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Abandon Ship!: An Overboard Collection

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A collection of cartoons featuring the pirates with modern technology. Consistently high quality humour with good artwork make this a book that will appeal to 'Far Side' fans. A tragically underrated work.

I first saw this comic strip in 1993 and couldn't get enough of it. The characters are unique, the humor wry, and the situations delightful albeit strange. I was thrilled to find the first book, Overboard, and am hoping Mr. Dunham will produce more. What a kick it was when earlier this year when I discovered his daily and Sunday strip in a paper in San Jose, California. Maybe a book is not far behind. Lets hope so.

I like this book very much, but the humor is, well, strange! (MASH meets Bevus and Butt Head at sea?) However, I liked his first(?) book, Overborad, a little better. In Abandon Ship some of the running jokes are getting just a little stale. Warning Warning Warning, the humor in this book is weird! If you like it, you will want more, if you do not like it you will want to throw the book as far as possible. Note that the reasion I am filling this out, is that I was hopeing that Amazon had more of Chip's work

Easily the funniest and most warped strip I've seen in several years.
It reminds me of what Wizard of Id and B.C.(with a bit of Crock thrown in) used to be like in their prime.
FYI - there are only the 2 trades paperback collections available.
What I'd love to know is why the 2 trade paperbacks are so expensive. I bought Overboard years ago and have been searching for Abandon Ship but can only find it at $50 or more on Amazon and Ebay.
I'll keep searching!

More adventures of the Duffy brothers, Nate (the big, fat pirate), Boof (the idiot), the nameless crow's nest guys, and, of course, the bonehead captain. Two words: Very funny.