<p>Zits, Sept. 18:
Scene: A Father with his Teenage Son, sitting next to A Mother with her Teenage Son.</p>
<p>Father (to Mother): “Hi. I’m the stupidest person on the planet.”
Mother (to Father): “Pleased to meet you. I’m hopelessly out of touch.”</p>
<p>Mortified Teenage Son (thinks blackly): “I hate Parents’ Night.”</p>
<p>We are completely convinced that Zits creators are hiding somewhere in the house. With 3 sons living her at various times, we find they nail it almost every time :)</p>
<p>We are living a Zits life too and the nerdy kid in Foxtrot is half Mathson and half Mathson’s little brother. I just wished I liked the drawing style of Foxtrot. I’ve liked For Better or Worse since I was in junior high or so and my mother had on the fridge a strip where the Mom is trying to bandaid a worm back together while thinking, “I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.” Or something like that. I loved Booth’s dogs in The New Yorker. </p>
<p>I’d never thought of Anthony as a pervert. I’ve known people who went through with weddings because they didn’t have the courage to call them off at the last minute. But yeah I don’t understand why they sent the girl north gave her a really nice boyfriend and then sent her back to Anthony! Ick. And now this thread as sent me to some on-line blogs and I’ll never enjoy the strip again! (Well if they keep doing dull re-runs that was in the cards anyway.)</p>
<p>Wow, and here I thought the Zits cartoonist was living in my house! I told DH that DS’s problems couldn’t be that bad if they kept appearing in a cartoon, i.e. they were universal. My favorites involve poor Jeremy trying to wake up and get out of bed, especially the one where he says he’s up but not up. Cause we lived that over and over. I could go the fridge and find a dozen to quote. And yes, the Foxtrot cartoonist used to hang around here too.</p>
<p>I never much liked Anthony and it was odd the way they brought the cop boyfriend in and then out again. But at least Anthony saved Liz from a pervert (maybe that’s where the thought came from), although I thought that whole story line was rather odd for family newspapers. But so many of them are these days!</p>
<p>For me it was Zits the other day when the mom said the room smelled as though a camel lived there. My son’s room frequently stinks and it seems to be the shoes (and socks I find under the bed).</p>
<p>Dilbert is my life. Oh, how true-to-life that strip is.</p>
<p>Used to read Gil Thorpe, but it got to be so badly written that I found the plot incomprehensible (must say I did think the flashbacks they did years ago of Gil in college were hilarious - what decade was it - the 20s?)</p>
<p>In addition to For Better or Worse and Zits, I really enjoy Luann, PreTeena, and Sally Forth. And Crankshaft and Funky Winkerbean, of course!</p>