Quote Originally Posted by Troll View Post
Garfield was created to be commercially successful, not to entertain. Jim Davis admitted it.

The first ever comic:

You're telling me that that's funny?
Well, it gets sort of funny at some point. But yeah, overall, the quality of comics has really slipped. There are only about three or four that ever get a laugh out of me, and two of them are inactive (Bloom County and C&H). I like the Far Side, but it isn't really LOL material.