Wastes of space on the comics section

[Yukari Yakumo]

Here's a simple question; What ongoing comic strips should be given the ax? Here's a few of my picks:

Mallard Fillmore- RW propaganda that's more ill-informed than your looniest of Freepers.
B.C.- Once upon a time it was a good series. Then, in the early 90's, Johnny Hart became a extreme fundie hack and it shows, frequently, in the strip.
Family Circus- No family, no one, is this saccharine and bland. Unfunny and hasn't been in decades.
Prince Valiant- zzzzzz... I know it isn't humor, but this could cure insomnia.
Peanuts reruns- Schultz is dead, has been for over 5 years, and every good thing must come to an end. Time for new blood for the papers, or is the talent pool that weak? (Looks up) Nevermind, Charlie stays.

[terrya]

1. Blondie

I know a lot of people still like it, but it's time to send Dagwood and Blondie to the comics old folks home. It's just...so boring.

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. I dunno

Blondie's still too hot to be shipped off to Shady Acres.

[Left Is Write]

25. But they're still wearing their 1920s hairstyles!

[Race4Peace]

3. Andy Capp

Ditto on Valiant, it gets more space on the funnies page than opus. sickening.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. "Born Loser"

Lame and dated.

[Pool Hall Ace]

5. Dennis the Menace, Sally Forth, Cathy, Family Circus

[Left Is Write]

28. Sally Forth hasn't been funny since the original guy stopped writing it...

and that was years and years ago.

[Initech]

6. Mallard Fillmore, definitely.

He's proof that the republicans have no sense of humor.

[hsher]

7. B.C. and Cathy

B.C. reeks. Back when he was a normal human being and not a cult member, Johnny Hart had this delicious hippie/freak sense of humor. Who could forget Fat Broad? Now every strip is "accept my Savior." Accept these nuts. Time to tombstone it.

Cathy presents women in a way we just aren't anymore. I don't know a single Single Woman who relates to any of that chocolate-jonesing, crazed-shopaholic, am-I-fat, gotta-hava-man desperacy anymore, or who has since 1989 or so. It's a dead paradigm. Women are different now. Chocolate, shopping and men have been replaced by online businesses, blogs and our cats. Cathy needs to update to reflect this or its author's sense of womanhood is obsoletely charming like the equally dead Flintstones. Update or tombstone.

I say let Peanuts rest now. Every day I see it my heart is torn open remembering Schulz is gone. Let him fade honorably.

Tombstone Peanuts and give us The Fabulous Flying Furry Freak Bros. ;)

Edited to add: ... or MY comic (below)

[astral]

17. But Cathy did get married

I think lots of women can relate to Cathy. Craving chocolate, going shopping and coming home with much more than you thought you intended, wondering if the chocolate has made you fatter and wondering if it matters anyway . . . Hey, I like it!

And I can't wait to find out how Irving feels about it!

[hsher]

32. Sorry I dissed Cathy

My bad :D

[Pool Hall Ace]

38. Oh, how could I forget B.C.?

The last time I read B.C., the message was something like, "Be glad your mother was pro-life." I was pissed. Just because someone is pro-choice doesn't mean that they will always choose to terminate a pregnancy! I found myself screaming at the page!

I would love to see the Freak Brothers again, but can you imagine any paper swapping out Mallard Fillmore for them? :rofl:

[mainegreen]

8. I know people who are *ADDICTED* to Prince Valiant.

They buy the paper just to read that strip.

Crazy.

[WindRavenX]

10. like my 81 year old grandmother

:o

[mainegreen]

14. Yeah, most of the people I'm refering to are at that end of the age spectrum.

:P

[ikojo]

21. I used to read Prince Valiant religiously when I was

a kid. I tried to read it a few years ago and didn't enjoy it nearly as much.

[trof]

9. Yeah, but I wish Pogo could be revived.

We could really use him now.

[hsher]

11. True dat

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. I remember when they tried that about 10 years ago. Not so good.

[Left Is Write]

27. I had a Pogo book when I was a kid, when many of the political references

went over my head. I still loved it, and I did "get" quite a bit of it. I wish I still had that book.

[Kutjara]

12. Do they still run that "Love is..." crap?

You know, the one featuring the pudgy couple with vacant eyes and no genitals? It was all, "Love is...never having to get an AIDS test" or somesuch.

