Comic strips that need to die. Now.
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WTF. I'm sorry, I know we all have differing opinions but...seriously. Gotta agree completely with Sir RobertPaulson here. When did QC become bad? I mean, I guess I understand if you didn't like it from the beginning...but Jeph's work has been pretty consistent with its writing style and overall storyline. Where do you think it went downhill?NameIsRobertPaulson said:
EDIT: Oh, just re-read your post. I guess if you thought it was always bad, it's just not your thing. *shrugs* Very sad though...QC is probably my favorite webcomic of all time. I look forward to it every day!
Sunday Funny page comics, well I stopped reading those when I was like 13 so, I dunno.
I can name a few online comics that used to be funny, but aren't anymore. GU Comics, Ctrl+Alt+Del, WTF Comics, Looking For Group and Least I Could Do just to name a few.
I can name a few online comics that used to be funny, but aren't anymore. GU Comics, Ctrl+Alt+Del, WTF Comics, Looking For Group and Least I Could Do just to name a few.
You know, I was a fan of Garfield for a long time, and I never found it particularly funny. More amusing, rather; something to clear your head with before turning in for the evening.MONSTERheart said:
On the other hand, Garfield Minus Garfield is some of the blackest and most brilliant humor I have ever seen. You should check it out.
I don't mind if people are liberals (well maybe I do), I just don't like them preaching about it. I don't watch the 700 club either. Comics should be funny or insightful imo, Doonesbury just often seems mean to me. If you don't agree with his thinking, then you are wrong. Calvin and Hobbs and Bloom County were thought provoking, and poked fun at everyone and everything. kinda like George Carlin (RIP)joelmarkel said:
I don't know that many of these comics even have much of a fan base. Some of them probably do (though I personally find it pretty hard to believe, honestly, of the likes of Marmaduke and Family Circus), but I suspect in more cases it's just that they don't generate a lot of complaints. They're too banal to generate any real heat, and they're never going to touch anything controversial enough to generate any in that way. The most radical thing FC has done in twenty years is have the "mom" change her hairstyle.
They stumble along much the same way many of the papers stumble along: because they've been there so long that the people responsible can't imagine them not being there. In some cases, they're walking corpses that no one has told to fall down. Whatever you might think of Peanuts, Charles Schulz had the wisdom to say that no one else should continue writing his strip after his death. If only the makers of B.C. and Shoe had done the same. (Comic syndicates, ladies and gentleman: let's have it for the necromancers of our age.)
At least when their banality becomes too much to bear there are sites like The Comics Curmudgeon to mock them.
They stumble along much the same way many of the papers stumble along: because they've been there so long that the people responsible can't imagine them not being there. In some cases, they're walking corpses that no one has told to fall down. Whatever you might think of Peanuts, Charles Schulz had the wisdom to say that no one else should continue writing his strip after his death. If only the makers of B.C. and Shoe had done the same. (Comic syndicates, ladies and gentleman: let's have it for the necromancers of our age.)
At least when their banality becomes too much to bear there are sites like The Comics Curmudgeon to mock them.
There are barely any comics in the news paper that are funny. the one a hate most is spider-man. It got my hopes up as a kid but it sucked every time. This week in spider-man everyones favorite wall-crawler does his taxes. Its like Kathy in spandex
And yet it is. *sigh*dbungus2000 said:
Too bad Fox Trot is only once weekly.Samurai Goomba said:
I was a fan of My Cage for the short amount of time my paper carried it, and Norm is pretty relatable to nerds and geeks, except for the girlfriend...
Mallard Fillmore: It's just not funny to me.
Cathy: I have the same opinion of this with Sex and the City; that it's really fucking awful.
Cathy: I have the same opinion of this with Sex and the City; that it's really fucking awful.
Indeed... and I think this day in age along w/ ripping on cartoons which do make people laugh... maybe not you or me... but humor is like your sexual prefrence, you don't know why, but it is who you are... and you can't change it. And until a few years ago I thought Dennis Miller was kind of funny till he went totally right wing. I'm afraid our humor has gone the way of our governments, a giant pendualom that refuses to stop in the middle so the rest of us can get a word in.Sakuji said:
Way off topic
FYI For Better or For Worse is finished. The artist retired a year or two ago. Any ones you are currently seeing are reprints.
Also chill, if you don't like the comics, don't read 'em. Stop wasting your energy hating on things that can very easily be ignored, esp since it's not going to make 'em go away. It's just going to make you miserable.
Also chill, if you don't like the comics, don't read 'em. Stop wasting your energy hating on things that can very easily be ignored, esp since it's not going to make 'em go away. It's just going to make you miserable.
Yeah, I know. I just want them to replace it with something new. And funny.canadamus_prime said:
Doonesbury's clever, I love the little subtlties and how political figures are portrayed. Like how Dubya was initially an empty cowboy hat, ("all hat and no cattle",) and eventually a centurian's helmet which got more and more battered as his terms went on.
You, sir, are likely to be in need of this:Souplex said:
On another note, Asterix. After Goscinny passed the series went downhill, to the point where the last one in the series (Le ciel lui tombe sur la tete) was, despite being flawless in its art, downright atrocious.
Red Meat!
That one has gotten more out and out laughing my balls off moments than any other comic strip. Next up in the lineup tho is C&H. Great stuff both.
That one has gotten more out and out laughing my balls off moments than any other comic strip. Next up in the lineup tho is C&H. Great stuff both.
Hmm, the only comics I can't stand in my paper that I can recall right now are One Big Happy and Between Friends. Absolute tripe in my opinion. Though Between Friends I'll be a little more lenient on, as the target demographic clearly does not contain me (at least I hope I'm not a middle-aged woman). That being said, I have to reiterate the point that has been made several times now that, just because something isn't to your taste, it doesn't have to die. Because were that the case, where everything someone didn't like died, we'd have nothing, because absolutely everything in the world has someone, somewhere that doesn't like it.