The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories

Most of the book is just reprinting strips from the web, but it's still a blast to read. I've read nearly everything in this book and it still makes me laugh. Several strips I needed to read multiple times before I got the joke, but once I did, it's hilarious. There's a section at the end of strips he's rejected for various reasons, and while I mostly agree with his reasons for rejecting them, a couple are laugh-out-loud funny.

More sex and nudity than I recalled, though, so I might have some trouble adding it to my teen collection as planned. The characters aren't realistically drawn, so it might not be a problem. ( )

Much plagiarized, much imitated, but never beaten, The Perry Bible Fellowship is easily the best webcomic out there.

Gurewitch employs a vertiginous toolkit of artistic styles, with some comics simple and direct, and others extremely intricate and expressive. The often-surreal humour can be so strange as to leave the reader not just amused but also somewhat out of kilter. It is certainly not a comic for everybody, but I suspect Gurewitch’s creations will divide people neatly into those who are completely apathetic and those who constitute his fierce cult following. I am almost certainly in the latter. ( )

Gurewitch is a genius the likes of Brad Neely. I love this webcomic. ( )

A bit formulaic, yes, but so,so funny and terrifying. Helped keep all those unicorns and shit real in the mid-oughts. ( )

Almost all of these strips are unfunny. They fail to elicit a laugh. The "twisted" nature of the strips is presented in a "I'm so witty and different than all of you" kind of way by the author. The air of superiority is completely unflattering. Don't bother with this book. ( )