Which comics do you enjoy and which don't you?
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yesitszen (
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September 30th, 2018
Are there comics you find unfunny?
For those game and bold: which comics do you “just not get”?
Non Sequitur, Doonesbury, Dilbert, Peanuts et al.
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I find most sunday comics unfunny, but I especially can’t stand the Pickles comic, it’s too smug for its own good
Enjoy Garfield, Doonesbury ( which I don’t get sometimes ), Rover? and Calvin and Hobbes.
Luann by Greg Evans is #1 for me in this paper.
They include a space for The Family Circus, which is a waste of space and paper.
This paper must hire idiots. Several years ago, they ran Spiderman, which is a continuous serial 7 days a week. Ol’ Spidey was involved with a particularly vicious bad guy and a incredibly beautiful blond. A real nail-biter!!! On the Sunday when the plot all came together for the finale, the paper deleted that whole section of comics for some ad, and I never saw how it all ended. But I did see how my subscription ended the next day!
One of my favorites is Tundra. I kind of gravitate toward the single frame ones like Non Sequitur and Argyle Sweater. I enjoy Dustin and Arlo & Janice, F-Minus.
Dislikes, are Family Circus, Blondie, Curtis, Tank McNamara, Mutts, and sadly Peanuts has run its course I am seeing it again for the third and fourth time.
I’ve always enjoyed Walt Disney’s comics since I was a child. Donald Duck and Gober Duck are my favourites. I also enjoyed Monica and friends. These days I read manga instead of comic but I rarely choose to read that given the choice (I prefer novel).
I used to enjoy several in the regular papers, but I find fewer and fewer funny now. When I was about ten years old, I read a lot of current and older Mad Magazine, and some joke books, and I noticed at some point my patience and interests and tastes shifted – I went from being excited to read a lot of joke comics to them needing to be really funny and not too awful or mean or stupid to me, and so I went from wanting to read 70–80% of them, with lots of endurance, to wanting to read 1–10% of them, with not much endurance.
There are several I’ve always disliked or not found funny, and/or that make me think “what kind of person thinks this is funny or good or thinks like this or thinks to create and read this? I think they must be very strange at best and/or people I would really would not like”.
I am also curious about the situation comedy comics which have been going on for many decades, but the characters never age or change in any way, and where the joke is basically just that the characters are what they are, and are exaggerated and have different points of view. Beetle Bailey is still a private, Sarge is Sarge, and the same General has the same secretary – the author recently died, but the same old comics keep coming, every (?) day for 67–68 years… Blondie is still surprised by Dagwood’s sandwich size. Families never age. The Family Circus is still in family hell. All of them are trapped in time-loop dimensions where they don’t realize they are repeating their same life situation forever. They must all have offended the gods or Time Lords severely.
(I do generally get the ones you mentioned: Non Sequitur, Doonesbury (can take a lot of context), Dilbert (takes IT work context), and Peanuts.)
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