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Jam-Packed FoxTrot (Foxtrot Treasury)

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To me, Foxtrot continues to be the most underrated comic strip going today. It has been the most consistently funny strip since Calvin & Hobbes as Jason Fox continues to be the funniest, most unpredictable kid in comics today. The latest Foxtrot Collection features strips culled from Orlando Bloom has Ruined Everything, My Dog Went Out Can I Have Another, and How Come I'm Always Luigi? Cartoonist Bill Amend keeps setting the bar higher and higher.

Jason is at his all-time best in this strip with several new quick-money schemes including making his own computer animated films and producing his own Christmas cards. Along the way he finds plenty of time to annoy sister Paige, especially with his pet Iganua Quincy. The sequence on the release of "Return of the King" is absolutely hilarious as Jason becomes upset when Paige looks forward to the film even more than he does...only because she wants to look at Orlando Bloom!

Peter has his usual failings in sports and on tests while he tries to eat everything in sight. Peter gets a job at a movie theater wearing a Garfield the cat costume to promote the film and becomes the subject of taunts from little kids.

Paige does her usual to avoid school work and try to get a boyfriend, all the while having to be constantly on guard against Jason's schemes to embarrass her, and usually failing. There's a great Halloween series where Paige and a friend get trapped a nerd's Halloween party.

In all the humor, there is one introspective moment when the family visits Washington DC and they see the Viet Nam memorial wall which was genuinely touching. But it's soon back to business as Jason tries to buy the Apollo 11 capsule and gets his dad in trouble with the Secret Service.

From beginning to end Jam-Packed Foxtrot is a first rate collection!

Reviewed by Tim Janson

It seems as though I had been waiting for this Treasury for such a long time.

Its finally here and its wonderful. Over 150 pages of both black and white and color strips - taken from previous books (and of course the comic pages in the paper).

The whole family is back and they are as hilarious as always.

Nice, large big size. Comics are easy to read and the pictures are great. Wonderful mixture of Jason and al.

Buy this one!!!!

Of course it gets five stars. You like Foxtrot, and you get the Foxtrot humor. If you like the comic, you'll love the book. Mine was brand new and perfect condition (as promised by amazon) and came at expected date.

Jason and Marcus, the ultimate geeks. I got'em all. This is my alltime favorite comic strip. It sure beats 1 strip a day. Don't do the little books just get the giant treasury books and you won't get repeats.

Another great treasury from Bill Amend.A great book for Foxtrot fans.Contains comics from Orlando Bloom Has Ruined Everything,How Come I'm Always Luigi and, My Hotdog Went Out Can I Have Another?

i have always been a huge fan of the foxtrot comics in the daily newspaper, so i asked for a foxtrot comic book for christmas. I read this book over and over again, and am still laughing!

Great! This comic strip makes me laugh, especially having known kids like these!

I've been reading Foxtrot since the 90's when a friend who already was a fan introduced me to the comic strip and I have never been disappointed since. The Fox family Roger(The loving yet sometimes bumbling father), Andy(The loving,book reading,and video game hating mother), Peter(The oldest boy and sports fanatic but who can't play sports well and eats his weight times ten in food), Paige(The daughter and second child wannabe fashion guru and model), and finally Jason(The youngest son whose a mathematical protegee as well as a role-playing games, and computer games/video games fanatic as well as tormenting his two siblings) The strips will have you laughing both for the humor as well as some inside references to some t.v shows as well as real people. These strips are very light-hearted with nothing serious unlike some other comic strips like Mary Worth or the comic strip For Better Or Worse. So if you're a fan of comic strips like Garfield or Beetle Bailey the Foxtrot comic strip books would be just for you and I'm sure you'll find them very enjoyable and funny

I recieved my purchase in a timely manner. I was sooooo excited to have been able to add this book to my collection. I would purchase other items from this buyer in the future if they had something i liked.