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Summary: Oh, get fuzzy
Review: another book of laughs. get fuzzy rocks and will always rock.
better than the first four books.
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Summary: Darby Conley, my hero.
Review: As a kid, I went straight to the newspaper every morning and read the comics. Like everyone else, The Far Side and Calvin were my favorites, but I also enjoyed Garfield, Beetle Bailey, and the others. As I grew up, the two truly funny comics (The Far Side and Calvin) were retired from the paper and I began to realize that Garfield Beetle Bailey and most of the others were only funny if you had no more than a 4th grade education. There was no innovation or storyline and the artists were just rehashing the same old sight gags and puns every day. I quit reading the comics.Then came Get Fuzzy in my LA Times, and whoa, life is good again. Get Fuzzy is the freshest, funniest, and most sarcastic comic written in years. I really look forward to reading it in the morning, and (yes, I know I'm a little geeky about this) sometimes I even go online late at night (early in the am) to comics.com and read what happens the next day. Thank you Darby Conley.
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Summary: Get Fuzzy is the BEST
Review: Author Darby Conley is a genius. He has truly captured the personalities of a smart mouthed cat and an "everyone's friend" dog. I have been hooked on this comic strip from the 1st day I read it in our paper. Not one day goes by that I don't laugh. This cat's attitude is one that everyone can relate to, even if you don't have any pets. Rob is the perfect owner to these two guys and he's always in the middle. It's the best cartoon ever in my opinion. Everyone I have shown the strip to has fallen in love with it too!!! You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Get Fuzzy is the BEST
Review: Author Darby Conley is a genius. He has truly captured the personalities of a smart mouthed cat and an "everyone's friend" dog. I have been hooked on this comic strip from the 1st day I read it in our paper. Not one day goes by that I don't laugh. This cat's attitude is one that everyone can relate to, even if you don't have any pets. Rob is the perfect owner to these two guys and he's always in the middle. It's the best cartoon ever in my opinion. Everyone I have shown the strip to has fallen in love with it too!!! You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: BUCKY'S BLUEPRINT
Review: Blueprint For Disaster picks up where The Get Fuzzy Experience left off. In addition to dealing with Fungo Squiggly (and going on Judge Judy), Rob, Bucky, and Satchel live through dog and cat conferences, the installation of a ferret flap, the temporary loss of a fang, and other everyday occurrences typically found in your normal human/cat/dog households. Be sure to check out the horoscope and rejected character strips. Leave it to Darby to put the "fun" back into "dysfunctional" one strip at a time.
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Summary: Almost a Novel
Review: Bucky, the no-redeeming-qualities cat, and Satchel, the loveable-but-clueless dog, are back. In the Get Fuzzy world, cats and dogs can talk and humans have no problem with it. Bucky and Satchel are Rob's two pets and the three of them make a hilarious household. The almost continuous story arc makes this read more like a novel than a collection of individual strips. In this volume you will see such things as:
The International Conference of Dogs
The Cat Conference to take over the world Bucky take on the ferret next door
Bucky loose his fang
Bucky sue the ferret on Judge Judy If you liked the other Get Fuzzy collections, you will love this one. If you are new, be prepared for animals that are not as cuddly as those in other strips.
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Summary: Improvement over Excellence
Review: Eventually Darby Conley will have to level out, but this hasn't happened yet. I started reading with Fuzzy Logic which had me rolling. Groovitude somehow improved over it and now Blueprint for Disaster has topped Groovitude.
While the Breathed influence is obvious, the thing that I believe makes Get Fuzzy strong is what Bill Patterson had to say about writing Calvin & Hobbes that coming up with lines was easy because the lines that Calvin would say were completely different from those of Hobbes. Similarly, when Get Fuzzy is at its best, you can read a line out of context and know whether Rob, Satchel or Bucky uttered it. It is implicit in their character's mindset. This is a very funny book whether you love cats or dogs (or dislike both). Very funny.
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Summary: Oooo..another Get Fuzzy book..
