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Speaking of ones you don't like...
Does anyone else here hate Gil Thorpe? or (this may cost me) Peanuts and Family Circle?
I have no acquaintance with Gil Thorpe, but I did a search on Google just to find out what it was. It seems to be an adventure strip about sports. I couldn't evaluate an adventure strip on one strip, which is all I looked at, but that one strip did bore me, and I generally hate sports. As far as adventure strips go, I generally like Brenda Starr and Spider-man, but I regularly ignore Prince Valiant and Rex Morgan, M.D. I have also liked Dick Tracy and the Phantom, which the paper I read as a kid carries, but the local paper here doesn't carry them. My all-time favorite adventure strip is probably Buck Rogers.
When Charles Schulz died, I was hoping that Peanuts would finally be cancelled and replaced by something better. I was not a big Peanuts fan. But compared to Family Circus, which is the comic strip I most detest, Peanuts is like Calvin and Hobbes. I have been pleasantly surprised by the quality of Classic Peanuts. I also love the Peanuts music of Vince Guaraldi, and I generally think that the Peanuts TV specials were very good. And even though I thought Schulz's talent was fading, I was saddened by his death, because I respected him as a living legend. He may have never been as great as Walt Kelly, but Peanuts was with me from childhood through graduate school, whereas I knew Kelly only as a great talent of the past.
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