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Foxtrot: Assembled With Care by Bill Amend
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Foxtrot: Assembled With Care

by Bill Amend

Series: Foxtrot Treasury (8)

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Some of it was good. I even laughed a couple of times, a little bit. Most of the jokes made me groan. Maybe it wasn't really sarcastic enough for my tastes. The most annoying part was how often the material was recycled, like eating all but one slice of pizza, or drinking all but one cup of coffee (twice, mind you). How many times must the first panel open with "What are you doing?" Some of the Jason moments gave me Calvin déjà vu, especially the pumpkin and snowmen gags.

It wasn't totally awful. I guess FoxTrot just isn't for me. ( )
  openset | Aug 3, 2007 |
FoxTrot is one of the more underrated comic strips out there. It's a shame Amend has retired from the daily strips and now draws only the Sunday strip. In later years, the focus has moved to Jason, but I prefer when the rest of the family is involved. There is a great dynamic between them all. ( )
  BeaverMeyer | Aug 2, 2007 |
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One of America's most treasured comic strips is releasing its eighth treasury, FoxTrot: Assembled with Care. And eight most assuredly will not be enough for fans of the funny pages.Bill Amend's FoxTrot debuted April 10, 1988, and 14 years later it's undisputedly among the most popular strips in newspapers. This colorful compilation of cartoons from FoxTrot's last two years again demonstrates that few entertainers in any medium are better at finding humor in everyday family life than Amend.At the core of much of the strip's wild humor is 10-year-old Jason. He tortures his parents and two teenage siblings Peter and Paige out of their minds with his computer and his pet iguana, Quincy. In this latest treasury, parents Roger and Andrea again have their hands full. In one strip, Jason boldly bursts into their bedroom in the middle of the night to announce that it's "2 A.M. and the lights still work." In another, Jason surprises his mom with a new beep for her computer known simply as "Defcon One." Jason also holds his own with his older siblings, spelling "My Sister Is Ugly" with the carved faces of 14 pumpkins.As FoxTrot surpasses the two million mark in book sales, it continues to demonstrate its timelessness with its always fresh, irreverent, and zany brand of family humor. Like other successful FoxTrot books before it, FoxTrot: Assembled with Care captures the humorous side of the trials and tribulations that come with daily family life like no other strip today.

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