Favorite & Least Favorite Comic Strips

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<p>I’ve been enjoying the Favorite Children’s Books and Most Cringeworthy Children’s Books threads tremendously, and they prompt me to ask for comic strip nominations in the same two categories. Or maybe it should be three: Favorite of All Time, Favorite Current, and Most Unbearable (free choice).</p>

<p>For me, all-time favorite: Calvin & Hobbes
Current favorite: Zits
Most Unbearable: Family Circus </p>

<p>I’ve got plenty of runners up and also rans, but what do the rest of you have to say?</p>

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<p>Agree on all time favorite: Calvin & Hobbes and
Current favorite: Zits
Despise: The Lockhorns
Favorite “soap opera” strip: Tie between Funky Winkerbean and For Better or Worse.</p>

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<p>Most Unbearable: Zippy
Current Favorite: Zits (I have a teenage son, what can I say? I can’t tell you how many strips I’ve cut out and left on his desk)
All time favorite: Peanuts</p>

<p>Obviously the comic strips vary by newspaper. When we moved here 18 months ago, I was somewhat dismayed by how many odd/strange/just plain weird comics (?) there are in the local daily paper.</p>

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<p>All time favorite: Calvin and Hobbes
Current favorite: Dilbert, but Zits is a close second
Never did like the action hero strips
Not technically a strip, but I’ve always like Far Side</p>

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<p>Alltime Favs: Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes
Current can’t miss: FoxTrot (Sunday’s only), Zits, Stone Soup (teenagers, enough said), Baby Blues, Pearls before Swine</p>

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<p>Favorite(s) - Doonesbury and Dilbert</p>

<p>Honorable Mention - Bizzaro</p>

<p>Gone But Not Forgotten - The Far Side</p>

<p>Don’t like - Pretty much all the rest.</p>

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<p>Absolute favorite right now – Pearls before Swine (love those crocodiles)
Past favorites – Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County</p>

<p>Grew up with Peanuts.</p>

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<p>Don’t get a paper, but the one I’m most likely to look up online is Zits. I miss Calvin and Hobbes.<br>
Meanwhile, my S sent me this today, to cheer me up:
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<p>Dilbert, best ever.</p>

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<p>All time favorites: Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side</p>

<p>Current faves: Zits, Foxtrot (sadly only on weekends and not in my paper), Doonesbury, Sherman’s Lagoon</p>

<p>Online: I like xkcd</p>

<p>Don’t get at all: Zippy</p>

<p>Despise: The Lockhorns, Garfield, Family Circus</p>

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<p>Wow. Sometimes I look at Zits, but I don’t experience anything like the love you all feel for it. It seems like a normal comic strip, one I don’t look for.</p>

<p>My comic-strip hall of fame:
Peanuts
Pogo
the Jules Feiffer panels in the Village Voice in the 60s-early 70s
Doonesbury
Bloom County
Calvin and Hobbes
Dilbert
Mafalda (Argentinian from the 60s-70s, like a politicized Peanuts)</p>

<p>Almost:
Boondocks
Sylvia
For Better Or For Worse
[current strip whose name I can’t remember with a dog named Satchel, his owner Rob, and a nasty cat – sort of like a hip version of Garfield]
Life In Hell
Shoe
Foxtrot
Miss Peach
Beetle Bailey – how I used to love that!</p>

<p>Can’t stand:</p>

<p>Garfield
Prince Valiant
Gil Thorpe
Rex Morgan, M.D.
The Lockhorns - ugh!
The Family Circus</p>

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<p>All Time Favorites: Bloom County
Calvin and Hobbes
Doonesbury
Boondocks
Zippy has its moments of brilliance
The Far Side</p>

<p>Current Favorites: Again, Zippy has its moments
Tank McNamara
Pearls Before Swine
Dilbert</p>

<p>Hate: Mark Trail
Apartment 3B
Family Circus</p>

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<p>Current and longtime favorite: Zits. (Whatever happened to Chad anyway?)</p>

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<p>He went to college! Chad, I mean. And grew a beard. Once in a great while he appears, and sometimes he calls home.</p>

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<p>From my early youth sitting on my father’s lap on a Sunday-
Alley Oop
The Phantom</p>

<p>Loved Farside
Liked Mark Trail, (thanks for the memory, had completely forgotten)
Despised Dick Tracy and especially Mary Worth, and L’il Orphan Annie, oh , and Brenda Starr</p>

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<p>Favorite: Bloom County, with Calvin & Hobbes a close runner-up
Current favorites: Doonesbury, Fox Trot</p>

<p>Despise: Adam (the least funny dialogue ever), For Better or Worse (enough with the adorable animals already)</p>

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<p>Oooh, Wharfrat mentioned Pearls before Swine - I forgot that one. That is another I’ll look up online. Maybe even more often than Zits. And I will also look up Dilbert now and then, since my H could write for them!</p>

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<p>Who likes Family Circus: “Not Me”
For Better or Worse is a preachy bore. Canada, keep your comic strips and send us your prescription medicine, stat!</p>

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And don’t forget their Zeeba neighbor!</p>

<p>Zits
Doonesbury
Baby Blues
FoxTrot
Boondocks</p>

<p>A “not sure” to Cow and Boy. Sometimes I can’t stop laughing, but often I just shake my head. Depends on how funny Cow is that day.</p>

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<p>The one I have to read every day online is called “Frazz” - elementary school setting. It’s sweetly funny and very witty. Zits and Pearls before Swine are the best in our paper.</p>