Jerry Scott

Another great and sumptuous collection of strips. "Zits" constantly amazes me for its ability to be consistently funny over a long period with a limited cast and static time-sense, without ever really repeating itself or becoming formulaic. And this collection has lots of funny comments by Scott and Borgman about how individual strips came to be; I always like that inside look.

Jeremy: "Do you ever feel like you have to edit your thoughts when your mom's around?"
Pierce: "Dude, moms are the show more mothers of censorship." show less

I have mixed feelings about this. Many of the observations in the strips were spot-on from a teenager perspective, but now, as an adult, I can't help but find Jeremy to be an absolutely infuriating little shit at times considering what his poor parents have to deal with. 3.5/5 stars.

Hilarious. Poignant. True-to-life. I loved this book, even though the strip on page 120 made me cry real tears, not the laughing kind. Jeremy is every teen, and Connie, with her delusions of hipness, is every mom. The fact that my teenaged son was standing next to me the whole time, waiting for me to finish it so he could read it, is a testament to the truth and beauty of it. Highly recommended for parents.

Zits was/is one of my favorite comic strips, I'm not ashamed to admit. I can still relate to so much of both the teenager AND the parent (though I'm not a parent myself, so I'm not sure that really works). This was just silly...the illustrations were much stronger than the narrative, but I still enjoyed it.