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TiggersAreGreat Since: Mar, 2011
#1: Nov 13th 2012 at 3:44:38 PM

Fox Trot is the kind of comic strip that is pretty interesting to read at times.

I was pretty sad when I heard that the comic strip would only contain Sunday strips starting in 2007. To me, that makes the strip half-dead.

At least Pearls Before Swine happily pointed out the impact of changing a strip like that!

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#2: Nov 14th 2012 at 5:15:23 PM

It outlasted The Boondocks, which was incidentally the first time I read Fox Trot.

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#3: Nov 14th 2012 at 6:06:49 PM

I first read it in the mid 90s when I found a book of it at the bookstore. I would often go in and look at the comic strip compilations they had. Discovered Sherman's Lagoon, Close to Home, Committed, Baby Blues, Zits, and a whole lot of other strips that way.

Its tone really changed over time. I liked it best in the mid-late 90s, when they balanced real Slice of Life humor with the nerdy humor. Some of the later daily strips get a little too lost in the nerd humor and/or jokes that he'd done before, but it was still mostly a funny strip.

I feel that going to Sundays-only has limited him too much, though. There's no room to do story arcs or week-long running gags anymore. Even so, he still puts out a good one.

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