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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | Starred Review. Even the most benevolent impulse is sure to lead to a planet in ruins in this debut collection of Gurewitch's popular Web comic, The Perry Bible Fellowship. The dark, surreal humor is often compared to The Far Side but has an even more brutal and fatalistic sense of humor. Lavishly colored, the art switches among detailed depictions of comedy staples like sloths and dinosaurs to an empty-faced cast of doomed stick figure dreamers. Gurewitch's true strength is in expertly using the four-panel comic strip structure to suggest entire storylines and their bleak payoffs. In one, a man and woman stand in a field full of dead bodies, and the woman reacts angrily when she discovers the secret revealed in the final panel: the touching message Will you marry me? written on a hillside with the bodies. Similar themes of pop culture tropes played out to the point of disaster abound: aliens decide to kill the Earth instead of a planet of cute puppies, heaven is found to be not so cool when God forbids billiards, and so on. But as usual, attempting to analyze the humor defeats the purpose—Gurewitch's strips are destined to be refrigerator door classics in the very near future.
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Nicholas Gurewitch | | Hardcover: | 96 pages | | Publisher: | Dark Horse Comics | | Publication Date: | November 13, 2007 | | ISBN: | 1593078447 | | Package Length: | 8.1 inches | | Package Width: | 8.0 inches | | Package Height: | 0.5 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 56 reviews |
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So great Oct 09, 2008
I bought this, then I bought it AGAIN as a copy for a friend who has passed it along to at least 6 other people - all of us LOVE the sick twisted humor! Now throughout the streets my friends and I shout "UNICORN POWER!"
Disturbingly Funny Oct 07, 2008
If you are the person who is trying not to laugh at something funny in your head during funerals or other somber occasions, this is the collection for you.
I hadn't laughed out loud at a comic strip in YEARS! Sep 10, 2008
...'til this. It gots edge and darkness, swirled into a gooey simplistic, childlike vanilla ice cream base. Wish there were a dozen more volumes to gobble up! :(
The Humorless Need Not Apply Sep 02, 2008
Honestly, I was already familiar with every strip in this book; however, these strips never fail to make me laugh, cry, die, laugh again. The book also has the ability to trap souls. I've personally collected many of my friends' souls. Collect them all!
Amazingly funny Aug 31, 2008
The Perry Bible Fellowship is a hilarious comic available for free on the internet, so why would you pay for a book that you can read on the internet for free?
The answer is because of the book. Perry Bible Fellowship is a kind of comic with art and humor rarely found in other comics. The book itself is high quality, with a very nicely drawn cover and comics not on the site that are definitely worth the price of the book. You can also spread the joy of PBF by putting it on your coffee table and not having to sound like a nerd by telling everyone about "this awesome webcomic that you have to read!"
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