Viz: favourite strips?

[souljacker]

David Beerglass
Roger Irrelevant-He's completely hatstand

Tubby Tucker - the big fat person

Tubby: Mum, I'm starving, I can feel my ribs
Tubby's mum: That'll be the sheeps carcass you ate earlier

Famous people on the bog
Letterbocks
The brilliant stories

I could go on all day.

 

[Charlie Drake]

I didn't know the profanasaurus was constantly updated I have an old one, when i first got it I died through suffocation. have to have a look

I also liked Billy Bumblebeard ("Bah, trust me to end up in bed with Marjorie Waspfanny")

And Eminemmis the Menace (his mum said "Why can't you be more like those nice N'sync boys)

Biffa Bacon had Cedric Soft who used to wear a Smiths T-shirt...

I forgot all about Victorian Dad ("My dear good woman - The only people to see in my natural state are Dr Fitzsimmons and Higgins my batman")

 

[jim70]

Captain Morgan and his Hammond Organ

Viz did become a bit tired and crude in the end, mind you.

 

[subversplat]

The latest issue of Viz was hilarious

It did go through a rubbish spell though.

 

[Gerry1time]

yeah, it's actually really good again. Really.

Lots of things i like have been mentioned here already, but must give mention to the cartoonist who's been doing the very well observed yet absurdist strips recently, 'noah's arse', 'richard lionfart' and the many ones themed around space travel and relationship problems, usually with animals. Awesome...

 

[gentlegreen]

I've found myself buying the last couple of issues.

I have to say I'm a bit put off with all the adverts for sex lines

Toilet humour.

Part (fnaar fnaaar) of what's great about being British (English ?)

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[Mr Smin]

got a bit of class war going on in it too

last year they had some spoof ads taking the piss out of Carol Vorderman's adverts for loan companies for instance.
"I trust you Carol, so I'd like one amount from the top rown and two from the middle row"
or carol captioned something like
"You can borrow any amount - it's just pin money to me really, and you can use it for whatever you like, perhaps one of those horrid package holidays people like you seem to enjoy"

 

[corporate whore]

Rude Kid - "Shall we go to the park, dear?" "LET'S FUCK A COPPA!"

Plod, Mellie - anything with gratuitous swearing in, basically..

Victorian Dad is superb 'I'd like a hansom cab to Whitechapel, I need to clean the streets..'

 

[k_s]

Raffles the gentleman thug:

"Might i enquire as to the nature of your fucking perplexity pal?"

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

its not as funny as it used to be

does anyone remember 'bloke in the pub - Britains most ill informed columnist'

at one point in 1997 between my flat mate and I we had everything viz ever produced...

 

[lighterthief]

Gilbert Ratchet

 

[steamin]

Playtime Fontayne anyone?

 

[corporate whore]

Raffles the gentleman thug:

"Might i enquire as to the nature of your fucking perplexity pal?"

Quality - "I am fully cognisant as the the whereabouts of your place of residency, you cunt, sir"

"Extract your decolletage from its corsetry
Extract your decolletage from its corsetry
Extract your decolletage from its corsetry
For the delectation of the gentlemen here present"

 

[Zhelezniakov]

Funny how no ones mentioned the Fat slags ?
or Berty Blunt his parrots a cunt .

 

[brahaminda]

Big Vern




















And JellyHead

 

[Charlie Drake]

I have to say I'm a bit put off with all the adverts for sex lines

There was a spoof one that made me laugh: "I'm 18 - we'll have nothing to talk about - 0898..."

Actually the spoof ads were fantastic:

Earn £100 teaching monkeys table tennis....

 

[longdog]

Raffles the gentleman thug:

"Might i enquire as to the nature of your fucking perplexity pal?"

At the theatre bar on buying a pint.

Raffles: Do you think you could get a creme de menth in there?

Barman: Certainly.

Raffles: Then might I suggest you should have plenished the fucker up in the first place you cunt.

 

[May Kasahara]

The Profanisaurus still makes me chuckle each month.

It's so authoritatively written.

I particularly like 'Notes & Swearies' with Professor Bernard Fuck. "Are you at a loss to describe something you've seen, something you've done or something that's come out of your arse? Fuck knows what it is!"

 

[equationgirl]

Millie Tant
Student Grant
The Modern Parents

Viz is set reading for many undergraduate engineers

 

[Fez909]

Terry Fuckwit, Biffa Bacon and Letterbox/Top Tips.

Favourite tip: "If a small child is choking on an ice cube, don't panic. Simply pour a kettle of boiling water down its throat and Hey Presto! The blockage is instantly removed."

Favourite letter: "Not all truck drivers are rapists. Some of them just kill people."

 

[Apathy]

'Major Misunderstanding' makes me laugh, I like those short silly ones

good choices made above;

Big Vern
Playtime Fontayne

I'd also have Les Pretend, but err, he was in the Beano

 

[El Sueno]

Playtime Fontayne
Doctor Poo

My favourite bits are the tabloid-style pun-driven articles and adverts for magnificently crafted ornamental cottages like The Fat Slags' '22 Shit Street'.

 

[May Kasahara]

The Faberge Fried Egg was genius, especially the close up picture supposedly showing its magnificent detail that was just a really shit pixillated zoom-in.

 

[dweller]

Harold and Fred - they make ladies dead!
that was close to the bone

Jack Black - love the old fashioned look mixed with
stark cruelty

Spoilt Brat is just too painful to read.

God I love VIZ.

On a train journey it has got to be either Viz n Private Eye.
And it is a great hangover cure!!

 

[Grandma Death]

Terry Fuckwit-deliciously funny and surreal.

 

[G. Fieendish]

The Modern Parents - The last strip dealt with the Da Vinci Code...

 

[Binkie]

It stopped being funny 10 years ago, its tired and old.

Yeah well so am I shithead.

 

[gentlegreen]

On a train journey it has got to be either Viz n Private Eye.

I always buy "Private Eye" at the same time so I don't appear quite so immature

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[Binkie]

Mister Logic - he's a pain in the arse.

Does anyone remember the strip where he's a kid sitting on his father's knee and proves conclusively that his Christmas presents must be on top of the wardrobe. There then followed a frame - no speech bubbles - in which he pushes his little horn-rimmed glasses back on his nose with one finger - "shove".

 

[Charlie Drake]

'Major Misunderstanding' makes me laugh, I like those short silly ones

God! How did I manage to forget him?! He was great. Is he still going? I swear I've not seen Viz for ages-this threads inspired me to pick it up next time I see it.

"Refugee, my foot! Coming over here to sell your dirty postcards, more like. I know what your sort are like - I was in Kut!"

"The human body wasn't designed for such practices, simple fact of nature"

"They found eighteen sleeping bags on the line at British Leyland, you know"

Does anyone remember Lazy Disinterested Shoeshop Girl?