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Is it just me or are the comics in newspapers COMPLETELY devoid of any humor?

They mostly suck (and ALL online comics that I've seen suck), but one notable exception is Brewster Rockit -- Space Guy!, which is often hilarious. Another that is very funny is In The Bleachers.

Isn't Jumping Jehosaphat a species of leaping lizards? Or did I read my Annie comics.

I know. Most comics are pretty damn lame these days, even the ones that are supposed to be funny (Dilbert is hit-or-miss, User Friendly always sucks). There is no one out there on the level of a Bloom County when Berke Breathed was in his prime. Get Fuzzy is often pretty funny, though.

I think my favorite strip right now that is often extremely funny is Brewster Rockit, Space Guy!.

What, they haven't gone after P2P, publicity wise that is, already?
http://www.comicspage.com/comicspage/main.jsp?cati d=1149&custid=69&file=20050814csdty-s-p.jpg&code=c sdty&dir=/dicktracy
That says it all.

Maybe the MPAA should inlist the help of Dick Tracy.

Dick tracy has prior art... umm... or something.

Sparkle Plenty

Born
1947, daughter of B.O. Plenty and Gravel Gertie. Marries Junior Tracy
1981. The Sparkle Plenty doll is one of the most popular dolls in the
history of licensed cartoon products, and the most popular of all Dick
Tracy merchandise.

I go to a number of sites for "news" news; I find that the "same" news is very different coming from different countries:
BBC News, which everyone's familiar with;
CNN, the epitome of US government-sanctioned news;
The Economist, of course;
The Times of London,
Japan Today,
Pravda,
The Beijing Review,
Le Monde, and
The Tehran Times

...and a couple of sites for tech and science news:
EurekAlert, a great site for science and medicine press releases,
the former, but still running, Hacker News Network,
BottomQuark,
the phenomenal journal Nature,
Science magazine,
and, of course, The Source.

Some good comics, most of which you will all know, but which I love; here are a couple you might not know:
Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet, a comic that actually features a female sysadmin/techgoddess, and
Bateman Political cartoons, a fun political comic updated regularly.

And, of course, take a look at my sig... Click every day.

Uhrhrhrugh...according to this picture, it's more like "Helen, Hungover Nightclub Floozy of the Internet"

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