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Posted: 7/17/2005 4:07:44 PM EDT
What do you think, and why?

Poll coming.......
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:08:52 PM EDT
[#1]
Calvin and Hobbes.
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:08:55 PM EDT
[#2]
Far Side....do I really need to explain?
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:09:27 PM EDT
[#3]
Dilbert. It hits close to home, which is why it's so funny.
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:10:12 PM EDT
[#4]

Quoted:
Calvin and Hobbes.




+1


No contest.


Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:10:20 PM EDT
[#5]
But...... Calvin and Hobbes would definitely be my second choice.


Travis
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:10:41 PM EDT
[#6]
garfield

hilarious

then its calvin and hobbes
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:11:11 PM EDT
[#7]
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:12:15 PM EDT
[#8]
Far Side

Calvin and Hobbes

Bloom County

All are great.

Doonesbury was very good, long, long ago.
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:13:14 PM EDT
[#9]
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:13:26 PM EDT
[#10]
Bloom County #1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Calvin and Hobbes #2


Dram out
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:13:42 PM EDT
[#11]

Quoted:
Far Side....do I really need to explain?


Travis



Three words: "boneless chicken ranch"
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:15:26 PM EDT
[#12]
While the Far Side was truly genius, and Calvin & Hobbes was cute when I was a kid, I haven't read a newspaper comic regularly in years.

My regular comics are all web based:
UserFriendly <--similar to dilbert, but less repetitive and more current events, open source stuff, and a great group of people on the forums there (one of whom led me here)
Sluggy Freelance <-- kinda wacky and surreal sometimes, with horrible puns and oddball storylines
GPF <-- also somewhat like dilbert in dealing with day to day life of computer geeks, but better artwork and some really interesting characters and storylines.
and a handfull of lesser known webcomics.

I will read Dilbert occasionally if one is pointed out as being especially funny, but after the first year it got really old.

ETA: +1 for penny arcade, but I tend to read a month worth of archives in one sitting and not touch it for a while.
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:15:35 PM EDT
[#13]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Calvin and Hobbes.




+1


No contest.





+10



Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:18:11 PM EDT
[#14]
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:18:13 PM EDT
[#15]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Far Side....do I really need to explain?


Travis



Three words: "boneless chicken ranch"






Beware of DOuG!

The dreaded African Rake snake!

HA HA Rusty, I'm going to the Vets to be "Tutored"!

Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:19:19 PM EDT
[#16]
Dilbert because sometimes it's as if he's writting about me.
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:19:25 PM EDT
[#17]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Quoted:
Far Side....do I really need to explain?


Travis



Three words: "boneless chicken ranch"






Beware of DOuG!

The dreaded African Rake snake!

HA HA Rusty, I'm going to the Vets to be "Tutored"!




Midvale School for the Gifted.
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:20:15 PM EDT
[#18]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Quoted:
Calvin and Hobbes.




+1


No contest.





+10


www.lawrence.edu/fast/SARNECKJ/pals.jpg




I also really liked that the Calvin & Hobbes writer (Bill Watterson) really cared about the ART of comic strips, and lamented the continued shrinkage and b&w trends in strips.  Check out some of the large-print Calvin & Hobbes collections, and you'll be amazed at the colorizing and detail in large panels.

And he completely refused to sell out and commercialize.  Every single Calvin & Hobbest sticker, art, t-shirt, etc you've ever seen has been a copyright violation, since he never licensed ANYTHING.  (giving up millions upon millions of dollars)

Not only is it my all-time favorite strip - but I actually have a lot of respect for Watterson.
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:21:37 PM EDT
[#19]

Quoted:
Calvin and Hobbes.



+999

HH
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:22:52 PM EDT
[#20]
Calvin and Hobbes 1st, obviously.

