Cyanide and Happiness Book

TEN wholly inappropriate examples demonstrating why Cyanide & Happiness is tasteless, cleverly offensive, and always often some pretty funny shit:
 
A nice intro that sets the stage nicely. I call this one "Birth of a Serial Killer" as this is just the kind of honest parental communication that scars children and helps develop that newsworthy, "let's go slaughter the diners at a McDonald's" worldview.
 

Zombie hygiene…c'mon, what's not to love.
 

A classic example of the damage that miscommunication has caused throughout recorded history. Plus...whores. 
 
Warning….this next one is not for the sheepish:

Besides an apology for the bad pun, I have nothing to add to this…the shit is just messed up.
 

This was the breakthrough moment for me, when I first laughed out loud and realized that I was going to really enjoy myself reading this...especially the wordless last panel.

 
When you can make broken-hearted suicide FUNNY, you are (a) doing it right and (b) doing it very, very, very wrong.  



This "look on the Brightside" moment about one of America's favorite eating disorders just seemed too smartly disgusting not to include. 
 

The tear coming down the face in the last panel was just brilliant. Sick, twisted and funny.
 

Another involuntary, out loud guffaw elicited through the perfectly timed use of our language's most versatile expletive.
 

I'm a comic book geek, so I had to include this one. An important lesson for the kids out there.
 
Overall, this collection was mostly good to very good, with the added YAY of a handful of brilliant gut busters. My sub-four star rating is reflective of the fact that there were large stretches where I would simply smile appreciatively or give the humor a courtesy mental kudo for clever effort. Still,  while not as consistently funny as, say, Oatmeal and his 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth and Other Useful Guides, there were enough genuinely hilarious and unabashedly sick, "oh you didn't just do that" moments that I am confident I will be revisiting this world again…probably soon.
 
3.0 to 3.5 stars. Recommended.
 
P.S. Since it's Sunday, here's a bonus strip because I didn't get a chance to throw in something truly blasphemous above.