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Fun Stuff => MAKE => Topic started by: bucky_2300 on 31 Jul 2006, 20:17
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#1 - Family Circus
#2 - Blondie
#3 - Rex Morgan, M.D.
#4 - Least I Could Do
(purely opinion)
Add yours.
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Fred Bassett. Ugh. Painfully unfunny.
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Family Circus MUST ROT IN HELL!
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Cathy
Mr. Bofo
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What's wrong with Least I Could Do?
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For Better or For Worse, Family Circus, and Garfield should all go away from our world and newspapers.
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Moose Miller and everything else associated with Bob Weber needs to spontaneously combust.
EVERYTHING.
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^ Yes. Kill it now. Three-panel soap operas suck.
What's wrong with Least I Could Do?
It's the Garfield of webcomics now.
"Oh, hey, look! Rayne is going to try to have sex with a hot lady! Oh, wow, wacky hijinks! And he ends up having sex with her!"
"Look! A completely outrageous and wacky plotline involving Rayne acting like a superhero/Aragorn/an astronaut and having sex in the end!"
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kill garfield, family circus
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family circus is so fun to make fun of though
cathy is just horrible
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Fred Bassett. Ugh. Painfully unfunny.
I agree. It's not even a comic, it's like a drawn representation of completely uninteresting events in the day of a completely uninteresting dog.
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B.C. (Any and all Hart strips must die.)
Marvin. (It's Garfield in a poopy diaper.)
Gasoline Alley. (ZOMGDIAFPLZKTHXBY)
Soap comics (The Phantom, Prince Valiant, Rex Morgan, Mary Worth, etc. We've grown past it, people.)
Funky Winkerbean. (This one's actually on the fence. With a little more sass and a little less of the taking-itself-so-damn-seriously, it could be enjoyable.)
Frank and Ernest.
Marmaduke.
Mother Goose & Grimm. (This one saddens me. I remember waaay back when it was funny, and I watched it slip into the realm of *bleh* within two years of its inception.)
Hagar the Horrible. (NOT FUNNY ANY MORE. Was it ever? I don't think anyone remembers.)
Captain Vincible. (See Hagar.)
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Fred Bassett. Ugh. Painfully unfunny.
I agree. It's not even a comic, it's like a drawn representation of completely uninteresting events in the day of a completely uninteresting dog.
Dudes, it's modern art, or something.
It's also maybe twice elicited a very slight smile out of me, which is more than, for example, the other 6 comic strips in the Daily Mail have ever done. All those need to go.
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marmaduke. the dinette set. garfield (though i used to love it, it's gotten really boring). mary worth should die. family circus isn't in my newspaper, but i don't like it anyways. and i think it's time that they killed dennis the menace. i hate that comic.
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I like Hagar the Horrible ... but I suppose someone has to!
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I can’t see why Family Circus is still in papers. If God exists it must be his favorite comic and that’s the only reason its still around.
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i dont like to read The Family Circuss!! have them grow up and get fucked by life! and Garfield....may your once funny soul rest in piece
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You guys, the thing with almost everything you are suggesting (except say, LICD) is kind of like saying "Good Charlotte are an awful band." They are soft targets. Garfield, Family Circus and Fred Bassett being awful is self-evident.
That said, I am not really sure I like LICD. The guy who draws it is a cool guy, but it's just not really for me. I don't think it's in my "must die" category though.
One that is in my "must die" category is Chugworth Academy. The art is pretty good, but the everything else is absolutely fucking horrible.
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"Just because something sucks, doesn't mean you can't enjoy it."
OK, I'll agree that there are a lot of awful strips out there, but I don't think we should get rid of all of them. Soap opera strips can be so boring, but the subtext is awesome. Check out The Comics Curmudgeon (http://www.joshreads.com/), he talks about a bunch of newspaper comics, and makes you enjoy (and hate) them more.
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One that is in my "must die" category is Chugworth Academy. The art is pretty good, but the everything else is absolutely fucking horrible.
seconded
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I still like LICD, but I think I preferred it before Lars took over
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If we got rid of all the bad newspaper comics, then Comics Curmudgeon (http://joshreads.com) wouldn't have any material. Josh and his loyal readers love to make fun of the funny pages.
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Yeah, a few comics that dont deserve existance are:
Dennis the Menace.
Marmaduke.
Family Circus.
Garfield USED to be funny. Now its boring.
The Lockhorns
Doonsbury
and Between Friends.
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For all haters of the terrible Marmaduke ... check this out:
http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Panel_Project/index.php?p=58290
Its only what we've dreamed about for years!
