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Taigan:
I agree with those gentle souls who claim that no comic, no matter how saccarine or stale, truly deserves death...  with one exception.

Fred Basset!  The years I lived in Minnesota it ran in the local paper and was incredible!  It was like a humor black hole.   I swear its only purpose is to make the other strips seem funnier.

There are many strips (Mallard Fillmore, Family Circus, B.C.) that I don't like, but I can see that they have their target audiences.  But seriously, who finds FB funny?  I can't imagine.

Praeserpium Machinarum:
This is some comics that I flat-out dislike:

Penny Arcade(I hate it, I really do)
in other words gamer comics
most comics involving a specific subculture
comics about lesbianism
Ziggy(boredom)
comics involving furries
Fred Bassett(called Freddy around here, still that is dire)
Achewood(I just can't get into it)


In other words I don't like most online comics.

Luke:
Phillipe is standing on it.

jeph:
This thread is kind of dumb. Why bother talking about stuff you don't like? All you're doing is giving work you dislike free publicity.

So instead I will say nice things about some comics mentioned here!

Achewood is the best webcomic out there right now. If you don't "get" it, you're missing out.

I used to be bugged by some aspects of PvP but I lightened up and have been enjoying it a lot more over the past year or so. Scott continues to do some of the subtlest character development you'll find anywhere in webcomics. As for Kurtz himself, I've never met the man so I can't make any judgement calls. He's very passionate about his opinions on the interweb, which is pretty admirable when you've got so many people out to demonize you.

Penny Arcade and VG cats are hysterical.

OverCompensating is 100% true.

MegaTokyo is a little slow as a webcomic but it works AMAZINGLY well as a printed book where you can read 150 pages in 15 minutes. Print is where Fred Gallagher's work belongs.

Get Fuzzy is the only newspaper comic strip worth reading anymore. Newspaper comics are a dead media. Phonographs versus compact discs.

For Better or For Worse gets points for staying power. I always found it hideously bland, but at least shit happens in that strip. Okay so I guess that is kind of a backhanded compliment, but whatever. I seriously doubt Lynn Johnston (sic?) cares about my opinion.

Also, it's disingenuous to use "[distilled version of a webcomic's premise]!" as a criticism. You can do that with ANY comic, whether you like it or not.

QC, for instance: Oh look, Marten's acting sheepish about something! I bet Faye will say something snarky! OH SHIT A HUMOROUS ANALOGY IN PANEL FOUR LOL

bucky_2300:
^ Slice.

Although I see your point, I like to have fun with some unbridled snarkiness now and then, and that is what this thread is for. Do I actually want to see Garfield and The Family Circus removed from newspapers,bookstores, and the internet?

Honestly, I don't give a crap. I don't even get the newspaper in my town because it's a right-wing rag, so my exposure to newspaper cartoons (and the editorial page - thank God) is extremely low. If I want to read a cartoon that appears/appeared in a newspaper, I buy the books. My extensive Calvin and Hobbes and Get Fuzzy collections will speak to that.

This thread was intended to be a harmless thread for people to unleash over-the-top vents in (see almost all posts on Fred Bassett) rather than a serious listing of comics that I want removed from my - and everyone else's - sight immediately.

Also, I apologize for being disingenuous on LICD. You're right that it can be done with anything, and that it's an unfair shot to take.

ps - For Better or for Worse deserves death purely for making me cry as a young boy when the first dog died. I wanted a comic, not dead-dog induced depression for the rest of the day.

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