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post #1 of 359
10/9/07 at 12:39pm
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Tom Batiuk (Northeastern Ohio represent!) can lay it on pretty thick sometimes with this cancer and grief storyline, but I'm surprised at how affecting it's been, especially near the end. I've always enjoyed this comic strip, primarily because Batiuk's been unafraid to deal with "real-world" issues in an honest way.

In any case, far better than "For Better or Worse" and, in my unfounded opinion, proof that the comic strip still has some viability as an art form left.
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post #2 of 359
10/9/07 at 12:42pm
Unfounded being the operative word. This strip is manipulative, sentimental garbage.
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post #3 of 359
10/9/07 at 12:51pm
In my unfounded opinion, Calvin and Hobbes is a fantastic work of art that absolutely proves the vitality of the medium. I don't know much about this Funky Winkerbean story, but I hardly think that comics needed "revitalizing".
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post #4 of 359
10/9/07 at 12:53pm
Especially not from fucking Funky Winkerbean, a strip tailor made to make 40 year old women sniffle.
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post #5 of 359
10/9/07 at 12:53pm
I just wonder when in the hell is Beetle Bailey finally going to get promoted.
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post #6 of 359
10/9/07 at 12:55pm
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post #7 of 359
10/9/07 at 12:56pm
That Blondie sure is a babe, though! Am I right, fellas?
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post #8 of 359
10/9/07 at 12:58pm
Wait? Isn't the blond basically the drag version of the brother?
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post #9 of 359
10/9/07 at 12:59pm
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post #10 of 359
10/9/07 at 12:59pm
It seems to me that we wouldn't have all these problems in America today if we'd all just left things with The Family Circus, like God intended. Peanuts and its ethos of "self-examination" started us down an ugly path.

I have to admit though, after a few gin 'n' tonics, I sometimes kick back with a weeks worth of "Sally Forth" and giggle myself silly.
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post #11 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:01pm
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Originally Posted by Phil!
I know it's far off topic, but have you ever seen the original Blondie comics? It's a shame to see such amazing artwork reduced to what's shown here after decades of being filtered through syndicate committees.
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post #12 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:02pm
I've been reading the cancer story merely because it's right next to the easy crossword in the local paper. It's terrible.
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post #13 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:04pm
The only thing worse than Winkerbean was its spin-off Crankshaft.
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post #14 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:04pm
Rath's next thread : "I empathize with Garfield because I too hate Mondays."
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post #15 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:05pm
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Originally Posted by Brad Millette
I know it's far off topic, but have you ever seen the original Blondie comics? It's a shame to see such amazing artwork reduced to what's shown here after decades of being filtered through syndicate committees.
To complete the derailment, here's what Blondie used to look like...

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post #16 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:06pm
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Ouch. (Still, it's not like I didn't know it was coming.)
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post #17 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:08pm
Also off topic, but I fucking hated For Better Or Worse. Always a downer when I was just trying to read some Foxtrot before school.
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post #18 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:09pm
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Originally Posted by Tieman
To complete the derailment, here's what Blondie used to look like...
Little known fact: Dagwood and Blondie were the inspiration for Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer".
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post #19 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:09pm
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Originally Posted by Tieman
To complete the derailment, here's what Blondie used to look like...
Wow, that's an awful reproduction.
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post #20 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:11pm
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Originally Posted by Soul Ahn Ice
Also off topic, but I fucking hated For Better Or Worse. Always a downer when I was just trying to read some Foxtrot before school.
Everything on the comics page sucks. Except for The Born Loser. That guy just can't win!

Seriously though...losing The Boondocks was the death knell. I think my least favorite comic was Mother Goose & Grimm, because after Gary Larson retired, it so clearly tried to ape him and so horribly failed.

