Customer Reviews

Math, Science, and Unix Underpants: A Themed FoxTrot Collection (Foxtrot Collections)

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The title itself says as much in the subtitle: a themed collection. Maybe they should have been clearer,m but if you're a science/math geek(to which these strips are geared), this collection is fun and well put together by creator Bill Amend himself. It covers science/math strips from book one up until the present.
One really cool BONUS: I discovered by accident...that if you leave the book under a fluorescent light for 5 minutes and then take the book into a completely dark room..the 0's and 1's that are on the cover glow in the dark!
Either way, I enjoyed this collection! Nothing new, but still great!

With all due respect to the two-star reviewer, if you don't "get" that this is a distillation of many years' worth of Foxtrots into a book aimed firmly and unapologetically at the "geek" audience; if you're not a Slashdot reader, or if you don't know what "XKCD" is, you're probably not the target audience for this book. Because it is a distillation of Foxtrot -- to the best of my knowledge, the only (formerly) daily strip done by a physicist. And the nerd humor is thick, furious, and vastly enjoyable. Indeed, "billions and billions" of my neurons have gone into enjoying Mr. Amend's -- err, I mean "Jason's" -- sheer evil genius. Whether it's plotting trajectories for rockets to land in Paige's room, or doing pushups to irrational numbers, if you are a member of the target audience, you'll find great enjoyment.

Live long and prosper.

Funny, relaxing, and very entertaining. I gave it as a present and no where else could I find a cartoon book with a focus on math a science. As with all Fox Trot books, very funny!!

If you read the description you will see this is a themed collection, not a new one. Perfect for kids taking science/math, science/math teachers and just nerds in general. All those strips I have laboriously cut out from the paper (my kids know if it is a science/math Foxtrot to make sure it gets saved) reproduced in one place.

If you do not know any science or math, you will not "get" all these cartoons. My kids enjoy going through it and saying "I get this one, not that one etc". One day I picked up my daughter from school and she told me that she finally got the "Fibonachos" cartoon after math class that day. I love it!

I saw a strip by Bill Amend in a techie blog and found myself to his Foxtrot website. There, I found a this Amazon link to this book. To my surprise, it costed less than $10 including shipping! I just thought I would give it a try since my collection of comics so far consisted only of Calvin n' Hobbes and Dilbert.

I must say this is a great book for nerds like me. I breezed through it in less than a day. Jason Fox is hilarious and is my new hero. The seller's shipping was well before time and was packaged neatly. I recommend this book to all buyers who have never read Bill Amend's work. It was a revelation for me. I plan to buy more of his stuff.

"Foxtrot" has always included a lot of math, science, and technology jokes in it's strips. As far as I know, it's the only strip to ever have been drawn by a trained physicist. Part of the appeal of the strip was that much of the humor came from the perspective of someone who clearly related to geeks and nerds. I enjoyed the strip since it was first published and still read it now in its Sunday-only format. With only 52 strips a year being written and published now, there can only be a new collection of "Foxtrot" strips every couple of years. Therefore, it was inevitable that a collection of "Foxtrot" strips solely about math, science, and technology appear. I mean, Bill Amend has to do something to fill up the free time and make some extra cash.

MATH, SCIENCE, AND UNIX UNDERPANTS brings together the most mathematical, scientific, and technological "Foxtrot" strips that are still relevant. That means there's a lot more strips about math and science than technology because technology just changed while you were reading this paragraph. The strips span the life of the strip and personally that was one of the most enjoyable parts of the book. I liked seeing how the characters evolved over time into their current forms.

MATH, SCIENCE, AND UNIX UNDERPANTS is a "Foxtrot" collection that won't appeal to all fans of "Foxtrot". It will appeal to most, but I know of a couple "Foxtrot" fans who like the strip, except when it makes some joke that revolves around a mathematical principle or scientific theory. This is a book that will appeal to most "Foxtrot" fans as well as people who have an interest in science and math. As a bonus, the ones and zeroes on the cover as well as the warning label on the back cover glow in the dark.

Warning, this is just a collection of old stuff. If you own the previous albums you have no interest of this.