Reviews for The Far Side � Gallery 5

The average rating for The Far Side � Gallery 5 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-12-30 00:00:00 Jonah Chavez The Final Collection 30 December 2018 - Adelaide Well, I believe that this is the last of the collections, namely because Larson retired after 15 years. I guess that was probably a good move because, as he said, he really didn't want to end up in the realm of the mediocre cartoon graveyard. I can sort of appreciate that, but as I have mentioned previously, apparently he really doesn't appreciate his cartoons being shared around the internet, though when you do receive a takedown notice they don't tend to be as mean and nasty as some writers tend to send (with the claims that they are starving and what not). I guess the problem with that is that while back in the day, when we would eagerly open the newspapers to the comic section to see what new and wonderful cartoon had appeared there, these days it just feels as if people simply don't remember them any more. In fact, the current crop of university students was born some time after The Far Side stopped appearing in the newspapers, and in a way are probably seen as the things that their parents read (and we all know how kids feels about the things that their parents did, you know - simply not hip or cool). It is a bit of a shame though because it means that these days, despite what people claimed back then, Larson has unfortunately been consigned to the dustbin of history. In fact, I had completely forgotten about him until I appeared at my friend's house and discovered a number of his works sitting on his bookshelf (though I haven't seen the third gallery, and I'm not entirely sure if he actually owns a copy). Yet, having spent some time reading through these books, it has been a rather nice trip down memory lane, chuckling at the old cartoons, and also realising that a lot of them have so much depth to them that these days people probably don't understand what was going on, such as this one. Another interesting thing is that when I was reading the first book I was a little horrified at some of the cartoons that appeared in there, and honestly, he has got himself in trouble, such as with the Jane Goodall one, though as it turns out while the corporates in the United States were horrified, she actually had a sense of humour and pretty much ordered them to step down, namely because she actually saw the funny side. In fact, she even wrote the intro to this volume, and also told a story as how there was a science teacher that would place a whole heap of Far Side cartoons on his wall, and as the students studied science, they slowly came to actually understand the joke. However, to finish this off, I won't end with a Farside cartoon, but instead with another modern meme, namely Storytime with Danny Trejo.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-02-27 00:00:00 Fabio Zoref I used to participate in these annual summer reading contests with my local public library. If you got to a certain number of pages over the course of your vacation, you won prizes that got better and better the more you read. I think at one level I ended up winning one of those canvass bags people bring with them to hippie grocery stores. And, at the highest level - which I achieved - I got to meet the mayor in a ceremony in the Tacoma Dome convention center. She gave some dumb speech on the importance of reading or something, I don't know, I wasn't paying attention because the last time I had to wear a button-down shirt and slacks was also the last time I was ever forced to go to church as a five year old. The funny thing is, to get to that peak number of pages, I mostly just read collections like these Far Side books (Peanuts, Garfield, Calvin & Hobbes, even the Family Fucking Circus) along with one actual book with text to "prove" that I've been reading when we met with the librarian for our weekly update. That mayor had no idea, no idea at all!!!!