Who the heck is this guy? Patrick Mahomes the 6th best QB in the league?

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by wazu

As a fellow newspaper comics reader as a kid, I am 100% with you on the Zippy thing. I remember commenting on it repeatedly and being in disbelief that it was able to be published at all. Like the guy writing it was on acid or something and didn't even know what humor was. At one point I ran into a kid at school who thought Zippy was hilarious. The kid was a complete dork who was also incapable of understanding humor or ever being funny, but I realized there are more people like him than you would think.

There was a handful of kids in my high school who claimed to like Zippy, and every single one of them without exception were kids who were trying to be seen as edgy and iconoclastic. They would claim that Zippy was deep in a way that most people couldn't understand. None of those people were bright or witty so that argument didn't fly at all. I think maybe Zippy survived as a comic because some syndicate buyer was the same non-bright wannabe cool person.

I made it a point to read the newspaper comics every day, and I kind of miss that. I would read every comic except maybe Mary Worth. (Seriously - a comic soap opera? Nope.). Zippy angered me because it offered no redeeming feature at all, but the drawing style would make me glance at it every day before immediately rejecting it.