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What about the younger children who like to read the comics? What are they going to read? My brother and sister attempt to read Non Sequitor (sp) and all of those other comics and have a forced laugh. It's not funny anymore whenever you try to explain it and they still don't get it. So a few of those "hated ones" hafta stay people!!
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I want to put in an argument for: Ziggy, Garfield, Peanuts, and Blondie.
Hey, some of the readers of the comics are actually kids. That's right. Some people who read the funny pages are just learning how to read. That's where I got my start reading. I worked on Blondie and BC. Small words and small sentences and a quick resolution are great for an early reading experience.
Sure, they are lame and weak for any adult, or even most pre-adolescents. Yet for the small kids, the historic base for comic readers, they are perfect.
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I like how Beatle Bailey is such a realistic portrayal of Army life. It's like you're right there... getting the smack-down from Sarge. Oh those wacky hijinx always get to me! Yuck Yuck!
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It is the most amazing piece of introverted surrealist graphic onanism, it has to be art.
And what planet are you on? It only pretends to make sense. He talks to statues as if they were real, which would be find except that they don't seem to answer him which means that they aren't real even in the confines of the comic strip. The only thing funny about Zippy is the fact that he thinks he's incredibly wise. Zippy deserves to die a horrible death.
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I agree with most of Tom's sentiments. I friend referred me to Pearls Before Swine, and I really like it. I'm also very partial to Non Sequiter.
I have to admit that I also frequently enjoy Frank & Ernest. It often relies on simple puns, but that's just fine with me.
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Frank and Earnest is constistently the best looking comic in the paper on Sunday. It may not be high art, but (unlike most comics) it is lots of fun to look at. As for their jokes, a lot of them are stupid. But some are so brilliantly clever as to make up for it.
Johnny Hart needs to be shot. Both BC and Wizard of Id are constistently lame. I wouldn't mind the preaching, really, but he does such a horrid job of it, usually saying little more than "I'm a Christian- so there!" Calvin and Hobbes preached sometimes, but did so skillfully, and actually had a message. Hart doesn't. Furthermore, the regular jokes look like he didn't even try.
Garfield for a while was the epitome of the lazy artist. All we saw was the table with a blank wall behind it. I remember one Sunday when he actually drew the edge of the table. They were too lazy to draw something that might look like a table, so they drew a box instead. It has gotten a little bit better lately, but I think the stip still needs to be canceled. If little kids need something to read, let new strips take the old ones' place.
One more note: Is it just me, or is Dilbert seriously starting to decline. It seems like it is becoming less a commentary on business and more a self parody. I hope Adams stops it before it gets too stupid.
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I always liked Prince Valiant. I have no idea why, seeing as it's not actually funny. At all.
I'll read most of the comics. I love Get Fuzzy, though, and I've got a soft spot for FoxTrot, but about the rest I'm rather ambivalent.
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Eh, I have to agree with Icarus on Red Meat. Not my thing. Sluggy, however, is hilarious and addictive. There are some valleys, but oh!the mountain peaks. You have to start at the beginning and work your way up, but it's worth it.
I don't read it anymore, though. The last slump was a long one.
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