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Garfield needs to get back to it's roots.
Meaning it needs to stop being the same joke every goddamn day.
EDIT: Wow, it actually did for like a full week.
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Ginger Meggs
Snake...
Two *detestabily* unfunny comics...
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Fred Bassett. Ugh. Painfully unfunny.
I agree. It's not even a comic, it's like a drawn representation of completely uninteresting events in the day of a completely uninteresting dog.
Dudes, it's modern art, or something.
It's also maybe twice elicited a very slight smile out of me, which is more than, for example, the other 6 comic strips in the Daily Mail have ever done. All those need to go.
We could just save a lot of hassle and get rid of the Daily Mail.
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For all haters of the terrible Marmaduke ... check this out:
http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Panel_Project/index.php?p=58290
Its only what we've dreamed about for years!
heh heh heh. that makes it a WHOLE lot better. ^_^
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To be fair to Family Circus...it's not aimed at us, at all. It's for young kids (you know...who should read the funny pages). It's meant to be safe, bland humour. Granted it's not "funny", but it doesn't hurt us.
Garfield is similar, only it used to be funny. However the recent 'date' storyline was damned good. Since when does Garfield have continuity?
Comics that must die?
Honestly, I don't believe in such a thing. I like Least I Could Do, it's not serious or realistic, but it's fun, well drawn, and always on-time. You don't like it, that's fine, I can see why you wouldn't, but don't call for it's death, just don't have it in your bookmarks.
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http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF187-Way_Too_Much.png#178
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To be fair to Family Circus...it's not aimed at us, at all. It's for young kids (you know...who should read the funny pages). It's meant to be safe, bland humour. Granted it's not "funny", but it doesn't hurt us.
Garfield is similar, only it used to be funny. However the recent 'date' storyline was damned good. Since when does Garfield have continuity?
Comics that must die?
Honestly, I don't believe in such a thing. I like Least I Could Do, it's not serious or realistic, but it's fun, well drawn, and always on-time. You don't like it, that's fine, I can see why you wouldn't, but don't call for it's death, just don't have it in your bookmarks.
This ain't about being reasonable and measured, this is about being opinionated and hateful towards the hard work of others (or their writing teams, in Garfield's case.)
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This ain't about being reasonable and measured, this is about being opinionated and hateful towards the hard work of others (or their writing teams, in Garfield's case.)
No, you suck!
I guess I'm taking this too seriously, I just find it harsh to call for a comics death.
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i don't understand how a abstract construct such as a comic can die in any literal sense of the word considering they are not alive to begin with.
in short: " NO noob You Shut up!!1!! "
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In any case, I am suggesting that people go all Fahrenheit 451 on certain comics. And I'm not referring to the trendy abortions or wall-sized TVs.
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I actually like For Better or Worse... it's cool how i've practically grown up with the characters. When I was little, they were still little kids!
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Either newspaper comics have gone seriously downhill since I was a kid, or I just don't laught at everything anymore. Except for Get Fuzzy. It's always funny.
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Get Fuzzy is in our newspaper only on Sundays, but I get it in my e-mail (comics.com) every weekday. It's just plain funny.
I just wish in general that the newspapers would stop wasting so much paper and ink on comics that aren't funny.
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Mallard Filmore and BC.
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I'm going to get rather a LOT of flak for this...
If only PVP online and its tyrannical maker could die in the tarpits somewhere!
Oh, and, uh, For Better or For Worse, totally agreed.
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Some of you may not be thinking this all the way through. If it weren't for comics like Megatokyo, some of the Megatokyo forum-dwellers might be here . . . .
Anyway . . . does anyone actually read newspaper comics anymore? I mean, in my mind that not so much bad as completely irrelevant.
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Family Circus MUST ROT IN HELL!
to quote nothing nice to say, is it supposed to piss you off?
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Anyway . . . does anyone actually read newspaper comics anymore? I mean, in my mind that not so much bad as completely irrelevant.
If no one bought newspapers, they would have disappeared a LONG time ago. And most of the people who buy papers turn to the comics section too.
Of course, most of the people who read the newspaper "funnies" don't even know webcomics exist. They may not even know there are web-based versions of the comics in the paper.
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I'm going to get rather a LOT of flak for this...
If only PVP online and its tyrannical maker could die in the tarpits somewhere!
Oh, and, uh, For Better or For Worse, totally agreed.
He's really not tyrannical - just emotionally charged. PvP isn't a bad strip either, and Kurtz has been really trying to make it better and has even admitted he had been giving one character a raw deal. I'm not flaming, I just can't get on board with that idea.
