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Summary: Smart comic that is really entertaining
Review: This comic strip is one of the most entertaining things I've ever gotten my hands on. Boondocks addresses very serious issues on a relaxed sarcastic way while still being funny. This book contains all the comics from the newspapers, and is a must have for any fan. You will laugh over and over.
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Summary: Funny
Review: This is just the funnest groundbreaking comic strip that I have seen in the longest. This guy holds nothing back!
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Summary: Inspired and hilarious
Review: This strip is by far one of the BEST appearing in newspapers today (along with Non Sequiter, Zits, Foxtrot, and Get Fuzzy.) The book featuring revolutionist Huey, wannabe thug Riley, and the confused mixed-race girl (can't remember her name offhand) creates one of the best chemistries since Calvin and Hobbes. I would definitely reccomend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Mostly admirable
Review: Well, after reading the rest of the views, I guess I'll have to go into the minority. HOLD ON--I like the strip. I like the fact that Huey is obviously extremely intelligent and thoughtful. I like the social comment.There's one thing I don't like--the hypocrisy that occasionally (and I said OCCASIONALLY) crops up. Such as Huey is disturbed that everyone looks only at the color of his skin and makes an instant judgment about him, as far as ethnicity. A valid point. But he then PERSISTS in calling Jazmine, the next-door mixed girl, "black as sin", despite her efforts to recognize both of her parents. He almost taunts her with this, and causes her a great amount of distress. It's a biting comment when the principal of her school does this, but isn't Huey supposed to know better? After all, she IS mixed, and entitled to be allowed to recognize both sides. On the other hand, he doesn't consider her father, Tom, who is fully African-American, to be black, apparently because he's too much of a yuppie or something. I didn't know that affected your race. But on the whole, I enjoyed this strip quite a bit, and appreciate the idea that cartoons CAN be intelligent. This is a cartoon in the style of "Doonesbury" which used to be unique. Now it's gotta move over and share the spotlight. By the way, Doonesbury also has some innate hypocrisies. I think when your subject matter is social comment, you may develop some blind spots. But it is helpful to give us something to talk ABOUT, a controversy never brought up before. And I REALLY like that he has insulting comments on the back cover. That's a man who's confident.
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Summary: Outstanding Comic
Review: When I read this book I realized how upset I was that we don't get The Boondocks here in Cleveland. I think that really ought to change. For my review of this book, I only have three words: Funny as HELL! Don't let this one pass you by! I don't want to spoil any of the comic but it is funny and insightful, two things you rarely see in today's comic strips. In the end it only boils down to two types of people; those who have read it and those who haven't. Don't be one of the ones who haven't.
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Summary: Hip, irreverent and meaningful
Review: Who would have thought that a cartoon strip about two little Black boys and their granddad would have done so well? Aaron McGruder is not reinforcing stereotypes with this strip, he is poking fun at them. Does anyone actually believe that Riley (Esco, the baby thug) is supposed to be taken seriously? I was at the University of Maryland at the same time as the author when his strip appeared daily in The Diamondback, the student newspaper. I am proud of his success because the strip is contemporary and challenging. Heck, anyone who wages war on BET and the horrible images it propagates is alright with me. I'm from Brooklyn and was raised on hip hop, so I get all the cultural references from Raekwon the Chef, the big ups and all the other stuff that might go over the heads of those looking in from the outside. I can see how some might not quite get it, but I fail to see how folks jump to the conclusion that this is a negative strip. McGruder is just using humor to address serious issues.
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Summary: Dear Victicrat (aka Aaron McGruder),
Review: You know in an interview you said something interesting. When asked, "How closely do Huey's opinions come to your own?" You said, "It would be inaccurate to say that Huey's opinions are my own. I think there's a broad opinion being put out through the strip with a combination of all the characters' voices, and it's really up to the reader to figure out what that is. Beyond that, I don't think the importance of the strip is about my own personal political agenda. I think the strip [challenges] people to think differently, and that to me is far more important than to have people thinking like me - [I want] to have people questioning what they're told on a daily basis." I'm glad you admitted your opinions aren't like Huey's because we know how much of a right-wing, rich, greedy, corporate conservative (like your buddy Michael Moore) you want to be. When the subject of Boondocks being turned into a sitcom came up, you were asked if you were going to be rich. This is how you responded, "You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise. Inspector Gadget didn't sell any toys. Yeah, we're gonna do it. We'll make some money. We could do it now, but we want to wait for the value to go up. It's going to be on television in a year ... It'll be some type of clothing ... It'll definitely be greeting cards." Yup, spoken like a true greedy, right-wing, exploitation-making capitalist. Thought I should remind you that your own character Huey called himself a "socialist" by the way. I don't think he'd like the idea that poor families wouldn't be able to afford those toys because you're waiting for the "value to go up". Either way, I'm glad you are looking to become a conservative. You're on a road to the right path, my friend! Oh, and by the way, when asked about your mentor Michael Moore, you said, "For the biggest selling nonfiction author of the past year to allow you to use his name on the cover, and run a quote, and write a full introduction for the book, that's basically putting money