Over the Hedge

...And the history of Over the Hedge begins here, in the pages of this book. What you get is a perfect introduction to the earliest phases of the strip, beginning in 1995. It is always nice to see how characters develop, from the subtle indifference RJ usually displays, to the strange but often optimistic ideas of Verne. All in all, the best thing to do with this book (or any of the series for that matter), is to grab a 3-liter jug of Jolt Cola and a six-pack of Twinkies, and enjoy 128 pages of off-the-wall genius cartooning, courtesy of Mike Fry and T Lewis.

Loved this book. It brings back good memories of Michael Fry's comic strip. Our paper only carries it on Sundays, but I get the dailes over the internet.

Great comic book. Easily one of the best strips in the paper today. Its kind of like looking at what happened to all of those characters in Bambi after they grew up and reality hit 'em! This is up there with Get Fuzzy, Far Side, and even Peanuts. Over The Hedge is hilarious and will be around for a long long time...LONG LIVE TWINKIE FISHING!

This is the very beginning of a very amusing saga involving funny animals - a welcome combination of "Calvin and Hobbes", "The Bloom County", and "Pogo", which are all now gone forever from the funny pages. In this zany comic strip, the follies of human nature are slyly observed through the bright eyes of a know-it-all turtle and an arrogant raccoon with his unquenchable thirst for chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate! Though this book may not be recommanded for anyone who don't have time for so many words, there are still fans out there who would love to read such witty dialouge from this silly pair of surburban slinkers!

Some of you out there, like me, may not have been blessed to watch the birth of Over the Hedge and see the early development of RJ and Verne. That's what makes this collection so wonderful...see the early, scrawny RJ and his graceful transformation into the loveable glutton we know today. Check out the size of Verne's head in the early strips. Yet throughout, RJ and Verne have always served as a source of biting (though never rabid) social commentary.