Silent But Deadly: Another Lio Collection

de Mark Tatulli

Séries: Lio (book 2)

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Título	Silent But Deadly: Another Lio Collection
Autor	Mark Tatulli
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Tags	Early Reviewer Copy
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Sua resenha	I received this book as part of the LT Early Reviewers' group. Before this, I hadn't heard of the comic strip Lio, nor the cartoonist Mark Tatulli. Like so many of the best cartoonists, you need a little time and familiarity to get the vibe, and understand where Tatulli's sense of humour comes from. If you do that, the book does contain some gems. That said, I'm not a total fan. The idea of the strip has a single conceit--that young boys delight in icky stuff, fooling adults and getting one-up on each other. Plenty of laughs to be had in this material, but they're quick, silly laughs. Not the kind of laughs that you get from a Charles Addams or a Gary Larson, where you're given pause to think. Lio's jokes work when the monsters, ghouls and creepy-crawlies of a child's imagination somehow make their way into the real world. Jokes that rely on the real world alone (like where he jokes about his father) fall flat. Funny: An innocent-looking kid playing Scrabble with Frankenstein, frustrated by the monster's inability to spell anything but "mmmmm". Not funny: The child finds a tin-can-and-string telephone on the footpath. He picks it up to hear "I'm calling about an exciting offer..." Frankly, I would expect Charlie Brown to do that. And the bits where Tatulli parodies other comic strips really grate on me, I'm afraid. Lio's world where monsters come alive is interesting. A world where other comic strips come alive--well, it wears thin very quickly.
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Imprenta	Andrews McMeel Publishing (2008), Paperback, 128 pages
Data de publicação	2008
ISBN	0740777424 / 9780740777424
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Classificação Decimal de Dewey (CDD)	741
Idioma Principal eng	English
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Resumo 1	Silent But Deadly: Another Lio Collection por Mark Tatulli (2008)
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