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Heathcliff comic strip and show were void of humor. Much like 85% of the rest of the strips in the papers. Never understood how it continued nor how it got a show.

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Yeah, this was an awful show, just like the comic strip. I watched it as a kid and never got into it. I can't even remember anything about it except that it had the Cleo character.

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So why did you watch it

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Huh?

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Aside from Calvin And Hobbes, The Far Side, Doonesbury, and Bloom County name a comic strip that didn't suck from that time frame. The rest were just filler for the comics page.

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I enjoyed Non Sequitur, Shoe, and sometimes Dilbert and BC/Wizard of Id. But yeah, 99% of comic strips are/were Heathcliff bad.

Doonesbury was never funny. It was occasionally clever but that's all. Its heyday was late 70s to early 80s. Back when BD was in Nam. It stopped being worth reading after that.

Check this out. Don't let the name fool you.
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-jubilee/

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But yeah, 99% of comic strips are/were Heathcliff bad.


No, they weren't. You were probably like most readers--most were good; it's just that depending on the art style and humor, most comic strips didn't interest you and you wound up glossing over them. Case in point: weird how everyone's forgetting Peanuts, Cathy and Garfield, which couldn't have been bigger back in the 1980s. Or some of the more "sappy/cute" stuff like For Better or For Worse (which I read religiously) and Ziggy. Or Mort Walker's strips. Or Andy Capp.

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I would read the entire funny page (and a half). Call it masochism. Peanuts and Garfield were never anything more than comfortable. Cathy was just straight up bad. No accounting for taste though. I recall Garfield being insanely popular.

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Calvin and Hobbes rocked!

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Agreed. Probably the best with Far Side right behind it.

Seriously, though ... check this out:
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-last-unicorns/

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That's pretty damn funny!

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Careful. You can waste hours there. He has a lot.

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That's not how debate works. You don't challenge someone to answer a question to make a point, and then disqualify the very answers that automatically make you wrong. That doesn't even make sense. That would be like saying, "Other than his lying, cheating and molesting little girls, show me how Harry isn't a bad person."

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I'm more into Family Circus The Lockhorns and Ziggy, it's easier to read a one panel comic.

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Well there's three turds of a comic

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Calvin and Hobbes were the best of all

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At least the theme song is funky.

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There wasn't really any comedy in the cartoon, the story lines were just really good.

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probably because tons of other people in the world disagree with you? just because you didn't like it doesnt mean it doesnt deserve a show lol. oooh the internet people and their arrogance.

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... but your opinions on the internet are solid fact. Right. You show a few signs of different types of "internet person."
>categorized

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Get over it clown.

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... says the guy who got triggered.

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says the one triggered over a cartoon existing. get over it clown.

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How goes the patrol of internet opinions? Find some more people expressing their arrogant dislike of things? You gotta be busy. Supernaturally busy like Santa Claus. My god, the arrogance! Disagreeing is for clowns, right?

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meanwhile the cartoon still exists no matter what you say.

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Mister Boffo
Herman
Shoe
Outland
The Born Loser
Motley's Crew

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Oh yeah, I forgot The Born Loser and Motley's Crew. I got kicks out of those too.

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