The Dog Is Not a Toy: House Rule #4

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Summary: The Best in a Loooooong Time
Review: I had lost interest in the comics back in the 90s when Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side ended, but after a friend turned me on to Get Fuzzy I was hooked. The personalities of the characters are incredible, and as much as I laugh at Bucky, I cry for Satchel. The combination of this character realism along with the fantastic, almost three-dimensional art really gives the illusion of a "real world" that I would love to visit, and I haven't had that kind of feeling since Calvin & Hobbes. I highly recommend this book. You'll laugh all the time.

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Summary: Cat lovers or dog lovers, you are going to love this book
Review: Darby Conely has hit on so many things that I see in my own pets. I will never look at my animals the same way again. How much more sick and demented can a cat be? And poor Satchel seems to be the object of torment on Bucky's bad day ... get the book!

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Summary: Excellent
Review: This is one of my favorite strips. It is rare that a comic like this comes along with both great dialogue and awesome artwork. Plus, unlike most of the cookie-cutter, bland characters populating the comics pages these days, Bucky and Satchel have well-defined, original personalities. This book is great because it lets you see how the strip started and gives you the first six to eight months of the strip.

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Summary: The best things in life are silly.
Review: I wish one of our local papers carried this strip, I have to read it on the web. So when the book came out, I was very happy. This is a very funny book. The characters of Get Fuzzy are easy to identify with, and Conley is gifted at goofy situations.

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Summary: Half the comics page could learn a lesson here.
Review: ... When Get Fuzzy took over from BC in my local paper, though, I got hooked. Conley has a neat drawing style and a real flair for humor; Satchel and Bucky behave the way pets would behave if they could speak English and work the microwave oven, too. The more of the strip you read at once, the funnier it gets, which is why it's so great to have this book - it's a good stiff dose of something you won't find anywhere else on the comics page.

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Summary: Get Funny
Review: Bucky is the funniest cat in comics. His grasp on reality isn't too great, but his feelings of entitlement are. Satchel is a sweet, dopey, literalist dog who is generally the brunt of Bucky's machinations. This has easily become my favorite currently running comic strip. Highly recommended. You'll laugh hard within the first two pages, and you won't stop until the end.

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Summary: Bucky and Satchel are great.
Review: We have started reading this comic in the newspaper and now have bought this book. I read it and all of my children have now read it. As cat owners, we really appreciate Bucky's egotistical personality. Darby Conley is great, the book is SOOOOO funny, and well worth the money.

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Summary: A great strip
Review: This is one of the very few strips that matters, and is engaging on a number of different levels in a way that few strips ever achieve. Also, unlike most strips, the writing is original and the perspective unique. Added to this is the fact that the artwork is the best on the comics page.

I bought the book and loved it.

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Summary: addicted to this book
Review: What a great cartoon! I have heard others say this comic is just another cliche but I think even though the premise has been created by others, the tone, perspective, and voice are original work. After all, we can relate to it can't we? As the owner of a dog and cat I thought the personalities of Satchel and Bucky disturbingly close to reality, which only makes the book more hilarious. The funniest part of the strip is the distorted and naive way the animals look at and react to the world around them, making Rob's job as guardian even more frustrating. YOU try reasoning with a selfish destructive cat!!!

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Summary: So Very True to Life
Review: A loyal follower of "Get Fuzzy" from Day 1, my life is not complete if I do not have my daily dose of "Get Fuzzy". As a matter of fact, my husband I fight over the newspaper to decide who gets to read the Fuzzy first. I can't go on without knowing what Bucky the Cat, Satchel the Dog, and Rob the Owner are doing today.

Author Darby Conley has captured what cats and dogs do, say, and think. I often wondered what cats did when they were alone... now I am worried. As a owner of three cats and three dogs, I often think he has some secret camera into my home and writes about the crazy happenings there. Certainly any pet owner will appreciate this comic strip. Even people who do not have pets laugh until tears come to thier eyes. Even a seemingly simple evening out to dinner calls for some crazy antics.

The dialogue, drawings, and madcap situations that come from "Get Fuzzy" are truly unique from any other comic strip out there. After one frame, you too will want to Get Fuzzy.

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