Customer Reviews

Mr Potato Head Unplugged

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The Mr. Potato Head comic is cute...it's sometimes funny, but when it is, it's more cute funny than anything else. I'm in the middle of this book now, and I was hoping for more. Some fans might love it, and I wanted to love it myself, but I don't. I just like it overall...and some of the strips are just completely unfunny. There are too many Dear Mrs. P comics- and none of these are very funny to me...the best ones are where Mr. Potato Head himself is the star of the 3 windowed story. Some of the jokes fall totally flat, and that was surprising to me, seeing as how it's a strip from Davis...and another guy I've never heard of before.

I wouldn't recommend buying this book, unless you happen to be in love with potato head...I'd get it at the library and enjoy what you will of it that way. It's not bad, but it's not great.

I'd say this was my favourite of all the Unplugged series, probably even surpassing the late Nirvana for pure, raw, naked emotion. Mr Potato Head was always a troubled artist, and at times, his heart-rending vocals give a terrible insight into what was to come, following this, one of his final public recordings. The passion with which he sings "Bake Me" is purely breathtaking, as is the rousing "Twas on the good Chip Venus". The only low point of this collection would be the truly awful "Starch Trekking (across the universe)" - and I doubt many would argue against me.