6 darkly funny Far Side comics starring the devil

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, nothing in the comic strip section of the newspaper was quite as dark as The Far Side . In Peanuts , Lucy van Pelt pulling the football away from Charlie Brown as he was about to kick it is about as dark as things got. In Garfield , the lazy cat’s darkest running gag also revolved around a kick — when he’d kick Odie the dog off a table. Meanwhile, The Far Side was doing jokes about hangings and murder — death was a regular punchline .