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Death By Field Trip

Death By Field Trip

List Price: $8.95
Your Price: $8.06
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: MADCAP MAYHEM!
Review: Genius! Pure utter STINKING genius! The man is brilliant. The man is a legend. The man is thirsty. The man is Bill Amend! You the man!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Flawed Genius
Review: I always look forward to reading new Foxtrot, and was really pleased to read this, but at the same time extremely annoyed it was so small. Plus hacking off the pre-gag and de-colourising the sunday strips strikes me as a bit of a con. They could have at least waited until they had more stips to make it up to the normal size. The content is great, but the presenatation is despicable. This is a rip-off. Wait for a collection.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: If you like receiving less for paying the same price...
Review: I have been a long-time follower of Foxtrot, and have all the collections, including this one. Death By Fieldtrip saw the change in format from 3 strips per page to 2, and even though the humor remains top-notch, the new format is EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTING. I refuse to support a publisher who chooses to punish loyal readers by offering less for the same price, and will not be buying any more collections in the future.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hilarious stuff!
Review: I really love FoxTrot comics, and it is really worth it to get them in book form. FoxTrot is my favorite comic strip - it features a believable family, the Foxes, which is composed of the youngest sibling, the geek (Jason), a typical teenage girl (Paige), a typical teenage boy (Peter) and their parents, not to mention Jason's iguana, Quincy.

This book is hilarious - the strips are original and do not get too repetitive, as other comic strips do. Get this and enjoy!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Best Strip of all!!
Review: I think that this book is the Best out of all the Foxtrot books. I love Foxtrot and I like it so much I live by it. If this book cost $100 I would still get it. You're an idiot if you don't buy the tresure.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: THE REVIEW from an artist
Review: I think that this comic book is awsome it has just the right amount of wrighting and funny pictuers i think i can realy relate to this book But you need to know about the hobbit or you wont understant the lord of the rings scetch. enjoy :)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Loved this title
Review: I've collected all the Foxtrots and this one is terrific. The antics of Jason are alway humorous and insightful. Amend's talent with the character expressions and commentary can't help but reach the funny bone! A worthy addition to a marvelous collection and an absolute joy to read.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fair Review
Review: O.k, I feel that I have justice to be served here because to many people are writing unfair reviews on this book based on it's value and size. As somebody allready said in a review of another book do not come here to grind axes, this is not a place to dot his, people want to get fair reviews on these books to know wheter or not they should buy ti so that's what I'm going to do, I am here to talk about the content of this book, not the size and price. Yes the book is smaller, but did anybody here care to explain or research why the book is smaller? No they just bashed it. This book is smaller then the previous FoxTrot books because those who read the comic daily might have noticed that Sunday FoxTrot comics are now in a smaller and different format then they used to be a format also share by Mutts, the Boonedocks, Baby Blues, Lola, Get Fuzzy and to many other comics out there. Because of this new Sunday format Sunday comics would not fit right in regular collections, atleast not without looking ugly and wasting precious paper so therefore Amend had to shrink the size down. In all actuallity these books only contain about 20% less strips then the regular collections and cost a buck less. Not to mention they are now going to be released at a more rapid rate then the older ones which ussually came out about once every year ( sometimes longer periods of time rarely less) Now one of these smaller ones will come out once every six months, " Encyclopedias Brown and White " , infact, the next book coming out, comes out in August which is just four months after Death By Field Trip was released. I can live with these statistics. And lastly, if you still don't want to buy it, tresury collections will now contain three books in one instead of too with ofcourse colorized Sundays. So where as the small collection have gotten slightly smaller the treasuries ( big ones in laymans terms ) will have slightly more strips and will still be released as often as the previous treasuries if not even faster. So in conclusion, this book is not a rip off it is just a reasonable and noble change that had to take place. If you are still mad then don't sit around badgering Bill, write to Universal Press syndicate and demand his old Sunday format back.

Now, I hope that people have not been completely driven to not buy this item yet and will come here and see my review and buy it.

And atlast for the review of the actuall content! This book is really really funny! ONce again Bill Amend has succeeded in capturing the chaos of the Fox family as they intereact together in their chaotic lives and has parodied the modern world that we live in. IN this book we see the rivalries between Jason and the computer with and aditude the iFruit, we see him back to his old roots at attempting to reshape American entertainment by writing up his own screenplay for a Christmas special featuring Andy as the " Ms. Grinch who was too cheap for Christmas " a series that is the sequel to the 1998 Jason Christmas Carol. We see Jason and Marcus dream of auditioning for the Lord of the Rings, Jason morph into a mini Paige, Andy try once again to live up to her perfect mother's expectaions in a chaotic Thanksgiving duo, we see Roger and Peter go crazy during and supermarket food shopping spree, we see another seies of Halloween mayhem, we see Jason go Pokemon crazy and making the ultimate sacrifice by being Elien Jacobson's partner on the school science museum, and much much more.

In short this is another hillarious FoxTrot collection. Who cares if it's a little bit smaller if your a long time fan or are new to FoxTrot or just in the mood for some serious laughs then buy this book!

Thankyou.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great
Review: Okay, this is a good book! I like Andy the Grinch series. good job Amend!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Many Laughs, but Minute Viewing
Review: Once again, Bill Amend has wowed us with his funny Fox family antics. If it's not Jason seeking to wreak havoc upon Paige, then it's Roger coming up with some hairbrained idea, or Andi freezing the whole family with her lowly maintained thermostat. This book, like his countless others, is loads of fun. It is sad to see that the book has become horizontally challenged with its smaller size. The books are just not the same without their colored pages and three and four strips a page! That is why I give the book a three on the sizing scale. Hopefully the demise of Amend's books will end with his next project. Let's hope that will happen real soon!


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