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Summary: phenomenal
Review: Since Gary Larson retired The Far Side and Bill Watterson retired Calvin & Hobbes, and since Jim Davis has farmed out Garfield (which has lost its edge as a result), I've had a hard time finding a strip worth reading. Then I came across Get Fuzzy. This strip is hilarious. In Bucky (the cat) you've all the edge and humor that was in Calvin & Hobbes and the old Garfield. Satchel (the dog) is a talking Odie, though a bit smarter. And they interplay with their strait man, Rob. It adds up to the best strip I've seen in years.
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Summary: not a real rewiev
Review: As the title states, this is not a real review because i don't have this book.i just started to read get fuzzy about a month or two ago,and decided to get a book.i saw that this is a compilation of strips from the first two books(The Dog is Not a Toy and Fuzzy Logic, for those who don't know) and was wondering if it containd all the strips from the first two books, becuase if it does, i'll just get this instead of the other two.if some one knows if it does,please write a review about it.(And in case your wondering, i rated this five stars from what i've read in the newspaper, not the actual book.)
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Summary: Viva Le Katt!
Review: Darby Conley has created three lovable characters with diverse, yet unique characteristics: Stachel the pooch with his naive innocence; Bucky Katt with his brilliantly evil little schemes; and Rob Wilco, their long suffering owner, the stabilizing force in the household. Conley gives each a personality, as well as a few of his side characters (Joe, Rob's Dad, and the neighborhood pets).This is the book that shows you how it all began. The first few pages show you Conley's rough character drafts (the creation of Bucky and Satchel), along with a little background on how the strip originated. You'll then get into the first few years of the strip. I loved every page! This is one of the funniest strips to come along in a long time. Since we no longer have Calvin & Hobbs or The Far Side, where is one to go for witty, intelligent humor in the daily paper? "Get Fuzzy" is the answer. I hope Rob, Satchel, and Bucky are here to stay with us for a long, long time.
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Summary: Get a life...please
Review: The "a reader" from Provo, USA, I think we will all agree, needs to get on with their life. If you do not think something is funny, even when the rest of the world does, that's your prerogative. But to offer a graduate school thesis about why is just plain sad. If you don't like, fine, move on or get therapy! Get Fuzzy is hilarious.
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Summary: I love this book.
Review: allright allright, enough about the reader from provo. we're all entitled to our opinion whether we agree or not. speaking only for ME, I had read this book at barnes and noble, but recently i bought it and REALLY read it. it's MUCH better than i remember. I love darby conley's strip and find him to be one of the best comic strip writers to come on the scene in a long time, and would recommend this book to anyone. this book is funny, inventive, and (i think) intelligenly humorous. i laughed out loud through most of it. Get Fuzzy is a GREAT strip. Go Bucky!
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Summary: Great! Very funny too!
Review: This is acully my brother's book but I started reading it and it's great! For some reason I always like his books, like for example; I like "Calvin and Hobbs". I recommend this book for any age, and if children read this kind of books their vocabulary will get even bigger! Nori
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Summary: Get Fuzzy's Bucky is a cat with atitude
Review: Get Fuzzy is humerous, and Bucky, the cat, is hilarious with his trying to be punk atitutde. You will get your moneys worth if you buy this book. It makes me laugh out loud.
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Summary: pretentious, but WHY?
Review: Reading through the author's introduction to the book, I was taken aback by how pretentious Darby Conley's comments were. He talks about Get Fuzzy as if it were high art (and not a mediocre comic strip), and manages to directly insult many other cartoonists as being "Gary Larson rip-offs" in the process. The implication of his insult is that he himself is NOT a rip-off artist...that he discovered some higher, more artistic plane that allowed him to develop solid characters, rather than relying on cheap, throwaway jokes (a la The Far Side.) The sad thing is that Darby needed to develop characters because he COULDN'T rely on joke-telling. He isn't funny at all. He hopes that by imbuing a cat and dog with oodles of character (can you say "Jim Davis rip-off?"), it won't really matter that he never has anything clever to say, because we'll find it humorous just because of the fact that the cat has so much attitude, or as Conley 'cleverly' calls it, Cat-itude. Equally hilarious touches: the dog wears a wristwatch, the cat has one fang, etc.) The cartoons in this book are predictable. Mr. Conley establishes early one the characterization that he considers to be so important, and so vastly superior to telling jokes. Hence, the humor in this book can be found in how the characters react to each other. While Calvin and Hobbes was funny because of those idiosyncracies, Get Fuzzy is just totally contrived. The cat has a temper. We get it already. So basically, these cartoons are not humorous at all, since there is nothing to get (you know, JOKES.) You'd be wasting your time to read them (unless you, like me, find it funny and worthwhile to compare Mr. Conley's lofty insights about art to the actual "art" that he creates.) You will also probably enjoy these cartoons if, like millions of people, you enjoy cute things with animals, and always find them funny, rather than having a wry sense of humor. If you like The Family Circus and hate The Simpsons, you'll like Get Fuzzy, and you'll probably be heard commenting about the cat along the lines of "that little rascally feline is such a hoot." I also found it a nice touch (towards the pretentious) that Darby found it necessary to use Latin to title a little preliminary sketch that he drew (something like 'Il cane et al protaganista, 1996'), and listed that it was owned by a private collector in Boston. This is a quick sketch of two hackneyed characters, and he makes it out like it should be in the freaking Louvre! The nerve of this guy is incredible. He must imagine himself in a line with DaVinci, Picasso, and Matisse. I think I'd rather put him in a line with Saudi Arabian thieves (i.e. people who should have their hands cut off), just to spare the world from ever having to see any more Get Fuzzy.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: If you haven't read "Get Fuzzy," you need to go out and get "Get Fuzzy." The story revolves around Rob and his pet dog, Satchel, and his pet cat, Bucky. Satchel is the slow-witted, but kind-hearted friend, while Bucky lives in his owned monkey-starved, warped little world. For anyone who enjoyed "Calvin & Hobbes" (my all-time favorite) and "Far Side," this comic is for you. This treasury has some of the best-known strips and will please fans and those new to the comic. Well-illustrated with a dark (slightly evil and occasionally disturbing--for humans, not cats) sarcasm (thanks to Bucky), this book will have you "packin' Smacky."
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: This is the best comic strip in a very long time! If you enjoy your own pets, you'll definitely enjoy what these goofballs get into.
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