Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#0

Posted: 11/27/05 at 3:16pm

I feel that most of today's comic strips are horribly drawn and horribly written. I mean seriously, Garfield? Not funny. Family Circus? Would be alright if not for the simple fact that it was the spawn of Satan. Cathy? Your one joke was run into the ground within the first year. Dilbert? Jumped the shark years ago.

So, I'd probably have to go with Doonesbury, with Boondocks running a close second. Doonesbury is not only hilarious but it's also thoughtful and quite biting. Plus its plotlines are highly complex for a comic strip. It's the one comic strip I could call "cerebral". Plus it has lost none of its flavor since its original objects of satire passed into the history books and has handled the change from the Cold War to today's War on Terror with effortless ease.

[yodamarie78]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#1

Posted: 11/27/05 at 3:19pm

Doonesbury, Boondocks, and For Better or For Worse are the only ones that I read every day.

[Kringas]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#2

Posted: 11/27/05 at 3:20pm

Hi and Lois

"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey

[Patronus]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#3

Posted: 11/27/05 at 3:21pm

Boondocks is the only strip that I read everyday.

Can't get into the animated series at all, but I still love the comic.

[zepka102]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#4

Posted: 11/27/05 at 3:21pm

Blondie

::bust a move::

[gavrochegirl]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#5

Posted: 11/27/05 at 3:21pm

Boondocks.

What the puck?!

[Calvin]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#6

Posted: 11/27/05 at 3:25pm

b.c., because it takes a real genius to work in fanatical Christian messages in a comic that takes place millions of years before the centerpiece of said religion even appeared.

And who can beat the humor? Just the other day, it showed a caveman looking up the word "stuff" in the dictionary. The definition said: What people do on Thanksgiving, first to the turkey, then to themselves. Pure genious, as I said! All those years of Thanksgiving, I never put together that coincidence.

[anjilly]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#7

Posted: 11/27/05 at 3:34pm

My fave comic ever is Calvin and Hobbes, but that doesn't really count even though papers still print it, since there are no new strips. Nothing amuses me quite as much.

Other than that... I like Foxtrot, I guess.

Ostriches are rad. Like, really.

[MargoChanning]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#8

Posted: 11/27/05 at 3:38pm

Boondocks is the only one I always read. I occasionally read Doonesbury when Trudeau has a good week going.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

[zepka102]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#9

Posted: 11/27/05 at 3:47pm

oh my gosh anjilly... the snowmen calvin builds CRACK ME UP!! where did you find that?? i seriously want to print it out :P

::bust a move::

[MyMeredithMonster]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#10

Posted: 11/27/05 at 4:12pm

Get Fuzzy & Zits (What can I say? I just like the fairly new ones.)

"Yeah, Clarissa, explain it all."

[rowers unite]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#11

Posted: 11/27/05 at 4:48pm

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE!!!!!

[wexy]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#12

Posted: 11/27/05 at 5:00pm

Boondocks
Get Fuzzy.

'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'

[anjilly]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#13

Posted: 11/27/05 at 6:04pm

the snowmen calvin builds CRACK ME UP!! where did you find that??

I've had it forever... can't remember where I got it, but every winter it resurfaces in email forwards somehow.

Ostriches are rad. Like, really.

Updated On: 11/27/05 at 06:04 PM

[melissa errico fan]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#14

Posted: 11/27/05 at 6:06pm

Doonesbury and Boondocks are the only ones I read on a regular basis.

[My Fair Lady]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#15

Posted: 11/27/05 at 6:07pm

Peanuts.

[CostumeMistress]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#16

Posted: 11/27/05 at 7:53pm

I also love bc.
Peanuts, if it counts.
NonSequiter.

Avatar - Isaac, my blue-fronted Amazon parrot. Adopted 9/7/07. Age 30 (my pet is older than me!)

[kate2]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#17

Posted: 11/27/05 at 7:55pm

Get Fuzzy is my absolute favorite followed by Peanuts just because i love Snoopy!


I've never heard of Boondocks

[Cruel_Sandwich]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#18

Posted: 11/27/05 at 7:58pm

Boondocks is great. It's about two black kids and their views on the world and current events. It's like Doonesbury although each strip is more or less self-contained and isn't an ongoing story.

[Pinguin]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#19

Posted: 11/27/05 at 9:30pm

I'm a sucker for dilbert -it's the only comic strip I really read every day.

-Anyone want to turn anarchist with me?

"Bless you and all who know you, oh wise and penguined one." ~YouWantItWhen????

[TheaterBaby]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#20

Posted: 11/28/05 at 11:53am

I LOVE "Get Fuzzy."
That cat is so sarcastic and sometimes stupid. They're like the modern day Garfeild and Odie.



Get Fuzzy Comics

"It's the little things; the details, that distinguish the Barbra Streisands from the Rosalyn Kinds."~Gilmore Girls~

Updated On: 11/28/05 at 11:53 AM

[JACXR71]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#21

Posted: 11/28/05 at 12:19pm

Zits!

Fox Trot and Baby Blues can be hit or miss, but I still enjoy them...

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

[Magdalene]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#22

Posted: 11/28/05 at 1:58pm

MUTTS!!!!

Followed by Doonesbury, Get Fuzzy, For Better Or For Worse, and others my brain won't let me remember!!

"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!"

[EponineThenardier]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#23

Posted: 11/28/05 at 2:15pm

Still Running: Mutts
Not running: Calvin and Hobbes

Nothing else comes close.

[Mister Matt]

re: Your Favorite Still-Running Comic Strip?#24

Posted: 11/28/05 at 6:40pm

Now:

Foxtrot
Get Fuzzy

Favorite retired strips:

The Far Side
Bloom County
Calvin and Hobbes

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian