The Future's So Bright I Can't Bear to Look (Paperback)

by Tom Tomorrow (Author)

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Product Description

Welcome to a world where George Bush and Dick Cheney are secretly radical leftists trying to destroy the Republican party from within; where Jeffrey Dahmer is a celebrated conservative pundit and the author of such instant bestsellers as Liberals: Kill Them and Eat Them; and where Richard Perle hosts the NeoCon Game Show, awarding fabulous prizes to the contestant with the most outlandishly wrong answers.

Welcome to the world of Tom Tomorrow, whose subversive new anthology skewers the absurdities of American political culture -- and the depravities of the Bush era -- with the sardonic wit and keen insight his many loyal readers have come to expect. From Hurricane Katrina to the latest presidential campaign, these cartoons provide an unflinching look at where we've been -- and just how bright we can expect the future to be.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Nation Books (September 29, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568584024
• ISBN-13: 978-1568584027
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 7.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #242,071 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than ever! , October 1, 2008

By	W. A. Carpenter (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This collection of "This Modern World" weekly cartoons from 2005 through early 2008 is the best yet. Trenchant, political, and very funny - and it's all in color too! I suspect that liberal voters will enjoy it ever so much more than members of the Bush Administration.

The introduction is relatively subtle and quite funny in itself - after disclosing that the cartoon has been outsourced to China, "Tom" then gives a wrong name for the strips and casually mentions that he's looking forward to reading them.

Historians will use it as source material to chronicle the U.S.'s strange political history of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. But you don't have to wait to read their histories, you can enjoy the book now and relive all the low points of the last three years.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars He's done it again, October 20, 2008

By	Bug "-BLG" (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews

Tom Tomorrow has done it again--a whole book of political cartoons that make you want to laugh and cry simultaneously. The only reason I could bear to read it is that I know Bush will be out of office in a few months. It's a great gauge of our poltical and social age, and the things that seemed normal at the time, but that will be judged as crazy in a few years (I hope).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Getting funnier by the day, January 11, 2009

By	Timothy P. Scanlon (Hyattsville, MDUSA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I've been a Tomorrow fan--Hmm, sounds like I'm humming along with an "Annie" soundtrack..NOT--since I first saw his work years ago. When I'm down about something, I pull out his book I already have, can see something I've seen dozens of times before, and wake up my wife with my laughter.(Maybe that's why she gave this one to me for Christmas).

This is even better. There ain't nothin' sacred, thank heaven. One comic that really breaks me up each time I see it is John McCain mixing something up with a hole in the ground. (I'll let you guess). Then there's exposes of Bill O'Reilly's nonsense. Others have Alan Greenspan, there are several with Conservative Jones, Boy Detective and his challenger Moonbat McWacky. None are freed from Tom's mighty pen. Limbaugh? There's lots of "views" of Flatulent Hannity (though I don't know his name is uses), some wonderful observations of Rudy Guiliani, and,yes, even of Hillary! And LOTS of comments on the mainstream media.

I'd be remiss if I didn't let you know of Tom's Penguin commentator, Sparky.

As serious if not devestating as life is these days, you still need to laugh. Tom stimulates the only laughter known to awaken my spouse, and that's a lotta laughs.

The only "sad" thing about this is that Tom Tomorrow is far more observant and perceptive than countless among us who are "educated," especially those representing the press.

Get this one, read it, laugh so the neighbors will wonder what's causing their Richter Scale to quiver a little, then have them learn from it.

And, Tom, keep 'em coming!!