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Summary: Just What This Country Needs
Review: I have followed Mr Mcgruder since his apperance in the NY Daily News. And I subscribe to u-comics.com so that I don't miss a minute of his brilliance. I'm offended and delighted depending on the article but I dont miss a day. I will send out 12 copies of this book to my nearest and dearest as christmas gifts for educaton purposes. It's the missing link between white history and black history.
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Summary: Where he's coming from:
Review: I have followed the comic strip for sometime. I continue to enjoy it more and more as the author/artist continues to tackle each current events issue. I saw the artist on C-Span some months ago address an audience of high school aged young achiever/future leaders.
The message he delivered and the values he espouses are intelligent and analytical. He is (please pardon the lame media label) a new millenium
Alan Ginsburg (?) with his own version of "Question Authority & Think for Yourself" .
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Summary: Where he's coming from:
Review: I have followed the comic strip for sometime. I continue to enjoy it more and more as the author/artist continues to tackle each current events issue. I saw the artist on C-Span some months ago address an audience of high school aged young achiever/future leaders.
The message he delivered and the values he espouses are intelligent and analytical. He is (please pardon the lame media label) a new millenium
Alan Ginsburg (?) with his own version of "Question Authority & Think for Yourself" .
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Summary: It's About Time!!!!
Review: I have had this book for over a year now, so I guess it's time to write a review. Granted, I had read most of the strips in one of the local newspapers, but they are still good reading a second, third, even fourth time around! Aaron MacGruder is a truly talented brother. I can't wait for the new one to come out. ...keep telling it like it T-I-is!...
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Summary: MUST READ!
Review: I haven't felt the urge to keep up with a comic strip since Calvin grew up and Opus went to Saturn ... 'til I saw these guys. I'll keep it short and sweet, cause that's the way we like it; I LOVE this strip and completely relate to the characters even though I myself am descended from rednecks.
For any of us who voted for Nader cause we know Gore and Bush are BOTH handpuppets of the six wealthiest families in America; this will get you laughing, .... even as our leaders throttle headfirst into the abyss. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Racist Garbage
Review: I live in Philadelphia and we have Aaron's comic leading the Inquirer Comics. More than 80% of his comics are derogatory and racist against whites. Aaron, in his tainted juvenile rants helps perpetuate hostility between blacks and whites. If he is truly passionate about race relations I hope he produces positive perspectives when he grows up. This book, like his comic strip is not good.
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Summary: Best Comic since Far Side and Calvin And Hobbes disappeared
Review: I loved the book, and i have read every single boondocks cartoon since its debut. For anyone who misses Calvin and Hobbes, and wants something similar to doonesbury, this comic strip is for you. You dont need to be black to understand the messages of this book, or find it amusing. I am white, and completely unconnected to hip-hop, and i loved it. McGruder tackles major issues with a wonderful mix of satire and fantasy. Whether Riley is attacking people with a toy lightsaber, or Huey is attempting to get out of yard work, this book is fun and a great read. The strip turns some people away because it has sparked controversy. People have been upset that Huey has not blindly followed his government and gone a' warmongering since 9/11. The alternative to a controversial comic strip is yes, you guessed it, the dreaded FAMILY CIRCUS!!!!! FREE JOLLY JENKINS!!!!!!!
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Summary: definetly one to whatch out for
Review: i originally ran across the boondocks when i was looking for something for my daughter to read. i wanted to encourage her to read the newspaper but unfortunately the comics did not represent life and the world and thus became problematic. i particularly was disturbed that the leading comics were still henery, nancy hagar the horrible, etc. a freind had sent me a copy of a comic done in the source magazine by magruder and my daughter loved it (she started mimicing drawings from it for art class). the comic over the year and half that its been in my local newspaper has not let me (or my daughter down) and has managed to gook me on it as well (eventhough i can't say i'm from a hip-hop cultural perspective). definetly keep an eye for this one in your paper an check out the book.
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Summary: Undeniably the best since Calvin & Hobbes
Review: I picked up a copy of the Boondocks by chance because I liked the sub-title (Cause I know you don't read the newspapers). Upon opening the book, I was exposed such intelligent, funny, and sharp prose and endearing, honest, well-thought out characters that I became an instant fan. The Boondocks is destined to be the next Calvin & Hobbes and/or Doonesbury, and I am excited to have discovered it during it's first publication in book form. Someday, when it is a household name and syndicated across the country I'll be able to see "I knew it when . . ." Lucky me. Pick up a copy as quick as you can, I promise you wont be dissapointed. As an aside, besides Huey (the main character and "radical scholar"), my favorite character is Jazmine. As a girl who also struggles with being biracial occasionally, I think she does a wonderful job of representing this aspect of race in America. Aaron (the artist behind the Boondocks) handles a potentially volatile topic with consistant clarity and beauty. Check out Boondocks.net and look at the 7/23/00 comic (under the "Strips" link) to see what I'm talking about. If your reading this Aaron (maybe?), Thank you from the heart.
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Summary: Boondocks is a rip off.
Review: I used to like reading "The Boondocks" back when it first came out, and it featured more characters than just Huey and Caesar. It's no longer funny, and it's now just a way for the author to take whatever subject is biting his butt at the time and beat it into the ground (Bush is a bad president; Emimen is white and more successful than he is; the War in Iraq is wrong; BET is evil; most of the songs on the radio suck; OK, OK, we get it Aaron!!!) Buy the first volume instead, it will remind you when "The Boondocks" was still cutting-edge and relevant.
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