Is there value in reading comic strips? Which ones, if any, have value?

Answer 1

Interesting question.
I, as a 15 year old, found comics extremely valuable, in that I used them to learn English from them.
How clever that actually was only came to my attention much later.
For one thing, I learned all words in their proper context, which you cannot from a dictionary, because few words in different languages have exactly the same meaning in both.
The other advantage was, that I learned slang at the same time, which brought me a lot closer to the actual culture of the native speaker.
The only problem I encountered was, that it is often impossible to discern the pronunciation of given words.
When, years later, I had occasion to use the word conspicuous, I pronounced it rhyming with suspicious. My native friend thought I had come up with a new word he was unfamiliar with, which being a college man was incomprehensible to him. Well we both got a good chuckle out of that when we realized what had happened.

Answer 2

I get a great value out of reading Dilbert, Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine. Humor value... these three kick butt for making me laugh.

Answer 3

some, but i dont read comic strips much anymore, except for dilbert get fuzzy and millard fillmore... what you need to read are ONLINE comics, those are fun, lets see. megatokyo is good, so is 8-bit theater and 'last days of foxhound' those are really good ones but if you want newspaper comics deffinatly go with millard fillmore

Answer 4

Well all comics are valuable as far as humor goes, but "For Better or Worse" often is very touching.