![]() The Fun pages are fine every once and a while, but it gets to a point where, similar to the Wobbly Headed Bob comics in the Squee collected edition, there's pages and pages of Fun comics one after another. ![]() ![]() The joke of "Evan not having a joke" gets old pretty quickly, and I'm saying this as someone who thinks he's a really funny writer. Each of these pages has seven short comic strips that range from being hilarious to really unfunny. I am specifically referring to the "Fun" pages. When this book is funny, it's really funny, but when it isn't, it can feel like a chore to get through. Dork is a book collecting all of the non-Eltingville and non-earlier Milk and Cheese stories that were in Evan Dorkin's series of Dork and House of Fun comics. I've been meaning to read The Eltingville comics since, but just recently found this for a really good deal. A couple years ago, I saw one of RebelTaxi's videos on failed animated pilots, which led to watching the Welcome to Eltingville pilot. ![]()
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