That used to give me USDA Grade-A ass ache.

[Redstone]

19. Oh, that was fucking revolting. Haven't seen it in years, fortunately.

Redstone

[hsher]

34. Revisit your nightmare! Bwaaaa ha ha ha ha haaaa

They should make a dysfunctional modern version.
"Love is... him asking you for a threesome."

[hsher]

33. This is sick but I like "Love Is"

It's the Seventies childhood factor. Creepy little bastards, but soooo Seventies!

[ironflange]

15. Doonesbury

Just kidding, got your attention!

All of the mentioned ones (except Blondie, featuring the hottest mother/daughter combo in comicsdom)
Close to Home: never funny, poorly drawn to boot
Marvin: ick
Archie: was funny as hell long ago when Bob Montana did it, now it's really tired
Hi and Lois: sadly failing to keep up with the times, and Trixie gives me cavities
Broomhilda: jumped the shark when she gave up cigars and started being nice

[Race4Peace]

16. archie's existence is bad enough, but

lasting this long as the owners of sonic the hedgehog, WTMF?!

[Archae]

18. The only ones I like anymore are in the Sunday paper.

"Pickles," and "Dilbert."

Ad to the list of the has-beens above, "Garfield."
Today's was no exception.
Garfield playing joke on Odie.
Odie pulls a fast one.
(snore)

The rest I get on-line.
"Kevin and Kell"
"Ozy And Millie"
"Freefall"

"Dungeons and Denizens" is a hoot and a half, they just included a new character, a "hero" by the name of "Percival Von Fluffypants." :rofl:
(I think he's modeled after Bush!)

[Redstone]

20. How about the "soap opera" strips, like Mary Worth and Judge Parker? Not to mention

Gil Worth. Does ANYBODY really want to read a strip about high-school sports?

Redstone

[Left Is Write]

24. I used to follow Gasoline Alley, but none of the others.

I didn't even know Mary Worth and Judge Parker still existed.

[Pool Hall Ace]

39. Do you mean Gil Thorp? I used to follow him over 20 years ago.

Same with Gasoline Alley.

Doesn't Gasoline Alley run in real-time? Skeezix has to be pushing up daisies by now.

[mitchum]

22. Family Circus, Cathy, Heathcliff, Rhymes With Orange (Rhymes With Suck)

[Left Is Write]

23. Completely agree on BC and Family Circus.

Family Circus was cute and funny in its day. Its day has been gone for thirty or forty years.

[spacelady]

26. No one has mentioned Beetle Bailey yet? n/t

[Left Is Write]

29. Yeah, considering it was supposed to be Korea he served in.

He's past his prime!

[hsher]

35. Beetle in Iraq

Anyone want to draw that one for us?
Anyone?

[Yukari Yakumo]

30. Expanding on my Hart criticism...

First there was the 11-10-03 strip involving the outhouse and (I)slam. Some could spin themselves out of that one... but not his 7-3-06 strip:



Hmmm...
"Star"... "Crescent moon"... And the supposed punchline is "a lunatic".

I don't think there's any doubt now, Hart is at least an anti-Islamic bigot. I wouldn't doubt he's an anti-Semite and a racist too. (I remember the stereotypes of Italians and Native Americans he used a few years back.)

[hsher]

36. Check out THESE bigoted Johnny Hart entries

And yes, he is anti-Semitic too. See it all below:







As a Jew, I can say we were really much unilaterally disturbed by the "snuffed menorah" image in the last one. But as a progressive Jew, the first one against Islam is exactly as noxious.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

31. Prickly Shitty

I mean City.

[Bridget Burke]

37. Brewster Rockit: Space Guy!

Badly drawn & unfunny. The Houston Chronicle has a huge selection of comics & I have no problem skipping over the ones I dislike.

But this waste of ink replaced "9 Chickweed Lane"!

[Patiod]

40. Disagree on Peanuts

I'm glad they're re-running the older ones - they're just so good. Forty years later, and I think they stand up to almost anything being written today.

Agree on Fillmore, BC, & Family Circus. And as someone else mentioned, Rhymes with Orange is dreadful.

I know that there are a lot of Opus fans out there, but it's been awful (and I used to really like Bloom County).

[jakefrep]

41. Prince Valiant is kind of like '24'...

Competely impossible to figure out unless you've seen every installment since the beginning of time.