At the risk of sounding like a bad case of "Gen-X Good Old Days Syndrome": What has happened to the comic strips these days? Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County and The Far Side (kudos to Bill Watterson, Berke Breathed and Gary Larson) were all incredible in their heyday...

I don't find much lately that measures up. Maybe The Boondocks (but for some reason, the Dallas Morning News has relegated it to the same page with Dear Abby). Certainly For Better or Worse is the current best. Possibly Zits. The Norm isn't bad, either...and there are easily 60 strips in the DMN. 4 are decent?

But none of those four even approaches the first three I mentioned. I wonder why comic strip greatness is so hard to attain.