Review: First of all,do you get a newspaper?Second,does your paper feature Get Fuzzy?Lastly,have you looked at Get Fuzzy at any time during 2002?The reason these questions are here is simple:If you answered YES to all of these,you most likely have seen most of(or some of)these cartoons.Now,this is a very good(and hilarious)book,and if you want those strips in a book,fine by me.I know this information because one day I lookad online at bignate.com and saw Get Fuzzy on a list and selected it.I looked at one strip on that day in 2002,and that same strip is in this book,and I still don't get it.=)Yet,..none of that should matter because Get Fuzzy is agreat comic strip that deserves to be laughed at over and over in a fantastic book like this.Thank you.
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Summary: What is this????
Review: First off, let me say that "Get Fuzzy" is hilarious brilliance! Darby Conley obviously knows animals. His depictions of Satchel Pooch and Bucky Katt, as well as the poor, beleaguered Rob, who lives with the aforementioned animals,of the 3 is spot-on. Unfortunately, however, I thought this section was for readers to offer feedback on a particular book. I was apparently mistaken. One reviewer, Down South, is particularly puzzling. S/he has written 3 "reviews." One makes no sense whatsoever, what is this craziness about Satchel? and prostitutes? Please. Is that a pathetic attempt at humor? If so, thank goodness it is not Down South (DS) who is attempting to produce a comic. Why does it take DS three attempts to offer a legtimate opinion about BLUEPRINT? All are rather odd and senseless. The last of the 3 is particularly ugly. Why does DS question another reviewer's credentials? She does not appear to be trying to use her status as a doctor as a means of elevating her opinion. It is merely part of her name. Why is DS so bothered? The good doctor is not even writing about his review. Yet, he is obviously offended. Possibly, DS deplores "Get Bucky" so much that s/he feels compelled to attack the doctor (note: not the comic strip) b/c she gives the strip a glowing review. If so, that falls into the "get a life" file--we all have opinions. We shouldn't be viciously attacked, personally, for offering them. Maybe DS has a problem with the doctor, herself. Since I doubt DS knows Dr. Hayes personally, perhaps he is bothered that a woman is a doctor, and writes a coherent, and all-around better review, in one attempt, than DS does in 3 tries. Another possibility is that perhaps a cat beat him/her up, in childhood, and stole his/her lunch money. If so, and DS is still harbouring a grudge, please, for goodness sakes, GET HELP! Perhaps DS has problems with women, esp. women who are smarter, better educated and more talented (at least if the 3 reviews are any indication of DS the person) than s/he. Should the good doctor have not gone to school, DS? Should she "know her place?" Did a WOMAN beat you up on the playground and take your money? Whatever. Get help, DS. Then, there is another "reviewer" who rather likes the comic strip, but takes on the grammar issue raised by Dr. Hayes. By the way, the doctor is correct. If Corinth had meant the sentence as instructive, it was unclear. Why is grammar so important to this "reviewer?" And what does that title "please type your password again" mean??? Very odd. Very odd, indeed. Dr. Hayes, I'm sorry for the unwarranted personal attacks. Too bad that it takes all kinds to make up our world. The emperor who had no clothes paraded proudly down the street, until one person spoke up and said, "you have no clothes." Then, he was embarrassed and angry. Could that be the problem with these 2 reviewers? Ignorance is bliss, until someone points out your ignorance? Who knows? All I can say is that the sort of irrelevant ugliness offered up by these two "reviewers" does not serve the purpose of this section. Plus, it harms the integrity of the process. I know I, now, am less inclined to read reviews, or write one. In fact, I'm less likely to visit the Amazon.com website. This behavior leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
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Summary: Why not this one?
Review: First things first: This is as close as you can come to a comic that is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. If you are not yet familiar with Darby Conley's wonderful series of "Get Fuzzy" comics, this is as good a place to start as any. While there may be periodic storylines that span several strips, for the most part they are self-contained "day-in-the-life" observations that have, on occasion, made me fall out of my chair with laughter. Sometimes focusing on animal behavior, Conley more often focuses on the character flaws implicit in the dogs, cats and people that populate his strip (most frequently, a cat named Bucky) and their interactions with each other. To sum up: hysterically funny. If you are a dog and/or cat owner (or simply a keen observer of human nature), you should definitely look into "Get Fuzzy" -- why not begin with this one?
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