Comics: Does Anybody Read For Better Or For Worse?

[Ash Wednesday]

Just wonderin'...

I read For Better or For Worse all the time. Does anyone hate the Anthony/Liz pairing as much as I do? He's such a lame-o mustachioed whiney piece of milquetoast!

[MissScripture]

I'm just getting sick of the way it's been dragged out! And then when they started hanging out again, now, it's still being draaaaaaaaged out. It's not so much their pairing up that bugs me as how it's being presented. JUST GET ON WITH IT!

[God the Father]

One of the most consistently unfunny comics in the paper just below Mary Worth and Judge Parker.

[Lil Red]

i used to like it

[Ash Wednesday]

[quote name='MissScripture' post='1381747' date='Sep 9 2007, 01:24 PM']I'm just getting sick of the way it's been dragged out! And then when they started hanging out again, now, it's still being draaaaaaaaged out. It's not so much their pairing up that bugs me as how it's being presented. JUST GET ON WITH IT![/quote]

Heavens, you're totally right. I never thought they'd move past the "swirly romantic starlight wedding scene" -- someone grab me a barf bag.

[Socrates]

It's been many moons since I've gotten a newspaper, so I haven't followed the newspaper funnies for quite some time. I've never been much a fan of that strip, though. It was a bunch of wussy politically-correct Canadian mush. The strip never seemed to have many strongly masculine characters. Last I was reading the funny pages, Michael (I think that was his name) and his wife had had their kid. I never liked Mike much (he's around my age, the characters in that script aging in "real time") - he always was such a caring, sensitive new-age guy. I remember sort of wishing some other character would beat the carp out of him or something. Then I recall there was a series which caught some flack for its "sensitive" (how else?) portrayal of one of Mike's buddy's homosexual "romance."
Liz was Mike's little sister, right? And Anthony was her wussy, nerdy boyfriend? I figure'd those two would be married by now. Maybe it's time to kill both of them off. Hell, kill everyone in the strip and end their misery!

Imo, there hasn't really been much of reason to read the funny pages since the great [i]Calvin & Hobbes [/i]ended. Bill Watterson is a genius - he should write comics again - maybe published in comic-book form, since he had serious issues with the newspaper syndicates.

Edited September 9, 2007 by Socrates

[Norseman82]

[quote name='Ash Wednesday' post='1381725' date='Sep 9 2007, 12:32 PM']Just wonderin'...

I read For Better or For Worse all the time. Does anyone hate the Anthony/Liz pairing as much as I do? He's such a lame-o mustachioed whiney piece of milquetoast![/quote]

The problem is that he is divorced and if he marries her w/o an annulment it will be comic-strip sanctioned adultery.

[Old_Joe]

What happened to LIz's Canadian Mountie boyfriend that she met while teaching up north?

[T-Bone _]

[quote name='Old_Joe' post='1381923' date='Sep 9 2007, 02:26 PM']What happened to LIz's Canadian Mountie boyfriend that she met while teaching up north?[/quote]

I think he cheated on her. And then for some reason she doesn't like the helicopter guy anymore...

I think the strip is ending this fall or something--y'all will be happy.

[XIX]

Hey, Dilbert is good.

[jeffpugh]

[quote name='Socrates' post='1381893' date='Sep 9 2007, 04:03 PM']It's been many moons since I've gotten a newspaper, so I haven't followed the newspaper funnies for quite some time. I've never been much a fan of that strip, though. It was a bunch of wussy politically-correct Canadian mush. The strip never seemed to have many strongly masculine characters. Last I was reading the funny pages, Michael (I think that was his name) and his wife had had their kid. I never liked Mike much (he's around my age, the characters in that script aging in "real time") - he always was such a caring, sensitive new-age guy. I remember sort of wishing some other character would beat the carp out of him or something. Then I recall there was a series which caught some flack for its "sensitive" (how else?) portrayal of one of Mike's buddy's homosexual "romance."
Liz was Mike's little sister, right? And Anthony was her wussy, nerdy boyfriend? I figure'd those two would be married by now. Maybe it's time to kill both of them off. Hell, kill everyone in the strip and end their misery!

Imo, there hasn't really been much of reason to read the funny pages since the great [i]Calvin & Hobbes [/i]ended. Bill Watterson is a genius - he should write comics again - maybe published in comic-book form, since he had serious issues with the newspaper syndicates.[/quote]
Haha. Your turn to violence in this strip is commendable. FBOFW was interesting for a few moments, even when there was the cartoon on TV, but really, not my thing.

[quote name='XIX' post='1382055' date='Sep 9 2007, 08:50 PM']Hey, Dilbert is good.[/quote]
Yeah. It is, but Scott Adams thinks everyone is either a weasel or completely paranoid. I've actually read his book 'Dilbert and the way of the Weasel". Crazy

[Socrates]

[quote name='XIX' post='1382055' date='Sep 9 2007, 07:50 PM']Hey, Dilbert is good.[/quote]
Yeah, forgot about that. A beautifully cynical satire of Corporate America (though Adams lacks any artistic drawing talent whatsoever, but somehow that works to his favor). But Dilbert's usually found in the business pages, rather than the funny pages.

[quote name='Sacred Music Man' post='1382067' date='Sep 9 2007, 08:02 PM']Haha. Your turn to violence in this strip is commendable. FBOFW was interesting for a few moments, even when there was the cartoon on TV, but really, not my thing.[/quote]
Violence greatly improves the dramatic impact of any graphic narration. I'm a huge fan of Frank Miller, though I think the man's something of a lunatic, and his work has greatly deteriorated lately.

[God Conquers]

Gotta love Canadian Content.

But I still dislike FBOFW.

Wuss, wuss, wuss, not funny, wuss, wuss.

The writer is from Toronto, what more could you expect?

[Dave]

Man, I remember when the Michael, Elizabeth, April, etc. in FBOFW were children! Where does the time go???

But yes, I remember when Michael's friend first came out ... I didn't like that at all, and I wasn't even Catholic at the time!

When it comes to comics, though, I used to enjoy Snuffy Smith! But the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (aka Atlanta Urinal and Constipation) stopped running it almost 20 years ago, and boy do I miss it! As liberal as they are, I wouldn't be surprised if they thought it might be offensive to southerners, what with its hillbilly theme.

[XIX]

[quote name='Socrates' post='1382130' date='Sep 9 2007, 10:46 PM'](though Adams lacks any artistic drawing talent whatsoever, but somehow that works to his favor).[/quote]