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Summary: It is about time
Review: Since Waterson stop drawing Calvin, I have been waiting for a new series to both entertain and present thought producing material. Thank you Aaron for creating the Boondocks to fill the void. Not only am I pleased that this strip features black, hop- hop oriented charcters, it does so in a very intellegent way. I will support this strip until the end ... and may that end be a long--long--ways away. Stay Strong.
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Summary: Keepin' it real, ya heard!
Review: That is exactly what Aaron McGruder is doing when he created this strip. I have never seen any black comic strip so candidly point out issues of race in our "enlightened" American society. And...it's hilarious. If you can stop laughing long enough to get the point of what Aaron humorously conjures then you will see that Aaron has a true talent and is a thinking black man. I am a fan for life.
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Summary: I'd rather dance on the edge than stand in the quicksand.
Review: The Boondocks is a breakthrough for the comics page: smart, biased and controversial. It's time to drop "Hi and Lois," "Family Circus" and "BC" to make room for new ideas and better art. The comics page is not just for mild amusement, it's for examination of our culture and the directions we're headed. I don't agree w/ everything McGruder says but I'll take him over "Beetle Bailey" anyday. This collection is a great introduction to a powerful voice and a strip that continues to get stronger everyday.
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Summary: I'd rather dance on the edge than stand in the quicksand.
Review: The Boondocks is a breakthrough for the comics page: smart,biased and controversial. It's time to drop (several other cartoons)to make room for new ideas and better art. The comics page is notjust for mild amusement, it's for examination of our culture and thedirections we're headed. I don't agree w/ everything McGruder says butI'll take him over (another cartoon) anyday. This collectionis a great introduction to a powerful voice and a strip that continuesto get stronger everyday. END
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Summary: Great Strip, monochrome Sundays
Review: The Boondocks is the best comic strip in years. Aaron combines a pseudo-anime look with hip-hop style and relentless left-wing messages into what is by far the most interesting newspaper strip in print. And the fact that some newspapers occasionally ban it makes it only better!This particular book contains the first several months of Boondocks strips. The only downside is that even though Aaron drew the Sunday strips in color, this book prints them in monochrome. Keep on drawing, Aaron, and all you fans look forward to "Fresh in '01!"
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Summary: This was the best damn comic I have ever read in my life!!!!
Review: The Boondocks is the funniest, most politically satirical comic strip I have ever read. I love it so much. It's intelligent, hilarious, and thought-provoking. Aaron McGruder is a genius. I especially have taken a liking to the character Riley. He is too FUNNY!!! I bought both books that are currently out now, and am anxiously anticipating the arrival of the third book "A Right to Be Hostile: The 1st Big Book of the Boondocks". They should seriously make a TV show out of this, it would be fantastic. The best thing is, this comic is not afraid to tell it like it is. I really respect that in a political cartoon. THe Boondocks rules. Peace.
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Summary: McGruder's Best
Review: The Boondocks is without a doubt, my favorite comic strip. Aaron McGruder is at his best in the beginning of the Boondocks series, when the strips didn't just center around politics. The transition from the inner city of Chicago to mostly white suburbs is shown with biting and brillant humor through the eyes of ten year old Huey Freeman. Mocking everything from the NAACP to BET to world leaders, McGruder makes Huey seem very observant and intelligent, without becoming too much of a smart aleck.
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Summary: Needed Now more than ever in a Bush administration
Review: The subtitle of the book is "Because I Know You Don't Read The Newspaper." Well, I read the newspaper, but as a committed reader of The New York Times, I don't have the opportunity to read the daily comic strips (since the NYT contains no syndicated daily strips). But I heard about The Boondocks and bought the book. What can I say? If there was a Mount Rushmore for cartoonists, Mr, McGruder belongs there. Not only are the strips funny, witty, and biting, but as a graduate of social and cultural analysis studies at Maryland, his perceptions are dead on. As McGruder writes, "the truth hurts." It hurts because your stomach hurts so bad from the laughing. Who else would think of putting an insulting blurb from the President of BET on the back cover of the book, if not a genius? As was written above and below, Huey and Riley Freeman move with their grandfather to the white suburbs of Woodcrest from downtown Chicago. It's their grandfather's dream and 40 acres, but Huey thinks that he is the mule. It is a town where the grammar school is named for J Edgar Hoover, and the junior high is named for George Wallace (or so Huey's grandfather mused). Riley's teacher was a nun and worked in a prison before becoming a teacher. Huey and Riley's neighbors include an interracial couple, their daughter, and a naïve white girl. Huey and Riley work hard to keep it real, but your laughs will come easy. I can't wait a next volume. I hope it includes Huey, Caesar and Mr. Tom Dubois' debate over Kwanzaa (budget Hanukkah? or a perpetuation of a fallacy of monolithic African culture?) Where is the line a Boondock's greeting cards?
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Summary: Great satire the best comic since bloom county
Review: This book rocks, Aaron Mcgruder spares no one in both his books, He gives you laughs and makes you think people who say that he is spearding racism and sterotypes do not know what they are talking about. From grilling B.E.T for their exploitive programming to the recent phony patriotism infecting our country to everyday things like yardwork or just being kids, Mr. Mcgruder spares no one (truth hurts huh) Huey,Riley,Ceasar,and
Jasmine gives us a world that is funny and ironic. i am looking for the third book and keep us thinking and laughing.
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Summary: Totally Jiggy Hip! Raw as a Richard Pryor CD!
Review: This comic book was the book! I was really laughing as I could relate and go back to my childhood as an African American living in the burbs. Aaron doesn't hold nothing back, he pokes fun at everything but at the same time he makes you think. Keep it real! Get the book y'all!
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