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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."
IAALS.
Overstock.com has it for a little over $79 plus a couple bucks for shipping.
Damn, now that's rude: using Slashdot to earn referrer revenue. Shouldn't the editors have spotted this? Oh well. Nice offer, anyway.
Lalala
The sound of postal carriers everywhere.
"Weighing in at about 19 pounds." That's about 8.62 kilograms or 84.5 Newtons
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This would be a really really awesome Xmas gift, I need to make sure my SO knows about it. This is the equivalent of a boxed set of every Woody Allen, Monty Python, and Kids in the Hall. The Far Side is truly the best single-pane comic ever made, Larson is a genius of understatement and subtlety.
All we need now is a complete Bloom County with extra goodies.
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Hey man its 10 clams cheaper at alldirect.com
... if music be fruit of love, play on
Picked it up at the local Costco here in the SF bay area the other day. They had a pallet-load of them for about $80.
Yes, it actually weighs 19.5 pounds.
G.
I keep trying to order that set and if i Hit the cancel button it won't confirm my order!
I don't know why!
~Docui!
Does Gary Larson get sued when a significant portion of society stops working for about two days in a row?
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.
But the new version includes something like 1,100 strips that are not in any collection.
Also over half of the strils in the book have been very nicely colorized by various artists using watercolors, so even if you have the original (black and white) books, the new one is worth having too.
And the colored strips really do look quite nice.
G.
I think the old farside books had indexes with the only the letter 'T' having any entries. Each cartoon was indexed like this:
'The one about the chicken and the cat.'
'The one about the man trapped on an island'
etc
Okay, Gary Larson is fine, but I want my Bill Watterson fix!
-russ
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
"Honey, Where's the forklift? I wanna curl up in bed with my new book."
You could always put it on one of them permanent bookstand thingies that some people put Bibles on, which is kinda apropos actually, but I'd be sure to reinforce my floor first.
Otherwise you might be starring in your own Far Side cartoon.
KFG
Some of us are still boycotting that joint. Anyone care to collect some alternatives?
Buy.com has it for $89.77.
"More organs means more human." - Zim
Man, Far Side is so old. Anyone remember Cheers?
Woody: I don't get the Far Side.
Cliff: Well you see... [explains joke]
Woody: What I meant was the newspaper in Hanover didn't carry the Far Side but thanks for treating me like an idiot!
(paraphrased)
Thank God!
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
There is also a leather-bound collector's edition. Rather than have people paranoid about a hidden referral link, just look for it yourself. :) The title is "The Complete Far Side Leather - Bound Edition." $750.00 List Price !!
If all you have are silver bullets, everything looks like a werewolf.
too bad they don't have a DVD-ROM version, weighing alot less.
Buy.com has it for $89.77 with free shipping. If you set up an account at fatwallet.com and order through their referral link you can also get 2% cash back.
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.