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The Chickens are Restless
is an interesting collection of the Far Side comic strips. In the
early-1990's, I was busy finishing up college and working at SEGA in the
video game test department. I didn't get the newspaper and never had
much time anyway, usually reading books instead in my spare time. So, I
never had a chance to read any of these strips when they came out.
Almost twenty years later, I was finally able to sit down and read this
book, which I picked up on eBay. I was disappointed that someone cut out
an entire page and on another page, cut out one of the strips. Bummer
for me. I wonder what I missed and if they were the most entertaining in
this book?
This collection is not the funniest of
the Far Side comic strips. You start to see a glimmer of why Gary Larson
stopped creating this wonderful series . . . he was running out of
ideas. With no main characters, like in Peanuts,
Calvin and Hobbes, or
Bloom County, Mr. Larson always had to come up with fresh ideas.
That must have been very difficult.
I had trouble finding a strip to display
for this review and came up with five that made me chuckle. But some of
them weren't all that funny, just interesting. Plus, there were a couple
that I just plain didn't understand.
The Chickens are Restless
is a good collection from the weird and funky mind of Gary Larson. It is
not his best collection, but if you are a lover of the Far Side, then
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