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| I'm Ready for My Movie Contract: A Get Fuzzy Collection | 
 enlarge | Author: Darby Conley
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 26800
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 8.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0740769227
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.56973
EAN: 9780740769221
ASIN: 0740769227
Publication Date: September 1, 2007
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Product Description
Satchel, the ever-hapless Shar-pei-Lab mix in the Get Fuzzy gang, is the star of I'm Ready for My Movie Contract: A Get Fuzzy Collection, inspired by his hero, Wonder Mutt. Rounding out this not-so-warm-and-fuzzy cast is Rob Wilco, a single, mild-mannered ad exec, and Bucky Katt, a highly strung, bucktoothed, laid-back-eared Siamese with an eye for mischief, an obsession with monkey pizza, and a neurotic fear of beavers. Together they form one crazy troupe for fun and mayhem.Three books, Bucky Katt's Big Book of Fun, Blueprint for Disaster, and Say Cheesy, have been New York Times best-sellers.
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 Get Fuzzy is the best, but this book is flawed. September 23, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I LOVE Get Fuzzy and I waited anxiously for this book. (It was delayed past the release date for some reason, but less so than the last one...)
There are tons of great strips in here, but some of these were published in previous books (and this is not a collection) and at least one strip is in this book twice!
This is a disappointing treatment for such a great comic strip.
(But Darby Conley's work is still great, so don't miss out on it because of these flaws...)
Disappointing September 25, 2007
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I love Get Fuzzy and was excited to see this book finally released, but as the previous reviewer notes,this book contains at least two pages of strips from an earlier collection and one strip is repeated. This has been a wonderful strip and I hope that the flaws in this book are the fault of the publisher and editors. I realize that it takes terrific effort to continually produce quality humor-especially on a schedule. That said, consumers have a right to expect to receive their money's worth. Non fanatical Fuzzy fans might do as well to skip this volume and wait for the next big collection.
"Sweet Onion Chutney, What Have I Done?!" December 30, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
While there are a couple of minor editing issues in this book, as a collective whole it is still first rate. Darby Conley is a talented cartoonist, and manages to capture so much humor and subtlety in his strip that it has become my clear favorite of all current cartoons.
This volume contains several plotlines, my favorite of which (starting on page 40) revolves around Bucky's battle for dominance with Fungo, the neighboring ferret. Bucky turns Rob's Star Wars action figures into "Bucky Katt Action Figures." Fungo buys all of them, and proceeds to use them as voodoo dolls against Bucky. One result is Bucky "being a little gurgly in the Meow Mix repository," as well as other ill effects. When Bucky figures out what's going on, he blurts out "Sweet onion chutney, what have I done?!" I love these expressions that Conley endows Bucky and Satchel with, and find that they go a long way to making the interactions of the characters funny, while at the same time highlighting the basic humanity of the strip, despite the fact that two of the leading characters are anthropomorphized animals.
I recommend "I'm Ready For My Movie Contract" without any reservations.
Not the best Get Fuzzy Collection!! October 6, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have every Get Fuzzy book but this one was a little disappointing with the editorial flaws in it. Although the material that is in there won't disappoint. The couple of mistakes are distracting.
Sadly disappointed January 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This newest Get Fuzzy collection reads as a hurried, randomly thrown-together mishmash of whichever strips they happened to have on hand. There are repeats from past collections, but most disappointing is that strips are put together with apparent disregard for continuity. A page might contain three different strips from three different timelines, leaving the reader wondering what happened to the rest of the jokes. Any reader new to Get Fuzzy would most likely miss the background of the majority of the humor, leaving them scratching their head as to what exactly is being referred to. Darby, I think it's time for a new editor.
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