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Summary: Awesome
Review: First: based on reading the other strips this guy's done, I doubt he'll ever create anything as funny as this strip again.Second: I didn't mind the war in Iraq at all. And I think the Road Map to Peace thing is pretty noble, all things considered. With that out of the way... this is one of the funniest things I've ever read. While reading it, I had to get up a few times, I was laughing so hard. Some of them I can't even think about without laughing: WOMAN (on phone): "I'm a little confused. Are U.S. citizens allowed to kill suspected terrorists now?"
MAN (on phone): "I think so. But you have to be really, really sure the person is a suspected terrorist! So be super-double sure that they make you feel nervous!"
WOMAN: "Well, this dude standing by my desk is wearing a really ....-up jacket -- can I cap him?" (Note: that strip is on his website) Just .... great.
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Summary: "Can I cap him?"
Review: First: based on reading the other strips this guy's done, I doubt he'll ever create anything as funny as this strip again. Second: I didn't mind the war in Iraq at all. And I think the Road Map to Peace thing is pretty noble, all things considered. With that out of the way... this is one of the funniest things I've ever read. While reading it, I had to get up a few times, I was laughing so hard. Some of them I can't even think about without laughing: WOMAN (on phone): "I'm a little confused. Are U.S. citizens allowed to kill suspected terrorists now?"
MAN (on phone): "I think so. But you have to be really, really sure the person is a suspected terrorist! So be super-double sure that they make you feel nervous!"
WOMAN: "Well, this dude standing by my desk is wearing a really ....-up jacket -- can I cap him?" (Note: that strip is on his website) Just .... great.
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Summary: Enjoy your freedom of speech
Review: Great country isn't it? Anyone with half an opinion (and an even larger attitude plus good publishing connnections) can say exactly what they think of anyone who doesn't think exactly the way they do. Better yet when it's pandering to [insert cause of the week here] and peppered with content that has about the same humor level as the comics section in a college newspaper. Forget this cultural junk and read the news. ANY news. And make your own opinion about war, about regimes that imprison their own people, about the tremendous gulf of understanding between "us" and "them", about an all-volunteer army sent to fight (and quite possibly die) for another country, about the real things that go on in this world. Not what some second-rate scribbler says you should think while he smugly cashes his royalty cheques.
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Summary: "This Modern World" meets "South Park"
Review: I cannot say enough good things about this book.When I first heard about GYWO,it was from a blurb that appeared in the city's free alt-media paper back in the winter of 2001. It was,for the longest time,one of the best kept secrets on the internet. Sure, the profane dialogue and satirical commentary is funny and poignant but what adds to the humor is the artwork itself! Clearly pinched from some old comic like "Mary Worth" or "Apartment 3-G", the simplistic absurdity that comes from two guys slacking off in the office bitching about how...the War on Terrorism is hilarious almost to the point of surreal.Rees may have just earned a place in the cartoon world as the freshest and most sardonic political satirist since Gary Trudeau.
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Summary: Can't wait to buy it
Review: I have not bought this book yet but I have read the online comics. They are one of the most hilarious cartoons about the war on terrorism, but I must warn firm supporters of U.S. foreign policy to stay as far as way as possible from this book. You will be so offended that you will be calling Lynne Cheny to tell her to put David Rees on the terrorist watch list and ban all of his literature. If you have a dark sense of humor, a fan of Doonesbury, and you are not offende by profane language, then I recommend this book for you. It only costs $...which is cheap for most collections of comic strips. All of the royalties given to David will go to fight for getting rid of land mines and getting the the U.S. to stop producing land mines, which is a very worthy cause. If you are still not sure if you want to buy this book then may I suggest that you go to a search engine and search for Get Your War On. You should be able to find his free site which contains a bunch of free comic strips from Get Your War On. If you like these free strips then you should love the book because it contains 100 pages of that kind of humor. Almost forgot. If you are a fan of Mallard Fillmore or you are the author of Mallard Fillmore, don't buy this book because you will hate it more than the Clintons, The New York Times, and Tom Daschle combined.
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Summary: Buy it, read it, tell a friend...
Review: I was browsing through the "current events" section of my local mega bookstore (sorry, amazon) and happened across this decidedly un-serious-looking book. I picked it up and began thumbing through it, and before long, I found myself choking back laughter (didn't want to make a scene). One of the best things about democracy is the diversity of ideas and expression. One need not agree with Rees at all to find these strips hilarious. If you can cope with a generous use of expletives (or "explicatives" (sic) as one reviewer called them), you will find yourself laughing so hard your mid-section aches. My husband and I enjoyed this book so much we bought 10 copies (yes, from amazon) and gave them as gifts to friends!
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Summary: Blistering social critique & principled, profane brilliance.
Review: In the days following Sept. 11, about the only thing that moved faster than MSNBC's news tickers was the mass market comic book industry. All the corporate mainstays of the genre, DC, Marvel, and so on were quick to join in the textual and visual relief effort with varying degrees of success. From The Amazing Spider Man #36 to the Heroes project to the 9-11 Artists Respond volumes the lines between humanistic testimony and tribute and jingoistic posturing became murkier and murkier. Enter David Rees, the author of such clip-art classics as "my new filing technique is unstoppable" and the sidesplitting "my new fighting technique is unstoppable" (a must-read for anyone who remembers Black Belt Theater on late night).