Dilbert, second place , wasn't even listed
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:26:49 PM EDT
[#21]




Oh, He does Mom, He Does!
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:27:02 PM EDT
[#22]
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:31:26 PM EDT
[#23]
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:32:44 PM EDT
[#24]
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:34:32 PM EDT
[#25]
I like this one, even though I feel a little creepy staring at cartoon chicks' butts.  ETA: It's "Day by Day" by Muir, and it is very libertarian/right wing in its outlook. A recent story line had 2 characters thwarting a robbery with CCWs.
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:35:23 PM EDT
[#26]

Quoted:
Calvin and Hobbes is just plain dumb.  Boring and dumb.



The other 99% of us like it.


Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:35:42 PM EDT
[#27]

Quoted:
Calvin and Hobbes is just plain dumb.  Boring and dumb.




I am hereby excommunicating you from the international conspiracy of Psychopoliticians!!  


Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:37:04 PM EDT
[#28]

Quoted:
Calvin and Hobbes is just plain dumb.  Boring and dumb.



That's because it's acutally an intelligent strip.

I appreciate the humor a lot, but even more than that I appreciate the intelligence.
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:37:40 PM EDT
[#29]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Calvin and Hobbes.




+1


No contest.





I agree.  Though, The Far Side is easily second.
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:37:48 PM EDT
[#30]
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:38:54 PM EDT
[#31]
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:39:34 PM EDT
[#32]

Quoted:
Post the funniest C&H you have and try to change my mind.  I haven't seen one that even makes me chuckle.



That's because you're insane.  The problem is not with the strip - it is with you!  

Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:41:03 PM EDT
[#33]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Quoted:
Calvin and Hobbes is just plain dumb.  Boring and dumb.



That's because it's acutally an intelligent strip.



Sure it is...  



Hmm.  Are you saying that because my fingers were slightly off sync I am stupid?  Or . . . well, I have no idea what the point was.
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:41:34 PM EDT
[#34]
You sir, are an ass.


Quoted:
Calvin and Hobbes is just plain dumb.  Boring and dumb.

Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:45:02 PM EDT
[#35]
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:45:08 PM EDT
[#36]
Dilbert.

Its like the book I had to read in High school called "The Peter Principles". You can identify the characters to people that you know or work with.
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:47:07 PM EDT
[#37]

Quoted:
Far Side
Calvin and Hobbes

Bloom County

All are great.

Doonesbury was very good, long, long ago.



I agree with everything you say, and the order. Except doonsbury. I hate that strip and the frog who writes it.
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:48:03 PM EDT
[#38]
Bloom County
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:49:59 PM EDT
[#39]


Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:51:02 PM EDT
[#40]









Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:51:08 PM EDT
[#41]
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:52:07 PM EDT
[#42]

Quoted:
Dilbert.

Its like the book I had to read in High school called "The Peter Principles". You can identify the characters to people that you know or work with.



And, you can have your own office, "Dilbert Factor", which is what percentage of Dilbert Cartoons accurately describe what goes on in you office.  

(My office funs about 80 per cent.)
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:53:38 PM EDT
[#44]
calvin and hobes

casue its my namesake
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:55:47 PM EDT
[#45]
Foxtrot  
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 4:57:08 PM EDT
[#46]

Quoted:

Quoted:
progressiveboink.com/nick/images/calvinandhobbes/CH940105.JPG


www.progressiveboink.com/jon/images/calvinhobbes/bill3.gif






Those aren't nearly my favorites. They're just the only ones I could find on the internet.

Anyone who doesn't find C&H even mildly amusing has serious problems, IMHO.
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 5:02:35 PM EDT
[#47]
Calvin:     Where do we keep all our chainsaws, Mom?
Mum:       We don't have any chainsaws, Calvin.
Calvin:     We don't? Not any?
Mum:       Nope.
Calvin:     How am I ever going to learn how to juggle?
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 5:02:52 PM EDT
[#48]
Calvin and Hobbes, no doubt about it!
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 5:09:01 PM EDT
[#49]
I would have to say Calvin and Hobbes barely, and I mean just barely, beats out The Far Side.

Get Fuzzy is my current favorite. Though it has somedays it just doesn't do hit it.
Link Posted: 7/17/2005 5:09:07 PM EDT
[#50]
Calvin & Hobbes
FarSide
FoxTrot
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