Sometimes a form of entertainment can become so bad that it transcends badness and becomes something new and wonderful. The world of newspaper comic strips is a gold mine for this, where strips that were built on a shaky premise to begin with run for decades after the writers and artists have long gone insane. These are the best for providing hours of unintentional enjoyment. Advertisement

Mark Trail Intended Appeal:

Learning about wildlife and following the adventures of a rugged environmentalist. Continue Reading Below Advertisement Actual Appeal:

Comically nonsensical plots, misplaced speech balloons. Ever since 1946, Mark Trail has been on the funny pages teaching respect for nature, mostly by battling evil companies that want to bulldoze ducks. The artists (Ed Dodd and then Jack Elrod) have both been firm in their priority of nature education first, and other less important things, like making sense, are pushed out of the way as necessary to meet that goal. Elrod enjoys drawing animals so much that he never really learned to draw human beings, which is somewhat of a problem, since the comic stars several of them (although this illustration of what one assumes to be a hyperencephalic child with a tiny malformed hand seems to be OK). Continue Reading Below Advertisement He cleverly tackles the problem by shifting perspective to large foreground animals at every opportunity. Unfortunately, he either has serious problems with speech balloon placement, or the transmutation of souls is a commonplace occurrence in the Mark Trail universe. We have these conspiring moose: This reluctant farewell from a squirrel: This uninvited exposition from a duck: And, this fish's inexplicable anger toward financial transactions: