This book was doomed from the start. Right after I heard that Ivan was putting out a big book full of one panel strips and jokes, I decided that it was going to be the best thing ever. Nothing less than that would have satisfied me, and that’s a pretty hard thing to live up to. This isn’t a bad book by any means. There’s plenty of the requisite Brunetti humor and disgusting stuff that you can’t help but laugh at. BUT (and you knew that was coming), it’s not the best thing ever. In fact, any single issue of Schizo is probably better than this. It’s probably around 80 pages of gag strips, mostly one panel per page. There’s just not enough bang for your buck (and it is pretty cheap at $8.95) here. I was expecting more of everything, a dense tome of goodness that would take me a night to read. Instead it took about 10 minutes. Still, if you like Ivan you’ll like this book. You just won’t like it as much as you thought you would.
