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Shark warning!, 22. Mai 2000
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Poodle the Other White Meat: A Sherman's Lagoon Collection (Sherman's Lagoon Collections) (Taschenbuch)
Beware! Do not read this book when you are eating or drinking. You will either choke or deliver the contents of your mouth all over the immediate environment.
Also not recommended for anyone who has undergone stomach or throat surgery: you will burst your stitches.
so what are the rest of you waiting for? Jump in, the water in the lagoon's great -- and it may not be radioactive anymore.
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Dive in, 5. Mai 2000
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Poodle the Other White Meat: A Sherman's Lagoon Collection (Sherman's Lagoon Collections) (Taschenbuch)
Ack, oop! My customer reviewer ranking is slipping! With the passing of Charles Schulz, and the demise of such great strips as Pogo, Calvin and Hobbes, and Bloom County, 'tis a blessing indeed to have Sherman and his gang. Brilliantly morbid, wonderfully drawn, howlingly funny.
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Toomey's getting on a roll, 4. Mai 2000
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Poodle the Other White Meat: A Sherman's Lagoon Collection (Sherman's Lagoon Collections) (Taschenbuch)
I'm a fan of Calvin & Hobbes, Fox Trot, Stone Soup, Rhymes With Orange, Luann, Alex's Restaurant, For Better or For Worse, Zits.... And now Sherman's Lagoon.
I borrowed a copy of the first SL book a year ago and read it pretty quickly, not turned off but not turned on either. For the first 20 pages of this one, I had similar feelings and thought I'd write a 3-star review. I wanted more edge, emotional expressiveness, and distinctive personalities. I sensed unrealized potential. I kept reading, and it got better, and better. By the end of the book, the emotional expressiveness had appeared, the edge was there, and some good plotlines had developed. Toomey gets in some great jabs when the gang visits the Titanic -- it's only three strips; I would have liked to see a dozen on that theme. The hairless beach apes are always good for a laugh. Once you get to know the characters -- husband and wife sharks Sherman and Megan, a hedonistic polar bear, an earnest sea turtle (not too different from Sherman), and a crab who's a real crab..., you start to have fun with them. (When I stop thinking of them as "a sea turtle" and start thinking of them as characters, that's when the strip gets good. It's almost there.) Sherman often goes around with a sort of Who, Me? look on his face and tries to do right by the next guy while not getting eaten by squid (but he snacks on humans because, of course, that's what sharks do). For some reason I feel this is one of the few strips that MIGHT be enjoyable on the boob tube, if they could draw out some 20-minute storylines, find good music, voices, and animation. It could have the familiar and friendly, but also pointed, sort of feel that Peanuts on television had. I don't think that'll happen; I just think the fact that I got this feeling from it says something about the strip. (Part of which is that it begs to be warmed up with color, and part of which is that it could come to life.)
My reaction upon finishing the book is that this strip could go places. I hope Toomey develops it further.
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