweetie.
Regarding Pickles…the strip ran a few years ago on a Sunday; I don’t remember much about the plot, but I do remember it ending with the old guy expressing relief that the kid wasn’t enjoying some toy or other item that he viewed as very feminine or not manly enough. Maybe I missed something, but the whole tone of that strip was a bit unsettling to me.
You take the paper for a shit, but others just come here and take a shit. 