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Summary: The Death Calendar
Review: If you are interested in this calendar you are surly familiar with Gary Larson and his unique perspective. You'll get what you expect with this calendar and perhaps a bit more. Here it is the middle of March and I have finally figgured it out. This is the death of The Far Side, every cartoon is about death. Sometimes there are dead bodies, sometimes characters are about to die. Todays just has a crocodile talking about how it eats little birds like popcorn. Fans of Larson know he is not a cartoonist that just reworks the same gag everyday. He is an artist that makes you look at the world in a new way. When a person reads a Far Side cartoon, don't expect them to laugh at first. You need to look at these cartoons for a while before they become funny. About the time I realized that all these cartoons were all morbid I realized that Gary had done it again. When there have been no new cartoons in, I don't know maybe 10 years, how can a new calendar be any different than the others? Why would a cartoonist let his final calendar have a morbid theme? Larson has never given people what they expect in a cartoon and he is still able to do that even with cartoons we have all seen before.
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Summary: The Death Calendar
Review: If you are interested in this calendar you are surly familiar with Gary Larson and his unique perspective. You'll get what you expect with this calendar and perhaps a bit more. Here it is the middle of March and I have finally figgured it out. This is the death of The Far Side, every cartoon is about death. Sometimes there are dead bodies, sometimes characters are about to die. Todays just has a crocodile talking about how it eats little birds like popcorn. Fans of Larson know he is not a cartoonist that just reworks the same gag everyday. He is an artist that makes you look at the world in a new way. When a person reads a Far Side cartoon, don't expect them to laugh at first. You need to look at these cartoons for a while before they become funny. About the time I realized that all these cartoons were all morbid I realized that Gary had done it again. When there have been no new cartoons in, I don't know maybe 10 years, how can a new calendar be any different than the others? Why would a cartoonist let his final calendar have a morbid theme? Larson has never given people what they expect in a cartoon and he is still able to do that even with cartoons we have all seen before.
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Summary: This totally ... (I'm not talking about the strips)...
Review: Sure, these strips are at least five years old, but man, they're so funny, you never get tired of them. That's why long after the strip was retired, these desk calendars continued to be such a hoot. No calendar has ever come close to being as funny. I'm going to miss them. If you need a desk calendar and aren't the kind of person who cancels newspaper subscriptions on a monthly basis over some harmless comic strip joke (Far Side fans know what I'm talking about), then you definitely should pick this one up. Who thought something as functional and mundane as a calendar could be so entertaining?
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Summary: Has helped to brighten an otherwise gloomy year
Review: The year 2002 has not been easy for me. Without going into specifics about the difficulties, I will just say that this calendar has had the same effect on me that the daily comic strip used to - it has given me a good laugh every morning and cheered me through difficult days. Thanks to this calendar, I can "pretend" that Gary Larson never retired. I'm still in therapy over the fact that this is the last edition to the "off-the-wall" franchise (just kidding). Seriously, I bought two copies of this calendar - one to read every day, and one to save for "old time's sake." Anyway, I love this calendar and it is one of the highpoints of my day. I love this calendar because it gives me what all Larson products do - a look into a mad mad mind (I mean that in a good way) that will always give me a laugh. This is sardonic satire at its best! I love the detached and remote feel to all Larson's work. And I love the fact that if it weren't for just ONE thing wrong in the picture, everything would be normal. This lends the strip an air of credibility, you know, "It COULD happen . . . if only that weren't a COW cooking the bar-bee-que . . . if only that weren't a crocodile sitting in the livingroom . . . if only that weren't a sloth with the gun . . . etc." Everything is normal, except that ONE bizarre, unthinkable, and sometimes un-understandable element (I know I'm not the only one who has occasionally come across a Larson cartoon and wondered what the heck he was trying to say). The most bizzare (and funny) things in life are always the things that seem normal at first. THE COMPLETE FAR SIDE is also available.
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Summary: Funny
Review: This calender contains some f the fumnniest cartoon ever written. If you have any kind of sence of humot buy this now.
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Summary: Funny
Review: This calender contains some f the fumnniest cartoon ever written. If you have any kind of sence of humot buy this now.
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Summary: The best!
Review: This is hillarious, to keep and look at constantly. Highly recommened. Get it now - this is the last one there will ever be... JD
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Summary: The best!
Review: This is hillarious, to keep and look at constantly. Highly recommened. Get it now - this is the last one there will ever be... JD
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Summary: be careful......
Review: this is NOT a wall calendar. "Off- the - wall" refers to the type, not the subject matter......
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Summary: Sorry to see this end
Review: This is the funniest calendar on the market. Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons were my favorites until they discontinued the series. I was happy to have the calendars. Now, this is the last edition. I don't think I will care what day it is anymore.
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