Beetle Bailey should retire

Today's might have been the best yet:

 

As long as were going to invoke fair use here...some more Nancy literature:



Note in the first panel, there are three rocks near Nancy. Then at the end...the Three Rocks library. Pure artistry

 

Average age of the comics page readers has to be at least 75.

Our shop tried to swap something new for Peanuts about four years ago, and of course the phones rang off the hook. We tried to move Peanuts into the classified section, and still people bitched about it being hard to find. So back on the comics page it went.

Maybe after all 50 years of Schultz comic strips have been rerun, all the original fans will have died off.

Of course, the newspaper will probably be dead, too.

 

Betty Cooper.

 

Peanuts at least is funny on an average basis. Like, it has a punch line and what not - it tries.

 

My heart was warmed this weekend when I found the Sunday comics section laying by my son's bed. Told me he reads every day.

 

Not Me left it there.

 

I gave all my Calvin and Hobbes books to my 7-year-old. He loves them.

 

I enjoy the morning comics, and I'm not 75 -- although I'm over 50.

Zits, Baby Blues, Non Sequitur, Jump Start and Dilbert often make me chuckle.

I stopped reading Beetle when Sarge started beating him up every day.

 

There are plenty of great comics online. Check out Dark Side of the Horse or The New Adventures of Queen Victoria sometime. Ozy and Millie is now running daily on gocomics.com, even though it's really about 10 years old. That's some quality stuff.

 

Private Murphy was a much better military strip.

 

What's everyone's top five favorite strips? Mine are pretty interchangeable:
1. Far Side - Groundbreaking in every way. I think it's the comic that separated the traditional strips (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois, Blondie and the like) from more modern fare like Calvin and Hobbes and Dilbert.
2. Fox Trot - C&H is great, but this was always consistently damn funny.
3. Calvin and Hobbes - Always fun, and if I rate it any lower a riot might break out.
4. Dilbert - Another consistently funny strip, even if it goes through some hit or miss stretches of weird humor.
5. Robotman/Robotman and Monty/Monty - I just love how this strip has constantly evolved into something light years from its original premise. It started life as a strip about an alien robot and his earth boy buddy. Now, almost 30 years later, it's about a loser and his weird sci-fi based roommates, with neither Robotman nor the earth boy anywhere in sight. It's like the creator just got bored after a while, changed things up, and seamlessly transitioned into a new strip.