Rating: ![1 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-1-0.gif) Summary: Rate This Item Low! Review: Those who understand the great comics of the past and present will not appreciate "Get Fuzzy", or as I like to call it "Get Real, You Can't Really Think This Is Funny". Sure the drawings are good, but if I wanted to look @ just the artwork I would have purchased a coffee table book on some of the great artists of the past and present! The creator of "Bloom County" ALWAYS used political and pop culture references, not just a couple of references in a years time. If a person goes back and looks at old "Bloom County" strips he/she will remember what was going on at the time, usually things in the 1980's when the strip was around. "Get Fuzzy" does not do this. As the time goes on the strip has become more stale than ever, sort of like potato chips from a bag that have been open for more than a week. It is not even close to "Peanuts" because Charles Shultz used a lot of philosophy and satire in his work. Hey people there are better strips out there. In fact save your money and purchase old fish heads from your local market because they won't stink as bad!!
Rating: ![4 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-4-0.gif) Summary: For those of us who can't get enough of "Get Fuzzy" Review: Fasten your seat belt so you won't roll too far while you are reading this book. It's 255 pages of Rob, Bucky and Satchel (many of the pages are in color). It's "Get Fuzzy: Groovitude" by Darby Conley.If life has been too serious for you lately, "Groovitude" is exactly what you need. There is nothing serious about a cat with an attitude (Bucky), a dog with the heart of a Zen Buddhist monk (Satchel), and the human who gives both of his animal companions unconditional love (Rob). If you are an animal lover, you'll enjoy the affection shared by these three characters. If you are a human lover you'll like the ever patient and understanding human who cares for his constant companions. If you love comedy, you won't be able to put this book down. Even if you don't like animals, humans or comedy, you'll still love this volume of unmitigated humor.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: One of the Best Review: "Must... fear... change!" Scream the masses who compare Garfield to Get Fuzzy, and derive that Get Fuzzy is just a horrible imposter. This book proves that while yes, it is possible for an artist to pay homage to other artists, at the same time a unique product can be derived. Conley's pen draws more than just witty banter between pets and their master, he also draws a rather modern illustration of the typical bachelor male. I imagine those most opposed to the cartoon are those which realize the only difference between their lives and this great comic, is that their pets can't talk. Jealousy is unbecoming! Instead, purchase this book, and realize that it is funny enough to stand on its own.
Rating: ![1 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-1-0.gif) Summary: What is this? Review: All "Get Fuzzy" proves is that there is a dumbing of America. How can people begin to say that this predictable strip is original and thought provoking. I think that people are in a haze when they say that it is in no way like "Garfield"! Give me a break! "Get Fuzzy" would never have been created if it were not for "Garfield". Also, if the creator of "Get Fuzzy" would come up with some new ideas he might get his creation to grow. Lately all it has done is stayed within the apartment. Where's the growth of the characters? I am still confused over the lost fang episodes, did Bucky lose the fang or not? One day he still has the fang, the next day he does not. One day he has the fang, the next day the ferret has it. What gives? This is a bad strip!!
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: Very funny Review: I love Get Fuzzy. Ever since the first time i read it in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, I have laughed so hard. I recommend this book to any Get Fuzzy maniac out there...or someone looking for a good laugh.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: Highly Entertaining Review: Get Fuzzy is one of the more interesting cartoons being published right now. The artwork is excellent and the humor rarely fails to amuse. I especially like that Darby Conley keeps the "history" of the cartoon intact. An incident that occurs one week may have long term repercussions in the story line.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: Warm and Fuzzy Review: The first time I read Get Fuzzy, I was standing in a bookstore with a friend of mine on a school trip. We got kicked out of the store and almost suspended because we were laughing hysterically but a teacher who saw us thought we had been trying to steal something. It has now become a daily tradition to read it with my friend before school. Get Fuzzy is the funniest comic I have seen since Calivn and Hobbes or The Far Side and that is saying A LOT coming from me. Some of the strips require an aquired sense of humor but this comic is the best of the best in papers right now.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: Great stuff, but it's reprints Review: This is great stuff, but be warned that this is a reprint of the first two Get Fuzzy collections (which I didn't know when I bought it). If you've already read one or both of the earlier ones, don't get this.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: Definitely not a Garfield clone - more like a good sit-com Review: Get Fuzzy is no more a Garfield clone than Dilbert (which also features a single guy, a dog and a cat) is. Garfield is fun but it's cartoonish, in both art and content, whereas Get Fuzzy is more of a caricature. The artwork and gags are far closer to reality - no one gets kicked into next week, or has a tongue that pulls out 30ft, and Satchel (the dog) in particular always looks so real you can feel the weight of him. The drawing of the faces is particularly expressive. The behaviour of the characters is far more lifelike - Rob, the human, has an actual job with an actual boss and actual overtime, a social life and friends, cats cough up furballs and space out on catnip, dogs raid dustbins and sniff each other - and while many of the things Bucky (the cat) and Satchel get up to are things which no real cat or dog could do (such as Bucky trying to start his own TV programme on how to distress furniture with your claws), their behaviour is the sort you might really see in a precocious child. The humour is cumulative and tells a story: with Garfield you generally get a series of single stand-alone gags, whereas with Get Fuzzy you need to read a whole sequence and get into the characters. It's the same difference as between watching a stand-up, slapstick comic or a good sit-com.. E.g., my favourite Garfield gag is where Garfield puts a peeled banana on top of the 'phone, in place of the handset, and then rings Jon so that when Jon answers he sticks a banana down his ear; my favourite Get Fuzzy strip goes: Rob - 'Jeez! Did you see the look that woman shot me?' Satchel - 'Are you sure "putt putt" golf is the place for you to meet women?' Rob - 'Why not?' Satchel - 'Well... I don't know how to, um, say... um... hmm...' Bucky - 'You got little "chicken legs," man.' (with drawing of Rob's scrawny, hairy legs sticky out of a pair of shorts) Rob - 'I do not! Satchel? Satchel?!' Satchel - 'Um... Oh look, a windmill...' 'Oh look, a windmill' has now become my family's stock response to any question we don't want to answer. [Having said which, I don't in fact recommend the Groovitude Treasury, as I gather it's just excerpts from the first two books. Get the books - The Dog is Not a Toy and Fuzzy Logic - instead.]
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: I love them!!!!! Review: Everyday I get a huge laugh out of these two they are too funny!! Satchel is adorable and Bucky is a trip and a half! Rob is so good to these guys my favorite ones have been . #1 Bucky wanting to wear Rob's B (Red Sox ) hat and him wanting to wear it because it had a B on it . Than he goes and tortures Rob for 3 days with a big NY Yankee hat. Poor Satchel gets caught in the middle with Rob asking "why is he being spiteful wearing that Yankee hat?" Poor Satc says "Dont look at me Im a cub fan we dont bother anyone" Meanwhile Bucky is calling them the Yankers not Yankees claiming he's a fan since he's a kitten lol" #2 Darby had a beautiful picture after 9/11 of 3 hats NYPD,NYFD, and NYEms.Underneath it said "In memory of our heros" Being from NYC I love it and I use it as a desktop wallpaper" #3 When he takes Satchel and Bucky to his Dad's friends memorial and asks Bucky why he is so sad? He shrugs and says "I dont know" than Rob says will wearing your hat make u feel better" "Yes" Bucky says and they leave with Buck in his cat carrier in his Yankee hat and holding Satchels hand. They make me laugh so much and his books are so funny too!!! N NYC
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