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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The Best of Foxtrot Post No. 2

Hi! As you can recall from my earlier post, a comicbook called The Best of FoxTrot was going to come out. Well, it did, and I, yes, I have my own copy! And, I'm giving it a five-star review! in five categories, I'll describe the new Foxtrot book! Here it is:
Category No. 1: Strip selection Fantastic! Bill Amend did an incredible job of picking the best ones. It has everything from the longest storyline ever, (Camp Bohrmore)to the most touching, (When Peter gets sick on Thanksgiving) to, 'course, the first one, to my personal favorite! (When Paige can't figure out what Jason and Marcus see in comicbooks.) My only complaint in that category is that he left out the second appearance of Phoebe!
Category No. 2: Organization This category was only so-so. While the years were in the right order, and the strip story arcs were too, the months and dates were kind of jumbled. But, on the other hand, as I said, you wouldn't find a 2002 strip before 1999.
Category No. 3: Special features I notice that most of the Foxtrot anthologies have an "extra" in it, like the smaller Garfield collections. Well, this book didn't let me down. Aside from the obvious selection of strips, there was also an introduction, AND there was a slipcase cover to house the two volumes. So, in that respect, it was pretty good.
Category No. 4: Annotations as I said in my previous post, mentioned above, there's annotations by Bill Amend in the book,kind of like The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary book. Well, while they weren't as plentiful as the ones in Seven years of Highly Defective People by Scott Adams, they are pretty informative and they are by Bill himself.
Category No. 5: Overall To conclude this post, I'm going to write an overview.
Strip selections: 4 3/4 out of five stars.
Organization: 2 1/2 out of 5 stars
Extras: 4 out of five stars
Annotations: 4 out of five stars
I also award the book another 2 points for sheer funniness of the strips. The oldest one in there ran more than two decades ago!
Final score: 17.25 out of 20 stars
So, not bad at all! And to bring the number of words in this post to an even 400, aloha!

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