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EVILNess
08-12-2010, 09:14 PM
Cathy is ending! (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_cathy_calls_it_quits) What ever shall I do! Where will I, as a heterosexual male, find a strong female character who is as concerned about swimsuits as I am in popular newspaper comics?

This is a huge blow to culture everywhere!
Seil
08-13-2010, 03:17 AM
I object to the use of that tag, because this a totally serious Cathy catastrophe!
POS Industries
08-13-2010, 03:24 AM
A Cathastrophe, if you will.

But yeah, retagging and moving to a more appropriate subforum. For her pleasure.
Amake
08-13-2010, 03:48 AM
If we use Calvin and Hobbes as the gold standard for newspaper comics, Cathy only lasted three times longer. So it's probably 33% as good. I know it sounds ridiculous to even compare Cathy to Calvin and Hobbes, but successful comic strips ending are so rare, it's an achievement worthy of recognition. I have a whole new level of respect for the strip now.

Not enough to like, spend time reading or anything, but still.
Krylo
08-13-2010, 03:52 AM
http://conditionals.net/images/cathy2.jpg
Flarecobra
08-13-2010, 04:03 AM
If we use Calvin and Hobbes as the gold standard for newspaper comics, Cathy only lasted three times longer. So it's probably 33% as good. I know it sounds ridiculous to even compare Cathy to Calvin and Hobbes, but successful comic strips ending are so rare, it's an achievement worthy of recognition. I have a whole new level of respect for the strip now.

Not enough to like, spend time reading or anything, but still.

What about Beetle Bailey? Or Peanuts?
POS Industries
08-13-2010, 04:30 AM
What about Beetle Bailey? Or Peanuts?
Or hell, BC was progressively terrible everyday, but do you know where Johnny Hart died? At his drawing table.

That's dedication to a comic about cavemen praying to Jesus, right there.
Seil
08-13-2010, 04:40 AM
I can't figure out whether Rex Morgan is terrible or not. It seems to be referencing a storyline and characters that aren't a part of the comic.
Amake
08-13-2010, 05:33 AM
I meant to say C&H is the gold standard in respectable newspaper comic strips. Peanuts may top it in quality, but Schulz had nowhere near the artistic integrity of Watterson. Actually I don't know anyone in any field who has anywhere near the integrity of Bill Watterson.

Is Beetle Bailey ended? I hadn't heard about that.
Flarecobra
08-13-2010, 01:52 PM
Nope. In fact, it's going on it's 60th year.
Odjn
08-13-2010, 01:56 PM
Worst comic strip ever.

I mean this was pretty openly horribly sexist. It was about a woman who cared about dresses and food and dieting.

good riddance.
POS Industries
08-13-2010, 02:40 PM
Worst comic strip ever.
As long as the Family Circus exists, this statement is wholly incorrect.
Wigmund
08-13-2010, 03:12 PM
I thought that distinction belonged to Mallard Fillmore
POS Industries
08-13-2010, 04:06 PM
Political cartoons have their own separate category of awful.
Fifthfiend
08-13-2010, 04:08 PM
Ranking the relative shittiness of newspaper comics isn't so much an exercise in futility as it is the futility that all those previous exercises in futility are meant to prepare you for; the all-out futile brawl on a distant futile planet where your training in 100x futile-gravity finally allows you to go Super Futile Z. And also develop telepathy.
POS Industries
08-13-2010, 04:18 PM
Basically, you have Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, FoxTrot, and Bloom County, and then everyone else has been dicking around for the past century.
Fifthfiend
08-13-2010, 04:23 PM
I'll allow that there's a certain joy and purity to watching Dick Tracy throw some asshole off a roof.
Flarecobra
08-13-2010, 04:37 PM
Shame FoxTrot is now only on Sundays...
Odjn
08-13-2010, 04:48 PM
Dilbert was good like four years ago.
Wigmund
08-13-2010, 06:47 PM
Basically, you have Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, FoxTrot, and Bloom County, and then everyone else has been dicking around for the past century.

And for three of those, the author/artist decided to call it quits before he became shitty...coincidence?
POS Industries
08-13-2010, 06:57 PM
And for three of those, the author/artist decided to call it quits before he became shitty...coincidence?
Unfortunately, all the other comics started out shitty so it's hard to gauge whether or not something like C&H ever would have gone to hell.
Magus
08-13-2010, 11:36 PM
Worst comic strip ever.

I mean this was pretty openly horribly sexist. It was about a woman who cared about dresses and food and dieting.

good riddance.

Wasn't it written/drawn by a woman? An incredibly sexist woman? Also, to make it even more sexist, the two-second news clip of the author drawing it, she looked like she was pretty hot. I don't know why she wrote a strip about some dumpy chick who's married to a bald (?) guy and who whines about dieting 'cause she looked pretty smoking, I think.

Anyway, it's was pretty terrible, but good for a chuckle or whatever. I don't expect much from newspaper comics, since it's usually some recycled joke that the author can fit into four panels, or one of those ongoing adventure ones like Prince Valiant that I can't follow because it's been going on for 25 years and like, Valiant is now like fifty years old and a grizzled badass and has a lame son that is like him back when he was lame, and for some reason they're fighting Pacific islanders that ride water dragons today and if only you had been reading it every Sunday for the past five years you would know why.
Seil
08-14-2010, 12:22 AM
Who, this lady? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Guisewite)
Magus
08-14-2010, 12:37 AM
Oh, I guess she's too old for me, unless she's like rich or something and will date me and leave me all her riches, in which case she is totally a cougar or whatever they call it. Anyway, they showed her writing at her desk from behind for literally two seconds, I'd say you could be the Phantom of the Opera and still look attractive with that kind of angle.