Speaking of ones you don't like...

Does anyone else here hate Gil Thorpe? or (this may cost me) Peanuts and Family Circle?

Peanuts was never a huge favorite of mine, but I recently got this book and I appreciate Charles Schulz a lot more than I used to. The most fascinating thing to me is how his drawing style changed over the years. The early strips are remarkably different.

In online strips, I follow:

Sluggy Freelance
User Friendly
Bruno The Bandit
Bruno Baldwin
Bobbins
General Protection Fault
Goats
Nukees
Kevin & Kell
Ozzy & Millie
The Japanese Beetle
Wigu
The Mr. Chuck Show
Avalon
Bob the Angry Flower
Alice
Superosity

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

[quote]Speaking of ones you don't like...

Does anyone else here hate Gil Thorpe? or (this may cost me) Peanuts and Family Circle?
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I have no acquaintance with Gil Thorpe, but I did a search on Google just to find out what it was. It seems to be an adventure strip about sports. I couldn't evaluate an adventure strip on one strip, which is all I looked at, but that one strip did bore me, and I generally hate sports. As far as adventure strips go, I generally like Brenda Starr and Spider-man, but I regularly ignore Prince Valiant and Rex Morgan, M.D. I have also liked Dick Tracy and the Phantom, which the paper I read as a kid carries, but the local paper here doesn't carry them. My all-time favorite adventure strip is probably Buck Rogers.

When Charles Schulz died, I was hoping that Peanuts would finally be cancelled and replaced by something better. I was not a big Peanuts fan. But compared to Family Circus, which is the comic strip I most detest, Peanuts is like Calvin and Hobbes. I have been pleasantly surprised by the quality of Classic Peanuts. I also love the Peanuts music of Vince Guaraldi, and I generally think that the Peanuts TV specials were very good. And even though I thought Schulz's talent was fading, I was saddened by his death, because I respected him as a living legend. He may have never been as great as Walt Kelly, but Peanuts was with me from childhood through graduate school, whereas I knew Kelly only as a great talent of the past.

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Finally someone mentioned Bob. Hooray!

Gratitude is one of my most recent favorites.

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www.bradsucks.net

I'm partial to Time For Some New Friends.

Oh, and in online strips I forgot Look What I Brought Home.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

I'm a big fan of the Gabe Billings enhanced Brenda Starr comics.

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Vulgarity is simply the conduct of others. -Oscar Wilde

[quote]Speaking of ones you don't like...

Does anyone else here hate Gil Thorpe? or (this may cost me) Peanuts and Family Circle?
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But I thought all Christians loved Family Circus.

(Dr. Pedantic sez: Family Circle is a homemaking magazine.)

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"America loves its kings, from George III to Larry." --HJS

Or the Dysfunctional Family Circus.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.