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Am I the only one who finds this strip badly drawn and entirely unfunny? I promised myself that when I hit forty, I wouldn't lose touch, but I am beginning to feel a bit old: I appear to be the only person not carrying a bible who thinks the endless torrent(no pun intended) of graphic violence, profanity and scatalogical humor pouring from the web to be more boorish than humorous. Am I alone?

No, it has nothing to do with age.

I'm a lot younger than you (I'm assuming, based on your description), and I don't like PBF.

I actually used to be an avid reader--I had it bookmarked in my list of sites that I visited every day, and did, in fact, read it on a regular basis.

After awhile, though, I grew extremely tired of it. Its humor--if you want to call it that--gets old very quickly. Now when I read it, it seems sort of unimaginative and uninsightful at best, and offensive and naive at worst.

I do think PBF can be really witty, but those moments are far outnumbered by the majority of panels in which it's basically uninspired trash. If PBF stopped being immature and inexperienced, and actually attempted to say something intelligent and sophisticated on a regular basis, it could really be something. I think the author has the talent, he just needs to stop and ask himself what he actually is doing.

By the way, here's a list of other online comics that I have consistently enjoyed:

American Elf
Boy on a Stick and Slither
Rice Boy
Scary Go Round

Actually, at first I didn't like Rice Boy as much as I do now. You have to sort of go back and read the strip from the beginning to catch up. As I have read it, though, I've enjoyed it more and more. It's rather surreal, but epic in scope, and deals with "big questions" in a way that I haven't seen in any other strip. If you crossed the Wizard of Oz, Frog and Toad, and The Odyssey, it would come out like Rice Boy.

American Elf is probably one of my two favorite strips. It's a comic diary, where he draws himself and his friends as comic characters. It's positive but sincere and sophisticated.

Boy on a Stick and Slither sort of reminds me of PBF in some ways, in that it's cynical and sarcastic, but it never devolves into tastelessness. It's also different in that every strip contains the same two characters in different situations.

Along with American Elf, Scary Go Round is probably my other favorite comic. It's sort of like a modern version of Scooby Doo, where the monsters are real, and there are more characters and subplots.

Do you often find yourself remarking: "My subconscious enjoys me?

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On a mostly unrelated note, I was reading the comic strip Boy on a Stick and Slither ... about how people tend to boil things down to black and white issues... I just wanted to say I think both the parent and grandparent posts are right - and all these posts saying "More prisoners should be locked up on an island with moldy bread for food" and "the multi-billion dollar prison industry does more to harm the country than help it" are two ends of a ridiculous extreme.

Can there be a middle ground, where we punish people for their crimes and at the same time respect their rights? Jesus H. Christ, can the guards not be torturers, and the can the prisoners not call them pigs? or is that just too heavy for this planet?

...but the strips I read whenever they are updated include Boy On A Stick And Slither (which I crave beyond reason)...

Tycho reads boasas! That's awesome. If you don't already, you very much must read this comic. It is clearly a relatively unknown awesome comic of ultimate awesome.
The Comic.
My favorite one

...but the strips I read whenever they are updated include Boy On A Stick And Slither (which I crave beyond reason)...

Tycho reads boasas! That's awesome. If you don't already, you very much must read this comic. It is clearly a relatively unknown awesome comic of ultimate awesome.
The Comic.
My favorite one