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Comic Strips
All right, what category would you put the comics in? I see them in the daily paper, so surely they belong in my "subscriptions" list ... don't they?
In a world where The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes are no more, all that is left to sustain me are these three:
Dilbert. The nastiest and most truthful commentary on American business I've ever seen. I wish, though, that he hadn't listened to fans who nagged him to get rid of the personal stuff. I liked seeing Dilbert's personal life as well as the office bites. (Imagine if Beetle Bailey had been, for even one moment, as truthful and clever about army life as Dilbert is about business life, day after day, week after week.)
For Better or For Worse. Think of it as a grown-ups Gasoline Alley — I love following the ongoing storylines while trusting that each day's strip will have a point that is funny and truthful about family life. Humor and love at the same time — has any other comic strip ever done that? OK, sure, Calvin and Hobbes did it, but only with a constant war between the generations. There is no war in For Better or For Worse. Only the constant struggle to deal with life, made better when you have a good family around.
Sally Forth. Stiffly drawn and not really about my family (instead of a two-job household, we sort of have a no-job household), but it's still funny and witty and knowing, and, like For Better or For Worse, able to satirize the woes of family life without questioning the commitment at the foundation of it.
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