Typical of the strip, lots of nonsense but some really funny strips. Not many particularly noteworthy but a few worth a chuckle. ( )

I saw this book on sale for ridiculously cheap at the Friends of the Library book sale and picked it up out of nostalgia -- my husband and I were big Get Fuzzy fans when we were first dating. Everyone else in the family read it before picked it up, and I heard them laughing reading it, but I was decidedly unimpressed. Despite the fact that I've hardly read any Get Fuzzy in the past fifteen years, and have no idea where in the timeline this volume fell -- the entire think just struck me as so tired and done to death. I mean, there were a few individual comics I liked, but overall, it felt joyless.

Oh, well. It was cheap, and some people in my house liked it. ( )

It's a strip of uneven qualities, but I usually quite enjoy this unique and edgily funny strip about Rob and his two "pets", Satchel and Bucky, who are two of the most distinctive personalities in the comics. Satchel is a befuddled and genial shar-pei-lab, and Bucky is a self-centered Siamese who I don't think has ever had an altruistic moment since the strip started, but Rob still puts up with him and, I believe, loves him. Rob to Bucky: "Can you even IMAGINE a world where you don't try to kill and eat everything you see?" Bucky replies, "Well, I fail to see how letting everything I would kill sit there to rot solves anything." ( )

"Get Fuzzy" is one of those strips that still provides me with laughs on a day when I'm feeling down and this collection is no exception. And while "Get Fuzzy" is no longer my favorite comic strip (sorry "Pearls Before Swine" and "Cul-de-sac" have moved to that spot) it is still one of my favorite series to read and provides some hilarious moments with Bucky and Satchel. This collection brings us such great moments as Bucky's off Broadway musical--Humans, the day Bucky finally outwitted Rob (it had to happen at some point right?), and the epic laying to rest of the Vasa (and the then epic flooding of the apartment.) You can't go wrong with picking up this collection. ( )