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Primary Crullers: A Robotman Book

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If you have read and liked Robotman before you will love this collection! It contains selected strips from around 1994 to the end of -96 (plus two sunday-strips from -97), including the X-File satire where the origin of Robotman and what happened to the Milde-family he lived with finally is revealed! My only complaint is that it doesn't include all strips there is. I want them all, everyone of them!

Jim Meddick has consigned Robotman to exile in outer space since Primary Crullers was published, but Monty continues with Mr. Pi, Fleshy, Moondog et al to amuse us all.

This collection is from the Robotman days and is worth five stars from anyone. The Conspiracy Theorists strip alone is worth the cover price, and I have friends who have fallen off the sofa laughing at some of Meddick's pages.

I absolutely loved this book. Jim Meddick has a great sense of humor. Please do the responsible thing and contact your local newspaper. If they don't run "Robotman" in their daily comic section, they should. As a former newspaper reporter and editor, I can tell you that it was one of our most popular strips.

i love this comic strip. no one else can capture the weirdness and lameness of a nerd's life! a lot of normal people i know can't relate but i feel monty's pain!

Jim Meddick in one of the rare cartoonists who is able to coat incisively witty satire and observational humor with a deliciously accessable candy shell. In everynerd Monty Montahue and his sidekick/foil Robotman, Meddick has created characters that we laughingly admit we know and furtively admit we are. I can still remember the first "Robotman" cartoon I ever saw: The punchline had Monty's wierdo-artist ex-girlfriend saying "I took a multiple choice test once. I answered 'All of the above,' 'none of the above,' and then I set the test on fire." I've been a die-hard fan ever since.

A refreshing look to modern life. Monty and Robotman are the best comic characthers, bar none. My only complaint is that the book was too short. Hopefully Meddick will publish another collection soon

Does anyone remember the original Robotman strip, when Robotman came from outer space and moved in with an Earth family? He was kinda like ALF? His best friend was the son from the family? Whatever happened to them? And what about that Robotman cartoon? Eh?

Robotman and Monty are definitely on par with the best cartoons of today. I absolutely recommend this book.

I bought this on a whim, actually. It turned out to be the best buy I've ever made. Satire doesn't get much better. I have the Robotman homepage as my startup page on the Internet. Sadly, it's hard to find Robotman collections in Sweden, you have to order them on-line if you want them. But the next time someone I know goes to the States, I'll have them buy all collections there is, just like I once bought all Calvin&Hobbes...

Jim Meddick never fails to bring a "simple" medium into completely different and creative directions. On top of that, it's darn funny! My only complaint is that it's too short.