Also, Snuffy Smith is from some alternate universe where "funny" means "totally incomprehensible", but I think it has a circulation of about 2 papers.
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post #21 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:12pm
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post #22 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:12pm
Oh god, we had Snuffy Smith for forever here, being a Southern paper, but as soon as the last fan died, everyone voted that shit out.
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post #23 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:14pm
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Originally Posted by Detonathor
hahahahahahaha old people are funny
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post #24 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:14pm
This is all quite a shock if you haven't looked at a comic strip in 15 years.
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post #25 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:16pm
He must be really hungry if she's that worried.
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post #26 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:17pm
The "For Better for Worse/Ringu" crossover has actually been excellent so far.
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post #27 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:18pm
Jesus Fucking Christ. You can smell the death off that comic.
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post #28 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:18pm
How about Gasoline Alley or Apartment 2C? Great stuff!
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post #29 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:20pm
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Originally Posted by The LD
It seems to me that we wouldn't have all these problems in America today if we'd all just left things with The Family Circus, like God intended.
http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF187...o_Much.png#173
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post #30 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:21pm
Lol looks like old Jim's playin possum again! He is such a cut-up.
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post #31 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:25pm
The Slylock Fox where you have to help him investigate the rape and murder of Ferrina Ferret was heartbreaking.

(It was Count Weirdly, btw. You know because he left his wallet at the scene.)
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post #32 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:26pm
I'm hoping for a Family Circus/For Better or For Worse "Dead Grampa" crossover adventure.
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post #33 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:28pm
"Who took mommy's antidepressants?" "NOT ME!"
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post #34 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:36pm
Billy will give himself away with that dotted-line trail he leaves.
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post #35 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:38pm
You'd turn to crime too if you'd been denied puberty for almost fifty years.
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post #36 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:42pm
Fun Comic Fact!: Family Circus is actually a daily adaptation of "It's a Good Life".
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post #37 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:48pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
You'd turn to crime too if you'd been denied puberty for almost fifty years.
http://www.shoxty.com/archives/gary-coleman.jpg
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post #38 of 359
10/9/07 at 1:53pm
All I know is that there's some heavy-ass stuff going down for a comic called "Funky Winkerbean."
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post #39 of 359
10/9/07 at 2:22pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken
I just wonder when in the hell is Beetle Bailey finally going to get promoted.
Send him to Iraq.
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post #40 of 359
10/9/07 at 2:56pm
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Originally Posted by Randolph Carter
Send him to Iraq.
Now that's a scenario that just screams top notch hillarity. And for that matter when is the duck from Drabble going on that oft-rumored killing spree I keep hearing about.
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post #41 of 359
10/9/07 at 2:59pm
I once read an online discussion (maybe on the CHUD boards?) of The Family Circus, and someone wondered if Dead Grandpa and Not Me could see each other.

Blew my mind.
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post #42 of 359
10/9/07 at 2:59pm
I'm almost sure I've seen Grandpa witness Not Me in action. Sorry to resolve that one for you.
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post #43 of 359
10/9/07 at 3:15pm
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Originally Posted by Brad Millette
Especially not from fucking Funky Winkerbean, a strip tailor made to make 40 year old women sniffle.
Shit, man, you can do that with nostril sex.
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post #44 of 359
10/9/07 at 3:21pm
Although it seems like forever since I read it, Get Fuzzy seemed to be worth a chuckle most days I saw it. I even out-and-out laughed at some of them. But that was a oasis in a wasteland, to be sure.
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post #45 of 359
10/9/07 at 3:45pm
Next week, Garfield swats an annoying spider and Jon is forced to put down Odie, who comes down with a terminal case of septic shock.
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post #46 of 359
10/9/07 at 3:47pm
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Originally Posted by Andrew Ellis
All I know is that there's some heavy-ass stuff going down for a comic called "Funky Winkerbean."
The strip used to be a typical HO HO HO SILLY JOEK comic strip, but sometime in the 1980s the guy "fast-forwarded" the strip about 15 years so that all the teenagers were now adults with miserable, horrid, depressing existences.

I guess Funky On-the-Verge-of-Suicidebean wasn't as marketable as the original name, so it stuck.
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post #47 of 359
10/9/07 at 3:57pm
"For Better or For Worse" was pretty bad. Isn't one of the kids gay in that comic?

Most genius comic strip/cartoon ever? "The Far Side". That was just pure genius.
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post #48 of 359
10/9/07 at 4:31pm
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Originally Posted by misfit
I once read an online discussion (maybe on the CHUD boards?) of The Family Circus, and someone wondered if Dead Grandpa and Not Me could see each other.
Ida Know.
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post #49 of 359
10/9/07 at 4:33pm
Only comic strips I read nowadays (outside of online ones) are Lio and La Cucaracha.
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post #50 of 359
10/9/07 at 4:39pm
Lio, Get Fuzzy, and Pearls Before Swine are all great. But that's about it.
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