Take Our Cat, Please: A Get Fuzzy Collection (Get Fuzzy (Graphic Novel)) by Darby Conley
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Book Reviews of Take Our Cat, Please: A Get Fuzzy Collection (Get Fuzzy (Graphic Novel))
Book Review: Laff your tail off
Summary: 5 Stars
I read this book before bed, two to four pages a night. It clears away all the stray thoughts and stress leftover from the day. Sometimes, I laugh so hard I have to wipe away tears. The Ouiji board telling the cat to hit the dog in the "pie-hole" had me in stitches. Fell right to sleep. Doesn't get any better.Book Review: Funny Pets
Summary: 4 Stars
This is another great collection, it plays on the running humor, dog good, cat evil. Book Review: Get Fuzzy - Get Laughing!
Summary: 5 Stars
Darby Conley is so talented that it's really hard to imagine a world without talking pets. Satchel, the Canadian-born Lab-Sharpei mix is so mixed up that anything that Bucky doesn't hit him with point-blank just goes completely over his head. Rob is the poor sap who's stuck with these two complete idiots as pets/room mates. If he's not cleaning up choked-up hairballs mixed with rubberbands, he's taking Satchel to the vet to patch up wounds received from Bucky, who is the most vile; evil pet anyone could own, yet he could litter - aly be the cat next door, or in the box with the sign reading "Free Kittens". Why Bucky hasn't been left on the side of the road yet is beyond me, but had he been, Get Fuzzy wouldn't be as funny. Book Review: get fuzzy review
Summary: 5 Stars
I seen this comic in the paper a couple of times and never really got into it. Decided to give the book a try and was extremely impressed. The illistrations are great and coupled with the humor work perfectly together. It's a comic for the 21st century. No worn out punch lines, no predictiable message. I would strongly suggest this book to anyone who loves comics and loves to laugh.Book Review: From fantastic to mediocre
Summary: 2 Stars
Let me get this out from the start...I have been buying the Get Fuzzy books since number one came out. Saw it at a bookstore, wondered what it was and just started reading it. Loved it the minute I did. So, I have been following this dysfunctional family for the past 7 years, enjoying it immensely while turning other people on to it (it was not running in our newspapers at the time). What has now turned me off to the strip are 2 factors: 1.) The mean attitude given to Bucky and 2.) the artwork.
in the early days, Bucky was just a dumb cat with a lot of attitude. This made for some hilarious situations. He made Satch make him soccer balls, made stink bug cookies, had his own cable show, wrecked the house making "art", attacked and got owned by a ferret, chimp and chicken. I read and re-read these all the time. But starting with Scrum Bums to Movie Contract, Buck has been given a cruel streak with Satchel. Numerous times he implied he wanted to off or get rid or Satchel (which he has done in the past but just not so seriously). His physical attacks on Satchel have also increased. I was just reading online the strips from the past week (8/4/08-8/8/08) in which Bucky sets up an office supply shop and tries to sell Satchel a "3 punch hole" (complete with punches to Satchel) and "punch-it notes" (again hitting Satchel even though he didn't want it). This kind of needless and cheap violence to try to get laughs is both unfunny and sad.
My second point is the artwork. Again, back with the first half of the books (especially books one and two), Bucky looked just liked a siamese cat, Satchel looked just like a wrinkle-dog mix. Slowly, their distinct features were evened out (I guess to make them easier to draw?) and have now become shallow images of their former selves. Now, I know this kind of thing very well. I have collections of Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, Sherman's Lagoon, Zits, Foxtrot, etc. ALL of them start out crude and become more defined. Seeing Opus now in his own strip is seeing an abomination compared to his Bloom County heyday. Again, which is why I did not buy the Outland and Opus books. But the sad and ironic part of this is that Bucky Katt now looks nothing like a cat, more like a monkey! They very thing in the whole world that he wants to eat most off all is what he has evolved to. Oh the irony.
Anyways, sorry for the tirade. This book is funny at times, sad at times and overall just ok. It will be the final Get Fuzzy book I will buy.