Hoonigan
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Canada
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The L.A. Times have yanked this useless, humourless piece of steaming dog shit from their daily comic section. I actually yelled "RIGHT ON MAN!!!!" when I read this story.
'L.A. Times' Drops Daily 'Garfield' as the Comic Is Blasted and Praised I hope that other papers start to follow suit. I mean honestly, has this crappy comic EVER made anyone laugh? Every time I read it I close my eyes for a few seconds and wonder how the hell anyone in their right mind could actually sign their name to a comic that bad. It shouldn't even be called a comic. It's a disgrace to the word. And hey, even Maddox agrees with me. So, of course, it has to be true. If you don't agree, you are wrong. Kiss my ass Garfield, I hope you jump off of a high cupboard and Jon doesn't have the $1400 to fix your leg, and you die.* *inside joke that you might not get. If you are one of the puzzed, basically I wish he would DIE PAINFULLY. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Yeah, Garfield was funny when I was *eight*... I have to admit to being surprised a couple of years ago when I found it was still running in most newspapers. (I don't get a newspaper.)
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Um, there was once a point before the television show and before my lobotomy that I thought garfield was funny, but they removed my laughatallthingsunfunny cortex during that lobotomy, and I haven't laughed at it since...
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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Yeah, I gave up on "Garfield" (and "Ziggy" and "Family Circus" and...) a long time ago too. Actually, I've given up on newspaper comics in toto since Gary Larson folded "The Far Side" lo these many moons ago.
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Let us not forget to morn Calivin and Hobbes
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Multi-touch PiƱata
Join Date: May 2004
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I laughed at a Garfield strip once in my 36 years on earth. He was stuck on a screen door by his claws. But that was funny more from remembering it happening to real cats, so that almost doesn't count.
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25 chars of wasted space.
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Dilbert is the only possibly funny comic strip.
Besides that, I only look at the mystery Slylock Fox picture, and the find 6 differences. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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The problem is, there are far, far worse comic strips than Garfield out there, but we at the LA Times are still running them. The people here really don't understand which strips are good and why.
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Subdued and Medicated
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I am a big Garfield fan, but I too think it has passed its prime. If seems that Jim Davis has simply ran out of ideas or motive. I still save Garfield as the last comic, but I find that I get more chuckles out so many others.
I'll keep reading it though. |
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I shot the sherrif.
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if you think garfield is bad, you should try reading fred basset. worst comic EVER!
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ottawa, ON
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Some comics are funny long-term (Dilbert, Calvin and Hobbes, the Far Side, Doonsbury); some start funny then, after many years, deteriorate (Peanuts is the notable example); some are occasionally funny; and some are never, ever, ever funny.
Garfield falls below the final category. When there's an eel in the lake that's as long as a snake that's a moray. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Jim Davis should be tried for crimes against humanity. I read it when I was a kid and thought it was okay but man, it is actually worse than Family Circus. At least Family Circus can be unintentionally demented that it can make me laugh. I just try to imagine Bil Keane as a huge nihilistic atheist and the strip tends to be a bit funnier.
Todays comics break my heart. It was one of America's great original contributions to the world of art and it has just deteriorated so much. Fucking hell. Time to go read Krazy Kat and Little Nemo to remind my self that comics used to be incredible. |
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Bring back Snoopy!
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No shit. I remember when I was in grammar school collecting all the books. Back then (to a kid that age) he was pretty damn funny. But he's been about as funny as a brick for the last... I dunno... 15 years? I mean seriously. FIFTEEN. Maybe more. John Davis hasn't written anything original in at least that long. Every comic is a tired spin of some other comic he wrote in the 80s. All I can say to the times is, what took you so damn long? ...into the light of a dark black night. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Hillsborough, CA
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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I loved Calvin & Hobbes. Have several of the large compilation books. Truly funny on several levels, and the drawings themselves were just perfect. I'd laugh out loud just at a particular expression on Calvin's face, or a certain way Hobbes would be positioned during some "adventure".
A perfect strip. I miss it. Nothing else in the comics makes me laugh, although "FoxTrot" can be pleasantly silly sometimes, with that bratty kid. |
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missing a u ain't such a big deal given that i often miss entire words when typing...
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Aren't they making a Garfield movie? I seem to recall seeing a preview for it a while back. I don't remember much, but it was bad. Really bad. Like, waay worse than the comic strip.
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
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I remember hearing something about the three worst flicks of '04 all having cats:
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Join Date: May 2004
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They are; and this is the perfect sign that Davis has run out of material and money, most likely. Nearly all cartoon-based movies are pure unadulterated shite IMHO.
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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*sides aching* I just read the Maddox piece on Garfield a minute ago. I think I woke up the litte woman who was sleeping in a room down the hall as I tried to muffle my laughter. Now I need a kidney operation because my sides hurt so bad. His spoof of the typical Garfield made me laugh so hard I snorted when I tried to hold it in.
Oh man... that guy is classic. More, commentary from Maddox, less from Tucker. That is all. ...into the light of a dark black night. |
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Cat's Dreamlands
Join Date: May 2004
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Garfield the movie is for kids only.
Even for a crazy cat love for me, this movie was too much. Now, I like Garfield the comic. But at the difference of many people here, I don't read it on a regular basis. I have read two or three Garfield's book in my life. I don't think that Garfield is bad, I think that he is way too present in some countries. |
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: The Miskatonic Library
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There is a silver lining to such an awful strip... Bill the Cat. Berkeley Breathed's contempt for Garfield created one of my favorite comic strip characters. Whenever I scan the funnies and my eyes roam over Garfield I chuckle to myself thinking of Bill.
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Excellent point, man... good show.
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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To its credit, the Garfield movie did have Jennifer Love-Hewitt. Or so I heard...
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Mr. Vieira
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Well, I'm not exactly looking at - or interested in - her contributions and impact on the world of acting, cinema and the dramatic arts, am I?
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