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entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones ([personal profile] rone) wrote2003-12-09 04:09 pm
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comics poll

The San Jose Mercury News had a poll in yesterday's paper, asking voters to cross out no more than six comics and circle no more than six comics. My choices:

Keep `em

Kill `em

  • Cathy
  • Dennis the Menace
  • Fusco Brothers
  • Garfield
  • Mallard Fillmore
  • Rose is Rose

I'm also gonna drop a note with my ballot asking them to pick up Get Fuzzy and Ballard Street. I didn't vote for obvious stuff, like Foxtrot or Dilbert, because i wanted to see if Pretzel Logic is picked up on an everyday, rather than everyotherday, basis. And, yes, Family Circus just couldn't sneak into my bottom 6 comic strips. That's just the way it goes sometimes.

Also, i must sadly note that Opus, so far, sucks.

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[identity profile] solipsistnation.livejournal.com 2003-12-09 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)

Well, of course! How could you drop the Family Circus? Gosh!

[identity profile] rbarclay.livejournal.com 2003-12-09 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
What, no Look What I Brought Home (http://www.lookwhatibroughthome.com/)?
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[identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com 2003-12-09 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I dub it "not funny".

[identity profile] sunburn.livejournal.com 2003-12-09 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you find Boondocks funny, or just entertaining somehow?
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[identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com 2003-12-09 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
The early stuff is just brilliant and inspired. It's been flagging over the last year or so.

[identity profile] sunburn.livejournal.com 2003-12-09 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll take your word for it. Since I don't read the paper, I only ever see it when some or other right-wing blogger is criticizing it for spreading some or other lefty myth about Bush et al.

Along different lines, you might enjoy reading http://www.citypaper.com/archives/funny.html "Funny Paper," a column in the Baltimore Sun which reviews the comix page of that newspaper. I thought of it because when I read it for the first time, it was last week's column in which the author was taking to task the Sun's choices of comics for the reader-selected chopping block.

Also, I'm very much Pro-"Get Fuzzy," which I read online using an aggressive ad-blocker. I'd never seen it in a paper, but came across it in the books-of-comics section of Barnes & Noble and thought it was pure genius. Still do.

[identity profile] solipsistnation.livejournal.com 2003-12-09 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)

Funny Paper is a good column, but WAY too infrequent lately. Maybe they'll start actually writing it regularly again now, though.
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[identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com 2003-12-09 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Next time you're in the comics section of B&N, pick up the first Boondocks collection and start leafing through the first few pages.

[identity profile] sunburn.livejournal.com 2003-12-10 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I will do that.

[identity profile] palecur.livejournal.com 2003-12-09 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Boondocks was gold until a few months after 9/11, when it became the Huey & Caesar Tinfoil Show. Sigh. I miss that strip.
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[personal profile] jwgh 2003-12-09 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
The Funny Paper guys had some recommendations when the Baltimore Sun recently had a similar survey.

[identity profile] palecur.livejournal.com 2003-12-09 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
y u h8in on Fusco Brothers? they're GENIUS i tell you.
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[identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com 2003-12-09 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
On the rare occasion that my eye falls on the Fusco Brothers and manage to digest the 'joke', i want to burn my paper. It's stone stupid.

[identity profile] jeff2001.livejournal.com 2003-12-09 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Opus does suck. Badly. I've not seen most of your choices, since they don't run in the LA Times, but I checked them out and liked them. But I agree with your kills. And...do you not have Mutts up there?
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[identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com 2003-12-09 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Mutts is Sunday-only in the Merc. None of the Sunday-only strips are on the ballot (Opus, Bizarro, Baldo). I'd definitely put it on the kill list if it were daily and i had the space.

I find it ironic, given his early decrying of the shrinking of comic strips, that Breathed's demand of a half-page for Opus has led to the shrinking of other strips.

[identity profile] schwa242.livejournal.com 2003-12-09 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Also, i must sadly note that Opus, so far, sucks.

Poopy. I was afraid of that.

-- Schwa ---

[identity profile] coldsleep.livejournal.com 2003-12-09 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Garfield over Family Circus? Or perhaps that should be under? So very sad.

I mean, not that Garfield has been good in, like...uh...when was Garfield good?

But much like Jello, there's always room for Family Circus (to kill).

I weep for you.

[identity profile] ratphooey.livejournal.com 2003-12-09 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I approve of your lists.

I have been enjoying RSS feeds of comics lately.

Sorry to hear about Opus, which I haven't seen yet, because it's not online. And if it's not online, it doesn't exist. Have you a word for that?
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