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I used to find PVP mildly entertaining. I can't now think of the last time it was even that (maybe the whole Joss Whedon is our master now thing?) I understand that Kurtz is successful at what he does, and apparently he just picked up some more awards, so someone out there in this grand internet of our must enjoy it. I'm fairly confident that their senses of humor aren't synched with mine though. And the medieval bits with the bard . . . dear me are those ever bad. I don't even get what the comedic intent is. I find it on a par with newspaper comics in terms of non-funniness.
But more importantly, I find Kurtz's take on female/male relationships and gender roles anti-deluvian. I went over the last 20 or so over the weekend, and this latest plot arc is out of a bad 80's sitcom (redundant, yes I know). I'm all for a good fart joke, but good is the operative word. "I don't think it's the horse" does not a punch line make for the above 12 crowd.
Now fruit-fucker juicing zombies, The Boy's IQ dropping, librarian chicks quipping in iambic pentameter, Snake slitting Mario's throat, dinosaurs talking about Kant, Roast Beef driving a man to a heart attack by commenting on his thighs <stops>, a small girl being made to cry to test the durability of tissue, a gay black robot bent on world domination, a pink boneless cat being used as a scarf -- these things are funny. And if you don't think so you're clearly wrong.
If no one bought newspapers, they would have disappeared a LONG time ago. And most of the people who buy papers turn to the comics section too.
Didn't mean to suggest that paper newspapers are irrelevant, just that the newspaper funny sections are. And by irrelevant I don't mean unpopular -- I mean irrelevant to us, the people who enjoyed QC enough to bother posting in the forum. I honestly don't know anyone in my generation who reads that shit. What with the standards of most family newspapers and the desire to reach all niches and all generations that characterize most newspapers, you're pretty much always going to have shit. I mean, if they published Achewood in the New York Times, that would be awesome, I'd look forward to it every morning -- but they never will. I don't think 99% of the NYT readership would appreciate Pat's Id's cock hanging out of a pair of chaps. It's like that old latin maxim "vox populi, vox poopie."
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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.
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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.
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Phillipe is standing on it.
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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
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^ 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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I could do without Goats.
It climaxed around the time of the war with JelloCorp.
Now it's just... meh.
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Fucking SALLY FORTH.
Everyone likes to rag on the obviously bad strips like Marmaduke and Family Circus, but Sally Forth is just as terrible as either of those. It's a bad sitcom in comic strip form.
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uhhh, I'm actually trying to get my strip INTO the papers...
But as for strips I don't like none more: I recently stopped reading Sinfest... I don't know what it is, I don't like it anymore. I find it boring and it was almost a chore to click on the bloody bookmark.
With any luck I'll find more strips to read that have a 'staying' power. Or maybe I'm just too picky? Meh.
-Jamie
67th Avenue (http://www.67thavenue.com)
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This is some comics that I flat-out dislike:
most comics involving a specific subculture
In other words I don't like most online comics.
So you want QC to go bye-bye?
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I gave up on mewspaper comics after Liberty Meadows was shit canned for being too risque. Please. What a waste of a funny, funny strip. I checked back in when my paper started reprinting the Peanuts strips from the sixties but they removed those as well in favour of another bad strip by the guy who does the equally bad Crankshaft. So add Crankshaft and Funky Winterbean to that list of strips to die.
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CAD.
CAD must die.
Tim Buckley is the highest degree of asshole, and it's really just not funny any more. It's sad to see a comic degenerate into thin plots that seem excuses for bad punchlines, but when it happens, it's much better to throw in the towel than it is to prolong the misery.
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Family Circus should keep on going for one reason: in cases of extreme boredom, you can erase the text from the comics and replace them with something perverted/violent/etc.
Infact, Family Circus should just be printed without text- it'd save everyone time.
As for Garfield, just erase all of Garfield's thought bubbles. Example:
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yeah.
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God damn I love Garfield without cat-dialogue in it.
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Mallard Fillmore. Not because i disagree with the politics (everybody has a right to express their views) but because all it is is "goddamn liberal media" over and over. Nor can i see why ANYBODY finds it funny.
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Mallard Fillmore. I can put up with the politics from the opposite end of the spectrum (eg. Prickly city) But Mallard Fillmore is hateful. Unfunny/unkind/mean.
Curtis is often unkind as well.
Family Circus.
I can't really say much about Fred Bassett, but I do know something about one joke / one animal 'toons. (Maybe SealPoet must die... but not yet.)
I can't read Sylvia. I like the humor, but I literally cannot read it: too much work to decipher the handwriting.
