The Book of Bunny Suicides

If you want to make people curios, then naming your work "The Book of Bunny Suicides" is definitely an excellent starting point.

I, for example, instantly started thinking up various scenarios where the title would turn out to be some clever metaphor for one thing or another... Well, to be more accurate I pretended to come up with said clever things. Figures of speech and I have never really seen eye-to-eye, so all I can do is vaguely imitate the process of analyzing them. Briefly, because I get bored easily.

Imagine my surprise when I find out that the title of the book perfectly reflects its content. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, someone actually sat down and wrote down drew various scenarios of cute fluffy bunnies committing show more suicide.

There are a few ideas, that seem more comical than tragic. The vast majority of them however, are downright mean. The author must really despise those poor bunnies.

And since I don't know what else to say, I leave you with the scenario that left me pondering physics:

That's not how things should work. Or am I the only one whose window blinds are made of flimsy plastic?

Score: 3/5 because it feels like a brilliant(ly macabre) book. show less

What simpler pleasures are there in life then seeing horrible things
happen to cute animals? British artist Riley has made this small little
gem that is devoted specifically to that topic. Each drawing (usually
one panel and usually without dialog) expresses a different way for
adorable little bunnies to end their lives. It would be tedious if
Riley weren't so inventive, coming up with a series of highly ingenious
ways to exterminate the little critters. The majority of the drawings
don't even show the death itself, but the events that will bring it
about, letting the reader's mind fill in the gaps (some personal
favorites include a bunny standing in front of a shark tank with a
hammer in one hand and one in which a bunny is ready to throw show more a
boomerang with an active grenade attached). It is this ability to get
laughter from anticipation that makes this one of the more interesting
works of illustrated humor to be released in the past few years.

(This review originally appeared on zombieunderground.net) show less

This book is wrong in so many ways, yet you keep looking at it, seeing how all these poor suicidal bunnies will try to kill themselves. Every page is a treat, with innocent looking cartoon bunnies in increasingly dangerous situations, from trampolining on a helipad to avoiding getting on the ark.

If you don't like this book, you are probably a good, sweet person, who doesn't see that suicidal rabbits can make a bestseller. I envy you. For the rest of us, this is the perfect book when you want something that will make you giggle guiltily.

While the idea of fluffy little bunnies committing suicide one by one in creative ways is quite hilarious due to the jutaposition, I found that reading an entire book of comics on the subject gets a little gross. And then it just gets repetitive. Keep it in one-comic-at-a-time doses though, and it quickly regains its off-kilter humour.

i will always be grateful for this book and the friend, who knew me so well, for buying it for me, when i was in rehab facing several unsavory felonies and the loss of my bar license for a crime i committed while in an alcoholic blackout (don't worry, no one got hurt but me). this book is a spiritual book ... don't ask me why. i'm quite certain it contributed to me not committing suicide like all those poor animated bunnies it depicts doing so in such creative ways ... no bunny don't do it!!!!!

5 stars!!!!!!

I suppose one has to have a macabre sense of humor, as I do, but if you don't find this book hilarious, what's wrong with you?! If ever you feel down, pick up this book and laugh a little.

Cute book of cartoon bunnies ending it all by various clever methods. I picked this up for my teenaged son, who has a fondness for the graphic but couldn't resist reading it myself. This is as adorable as suicide ever gets, but it's not that hilarious nor is it terribly transgressive. It's just plain cute.