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Summary: This comic strip (is bad)
Review: I haven't read this book, but since it's a reprinting of many strips which I have read, I am qualified to comment on this book.Boy (is it bad). (Bad. Bad. Bad.) "Baldo" is the ultimate in the trivilization of comics by focus-group marketing and in the Balkanization of American culture. Strong words, true, but compared to true artists/geniuses like Bill Watterson, Ted Rall, Ruben Bowling, Aaron MacGruder, Gary Larson, and Dan Perkins (and the unsyndicated Pete Abrams, Fred Gallagher, and Tatsuya Ishida), it's shocking that Castellanos and Cantu would even be published, much less garner positive reviews. Every strip is a tired retread of stale ideas and (in the English version) occasionally a word or phrase in espanol to keep los hispanohablantes happy. (The art is decent.) Don't buy this book. Buy When Penguins Attack! or Game Called on Account of Naked Chick instead.
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Summary: This comic strip (is bad)
Review: I haven't read this book, but since it's a reprinting of many strips which I have read, I am qualified to comment on this book. Boy (is it bad). (Bad. Bad. Bad.) "Baldo" is the ultimate in the trivilization of comics by focus-group marketing and in the Balkanization of American culture. Strong words, true, but compared to true artists/geniuses like Bill Watterson, Ted Rall, Ruben Bowling, Aaron MacGruder, Gary Larson, and Dan Perkins (and the unsyndicated Pete Abrams, Fred Gallagher, and Tatsuya Ishida), it's shocking that Castellanos and Cantu would even be published, much less garner positive reviews. Every strip is a tired retread of stale ideas and (in the English version) occasionally a word or phrase in espanol to keep los hispanohablantes happy. (The art is decent.) Don't buy this book. Buy When Penguins Attack! or Game Called on Account of Naked Chick instead.
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Summary: Great reading!
Review: I thought this was an excellent book! I would deffinately recommend it!
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Summary: I like it
Review: I've been a fan of Baldo for a few months now and I really look forward to the morning comics so I can read this strip. Along with Get Fuzzy and Garfield, this is one of the best comics out there. I don't have the book yet, but having read this strip for a while, I think I am allowed to put in a comment right here.
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Summary: Enthusiastically recommended for an entertaining good time
Review: The Lower You Ride, The Cooler You Are is the first collection of the Baldo syndicated comic strip by the collaborative efforts of writer Hector Cantu and illustrator Carlos Castellanos, and which appears in over 100 newspapers across the U.S.A. This hilarious anthology of the newspaper comic strip mixes Latino culture and the ridiculous foibles that haunt every teenager's life as it follows 15-year-old Baldo with his wild imagination, his yearning to date the prettiest girl in school, and his love of soccer and cars. The Lower You Ride, The Cooler You Are is enthusiastically recommended for an entertaining good time.
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Summary: Great stuff
Review: The writer of this comic series really captures the teenage spirit of a kid gowing up in today's America. Funny, and entertaining.
Rating:
Summary: Great stuff
Review: The writer of this comic series really captures the teenage spirit of a kid gowing up in today's America. Funny, and entertaining.
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Summary: Funny, funny, funny.
Review: This book is a hallarious compilation of previously published strips. I LOVE the Bermudez family, they are a great cast of characters with so much potential. There's just nothing else like it in syndication. I would reccomend this book to anyone who's interested in reading a funny, funny strip with a new perspective on everyday situations. Cantu and Castellanos do a wonderful job of bringing this family to life.The art is first rate, and among the best there is. I can't wait for the second book to be released.
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