Now published by Soft Skull Press, this book collects Rees's clips from October 8, 2001 to August of this year. Rolling Stone magazine even included a small write-up in its August "Hot" Issue (reproduced in that issue is the final page in the book (excluding the epilogue).
Colson Whitehead, former NY journalist and author of the sublimely brilliant THE INTUITIONIST and JOHN HENRY DAYS (in this book he reveals an affinity with comics), usefully focuses on the appropriateness of clip art as THE genre by which to respond to the emotions and events of the past year. In the hands of Rees's generic office drones, file clerks, claims adjusters, and Dilberts-in-waiting, a fierce, sensitive and ultimately humanitarian response emerges. Combining the inanity of the office water cooler conversation with the intellectual paranoia and insight of Chomsky and Herman's MANUFACTURING CONSENT, Rees has given us a kind of new vocabulary by which to gauge our responses not only to the tragedy of 9-11 itself but also and perhaps more crucially the ever developing terror of the current administration's ongoing war fever and assault on basic domestic human rights and freedoms.
Rees's profane burlesque is a hysterically parodic assault on the corporate controlled "news" toadies who provide us with much of the biased worldview and conservative jingoism that passes for information and is disturbingly parrotted throughout the workplaces (and homeplaces) of the U.S. Thus, Rees is a kind of Lenny Bruce of sequential art. He asks all the right questions (in the process giving some of the right answers), and presents it all in a manner entirely and gloriously inappropriate to the watered-down censored palaver of the evening news.
A satirist on the order of Rabelais, a social critic on the order of Chomsky, and a patriot in the truest sense not unlike Thoreau at his very very best.
Buy this book, weep with it, laugh your ... head off, and then roll up your sleeves and get to work; learn about the Adopt-a-Minefield Campaign and the related grass roots community groups the book benefits and donate more money and time beyond those you spent buying and reading the book. ...
Rating:
Summary: Hilarious
Review: Less than a month after the September 11th attacks, David Rees published the first set of Get Your War On cartoons on his website. I discovered GYWO in early 2002, when 7 or 8 sets had already been published, and immediately I became a fan. There's something intrinsically funny about generic clip-art pictures of office workers using extremely foul language to discuss important political issues. Rees not only seeks to provoke laughter, but to make a point: that even in the post-September 11th era, a little skepticism about the U.S. government's actions is a good thing. You don't need to read far to figure out that David Rees is not thrilled with the U.S. "war on terror" and all the accompanying propaganda. His characters speak with a variety of tones, from excessive exuberance that looks suspiciously like sarcasm (e.g. "Oh my God, this War on Terrorism is going to RULE! I can't wait until the war is over and there's no more terrorism!") to fatalism ("If you want me to hand over that planning report, you're more than welcome to bomb my cubicle. Who gives a [expletive] anymore?"). The cartoons cover many subjects, such as the bombing of Afghanistan, domestic anti-terrorism programs, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Exxon Mobil's links to murders in Indonesia, the collapse of Enron, and the constant fear that another major terrorist attack could be just around the corner. The cartoon character Voltron also randomly makes an appearance. GYWO isn't for everyone, of course. Supporters of recent U.S. policy might be irritated by Rees' harsh sarcasm and deep skepticism about American motives. Also, you need a dark sense of humor and a tolerance of gratuitous profanity to appreciate the book. Take the following line as an example--while discussing the food packages that the U.S. dropped in Afghanistan, one character says "it turns the relief effort into a fun game for the Afghan people--a game called 'See if you have any [expletive] arms left to eat the food we dropped after you step on a landmine trying to retrieve it.'" If you're offended, you may want to think twice before buying this book. For a person with the right sense of humor and outlook on politics, however, the book is hilarious. Some people might be thinking that the book isn't worth the money, because the cartoons are available for free online. This isn't quite true, however. The book includes a few cartoons that don't seem to be online (it also leaves a few of the online cartoons out). Furthermore, the author's royalties from the book go directly to landmine relief, so by purchasing the book you're donating to a worthy cause.
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Summary: A masterpiece
Review: My first exposure to "Get Your War On" was a single frame of clipart found online. In the frame, a woman on the phone is exclaiming: "We can't find Osama because Arthur Anderson f----ing shredded him!" As with The Onion's "attack on america" issue, "Get Your War On" was a well-timed, perfectly executed masterpiece of comedy and anger. And it still holds up today. It's not just funny... reading it gives you a feeling of relief: You're not alone, your fugitive thoughts are shared. "Get Your War On" is for everybody who wants to indulge in the prevailing jingoistic anger of victimhood and revenge, but finds his mind getting in the way.
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Summary: David Rees is [cool]!
Review: Rees' cartoon office workers may swear like dockworkers, but they cut through the jingoism and sheep-like lockstep of post 9/11 political opinion better than just about anything out there. Side-splittingly funny, and right on the money.
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