Me neither!
Like most people, I looked forward to reading the newspaper comics as a kid. There were always a few that I never really got into, like the dramatic serials, and then there were those funnies that I just never understood. I figured that some like Andy Capp were over my head because I was a kid, and Peanuts was only funny now and then, but I figured that was because my lifestyle did not match Charlie Brown's.
Now that I'm older and have acquired the inevitable life experiences, I am able to find the humor or the underlying comedic principle in many more of the comics that now appear in the newspaper comics, and even online. I've also homed in on a few comics that seem to always guarantee a chuckle or guffaw such as:
But then there's Marmaduke. I think my comprehension of the humor in this comic remains at the same 0.001% that it's ever been. Thanks to the internet, I find that I'm not alone:
The only explanation I can think of for Marmaduke's "success" is that a lot more people own Great Danes or other very large dogs than we might imagine, and they can relate to the "humor" in the strip.
