These are the top 10 best comic strips to ever grace the pages of a newspaper.
10) Mutts
Mutts is a comic strip that focuses on the life of two particular house pets, Earl the dog and Mooch the cat. The animals steal the show here and it's just an interesting comic strip because it takes you into the perspective of animals, even when described by a human. The characters are cute and many other animals make regular appearances, such as Crabby the crab, two cheeky squirrels, and a whale. At times it's funny and at other times it's just darn cute.
9) Bizzaro
This is one of those one panel strips that doesn't have any set characters. Instead, it just takes you around to different situations and makes fun of certain things. And that's why it's funny. In general, I enjoy one panel strips because it's brief and you get a quick laugh. In this particular strip, there's something interesting. In almost every strip, there are hidden pictures. At least one of them is present per strip, and they include things like a pie slice, and alien in a UFO, an eyeball, the characters "K2", a rabbit, a lit stick of dynamite, and an upside down bird. See if you can find the 2 pictures in this strip.
8) Get Fuzzy
Get Fuzzy is one of those comic strips where the animals talk. But this time it's a little different. The humans are also a main part and the animals and humans can have conversations. This brings funny and crazy elements to the strip itself. The main human character is Rob Wilco and he has two pets, a dog named Satchel, and a cat named Bucky. Satchel is a nice dog, but Bucky is mean as all hell. And this comic strip focuses on their daily life and the weird conversations they strike up. The comic is so random that it's just funny.
7) Baby Blues
This is the story of a girl, a boy, a baby girl, a mom, and a dad. They're all little kids. What do you think the parents' life is like? Hell. Hectic pandemonium that erupts at every second. Ok, I'm being dramatic. But the comic does focus on that part. Reading this reminds me of the good times I had when I was a kid. And it also forshadows the hell that awaits me if I have kids.
6) Zits
I think this is the comic that most people are familiar with when it comes to modern comic strips in today's newspaper. I see strips of this in the hallways at school sometimes. Well, how appropriate. This comic strip focuses on the life of Jeremy as a teenager in high school. Most of us can relate to this because we're teenagers ourselves and this is probably a favorite to people who actually read newspaper comic strips. It's entertaining and puberific. LOL yeah I made that up.
5) Peanuts
Everybody should know what this is, so it hardly needs an introduction. After many decades, Peanuts is still enjoyable to read today and is a classic. And that's why it's at number 5.
4) Argyle Sweater
I have no idea what the title means, but then again, a lot of comic strips have titles that don't make sense. It's another one panel strip which makes it crazy right off the bat. Agryle Sweater borrows ideas commonly found in fairy tales and children's stories, but sometimes gets very creative and funny at the same time. I have a 365 day to day page calendar with Argyle Sweater on every page. That's how much I like it.
3) Foxtrot
This strip used to be a regular on the LA Times, but is now reduced to a Sundays-only-comic. I liked it then and I like it now. This comic revolves around a family of a nerdy boy, a teenage girl, and an older teenage boy, and their parents. The different personalities in each character give this comic strip a certain flavor. My favorite character is the nerdy kid, Jason. He just kicks this comic up to a higher level by himself.
2) Calvin and Hobbes
Now if you wanna talk about classics, here's one for you. Once on the newspapers, Calvin and Hobbes stopped making appearances on newspapers and now you can pretty much only read them online or in book collections. I have 7 myself. If you don't know what Calvin and Hobbes is about, 1st of all: why the hell not? 2nd of all, it's hard to explain. It's about a 1st grade boy, Calvin, and his tiger, Hobbes. Hobbes is where I got my screenname: hobbes9469. Not from Thomas Hobbes. Anyways, Calvin has some pretty crazy adventures and has some pretty crazy imagination. What a comic.
So what in the world of crazy comics in the galaxy of awesomeness in the universe in the gigaverse in the terraverse in the omniverse of power can top Calvin and Hobbes?
How about a comic with a pig, a rat, a goat, a zebra, a family of crocodiles, a duck in the military, a trigger happy cat, a leashed dog, and cameos from other franchises?
1) Pearls Before Swine
Oh boy oh boy. I LOVE this comic strip. I've never seen a bad one. Some other strips have their off days and you can tell the author was running out of ideas. Not this one. This one reeks of a unicorn's asshole. And that's good. You are immersed into the world of Pig, Rat, Goat, Zebra, the crocodiles, and everyone else. And yes, those are their names. The crocodiles have actual names though. And so do the rest of the characters. And what other comic has the author himself as a character in his own comic strip. That's right. No other. This has my seal of approval. If I had one.
So by now you must have noticed that the main segments that make up my blog are the anime reviews and the video game reviews. Starting with this post, I'm going to make top 10s a regular also. So send ideas if you have them. Actually, send ideas for anything.
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