One Unfunny Duck

Well I've learned my lesson yet again about listening only to people's reviews on Amazon in making a decision to read a book. Not funny. Not clever. Not interesting. Trite crap that only comic book nerds can enjoy (and not the good kind of comic nerds). Had I only checked my old standby, these idiots I would've spared myself the trouble. God bless the guys at 4th Rail for without them I would have no 90% effective method for determining if a book is right for me. Do they like it? Then I probably don't. Do they even award less than a 7 out of 10 more than 5% of the time?

Why isn't it funny or clever? Mocking boy bands sound old? It is. Nothing new or interesting here. Mocking Oprah? *Yawn* None of it is even done in a clever way. All I saw in mind was a fat guy eating fries while leaning against a rack in a comic store and laughing in an annoyingly high pitch.

You want comedy in comics? Go read Matt Fraction's Mantooth. You want clever? Read Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. You want biting social commentary? Well...hmmm...I hear Milligan's X-Force has some of that, I never checked though...anyways, point is, none of that is in this book.



Fortunately I didn't purchase this book but rented it from Books Free. It's like Netflix for books, including some 600 comics (of widely varying quality).