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Who's Up for Some Bonding? A FoxTrot Collection

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Foxtrot being one of the funniest syndicated comics available today (this might be arguable for some, depending on your standard for humor), you'll definitely want this comic book. This book is shorter than most of the others, the anthologies as they are called, but still chock full of loads of laughs. The book is 128 pages long, and is probably one of the more recent published form of the Foxtrot cartoon strip by Bill Amend.

Included is the sage of Jason's Spider-Man movie anticipation, or "When web shooters go bad", as well as the Star Wars II wait. You'll also laugh as Jason prepares to take over Martha Stewart's million dollar empire, and goes camping with the rest of the family.

Bottom line, I get genuinely concerned when/if I don't understand the humor in a Foxtrot comic, or if I fail to smile or laugh, and I'm quite positive you'll enjoy this book at least as much as I did. That's how good this comic strip is. Yes, there are reused jokes...but to anyone who might complain about them, you have to remember that SOMETHING kept them reading long enough to discover reused jokes!

Amend never ceases to amaze me. Each strip is as good or better than the previous. I highly recommend this book, as Amend is once again in great form.

Bill Amend cranks out another collection of comic strips featuring the family that put the "fun" in disfunctional. There is hardly a bad strip or a storyline in the whole run of this series, that pokes fun at popular culture, media, and the finer points of life.

Some of the high points of the book:

Peter dog-sits for Fauntleroy - again - and the tiny terror drives him nuts - again.

Jason prepares for the "Spider-Man" movie, but his homemade web-shooter keeps backfiring.

Jason shines as usual on Halloween week.

Peter reads "The Odyssey" for class and has a nightmare of epic proportions.

Any strip dealing with the iFruit (the family's obnoxious computer).

Don't miss this hilarious collection - it'll go fast.

Bill Amend's "FoxTrot" is one of the best comic strips currently published (it's one of my favorite strips). It is true that year-to-year some jokes are re-used, yet for me that tradition adds to the appeal of the strip. WHO'S UP FOR SOME BONDING? is a collection of FoxTrot scripts that appeared in 2002. This book is smaller than many of the FoxTrot collections, but it's also much less expensive than some of the longer and larger books. This collection includes strips about Jason's antics and preparation before seeing SPIDER-MAN, Jason's preparation before seeing ATTACK OF THE CLONES, Jason's plans to take over Martha Stewart's empire while she is in prison, Paige and her Mom having a talk about the birds and the bees while Roger takes Jason and Peter camping, Peter's Odyssey-dream parody, some non-Christmas holiday strips, and many more. WHO'S UP FOR SOME BONDING? is a great book to get anyone who is a fan of the strip or as a primer to introduce someone to the comic.

The latest collection of suburbia's funniest family. Another wonderful collection full of fun and laughs.

In this collection, some of the story arcs include:
The annual camping trip is for guys only
Peter gets caught up in The Odyssey
Paige enter High School (again)
Paige get "The Talk"
Jason obsesses about Star Wars, Spider-Man, Halloween and taunting Paige

If you like the strip, there will be no disappointments in this collection.

Fox Trot is one of my very most favorite strips. While I tend to read the comics mainly around the holidays, Foxtrot is one I try to keep up on all the time. Bill Amend has the two qualities that make a great cartoonist: First, a comical yet adept cartooning style and second: a very witty sense of humor. The Fox Family consists of Mom Andy, Dad Roger, sons Peter and Jason, and Daughter Paige. This cast tackles the situations that all families do in funny and often eccentric ways led by the brainy and altogether greedy youngest son Jason.

And While I mentioned holiday strips, Foxtrot consistently has some of the best Thanksgiving and Christmas strips every year and I always look forward to those. This is a strip that should be turned into a TV show! It's far superior to the lame "Family Guy".

Bill Amend's hilariously funny comic strip FoxTrot book is an undeniable success. The characters and plots are still fresh after many-a-book over the years. If you enjoy reading FoxTrot, or like any of the characters in it, as a matter of fact, you will thoroughly enjoy this latest book.

I live in Canada. It gets very cold here, but Mr. Bill Amend makes us laugh long. Sometimes, we think he is some sort of genius, but we've heard he is just an everyday guy with exceptional looks and deep love of bacon sandwiches. I don;t care what he's like as long as the hilarity keeps coming to us in book form. This is his best book since his last one.

Bill Amend continues to produce high-quality comics, as evidenced here. These comics are very funny, and I personally enjoy having the focus shifted off Paige a little more now. As for the reviewer who said they hate it because they have not bought it, I don't see how that review made it past Amazon editors. It has absolutely no relevance whatsoever. Anyhow, this is one heck of a great book.

If you read the headline i will continue the sentece: ... with astounding, new Foxtrot collection! This book represents Bill Amends life-long quest to make people laugh around the world, and help him accomplish that possibly herioc deed. I dont need to explain the hilairity of the Fox family to expierenced readers and fans but if you have never heard the name Foxtrot, you have heard it now. I highly reccomend a newbie to buy this book. I would have missed precious moments in my life that would have (probably) turned my life to the worst. I cant explain the houmor, but I know that the comic is THA BEST!