Well, I found my new answer to the question: “Death challenges you to a game for your soul. What do you pick?”

Is it flaunting literary privilege to say that anyone going into a production of 1984 without some idea of what they’re going to see deserves what they get?

He has flat out said the strip can survive for years off the reader email ideas he gets alone. I KNOW that one strip came from our company, it was something very specific and a dead ringer for the situation. With thousands of employees though, no one knows and with a culture of retaliation from management, no one is…

Me. Wish they’d broken up after Some Girls. Or Exile on Main Street.

Nope. ‘Recommended’.

Dilbert is the straight man. Like Jerry was on Seinfeld. Sure, they get some funny lines from time to time, but their purpose is a center for the absurd other characters to contrast against.

I seem to remember reading somewhere how Waterson treated peanuts like a cautionary tale, why to never allow merchandizing and why to quit early

I went to a Peanuts exhibit at a museum and saw the old strips for the first time — I was like, “Wait. This is pretty good!” Having grown up reading the strip in the 90s, I just lumped it in with Family Circus as a kind of lame, repetitive, but inoffensive comic. They really should have just starting re-running the…

That’s why I only read, Family Circle and Marmaduke.

I find the early art style a lot more charming than what it became. It’s way more of a crotch punch to see such innocent, cute kids be such arseholes.

Dilbert works for its intended audience: Dilberts. Of which there are many.

Having grown up reading Peanuts with my dad as a daily ritual I was shocked when I bought us a collection of the old 50s strips at how incredibly terse, cynical, and actually FUNNY it could be sometimes. I loved it. It was a real story in four panels.

The first twenty years of Peanuts is truly some of the best social commentary America has ever produced. It’s amazingly biting at times. It’s also a running diary of one man’s angst which gives it surprising depth. I’m sure it was a huge influence on Bill Watterson.

Garfield from it’s inception was aimed at being a mediocre mass market product and making Jim Davis a boatload of money. He’s even stated as much.

How I loathed that little shit. Never really liked Scooby Doo much at all, but the addition of The Thing That Shall Not Be Named just murdered it for me completely.

Peanuts would have been tolerable if they added Roy.

That’s so cold that I’m going to turn off my AC and let this strip cool my house.

IT’S ABOUT ETHICS IN RECOMMENDING GREYS, FP

I was thinking a Confederate flag burning party would be fun, but the buying thing stymied me too. The solution I came up was stealing one from some redneck’s house. That works, right?