Then there's that strip about an anthropomorphic yet misanthropic cat, who's hapless owner couldn't get a date and who terrorizes the dog... you know who I mean.
Oh, sorry, that's Get Fuzzy.
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Tim Buckley is the highest degree of asshole,
Tim Buckley is an asshole? He seems like a pretty nice guy to me. Besides, "I hate the guy who makes it" seems like a pretty shitty reason not to like their work.
Anyway, I don't really hate any webcomics, but if I come across one more webcomic about transgenderism I think I might have a nervous breakdown. I thought El Goonish Shive and Misfile were enough of that. Hear that, The Wotch? You too, Abstract Gender? We don't need you. And you're not an exception, Discordia!
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That's the problem with starting a webcomic today-it's damn near impossible to come up with a truly original idea-especially if you're "inspired" by other webcomics. And if you somehow do come up with something truly original, you risk it being so different that no-one can relate to it and you can't get any readers.
Of course it could also be a runaway hit because it's so different, but you might as well flip a coin to figure out which it'll turn it to be.
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It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't deal with the same subject in the same manner.
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Right. I don't mind so much if the overall concept of a comic is similar to others as long as they don't all do the same jokes. I'm personally tired of comics that just involve random killing or a cast of random animals that talk. It's like they tried to make the shell of the comic appear different but most of those all use the same jokes.
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i think what we need to get rid of is whoever created the CSI graphic novels
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Rose Is Rose. God, death by saccharin.
I like For Better or for Worse. It's unrealistically innocent, but sometimes that's fine with me. Anyway the cartoonist plans to retire the strip next year so I'm interested to see what she comes up with for a finale.
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Marmaduke would be unbearable if I didn't have Joe Mathlete (http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/) around to explain it.
P.S.- Removing Garfield entirely is also funny.
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I concur. Garfield is riotous without Garfield's speech bubbles.
I should know because I've made a shitload of those comics myself.
Maybe I'll post some of them. Oh wait. No. I lost all of them in the T35 crash.
Well, they were moderately funny.
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I think Starslip Crisis is severly overrated, and I don't read it anymore. I have the feeling I may be alone on this.
To digress slightly (whoo!) "niche" comics were mentioned earlier. I have to concur. Now, QC works because you can "get" it without being into indie. It's more about the characters. Now, if you're not into punk, you won't get Nothing Nice to Say. I think the best comics are never exculsively about a "niche." Which is I think why I can't get into Penny Arcade. I acknowledge that it's quality work, but it just leaves me cold.
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Heh. Garfeild w/out Garfield -is- funny...
As for other comics though, I only read the following: Foxtrot, Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy, Soup 2 Nutz (I now only read it hoping to see more Rosemary Santollni!), and Over the Hedge. I also read Ripleys Belive It Or Not, but that's trivia and not actuall meant to be funny...
The one comic that I think -must- die... PRINCE VALLIANT! I have never read this comic, you probably may never have heard of this comic, because I think my sunday paper is the only paper in the entire USA that prints it...but oh my god...it must die. Way to much detail, way to serious a storyline for a Sunday morning. That and Opus (it annoys me, even if Opus himself is a cutie).
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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.
I find it strange that Fred Basset is actually put out in the US. It's either some meta-surreal joke that no one gets, and thus the best comic strip ever, or its designed by government scientists to sedate us. Has anyone ever tried reading Fred Basset when they're really high? I wonder what the results would be...
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Get Fuzzy is the only newspaper comic strip worth reading anymore. Newspaper comics are a dead media. Phonographs versus compact discs.
If..., The Pain and every strip printed in Private Eye (Especially It's Grim Up North London, Scenes You Seldom See and Young British Artists) disagree with you. If... and The Pain are more political/current affairs cartoons of course (though If... is definitely a comic strip, with story arcs and whatnot), which I suppose is a whole different thing, and a much more thriving field that the internet has yet to seriously touch on (can't think right now of anything online that can match up to Nature Notes or Giles).
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Comic I've been enjoying lately is "Pearls Before Swine", anyone else seen it, it's pretty cool 8-)
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God, I guess this is the closest any discussion will get to considering Family Circus as anything close to entertainment, so here it is.
http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/perm.php?c=27&q=103 (http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/perm.php?c=27&q=103)
Please, click it if you like Nietzsche as much as you hate Family circus
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I still like LICD, but I think I preferred it before Lars took over
Oh man, Lar Desouza was the best thing that ever happened to LICD. At best, the previous artists were extremely unimaginative.
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This thread seems like good enough a place as any to dump some dialogue-less Garfield.
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