I'm going to admit it... I love the comics - not ALL the comics mind you, but every once in awhile there is a "laugh out loud make the rest of the family wonder if I'm choking" funny bit there...
and then quite often there are the comics that we relate to in a more "ooh, yeah - truth is kinda funny but I'm only going to snicker because otherwise I might cry" kind of way...
For many many years - the comic that I most related to was Baby Blues...
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As we've grown into a slightly older family I have begun to relate to other comics besides Baby Blues... for instance...
Yep - this very comic is actually currently hanging on our bathroom door - where our boy T has been known to deplete the entire water supply for the region. Jeremy's obsession with his friends, his music, and food - it all rings true. The girl part... ugh - I'm trying not to be THAT mature yet!!!
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Sooooo, here's the interactive bit - how mature are you? Are you into Family Circus? Doonesbury? Cathy? (Man Of The House DESPISES Cathy... it's funny actually)
and hey, I really like Pearls Before Swine too... even though I can't say that I "relate" to anything about it... being human and all...
20 comments:
When I was younger, I used to read the Sunday comics religiously. But I haven't gotten the paper in years, and I lost interest!
I used to read comics all the time...i rarely do anymore but I still love them! I loved Garfield when I was younger, I like family circus, ive always loved baby blues and zits :0)
Oh, goodness! I've got no idea. I suppose I'm somewhere between where you are and where you used to be. I never get to read the comics because the kid snatches them.
I have to admit I don't read the comics anymore because the letters to the editor are usually a lot more humorous.
Funny memory about Cathy. That one was a classic C fam strip that did received a lot of flak, as did Family Circus. Seriously with Family Circus----how can it still be around?
I used to read the comics every Sunday, but that was when I used to live at home and that was years ago. We don't get the paper. I used to like a few comics, but I can't think of the names of them right now.
I still love "The Family Circus"
My favorite has always been Baby Blues, but I think that it's because Zoe and Hammy have a similar relationship to what me and my brother had. I don't know that I particularly relate to any comic with my current life, though. Ugh, I don't like Cathy, though! They're all the same!
I am also a faithful reader of the comics. Love Baby Blues, Zits, Mother Goose and Grimm, Pearls before Swine, and LOVE Pickles. There's a couple I can't stand like Hi & Lois, Beetle Bailey, Marvin...I can go on. I actually had to fish my paper out of the garbage so I could give you my list.
THAT's a loyal reader - she fishes her soggy newspaper out :)
We have the authoritative collection of Calvin & Hobbes. And I grew up with Bloom County, a raving, rabid, liberal comic strip that I barely understood as a kid, but still find hysterically amusing. I still have my stuffed Opus penguin doll, too!
I don't read the comics but I could totally relate to that first one you have on here. I think you're quite funny.
My favorite Family Circus that I still quote today when frustrated is, "They didn't say I couldn't throw rocks at the ducks."
The mom and dad had been telling the littlest one not to do this and that...and next thing you know he is at a pond.
Thanks for your support!!! :)
I love the comics too! I love Family Circus and my mom is always showing me Cathy. She thinks we have a relationship much like Cathy and her mom, so we can often relate. I love the Doonesbury clip!
Sue Q reminded me of my deep and abiding love for all things Calvin, I feel like I need to apologize to Hobbes for leaving him out (who doesn't love the transmorgrifier?)
and Opus, Bill and the other Bloom County residents - they'll never be the same under new management :)
Bloom County was my all time fave. Esp Binckley and his interactions with his dad. I do love Pickles, though--I am not THAT mature--yet--but my parents are so it totally cracks me up. I love it when he includes a picture of the Oakland temple on the wall. How cool is that?
and when the kid wears his CTR shirt - gotta love it!
I love baby blues! We've got one on the fridge right now -- that shows here making disgusting healthy food after going to the farmers market, and the dad is saying, hey kids I thought you were supposed to distract her at the market! ha.ha. Yes, I make disgusting vegetables and stuff. I'm just starting to relate to zits as my daughter is starting hide in the bathroom, and not respond when I ask her questions.
ha ha! that bored one was totally Addie!
Good Post!
I used to read the comics everyday. For better or worse was my favorite....but then they finished it and now are doing a flash back thing. Not a fan. SO I am refusing to read any more other than Garfield. Thats all.
Oooh yeah, I used to love to ready the comics when I was a kiddo...but don't get the paper anymore! Over from SITS...cute blog :-) Have a happy day!
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