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⌈ Secret Post #5556 ⌋

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Inspired by 4.

The Far Side fucking rules.

I hate the Family Circus with a passion.

Calvin & Hobbes and Peanuts forever

Since you don't specify which category you sort them under, I now imagine you hate Peanuts. WHATEVER HAVE PEANUTS DONE TO YOU, HEATHEN??!

Not the anon you replied to but... while I can't say I HATE Peanuts, I can honestly say I never enjoyed them. Was indifferent to them as a kid because I simply didn't find them funny, and thought they thus had no business being in the "funny pages". As an adult I also find absolutely no reason to like them - the nostalgia factor is obviously out for me, I still don't find them funny, or charming, or endearing, or interesting.
I know most people ADORE them, however, and I'm sure they have their reasons, so I generally keep this to myself.

This is exactly how I feel about Peanuts, anon. You're not alone!

Re: Favorite/Least favorite Newspaper Comics

(Anonymous) - 2022-03-23 23:57 (UTC) - Expand

AYRT nooooooooooo i am now trapped into hating Calvin & Hobbes and Peanuts!! what a curse

No, I meant that I love them both. I think the reasons that Calvin & Hobbes is a work of genius are pretty obvious, and Peanuts has a combination of cartoonish simple line-drawing aesthetic + weird, dark soul that's really amazing imo.

Re: Favorite/Least favorite Newspaper Comics

(Anonymous) - 2022-03-23 23:19 (UTC) - Expand

just dropping in to note that everyone should check out the Comics Curmudgeon blog which mercilessly and hilariously mocks newspaper comics and has been doing so for like...14 years or something, so there's a LOT of amazing backposts to sift through for the sweet sweet vindication of seeing someone else rip on your unfavorites. He has a running joke that the Family Circus family is in a cult

I forgot about this blog! I used to read it every day. I should definitely dip back in.

Josh is very funny about the ridiculousness of newspaper comics without actually being unpleasantly mean. I feel like you have to be a fan of what you're mocking to keep a project like that going for so long.

I used to be a regular contributor to Comics Curmudgeon until I made a joke that got ignored by everybody and then somebody else made the exact same joke a little later and it got HUGE laughs. Bitter? oh, a tad

Zits was almost never funny.

Among many loves, Fat Freddy's Cat has a special place.

My favorites were The Far Side, Prince Valiant, Hagar the Horrible and Broom Hilda. I don't remember the ones I don't like because I mostly ignored those.

Favourite is definitely Cul de Sac. I love the way it portrays the imaginative world of children, complete with delightfully surreal turns.

Get Fuzzy is probably in second place.

I don't think I have a least favourite from among the tons that I dislike and avoid.

Get Fuzzy was hilarious! That, Foxtrot and Frazz are probably my favorites from (relatively) more recent years.

Far Side is the best. And yes, Family Circus is awful.

Loved The Far Side, Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy, and Garfield.

Hated Doonesbury.

Same with Doonesbury and all its pretentious offsprings.

The sick Family Circus memes crack me up, though.

F'd Up Family Circus
http://newsmutiny.com/pages/45fc_ru.html (nsfl, probably)

and I think there's a Dysfunctional Family Circus, too.

I was obsessed with Calvin and Hobbes. After that stopped running, I was obsessed with Big Nate... which is apparently now a franchise and getting its own show on Nickelodeon? I don't read newspaper comics anymore, so I just hope it's still good.

I hated Liberty Meadows and Zippy the Pinhead.

God, fucking Zippy the Pinhead

what a waste of space that strip was

I just remembered my least favorite strip - Mutts. Cannot stand that thing.

Hated For Better Or For Worse. Poor, poor Liz.

Favorite is Calvin and Hobbs.

Liked Far Side, Foxtrot, BC and Wizard of Id, Peanuts, Non Sequitur

Used to like Dilbert, but I can't read it anymore, thanks to, you know, Scott Adams being who he is.

Never really got into Bloom County or Doonesbury.

Did not like Andy Capp, Li'l Abner, Get Fuzzy.

Bristow was excellent, as were Fred Basset and Chipper. Modesty Blaise went over my head a bit, though I'd probably love it now.

I've never met anyone else who knows this strip, but One Big Happy was like Family Circus but worse because it was just one gag over and over, the little girl asking her parents what a nonsense phrase meant until they figured out it was an idiom she'd misheard (one I recall in particular: "Mom, who's Marjorie and why does she rule?" "No sweetie, it's majority rules." They were all like that). The girl also had a really annoyingly drawn mouth, it always looked like she was yawning whenever she talked.

Foxtrot didn't run in my paper, but I remembered that time when it made internet news for making a joke about the then-new and trendy All Your Base Are Belong to Us meme, and misquoting it as Belonging to Us without realizing that was wrong. A few years later my paper picked up the strip and I always cringed at it.

Love: the Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts.
Used to like Zippy but it really went downhill
Hate: Mutts, For Better Or Worse, Zits, Family Circus and sorry, above anons, but I hate Cathy too

Edited 2022-03-24 06:35 (UTC)

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