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Behold The Power Of Ignorance: Goats: Volume IV

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The cover of this book alone cracks me up as does much of the content inside. "Goats" is a non-syndicated web comic strip done by Jonathan Rosenberg. This strip came to my attention when Jonathan first started it and asked me to throw him a link (my site being all about comic strips). "Goats" is a surreal strip about two male best friends Jon and Philip, their talking pet goat Toothgnip, and their evil talking pet chicken Diablo. There are also aliens, beer, women, beer, dwarves, beer, zombies, beer, and more beer.

This book is the first "Goats" book despite the fact that it is called "Volume 4". However, Jonathan has promised to follow George Lucas's footsteps and release the prequels soon ("Volume 3" will be out soon). This book covers strips from January 2000 to December 2000. The significant event of this book is that Jon (who is a loser when it comes to women) finally gets a girlfriend named Megan. She's a hottie and totally with it that makes you wonder if it isn't pity love. Ah, but if it weren't for pity, many of us would be in a world of hurt!

Bottom line, this is a pretty funny comic strip but it is NOT for the kids (in my opinion). The humor and content can often shift into the "R" range so you've been warned. Otherwise, get this book and help a web cartoonist!

As I am somewhat of a Goat-head (not in the pagan sense), I am a bit bias to this book. However, a scant 6 months ago, I did not have any idea about Goats. I spend 3 weeks reading the archive (which I recommend to anyone - great stuff out there). The Book, the fourth in a series of one, is a great primer, and will give people hours and hours of enjoyment. Check out the site!...! You'll thank me later.

Jon Rosenberg's Goats can't fail to raise a smile from these jaded lips when I read it online, so a book with hundreds of those self-same strips is just the thing to see you through the long ,dark winter. Pert, pertinent character comedy, surrealism and pure sexy fun make this a must-have. If you liked Bloom County, this is for you. If you like Fred Bassett, it might just take the top of your head off. Superb.

Since the first Cro-Magnon painted images on the wall of a cave, man has strived to compose the apotheosis of preeminent literature. Until 2001, critics engaged in lengthy debates over which composition marked the summit of man's literary prowess. Dostoevsky's _Crime and Punishment_? Joyce's _Ulysses_? Shakespeare's "Hamlet"?

Well today, that debate is over. In _Behold the Power of Ignorance_, Jonathan Rosenberg created a work that towers over all which has preceded it. Its erudite deconstruction of man, depicting the underlying indomitable spirit of the human condition, transcends our quaint notions of what was thought possible with mere ink and paper.

Alas, my meager prose could never give _Behold the Power of Ignorance_ the mad props that it deserves, for it would require someone of Mr. Rosenberg's genius to convey his own book's sublime splendor. Thus, there remains nothing more for me to say except to implore you to buy the book.

Goats on a printed page. who wouldve thunk it? For long time fans, and people who have never even heard of goats, if you think you have a twisted sense of humor, then goats is for you.

please, please, please... read this book.

For those of you that are well aquainted with the comic strip "goats" this book has all the strips from 2000 plus a great introduction by Jonathan Rosenberg(the author). For those of you who don't, shame on you. However buying this book, coupled with frequent visits to the website will allow you to become well versed in the stories and adventures of the humorous characters. From talking sadistic chickens, to goats that get all the chicks(girls not chickens), and even some aliens and semi-normal people, goats has it all. It is a comic-strip with a steadily growing fan-based and has not tried to get syndicated, so you'll only be able to find it online, and in this book. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

No more carrying the laptop to bed, trying to carry spare batteries and use wireless net connections! Hurrah! Goats goodness in dead tree format at last. If you don't know Goats but have smiled more than once in the past buy this book, you may not like it but at least you can authoritively speak on the subject of why you don't.

4 out of 5 Kansas Board of Education members loved it. (note This may be a complete lie)

Fantastic. Magnificent. Compelling, original and satyrical, a must have for any Gen-Xer's Ikea mail-ordered coffee table or the floor of the bohemian studio apartment in the parent's basement. Bringing together issues of single-life, animal rights, alien invasions, sexual dysfunction, and sado-masochism this hilarious book filled with wit and slapstick compiles the Goats comic strip for the year 2000. Not only are the comics a poignant commentary on everyday-life, through trips into the surreal they speak volumes on social issues of the day. Through the innocence of some characters and the wickedness of others, the entire gamut of human emotion is displayed among the denziens of a specific New York pub. This book makes a fantastic gift for those who've never heard of Goats and enjoy quality, edgy humor.