I was so busy with Shakespeare authorship matters today that I didn’t have time for a real blog entry.  Instead, this< which is something I just emailed to the local paper I read:

I’m posting it on the off-chance posterity will be interested in my choices and this commentary.  First of all, I made Dilbert my favorite because it far and away is, of the choices, and probably of all the strips I know about, even Mary Worth (Sarcasm since, those of you not familiar with this strip, it not only is pure soap opera, but soap opera without dramatic interest and with less narrative change per frame than you’d believe possible; actually, that makes it worth keeping–it’s sometimes hilariously bad).  I listed Mutts in my favorites although it is often vilely sentimental and not often very funny because once in a while is it very funny, and once in a while it seems an excellent haiku to me.  I like its flavor of the old Thimble Theatre, hangout of Popeye. I also fear it may get kicked out of the funnies, and most of the others, although usually better than it, are very similar.  Sally Forth I put down for fear it might need my vote, too.  It’s rarely really funny but, for me, almost always gently amusing.  Again, it’s one of the few strips on the paper that has much individuality.

Zits and Baby Blues would have been numbers 2 and 3 if I thought they needed my vote.  Both seem funny to me more often than not, and I like how often they suggest how different males and females are from each other.

I have little to say about the three on my list of ones I could live without: For Better or Worse is okay but we’re getting reruns, and once  was enough.  A new strip to me that has only been in the paper a couple of weeks is Wumo.  It has so far always seemed almost-funny but misfiring.  Imitation Gary Larsen but never as right on as he almost always was.

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