A thread with gag comics like the far side and Nancy? Don’t threaten me with a good time
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Any junk food eaten in sufficient quantities will make me feel ill. That wouldn’t be a problem if I ate such things in moderation, but no! I have to eat Doritos like a stoned 15 year old.
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I’m a sucker for a good carrot.
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I stand by my vote but I do want to ask: why pit two bad bitches against each other
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I was just thinking about them this morning lol
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THOUGHT OF A REAL ONE: those fucking sheet pan cookie cakes they sell in grocery stores. I’m sick just thinking about the frosting.
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Ranking the strips you guys have posted:
- Far Side vultures (fun in its absurd cruelty)
Gap - Calvin & Hobbes simple man (polite chuckle)
Huge gap - Calvin & Hobbes peanut butter (I don’t get this one)
- Far Side dinosaurs (those are indeed dinosaurs)
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Grocery store bakeries were sent from Hell to kill me
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Please move this to the rude/incorrect rankings thread
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The last newspaper strips I can remember making me laugh were like Sally Forth and Foxtrot. Sally Forth is underrated, and had a period where the person writing them was making references to things like The Untouchables.
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who else enjoys the sensible advice and gentle wisdom of Mary Worth?
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Foxtrot was good before they started focusing on Jason. Not necessarily funny, just kinda relatable.
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If I try to finish a restaurant bowl of ramen I will definitely feel ill. But it’s pretty good before that.
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god forbid a kid in a comic strip be weirdly particular about his peanut butter
gooder strips I like
(i support a funny pages / comic strip thread by the way so I don’t need to convince Kiki in here)
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I loved the newspaper comics and read them all even though some were quite bad.
I was a big fan of Non Sequitur for a while but I do feel like the format squeezes the artists too much and I was like damn too bad this has to keep going and not be as good :/
Wallace the Brave is a fun one still around right now.
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Seemed like a good idea
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I like thinking about how Peanuts outlasted both The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes; both of the latter stopped in 1995 (January 1st and December 31st). I like all three comics, but Calvin and Hobbes hit the closest to home, since I also had vivid paracosms and saw a lot of my dad especially in Calvin’s dad.
I don’t know if Calvin and Hobbes is funnier, but it’s the most situationally real to me - with the caveat that Peanuts at its best could also hit hard with its classroom situations.
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Beat me to it.
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Peanut butter takes is a very American thing I have little to no stake in. (Peanut butter is fine, it’s just I basically have it once every three years or something.) The comic in question mostly makes me wonder if this is some regional toilet paper roll position debate that I’m not privy to.
Calvin hammering the table is funnier than the Far Side vultures, with the caveat that the Simpsons version is funnier in its succinct snappiness and added absurdity.
The dad explaining the bridge thing (next to that one where the dad talks about the speed of the spinning record) is a prime example of when Calvin & Hobbes is clever and maybe even thought provoking without necessarily being funny.
It should be noted that I don’t dislike Calvin & Hobbes, I think it’s a great strip, I just don’t find it funny and I think it often tries a little too hard to.
This is in general the huge problem with the strip comic format, you’re always primed to expect something to be funny in the last panel, and that anticipation is in a sense doomed to make the humor both expected and underwhelming. The only strip comics I’ve ever found consistently funny have acknowledged this limitation of the format.
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