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The Complete Far Side Archive

Posted by michael on from the boneless-chicken-ranch dept.

Muddie writes "Amazon is carrying the complete works of The Far Side. Weighing in at about 19 pounds, it features over 4,000 cartoons, including 19 Larson made after retirement, letters from readers, and more packed into 1,250 pages in 2 hardcover books boxed as a set for about USD$95. My life is complete."

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  1. take back your time machine... by Roadkills-R-Us · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Instead of working the extra time to spend $80 - $100 for this, just buy the 5 volumes at $5 - $15 (depends on new or used, paper or hardback) that are already out. You might not get the extra 14 cartoons or the letters, but for the price difference, you get the extra time off (see other story). I love Far Side. One of the five best strips, ever. But no way am I gonna pay that much to get a few extras.

    But y'all feel free to go for it...

  2. Re:Metric r00lz by cgranade · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's about 8.62 kilograms...
    [lbs.]==[N]!=[kg]==[slugs]
    The units of weight are Newtons and pounds, whereas the units of mass are kilograms and slugs (yes, that is an imperial unit...). Oh, and the [ ] means "dimensions of".

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    #define DRM chmod 000

  3. Searchable? by 3Suns · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So now the full text of ever far side comic ever is now searchable? Cool!!

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  4. too bad... by MoFoQ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    too bad they don't have a DVD-ROM version, weighing alot less.

  5. Least funny comic of all time by gcaseye6677 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I can't be the only person on here who thinks that "The Far Side" has almost no humor value at all. The author seems to try so hard to be funny, but just can't do it. Maybe they just fly over the head of someone who is only 25 years old, but I just cannot find anything to be funny about Far Side. This post is not intended to be flamebait, but I suspect my opinion will be in the minority.

  6. Re:Calvin && Hobbes! by harks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In his most recent book, he has long winded rants about the shrinking of the space available for comics. This quote was an example he hated of "throwaway gags" that are put into the first two frames of comics that can't have anything to do with the rest of the comic, because some of the newspapers wont allow room for these first two panels.

  7. Searchable Far Side archive via Amazon! by Gavin+Scott · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is a late comment, so probably nobody will see it, but Amazon's new full-text search feature can be used to search for your favorite Far Side cartoons (and similar things). For example: go to amazon.com and enter "vampcow" as a search term. It will give you a link to Page 6 of one of the Far Side collections which you can click on and it will actually display the scanned page from the book with the cartoon.

    G.