ITT: Newspaper comics that are actually funny

ITT: Newspaper comics that are actually funny

Pearls Before Swine is the shit. Basically the only 21st century comic strip that's regularly funny IMO

The Far Side, Dilbert, Calvin and Hobbes, and Foxtrot hold up well too

i agree 100% on the first three and i really liked foxtrot as a kid but I don't know if it holds up that well honestly. although the guy who does it's pen name is Bill Amend so it gets a pass.

Wrong PBS strip, buddy

I loved Foxtrot as a kid, too, but IMO it's still solid. The humor is pretty gentle, but the characters are charming and well-constructed enough that I've really enjoyed it when I've revisited it.

YES. The best one ever. I had that hanging next to my desk for years

>ITT: comic strips that feminists would say constitutes rape

>ITT: user drags strawmen into thread for circlejerking purposes

Just chill, son

It's called rape by deception

If you lie in order to have sex, you're a rapist.

Is Lio the most based strip ever?

>Dilbert
meh, it's Cathy for nerdboys.

Doesn't help that Adams himself is a gravity-denying, pseudo-intellectual dipshit.

These. I don't love FoxTrot but I really appreciate how much of a nerd Bill Amend is.

>If you lie in order to have sex, you're a rapist.
That's not how it rape by deception works.

wouldnt all women be rapists?
makeup, push up bras, pretending to be sane
:^)

I've found late 50s Peanuts to be some really funny stuff.

not sure of the decade, but this is my favorite peanuts strip

I almost completely forgot about Lio! I used to read it all the time years ago.

...is this a comic based around references to other media?

Shhh, he's playing 5D checkers, you just don't get it.

Sometimes, yeah. Though it had original ideas and jokes other times.

I feel Pearls has gotten too formulaic in recent years. It has been going for years, so that helps, but it lost some of the edge it had in earlier years.

That said, I still fuckin love Pearls

Calvin and Hobbes and The Boondocks are the only comics to actually make me outright laugh

When you got Bill fucking Watterson to briefly come out of retirement and do a guest strip or two, you know you did good.

What, seriously?

Yes.

...

I agree with that.

Dilbert is sometimes too real

Its main schtick is that it generally has no dialogue and that weird things happen around the main kid.
And it rips into other cartoons all the time.

That's fucking great. Also, thanks for the new reaction image I'll never get the chance to use.

autism

>its autistic to have favorite things
People hang up comic strips they liked all the time.

Foxtrot is precious

That second to last panel gets me every fucking time even after all these years

I don't get it.

Go back to your Garfield containment thread then.

Are they going to drop the fourth panel border down once he's inside and trap him in the strip?

Christ isn't that damn-near prophetic?

I would've beaten the shit out of that kid

Garfield occasionally.

Fuck off.

>this dog is bad news
wdtmbt?

U.S. Acres really doubled down on the "sign jokes". I think half the strip was bout them.

What exactly does this seemingly predict?

Monica's gang, although its made by multiple writers.

Lucy always made me ask why Charlie Brown is not allowed to hit women

less funny and more cute as shit

some guys made a dongle joke then some chick got pissed and went on twitter with it then the guys got fired or something like that

this was a simpler time

It's why I enjoyed comic strips like early Nancy, rose is rose, and life with Kurami.

Their humors were less about funny gags and more about warm hearted scenarios.

A woman named Adria Richards over heard two guys that made a dongle joke during some convention, and made a huge twitter storm to get them fired. But then she got fired as well, so the story had a happy ending.