FoxTrotius Maximus: A FoxTrot Treasury [Paperback]

Bill Amend (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2004 | Series: Foxtrot Treasury

Jason Fox rules . . . his computer code, at calc and trig, and in whatever fantasy he happens to be headlining at the moment. Just because the rest of the Fox family-from older brother Peter and sister Paige to parents Roger and Andy-haven't quite accepted his Dominion Over All isn't cause for concern. Math geeks, Jason is convinced, will govern the earth, and he will lead the way. FoxTrotius Maximus: A FoxTrot Treasury, picks up on Jason's megalomania and runs with it . . . and it doesn't stop until readers are out of breath from laughing so hard.

FoxTrotius Maximus combines the works Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables, Who's Up for Some Bonding, and Am I a Mutant or What? That means longtime FoxTrot readers and new fans alike are treated to Jason and his friend Marcus's never-ending antics, Andy's ongoing allergy fun, Peter's latest hot haircut, and a host of pop-culture trends and topics including music piracy, video games, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Timely, topical, and terribly funny!

This latest FoxTrot treasury represents the ninth anthology of Amend's wildly successful comic strip, based upon the cartoonist's 17 previous books and his daily and Sunday syndicated appearances in more than 1,000 newspapers worldwide. FoxTrot truly is one of America's all-time favorite comics, and combined sales of nearly three million copies show that Amend knows how to capture and keep his audience's humor-loving attention. All hail, FoxTrotius Maximus!

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; First Edition edition (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740746618
• ISBN-13: 978-0740746611
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #74,398 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bill Amend and his wife and two children call the Midwest home. He is a graduate of Amherst College with a degree in physics. In 1998, FoxTrot was syndicated. When he's not drawing his strip and making people laugh, he can be found tinkering with computers and playing video games.

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still Hilarious, February 4, 2005

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Mark Baker (Santa Clarita, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: FoxTrotius Maximus: A FoxTrot Treasury (Paperback)

I discovered the Fox family when I went away to college and encountered some new strips in the local newspapers. It's been almost 10 years since then, and I still love this strip.

This book collects 2 years worth of strips into one book. These strips were previous released as "Your Momma Thinks Square Roots are Vegetables," "Who's Up for Some Bonding?" and "Am I a Mutant, or What!"

What I appreciate is that Bill Amend is still able to find the humor in situations we already know. After all, has anything changed in this family since the strip started? Nope. Yet I found myself smiling, giggling, and laughing my way through this wonderful collection.

As always, current culture and daily life are offered up with humor and satire. I've always been a sucker for Jason's over the top reactions to movies, and here we get the first two Lord of the Rings, Spiderman, Star Wars Episode II, and Harry Potter. That week in particular is funny with the inclusion of Eileen into the mix. On the home front, we get Peter listening to "The Odyssey" in his sleep, Rodger making a trip to Costclub for Halloween candy, Peter getting sick right before Thanksgiving, and Paige getting an autographed picture of the Backsync Boys.

Truly great comic strips seem to be hard to find these days, so I really treasure the ones I find. This is one of the best and will entertain anyone looking to laugh at themselves and our culture.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Stuff, October 28, 2004

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AJM (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: FoxTrotius Maximus: A FoxTrot Treasury (Paperback)

It's ironic that people who are buying books aren't reading carefully. The complaint of other readers here is that Amend has republished older strips...Well, that's always been the case with the bigger "treasury" books- all the smaller ones get published into a bigger anthology. If you don't have the previous three books, then get this anthology.
Fox Trot is my favorite comic strip- Amend has a creative sense of humor and a great memory of what it was like to be a kid.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Newest Fox Trot Treasury is one of the finest, November 13, 2004

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Blake Petit "Novelist, columnist & reviewer" (Ama, Louisiana United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: FoxTrotius Maximus: A FoxTrot Treasury (Paperback)

As much as I love FoxTrot, I've held off on the collection, buying the treasuries instead. Sure, it means I have to wait longer for my fix, but I wind up with a much more managable collection that way.

This most recent collection collects the last couple of years of the comic strip, including staples like Jason's geeking out for the "X-Men" and "Spider-Man" movies, and other things like the strip's quiet and touching statement on September 11. In a day where many newspaper comic strips have become bland and homogenized, pale reflections of great strips of the past, FoxTrot remains sharp, funny and clever, with characters instead of caricatures, timely stories that comment on pop culture and the techno world and the occasional flash of brilliance. This is the best thing about picking up a newspaper in the morning.