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Summary: "Stupid ? I don't know the meaning of the word !"
Review: Another one of Kyle Bakers self-contained Graphic Novels, aiming for fans of sarcastic/ironic humor of which there is plenty. Baker likes to secretly criticize and mock everyday society by filling his stories with fictional characters and than make them act (exaggerated, but still) like real persons we see everyday. This is another good example of it. This is the fictional life-story, brought as a documentary with many flashbacks, of Cowboy Wally. All the way from when his B-career started up till today. Cowboy Wally is a guy who's big, loud and stupid and who got into show-business (and moves around in it) by 'questionable methods' to say the least. That doesn't stop him from bragging about his achievements though (he IS his biggest fan), meanwhile emphasizing "how normal he maintained to be for a star of his caliber'. The reader gets to witness him making really really really cheap movies, him exploiting people who trust him and even ruining Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. A pretty funny book (especially the last part where it all comes together and the past catches up on Wally) about a fictional TV-character, which satirically mocks real-life TV-personalities. Like in all Baker's books the humor is often very subtle though. The art is pure black-and-white (without tones of gray like in the same author's 'Why I Hate Saturn'). It's nicely detailed and doesn't suffer from the lack of color though. It's comparable to Terry Moore's art in 'Strangers in Paradise'.
Although it's pretty good overall I feel it could have been better with lesser segments in it, but paying more attention to the segments which remained. It looks a little cramped now, as if Baker didn't have as much pages as he really wanted to tell the tale. Nonetheless, for fans of satirical/sarcastic humor this is a good choice AFTER you've read 'Why I Hate Saturn', his better book.
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Summary: "Stupid? I don't know the meaning of the word." --Wally
Review: Everything you hate about TV and film, Kyle Baker REALLY hates about it and doesn't spare any of his wit in lashing out. This book is genius. Don't pass it up. I've read and seen more of his work than most and this is really the best. His new work should be coming within the next year! Buy this and Why I Hate Saturn and prove to Kyle that his fans can actually clammor for his work! Buy many copies and give them away at parties! Excerpt: Woman--"No. I think you're lying scum. Honest." Man--"That's nice of you to say."
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Summary: A Twisted Classic
Review: I have to go along with the other reviewers - this is truly a twisted classic. It was the first book of Kyle Baker's I had read, and I never laughed so hard. The tragedy was when I lent my only copy to a friend who lost it (and it had gone out of print). Now that it's back in print, I bought TWO copies - one to keep and one to lend out. Share this with someone who has enough of an off-kilter sense of humor to appreciate this totally original and utterly fall-on-the-floor funny masterpiece.
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Summary: A Twisted Classic
Review: I have to go along with the other reviewers - this is truly a twisted classic. It was the first book of Kyle Baker's I had read, and I never laughed so hard. The tragedy was when I lent my only copy to a friend who lost it (and it had gone out of print). Now that it's back in print, I bought TWO copies - one to keep and one to lend out. Share this with someone who has enough of an off-kilter sense of humor to appreciate this totally original and utterly fall-on-the-floor funny masterpiece.
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Summary: kyle baker is great!
Review: I loved this book; baker's 'why I hate Saturn' is one of my favorites, and I was pleased to see that 'cowboy' was as ironic, funny, and incisive -- without repeating the themes and conversations from 'Saturn'. the art, as always, is expressive and unique.
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Summary: Just buy it already
Review: Kyle "I swear I've done more than just 'Why I Hate Saturn'" Baker has unfairly given his early work "Cowboy Wally" little print and little publicity. To me, the book is every bit as hillarious as 'Saturn,' and his use of upbeat wit is something that would be cutting edge stuff today, even though it was written ten years ago or so. Truly, truly a great book. If you're trying to decide between getting Cowboy Wally or the 167th Dilbert treasury... trust me. Go with Wally. I can't say enough good things. And Kyle, if you read this... we've waited long enough. Give us another book!
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Summary: It's a clever book. Please. PLEASE. Just buy it.
Review: Kyle "I swear I've done more than just 'Why I Hate Saturn'" Baker has unfairly given his early work "Cowboy Wally" little print and little publicity. To me, the book is every bit as hillarious as 'Saturn,' and his use of upbeat wit is something that would be cutting edge stuff today, even though it was written ten years ago or so. Truly, truly a great book. If you're trying to decide between getting Cowboy Wally or the 167th Dilbert treasury... trust me. Go with Wally. I can't say enough good things. And Kyle, if you read this... we've waited long enough. Give us another book!
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Summary: The Man, The Myth, The Legend....COWBOY WALLY!!
Review: The Cowboy Wally Show presents the "Mockumentary" retrospective of the stellar career of TV "Legend" Cowboy Wally. The book unfolds like a real documentary- We get the "Candid Interview" first, followed by a rare screening of his French Foreign Legion epic "Sands of Blood", and, for the finale, a gut-busting screening, (as well as a behind-the-scenes glimpse), of the jail-house retelling of Hamlet, complete with a drag-queen Ophelia, and paper cut-outs filling in for actors. If you don't laugh at the prison scenes ("Hamlet......it's a nickname my mom calls me....") you must be dead. Kyle Baker is a genius!
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Summary: The Man, The Myth, The Legend....COWBOY WALLY!!
Review: The Cowboy Wally Show presents the "Mockumentary" retrospective of the stellar career of TV "Legend" Cowboy Wally. The book unfolds like a real documentary- We get the "Candid Interview" first, followed by a rare screening of his French Foreign Legion epic "Sands of Blood", and, for the finale, a gut-busting screening, (as well as a behind-the-scenes glimpse), of the jail-house retelling of Hamlet, complete with a drag-queen Ophelia, and paper cut-outs filling in for actors. If you don't laugh at the prison scenes ("Hamlet......it's a nickname my mom calls me....") you must be dead. Kyle Baker is a genius!
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Summary: Not so great Kyle Baker.
Review: The Cowboy Wally Show was a departure from what I've read from Mr. Baker. Very dry and tounge in cheek humour, which I am usually a fan of, didn't really get me here. The art is up to scratch for Kyle Baker, but the story seemed to plod on for me, with jokes that made me laugh few and far between. If you are at all interested in Mr. Baker's work, I suggest Undercover Genie. Still this book is worth a read, and you will be supporting a very fine talent in our time.
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