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Rose Is Rose Running on Alter Ego

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Rose is Rose is a comic strip that speaks more to adult women (especially wives and mothers) than anyone else. It is designed to combine cuteness with humor. Pat Brady's new Rose is Rose book "Running on Alter Ego" is a mixed around collection of strips published in newspapers around the nation dating from April 07, 2003 to February 29, 2004. This collection of 250 strips from a span of 287 days (out of 366) provides a wide variety of humor ranging from Peekaboo's diet to a bird 'beak-sync'ing to entertain Rose.

Some disappointing things in this collection are certain stoylines involving 3 or more strips were missing a valuable strip. For example, Peekaboo gets claw snagged on a kite and the whole family struggles to get her back safely to the ground. The last strip of that story, Peekaboo's landing, was eliminated from the book. Some of the others could stand on their own without the missing strip, but this one I felt needed the fourth strip.

Fortunately, some highlights of the book include:

('Titles' are my description of the strip/story)

Being a 'Chain-Breather'

Dreamship and the Mars Rover

First 23 hours

Guardian angel's secret to getting rich

Guardian angel vs mosquito

Life is short

Needing Straight A's

Peekaboo snagged on kite

Play-doh Elvis

Pleading 'Oops!'

Ugly winter hat

And that is just a small sample found among the 127 pages of this book. There are still many more strips that were in the newspapers in the past years that haven't been published in book form, yet. I hope Mr. Brady will one day get every single Rose is Rose strip he's ever written into book format for fans to forever enjoy. --- BTW, I don't get Rose is Rose in my local paper. I have to read it online.

"Rose Is Rose Running on Alter Ego" is a nice book to read. The pictures are great, the stories are wonderful. The comic strip itself is a gem. Its about Rose Gumbo, a wife and mother devoted to her husband and son Pasquale, while trying to cope with her regularly boring life. To periodically escape from it, she would often delve in her alter-ego Vicki, a tough-talking, biker babe who looks at life with reckless abandonment and loves to enjoy life to the hilt.

This book is perfect for those who can relate to Rose Gumbo. I'm positive that there are a little bit of Rose Gumbo in ourselves. I have a friend with a Rose-like situation but his alter-ego is also of the female kind. It is a nice gem to read and to sit and relax.

I've loved "Rose is Rose" since the very beginning. While I miss Pasquale's phonetic speech, the inventions of the later years (the dreamship, Peekaboo) keep this one of the best strips around. The visuals are stunning and the comedy is great.

If there's a knock, it's that sometimes I think Brady works so hard to get a perfect visual that the joke itself isn't that good. It's a small knock, though, because the resulting cartoon is amazing to look at!

When I saw the cover with Rose's biker chick alter ego, I bought it thinking that ALL the strips were going to be of Vicki. I was so disappointed. Maybe I didn't read the description well enough. When it arrived, I started reading and then it struck me -- these are just random strips, hardly any of Vicki at all.

I'm a big fan of comic strips as a whole. But when I first saw Vicky (the biker babe's name) I loved her from that moment on! I found out from the web site of the strip that Vicky has become a favorite character by those that read the strip. She's got that 'Wild Woman' attitude that I so enjoy. The only thing that I was disappointed in with the book is that most of the strips didn't have Vicky in them. That's basically why I didn't give the book a 5-star review. But it is good read anyway and I do highly recommend the book.

This and 'Legend of Dr. Drake' were the 2 worst comic collections I ever have seen.This is 'Dr. Drake' only without drunkeness and hotties.