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FoxTrot is by far the best comic strip ever. Grinch who was too Cheap for Christmas". My favorite character is Jason. In this book, he creates a TV special called "The Mrs. My advice is too just buy the treasouries; or else you'll get repeats. This book is one of the best.
I've got two girls and let me tell you, I see a lot of my kids in Paige with, I believe, even a healthy dose of Jason thrown in. Still, we have these terrific FoxTrot books to keep us going with our FoxTrot fix. I have been a faithful FoxTrot reader for years. I used to read the strip to them, explain what was going on, but now they get it just fine and we three all laugh together. Heck there are a lot of laughs in the FoxTrot books. And they have Peter's bottomless stomach. Amend was going to cease daily distribution of his wonderfully funny people and turn his strip to Sunday only, with a bit of sadness.
Amend is to be commended for his great gift to our culture and his great gift to so many lives. Roger, Andy and their kids Peter, Paige and Jason are always good for a reality check with a large dose of laughter. Mr. Of course, they're faithful FoxTrot readers too. Then my girls try and explain the strip to their dad, who pretends he doesn't get it.The FoxTrot folks are a great family, one we sort of got used to checking up on every day, so we took the news that Mr. I truly believe a laugh a day, helps keep the blues away and the FoxTrot gang are always good for a laugh. I know, I have them all and I am, along with my girls and my hubby dear, eagerly awaiting the next one.Oh yes, I forgot to mention, we don't have an iguana, but my girls do have a pet gecko and, you guessed it, his name is Quincy.
They are all great, really, they are.Like many of Mr. I've been a Foxtrot reader for a long time and personally I think there is something suspiciously wrong with people who don't find Bill Amend's characters funny as all get out. If you want a good laugh, check out Bill in your local newspaper, or better yet, get one of the Foxtrot books. Amend's fans I'm a bit disappointed he's switching his strip to Sunday-only, but fortunately I can still read him daily in the Foxtrot books. Get them one and all and you can keep right on a laughing.
Two of my favorite story lines are the one where Jason and Marcus imagine themselves acting in the just announced production of THE LORD OF THE RINGS (the director looks like a hybrid between Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson) and the series that ran the week that Y2K could have happened (the comic strip finds itself back in 1900). I'm not for sure of the exact dates, but the strips ran around 1999-2000.
Then Charles Scultz retired and unexpectedly passed away, so many newspapers stopped running Peantus. At first it would seem there isn't anything all that funny left in the funny papers.
First Bill Watterson retired and there was no more new Calvin and Hobbes. ASSEMBLED WITH CARE is a collection of two-year's worth of Fox Trot comics.
Ah, but one grand gem remains: Fox Trot. Appearing about half a decade before the funnies started to become unfunny, Fox Trot remains as about the only witty and upbeat comic that can be seen in papers.
The stories make grand observations on life, but are also constantly ribbing pop culture and (then) current events. A great collection of one of the best comic strips still being written.
Although maybe I'm wrong, maybe if they did grow up the show wouldnt be funny anymore.I dont know but it's still funny though. It's a funny book and all but there is just one thing - not just about this foxtrot series but all of them - it's that fox family always stay the same, no one ever grows up. Paige is always starting her first year in high school, peter is always staying a junior and taking a physics and trig class and jason is being jason as usual. BUY THIS BOOK. IT'S FUNNY reaaaaaaly funny.
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