In fact, we looked at 42 additional comic strips ranging from the cutting edge "F-Minus," which is available in daily editions of the "News and Observer" in Raleigh, NC, (at last check), to the right wing comic strip "Mallard Fillmore," which ironically started at "The Daily Progress," which serves Charlottesville, Va., the most liberal city in our state.
Neither of those strips made the cut this week, but we will give both of them another look in February.
Since we have artic weather, which makes one think it might be warmer in Bergen, Norway, today than it is here in southwest Virginia, we had the time to look at all these strips, and we placed a ranking system to put them in their right place in a remotely objective manner.
We have the odd numbered strips on this blog, and the even numbered ones on our sister blog (see link below).
The top strips in this Top 10 list dealt with an evil computer in "The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee" (which is the reason why we have HAL from Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey"), an ice storm in "Edge City" (see top image) and a great satire of the beloved American board game Monopoly in "Brevity" (see bottom image).
The comic strip "Beeker" dealt with an ill-fated backyard hockey game, which probably helped win over Ottawa Senators fans in Canada (we could use some fans in Canada ourselves).
Here is the list:
1. "The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee" 8.4
2. "Bleeker" 8.0
3. Edge City 7.7
4. Brevity 7.6
5. Deflocked 7.5
6. Close to Home 7.4
7. The Duplex 7.3
8. Heart of the City 7.2
9. Zippy the Pinhead 7.2
10. Fort Knox 7.1
http://edisonleecomic.com/
http://bleekercomics.com/
http://edgecitycomics.com/
http://deflocked.com/
http://www.zippythepinhead.com
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