Hagar the Horrible

If you asked me 40 years ago, I would have given Hagar a 5. It was one of the funniest strips around when Dik Browne was alive and working on it. I find it sad to see once-great comics still schalacking around like brain-dead zombies decades after they died and should have been buried. Hagar is a particularly strong example of this phenomenon. It's not that the jokes are bad. It's that half the time, there are no jokes at all. The other half of the time, the joke is one they (I'm assuming Chris Browne works with a team if he still works on the strip at all) used literally dozens of times before. And the drawings... I'm sorry, but Chris cannot draw half as well as his father could. I know he has been working on "Hagar" since the beginning as an assistant, and he was a major contributor. He's undoubtedly a cool guy in real life. But the man just cannot draw FUNNY like his dad could. There are many old Hagar strips where the joke was not particularly funny, and yet I laug... Read more

This is a nice, funny little cartoon. It can be amusing sometimes. I like that there is a whole medieval world there and the characters. Mostly he is kind of afraid of his wife which is kind of funny. He wants to go away.

Hagar was... Oh, what's a good word for it?

Was this strip ever anything than utterly predicatble? Perhaps back when it debuted. This strip in particular helped usher in the phase in the history of the comic strip when you didn't have to strain to hard for laughs--just go for a reaction shot of the characters and hope the readers will settle for "mildly amusingh".

I like the incorrigible Hagar.

Silly but always funny

I always wonder what real Vikings, like Erik the Red or Sven the Fart, would have thought of this, and what they might have done to its creator.

In its hey-day in the 1970s, this one was up there with some of my other favorites like Broom Hilda, while Cathy could not get a laugh out of me if I was stoned on a Thai Stick. Fast forward 30 years later. Broom Hilda is gone (I think), Hagar is still around (though it lost some of its edge), and Cathy still can't get a laugh out of me even if I was stoned on a Thai Stick.

A little old-fashioned, but it's funny sometimes. I had to give it a 2 because it repeats after a period of time.

Ok but not great.

Tired. Unfunny. Poorly drawn. Lots of better strips could be in its place.

The primary vein of the jokes here circulate around marriage and tax collectors (which I doubt was at the forefront of the mind of a pillaging viking). The wild billy goat charging through the wall to attack Lucky Eddie at random occassions storyline was classic.

Always manage to make me laugh and think a little bit more...just like Garfield.

Better than Browne's other one, "Raising Duncan", (but that's like saying a garbage dump is preferable to a toxic waste landfill.)

This was agreat strip when the original author wrote it. ~Erg!

Another tired piece of rubbish. It stopped being funny too long ago.

I still love Hagar, even after all these years. A true classic.

Usually pretty funny...a bit predictable.

Possibly the least intelligent comic on this list. Only the pets have any appeal to me.

I never skip this comic strip on Sundays, and I always laugh.

I've always enjoyed this strip. Those Vikings had more to deal with than any of us realized!

Not even funny.

I give it an extra star only because I like the way Hagar is drawn and that they have a pet named "snert." Make no mistake, though: Hagar the Horrible is a bad comic strip.

truth in advertising. horrible.

A man with attitude

Horrible is right. This my friend is not a funny strip. I just hope people don't get this abroad and take this as a fair representation of American culture

Like "B.C." or "Broom-Hilda," Hagar just doesn't do anything good or bad for me. It's just there. It's the comic strip equivalent of eating plain white rice. If you're starving, it's great, but if you're full, what's the point?