FWIW, I've never seen a decent comet before. The good ones in my recent memory, such as Lovejoy and McNaught, were in the southern hemisphere. PANSTARRS wasn't very impressive, and ISON even less so.
Just give it time......
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Correction: The 1997 comet was named Comet Hale-Bopp.
Sorry, my mistake