Welcome to the Nerd Farm! A Doonesbury Book (Volume 29)

Wonderful stuff from one of the most important American writers. (Yes, I said "writers"!) Garry Trudeau has been at this his entire adult life, and it just gets better and better. Following multiple story lines, his latest assemblage is packed with funny and revealing strips. Can't be recommended highly enough!

After the great compilation "Heckuva Job, Bushie!" I was hoping for more of the same with "Welcome to the Nerd Farm." While "Nerd" features some strong strips dealing with aging parents, kids in college, and Bush's continued refusal to recognize the problems with our war in Irag, it also features a weak set of strips dealing with Mark's 'divorce' from Chase, and wastes a good amount of time on the status of Uncle Duke while he's in a semi-comatose period. I recommend the collection, but not as much as I did 'Bushie!'

This strip rocks. I shudder to think how much it would mean to me if I were an American baby-boomer university graduate. I might go as far as saying that since Schulz died, this is the best newspaper strip out there by far, to my taste.

Trudeau is one of the amazing artists, historians, and commentators of our age. Pick up any of his compilations and you get an accurate slice of history and culture from the past 30 years or more. His characters age and grow with the times, and if you've followed them, as I have, over the years you'll start to feel they have a life of their own.