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Summary: Get off McGruder
Review: If you all spend your time looking for reasons to get ticked at McGruder, you are wasting your time. He slaps you in the face with them so you don't have to look. His strip is funny, insightful, and, yes, political. Until he stopped making commentary on interpersonal relationships, I thought his was the most complete comic strip being published. Now that Huey has withdrawn to sit in front of the TV set, I find him still funny, but too limited. I agree with most of his politics and he has the eye and the wit to even his most mean-spirited attacks funny.I only wish he's bring back Jazmine, Riley and the interracial couple. His ability to weave a story on their interplay was priceless. Riley's constant quest for material gratification even under the guise of social justice (Free Shyne!), Jazmine's confusion about her multiracial background, even that irritating blonde singing all of the black sitcoms made people laugh, but also made them think. And for you all to accuse him of appropriating Asian styles is sort of hypocritcal isn't it? I mean then we should be up in arms about all the Asian kids adopting hip hop style. And why don't we hear this about all of the White people who have straight up stolen Asian culture and claimed it as their own? McGruder is honoring anime with his style. he has never claimed to start the style nor has he ever suggested that Asians are not his influence. Buy the darn books if you want comic strips that will make you laugh even after reading them for 30 times.
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Summary: Aaron McGruder is so skinny
Review: he has to run around the shower just to get wet! Ha! Ha!
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Summary: Amen, brother!
Review: My brothas are finding out about Aaron McGruder. He's following the great sham! If you're reading this McGruder, you may have fooled all the gullible leftists out there with your so-called comic cloaked in "satire", but the black conservatives know what you are all about. You use the black community for your own ends! That, my brotha, is racism!
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Summary: Aaron McGruder does not speak for the black community!
Review: I'm a proud African American, but McGruder is certainly a disgrace to his race. His racist and anti-Asian sentiments will cost him dearly. Satire is satire, but his comics are not funny. McGruder is confused and angry... that's all!
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Summary: Response to the previous reactionist and kneejerk reviews.
Review: What I find most interesting about the majority of the negative reviews so far is that quite a few people have forgotten that the Boondocks is a comic and as such, a piece of fiction. Huey, Ceasar and Riley are all fictional characters, a creation by Aaron McCruder, but not Aaron McCruder himself. Each character is set to give a different perspective on the situation. You'll notice that quite obviously these perspectives are often biased by the individual. But as I've read through the Boondocks for the last 3 years (or so, can't remember EXACTLY when it started) I've notice that Aaron McCruder makes strong cases for each character and why they are who they are. He even puts them in situations where they are wrong. Including Huey. This is true, authentic, and human. The assumption that Huey Freeman is Aaron McCruder, and Aaron McCruder is Huey Freeman is wrong. As such, to assume that Aaron McCruder believes and holds true to every one of Huey Freeman's statements and opinions is also wrong. This is a crafted piece of fiction, and the point it makes goes well beyond "Everything Huey Freeman says is true" but is in fact a dialogue and study on the various characters, and how they intereact with eachother and the world around them (in this case Timid Deer Lane). Aaron McCruder does in fact make serious political commentary about the world, but you can no more assume that he believes everything Huey believes no more than you can assume that he runs around trying to be a thug like Riley.
The thing that really concerns me is how many reviewers throw out accusations that Aaron McCruder is racist as easily as they throw out disgusting and racist comments straight at Aaron McCruder. This is wrong. Totally wrong, and little more can be said than that.
Finally, as far as the comments on Socialism are concerned, we currently live in a Capitalist country, which functions in a Capitalist manner. It was suggested in a previous review that Aaron McCruder should be working through a free server instead of paying for one privately, but you'll notice as this review is surrounded by all sides by various advertisements (as most websites are) that you have a choice to pay, or allow advertisers to make money off of your product. Either way, if you live in the capitalist country, some of your money/work will go to the capitalist process. It's ironic that this criticism of supporting private web companies and calling him (and Michael Moore) a hypocrit for dealing through big organizations is coming from reviews written on AMAZON.COM. Written on keyboards and computers that I doubt were acquired in any noble fashion that avoids supporting big business (It's cheezy, and self righteous but we could all use a look in the mirror before we start pointing fingers.)
In closing, the boondocks IS available for free. You can read it every day at www.ucomics.com or www.okayplayer.com I suggest you do.
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Summary: Brilliant, A light in the Darkness!
Review: McGruder is a BAD MAN...(in the greatest sense!)!!!! If you don't read the Boondocks, you better recognize! I Love every one...Long live free speech and satire in America. Don't hate, appreciate!
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Summary: Nothing valuable
Review: This is a worthless piece of trash. This is a complete disgrace.Aaron McGruder has nothing intelligent to say in this book to me.
I will definitely pass and send warning to all in my social circle.
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Summary: Jeez ... Take it easy
Review: Lighten up, America. Generations of anger, heaped upon the anger of past, fed by anger, legitimized by the fear that created the anger ... I don't have any personal qualms with people I haven't met. If I don't know them, I can't understand why they think and act the way they do. If you don't know any Hueys, Rileys, Cindys, etc., then you probably won't grasp this comic series to the extent by which it can be found entertaining, which is what the damned thing is for. Keeping that in mind myself, I can even listen to Rush Limbaugh without going apoplectic, 'cuz I don't know the dude; therefore, I don't know where his head is at to want to take it off his fat neck. This "information" age ... c'mon. There's more to life than "information" or whatever the American conscience of the day is calibrated by according to the media (more useless information). If the books, newsgroups, chatrooms, and so on are gettin' to ya, then go outside or something. Do some thinking without the aide/obfuscation of some leading "intellectual's" opinion. Build your own character so that your identity isn't determined by your positioning against those who speak to or don't represent your values, or those who piss you off, those you KNOW are wrong, those whose actions and speech are fraught with hypocrisy, hatred or whatever poison you're spiking your disposition with, within the entertainment industry. If I see or hear some s--t I don't appreciate, I tell the person I'm speaking to how I feel about it, and open up a forum for an exchange of information. But, OH S++T! You can't do that with a radio program, book, or webcast, can ya? Well, f--k, find resources you can do that with: real live human beings. Remember them? You used to be one.
Oh yeah ... The book's a-ight.
My bad. Some typos--2-25-04. Thanks for those votes!
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Summary: classic
Review: My boyfriend and I are daily Boondocks readers. I gave him the "treasury" for Christmas, and he loved it. This is a classic comic book for all.
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Summary: Can't it be right???
Review: This is a racist book. And, especially, racist against Asians. How do the McGruders in the world get away with it?
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