in my pocket. That's like, "'here's a huge chunk of cash!'" Greed is good, isn't Aaron? Did you know that Michael Moore lives the high corporate life? Of course you do! You love the guy. This is what you said, "But basically, what he's offered me is his support. He's willing to basically share his fans and share his audience and expose them to what I'm doing. You know, it's a terrific thing for him to do. Because certainly, there's not a lot that he's going to get out of it. It's really something that a guy like him does because he believes in the work and believes in the message, I think." That message is money, Aaron. He knows what's he's doing to you. Trust me. This is what Newsmax had to say: "America's most obnoxious corporate critic, Michael Moore, is living high on the hog thanks to the perks two corporations have provided him for the West Coast leg of his book tour. Moore was flown around California aboard a private jet, reports the San Francisco Chronicle, courtesy of media mega-corporation Time Warner. And while he wasn't enjoying the corporate high life at 30,000 feet, he was tooling around the Golden State in the kind of vehicle anti-corporate environmentalists routinely decry as public enemy No. 1 - an SUV paid for by his publisher's corporation, Warner Books. Moore's man-of-the-people image was further dented when it was revealed that he gladly accepted the protection of several bodyguards, who helped the left-wing crusader keep the unwashed masses at bay. Asked if his new chairman-of-the-board lifestyle meant he was being hypocritical, Moore told the Los Angeles Times that the only reason he's feeding at the corporate trough is because it's there. "I would never pay for this," he insisted." Anyway, since money is everything to you I'm sure you don't mind being used or exploited for it. It's bad enough you're exploiting Asians by using their art! But, you're a conservative so you wouldn't care anyway. You know, Sean Hannity and Larry Elder have been challenging you to a debate. Yet you seem to wimp out all the time. Why? You should just tell them that there's nothing to debate about because you're on their side. Thanks :) Coolguy
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Summary: Dear Victicrat (aka Aaron McGruder),
Review: You know in an interview you said something interesting. When asked, "How closely do Huey's opinions come to your own?" You said, "It would be inaccurate to say that Huey's opinions are my own. I think there's a broad opinion being put out through the strip with a combination of all the characters' voices, and it's really up to the reader to figure out what that is. Beyond that, I don't think the importance of the strip is about my own personal political agenda. I think the strip [challenges] people to think differently, and that to me is far more important than to have people thinking like me - [I want] to have people questioning what they're told on a daily basis." I'm glad you admitted your opinions aren't like Huey's because we know how much of a right-wing, rich, greedy, corporate conservative (like your buddy Michael Moore) you want to be. When the subject of Boondocks being turned into a sitcom came up, you were asked if you were going to be rich. This is how you responded, "You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise. Inspector Gadget didn't sell any toys. Yeah, we're gonna do it. We'll make some money. We could do it now, but we want to wait for the value to go up. It's going to be on television in a year ... It'll be some type of clothing ... It'll definitely be greeting cards." Yup, spoken like a true greedy, right-wing, exploitation-making capitalist. Thought I should remind you that your own character Huey called himself a "socialist" by the way. I don't think he'd like the idea that poor families wouldn't be able to afford those toys because you're waiting for the "value to go up". Either way, I'm glad you are looking to become a conservative. You're on a road to the right path, my friend! Oh, and by the way, when asked about your mentor Michael Moore, you said, "For the biggest selling nonfiction author of the past year to allow you to use his name on the cover, and run a quote, and write a full introduction for the book, that's basically putting money in my pocket. That's like, "'here's a huge chunk of cash!'" Greed is good, isn't Aaron? Did you know that Michael Moore lives the high corporate life? Of course you do! You love the guy. This is what you said, "But basically, what he's offered me is his support. He's willing to basically share his fans and share his audience and expose them to what I'm doing. You know, it's a terrific thing for him to do. Because certainly, there's not a lot that he's going to get out of it. It's really something that a guy like him does because he believes in the work and believes in the message, I think." That message is money, Aaron. He knows what's he's doing to you. Trust me. This is what Newsmax had to say: "America's most obnoxious corporate critic, Michael Moore, is living high on the hog thanks to the perks two corporations have provided him for the West Coast leg of his book tour. Moore was flown around California aboard a private jet, reports the San Francisco Chronicle, courtesy of media mega-corporation Time Warner. And while he wasn't enjoying the corporate high life at 30,000 feet, he was tooling around the Golden State in the kind of vehicle anti-corporate environmentalists routinely decry as public enemy No. 1 - an SUV paid for by his publisher's corporation, Warner Books. Moore's man-of-the-people image was further dented when it was revealed that he gladly accepted the protection of several bodyguards, who helped the left-wing crusader keep the unwashed masses at bay. Asked if his new chairman-of-the-board lifestyle meant he was being hypocritical, Moore told the Los Angeles Times that the only reason he's feeding at the corporate trough is because it's there. "I would never pay for this," he insisted." Anyway, since money is everything to you I'm sure you don't mind being used or exploited for it. It's bad enough you're exploiting Asians by using their art! But, you're a conservative so you wouldn't care anyway. You know, Sean Hannity and Larry Elder have been challenging you to a debate. Yet you seem to wimp out all the time. Why? You should just tell them that there's nothing to debate about because you're on their side. Thanks :) Coolguy
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