The Best of Dinosaur Comics 2003-2005 A.D.

If you enjoy Dinosaur Comics, you must purchase and read this book. After reading this book, I became a popular and successful person, and because chronology = causality, I attribute my good fortune to this book! Also, you know who HASN'T purchased this book? Child molestors and shoplifters. You're not a child molestor and/or shoplifter, are you? -Matt P.S. See if you can spot the two logical fallacies in this review! If you spotted at least 50% of them, you are eligible to purchase this book immediately!

This book is fantastic. If you are a fan of dinosaur comics, then this book provides is great because of its portability and also because it is very classy b+w. If you are not a fan of dinosaur comics this book is a classy, black and white representation of the comics from the popular webcomic. I have no real reason to repeat what many others have said about Mr. North's work, but I will anyways. It was said best this way: "Picture watching the same movie again and again, where the dialogue is changed so completely, and with so much skill that you forget that you've seen these images before. Now picture that every day for two years. That's Dinosaur Comics." This is that, in book form. Awesome.

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.

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.

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.