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geoffwood's review
2.0
Kinda hard to review. The work of Gahan Wilson in particular is unqualified genius and really has nothing stylistically in common with anything else. Jack Cole and Shel Silverstein and probably other people I forget do some good work but then there's still like 50-60% of the book that's somewhere from amusingly dated to painfully dated to painfully somehow someone thought it was funny this century. Absent objective signifiers like technology and politics, I'd swear there was nothing published after 1980, but I think we hit late W if not Obama in here. Peak noodlescratcher goes to the licensed King of the Hill strip, the author of which, to his credit, seems to have watched fully twos of episodes to so masterfully capture the essence of the show and the character names.
angelofthe0dd's review
4.0
I enjoyed this book. The comics aren't too raunchy, and the editors put a nice cross section of humor across the decades. Anyone who's a fan of Playboy comics will appreciate many of them.
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