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Fri Apr-30-04 05:42 PM
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Poll question: Greatest comic strip in recent times. |
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I always wanted to put this to a poll to see how it goes. Below I list the greatest comic strips I can remember over the last 30 years or so. Feel frre to add any I forgot.
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Fri Apr-30-04 05:45 PM
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1. non-political: Calvin and Hobbes |
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...Far Side close second.
I have a fondness for early Garfield but, like Peanuts, it just ceased to be funny at some point.
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Fri Apr-30-04 05:46 PM
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2. As much as I appreciate Tom Tomorrow, |
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I had to vote for Calvin & Hobbes. It always brought me joy to read.
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Fri Apr-30-04 05:47 PM
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3. BIZARRO by Dan Piraro... |
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I voted for "Other" because Bizarro is not one of the options. I follow Piraro's strip and I'm sure that he is one of us.
Ron
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Fri Apr-30-04 05:47 PM
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Edited on Fri Apr-30-04 05:49 PM by Bryan
A world of surrealism in a single panel every day. I would have said Calvin and Hobbes, but the last three or four years of the strip were less about the joyful imaginative escapism of early childhood and more about Watterson sticking his own bitter rants in Calvin's mouth.
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Fri Apr-30-04 05:51 PM
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5. You have all of my favorites up there |
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Calvin and Hobbes is my all time favorite. I have all of the books.
Now, my current favorites are This Modern World and the Boondocks.
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Fri Apr-30-04 05:54 PM
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6. Calvin & Hobbes is the best because Watterson quit when he was ahead. |
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He never had to "Jump the Shark".
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Fri Apr-30-04 05:57 PM
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7. You left out "Mallard Fillmore" |
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Fri Apr-30-04 08:57 PM
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20. thank you . I thought you were serioous. Mallard sucks. |
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Its the only toon I refuse to read.
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Fri Apr-30-04 05:57 PM
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8. You include Garfield and leave out Doonesbury? |
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Fri Apr-30-04 06:01 PM
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10. I actually wrestled with the thought for a bit. |
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Edited on Fri Apr-30-04 06:03 PM by kixot
I decided that Doonesbury has been less a comic than a poiniant paneled commentary. The others above were mostly consistant with the three or four panel punchline that good comics tend to have. They also all represent a timelessness that holds up despite socio-political changes, (except for Bloom County, but Outland corrected that). Though I respect Doonesbury and all that Treaudeau has tried to portray I find his strip more a dramatic endeavor with occasional humor rather than a traditional "comic strip".
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Fri Apr-30-04 08:59 PM
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21. thanks for the explanation |
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His recent strips on the Iraq war have been brilliant
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Fri Apr-30-04 06:03 PM
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Much as I like Bloom County and Calvin (my 2 and 3), Doonesbury has stayed fresh.
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Fri Apr-30-04 06:52 PM
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Been reading for nearly 30 years.
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Fri Apr-30-04 06:24 PM
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13. Nothing surpasses Calvin and Hobbes |
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THE YUKON SONG
sung by Calvin and his friend Hobbes, the tiger
My tiger friend has got the sled, And I have packed a snack. We're all set for the trip ahead. We're never coming back!
We're abandoning this life we've led! So long Mom and Pop! We're sick of doing what you've said. And now it's going to stop!
We're going where it snows all year, Where life can have real meaning. A place where we won't have to hear: "Your room could stand some cleaning"
The Yukon is the place for us! That's where we want to live Up there we'll get to yell and cuss. And act real primitive.
We'll never have to go to school. Forced into submission. By monstrous, crabby teachers who'll Make us learn addition.
We'll never have to clean a plate. Of veggie glops and goos. Messily we'll masticate Using any fork we choose!
The timber wolves will be our friends. We'll stay up late and howl At the moon, till night time ends, before going to the prowl.
Oh, what a life! We cannot wait, To be in that arctic land, Where we'll be master of our fate, And lead a life that's grand!
No more of parental rules! We're heading for some snow! Good riddance to those grown-up ghouls! We're leaving! Yukon Ho!
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Fri Apr-30-04 06:59 PM
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Of your options, I picked Calvin and Hobbes.
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Fri Apr-30-04 07:17 PM
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16. "Zippy the Pinhead," perhaps? |
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Fri Apr-30-04 08:34 PM
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It will always be the gold standard. You're a good man, Charlie Brown.And Snoopy too.
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