the best of Dinosaur Comics: 2003-2005 A.D. | Ryan North

the best of Dinosaur Comics: 2003-2005 A.D. | Ryan North | The Funniest Thing in the World Right Now

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The best of Dinosa...

	the best of Dinosaur Comics: 2003-2005 A.D. Ryan North Quack!Media, 2006 - 250 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

For the Sake of Full Disclosure...

I personally have not bought this book (I live in England), but I have read the comics online, and I would like to make sure that anyone reading this review gets the full story on Dinosaur Comics. The bottom line is, these comics are amazing, but - this is a big but - often very philisophical and even intellectual. In fact, many of the best bits are based on T-Rex's penchant for ranting about philosophy and sociology. If you get your ire up when people start using big words, then this book will irritate you to no end. I think this stuff is great, but as long as you can get a perfectly reliable preview (for free) of the sort of things to expect (qwantz.com) there's no reason not to make sure whether or not this is your sort of humor.

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The Funniest Thing in the World Right Now

No, I'm serious. I first caught on to this as a webcomic, when some of my employees were reading it in my office. Like most web-humor I thought it looked dumb and juvenile. After I read a few comics I was totally hooked though. Because it's humor and because of the inherently silly art, it's easy to dismiss at first glance, but once you sit down to read it you realize that it's the work of a truly great humorist. It's also some of the smartest humor you're likely to come across these days. Highly recommended.

Extreme? Extreme!!!

This is a selection of daily dinosaur comics from qwantz and it's amazing to see so much funny condensed into such a small mass. It's like a comic black hole-infinite funny held in a finite space-only instead of sucking energy and mass from the universe, it exudes pure joy. The world looks better after reading dinosaur comics. You'll find that you like things and other things.
Yes, the strips are available for free online and yes, the book is only selections from the first three years as opposed to the complete run of the comic, but the collection, as a gestalt, is so good. It fits easily into any backpack or messenger bag, you can pull it out when you're in a long line or just feeling a little low, open to a random page and find that the world is a better place.
Am I being hyperbolic? Maybe, but only if you haven't seen qwantz. I showed the book to a friend of mine who'd never seen the comic and he couldn't stop reading. He seemed offended by the idea that he didn't know about the strip earlier, at the idea that there could be such a level of cosmic injustice. A month on and he's still quoting the book.
This is something unique in comics. It's inventive, experimental, smart, goofy, hilarious and just pure good. Don't live your life wondering "what if?" Buy this book.

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Consistently Hilarious!

I have been a big fan of Dinosaur Comics! in web form, and I was suprised when I read this book because there were comics I'd never read. I thought I read them all? I don't know how that happened. One thing that was not suprising, however, was the quality of every comic. I don't know how a man can manage to constantly outdo himself, but Ryan North is a man that can. And does. He does it. He outdoes.

Do you like things that are funny?

If you like things that are funny, you will like this book. I own it because I am a fan of EVERYTHING that is funny, and this book is number one on that list. I am not even kidding about this.

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