Craftsmanship Edition (May 3)

Worst:
An absolutely atrocious pun, that is made to work with bizarre art. I'm not sure which offends my comedic taste more.

Runners-up: Close to Home, Garfield, Hagar the Horrible, On the Fastrack, Rhymes with Orange

Best:
Not as great as many Get Fuzzy strips, but still the best for the day. Darby Conley is not content to come up with a joke and dedicate a whole strip to it. There is a punchline at the end, but the set-up is more entertaining than most strip's punch lines.

Runners-up: Agnes, Baby Blues, Brewster Rockit: Space Guy!, Candorville, Frazz, Sally Forth, Single and Looking

Over My Head Edition (Mar. 8)

Worst:
Bad puns are typical for Frank and Ernest, usually there's a strip that even worse, so the strip avoids a lot of worst titles. Some days there aren't any worse strips, and Frank and Ernest end up on the bottom of the pack. The worst part about this is that Bob Thaves has passed, and yet we still get bad puns instead of a fresh strip that would be entertaining. Replacing F & E with Heart of the City, Cul de Sac, My Cage or another strip that is interesting would instantly improve the comics page a lot.

Runners-up: Close to Home, Curtis, Pooch Cafe, Rhymes with Orange, Zits

Best:
I love the line about remembering amnesia. I don't get the line about French citizenship, but Darby Conley has earned the benefit of the doubt.

Runners-up: Agnes, Beetle Bailey, Lio, Mother Goose and Grimm, Pearls Before Swine, Prickly City, Red and Rover, Watch Your Head

Comics of the Day

Worst:Bad pun that was difficult to figure out.

Runners-up: Beetle Bailey (when did this strip become oddly surreal? Sometimes it works, today I think it doesn't.), Brevity, Dilbert (unoriginal material), Family Circus, Hagar the Horrible, Mother Goose and Grimm, Non Sequiter, Speed Bump

Best:

I love the fact that Trout is sprinting to share this crucial information.

Runners-up: Frazz, Get Fuzzy, Lio, Pearls Before Swine, Pooch Cafe, Zits