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Quote from user: ramapithQuote from user: Robb_KThe premise of Tom always trying to catch and eat Jerry and Tuffy, and the mice trying to prevent that, using trickery and brain power severely limits the potential storylines.
In the comics, Tom is friendly rivals with the mice, often trying to make them do his chores or manipulate them into helping him impress his friends or love interests. Meanwhile, the mice try to take advantage of Tom however they can??sometimes bringing him into a squabbling alliance to achieve larger goals.

Other stories feature Tom taking guard-animal jobs or battling other larger neighborhood animals, including his alley cat rival Butch and the pompous bulldog Spike and his son Tyke.

Other stories feature Jerry and Tuffy on adventure with other smaller animals, either helped or hindered by Tom and his needs. Other stories feature Tom's attempts to measure up to what he believes is proper alpha male cat behavior.

And that's just the start. I've written a handful of Tom and Jerrys for Egmont over the years. If the only plot was just "cat tries to eat mice, fails" I wouldn't have cared!
Yes. I was exaggerating, based on my impressions, which were probably prejudiced by the animated cartoons. But, still, the Tom & Jerry comic book stories, although much more complex than I had implied, were still much more simple and limited only to those 5 or so situations you described above. So they were a LOT less enjoyable to me than even the non-Barks Barney Bear, and some of the other MGM stories in both "Our Gang" and "Tom & Jerry" comic books, and most of those MGM comics stories were a LOT less enjoyable to me than most of The Warner Brothers and Walter Lantz Comic book stories.

And, even the best Warner Brothers didn't come close to most of the characters' stories in Disney Comics (according to my taste). At one time, I collected not just Disney, but also Warner Brothers and Walter Lantz comic books. I didn't collect MGM, Only buying a handful, that had some decent stories and artwork. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit from my older cousins (with whom I lived) any of The "Our Gang" comic books with Carl Barks' stories.. Luckily, I was able to find all of them in the Danish late 1970s and early 1980s, just as I also got the Freddy Milton, Jussi Olsen and Frank Madsen Woody Woodpeckers.

I have looked over the entire series of "Our Gang" and "Tom & Jerry" comic books, not reading them, but looking at the artwork. From the look of the artwork (which is far more important to me than the story), I would only want to read the 1944-1952 stories. I have already started reading some of them. They are passable, but none of them really interested me like Homer Pigeon, Henery Hawk, Barney Bear, Andy Panda, Woody Woodpecker, and others that I raced through, reading as a child, and appreciate more now, in this modern World of technological story-telling.

For me, Disney (especially Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse) is way up on a pedestal, way above the rest. Then, comes Warner Brothers, with Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Henery Hawk, then comes Walter Lantz, with Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda and Homer Pigeon, then Animal comics' Pogo (and Albert The Alligator), THEN, finally MGM with Barney Bear and Barks' Happy Hound (I don't really like Droopy comics very much).

I liked Fox and Crow somewhat, and Fix and Foxi, but they weren't up with my favourites. I liked some human-character comedy comics, like Little Lulu and Tubby, and Suske en Wiske. But those aren't funny-animal comics, so they aren't pertinent to this discussion.