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 Get Fuzzy 365-day combined 2010 Desk Calendar (5.0 X 6.0) $18.96 There's little question as to who rules the interspecies roost in Darby Conley's popular comic strip Get Fuzzy. Bucky, the sharp-fanged-if-not-sharp-witted Siamese, generally rides roughshod over the rest of the household. Despite Rob's best efforts to rein him in, Bucky spouts rhetoric and dreams up schemes of annoyance or downright domination.  Comic Party Revolution TV, Vol. 1 - Let's Get This Party $29.98 Since we last saw Kazuki and pals in the first Comic Party anime, a lot has changed since the cast has started college. Kazuki has gained a degree of success in the doujinshi world and struggles very little in these five episodes. In fact, the whole aspect of struggling doujinshi creators has taken a back seat to comedy and slapstick fights between the characters. For instance, the always competing Eimi and Yu decide to have a baseball game showdown or the gang tries to turn shy and passive Aya into a cosplay seductress. Mizuki has lost all of her reluctance of being a manga-ka's girlfriend and has even begun to ham it up as a cosplay sendup of Cardcaptor Sakura. There's even a beach episode where all the girls in the series conveniently show up. I really loved the first series of Comic Party but I found this sequel to be lacking in a number of ways. First, Volume 1 was almost totally bereft of the comic book world that was so fascinating in the first season. The writers made Revolution into a harem comedy without much fan service. Taishi, the only other significant male in the cast either puts in too few appearances or when he is present, makes very little impact. His absence as a driving force pushing Kazuki also hurt the appeal. He used to be the funniest character on the show. The look of the first four episodes on this disk was also unsettling. Originally intended as an OVA, the characters had a distinctly emaciated look to them. Instead of looking older, they just looked skinnier. The biggest mistake for Revolution so far is its attempt to make an otaku focused show into a broader comedy meant to appeal to the lowest common denominator. While the jacket brays a ton of extras like interviews and a "What is Comic Party?" feature, all of the extras are text that you have to read. |
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