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by: Jerry Scott, Jim Borgman
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780740746697
ISBN: 0740746693
Label: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 248
Publication Date: September 01, 2004
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Sales Rank: 65728
Studio: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Product Description:
Random Zits not-so-randomly combines the previous collections Road Trip! and Teenage Tales into one mega-volume. It includes popular story lines that include Jeremy and Hector fixing up their old van and take it for a clandestine joy ride, and Jeremy learning the value of tact on his girlfriend's bad hair days, selling random household items on eBay, surviving sudden radical growth spurts, and being coaxed into a fishing trip with his father, who seizes the opportunity to have 'the talk.'
Zits captures the nature of teenage boys with uncanny precision. In one series of strips, Jeremy's mom is alarmed when she finds a fist-size hole in the wall of his room. Pressed to explain it, he balks. When he finally describes what happened, it turns out that the hole wasn't made in a moment of teen hormonal rage. It was made in a moment of teen hormonal idiocy, when he used his mom's meat tenderizing mallet to swat a bug. Anyone who has spent much time around an adolescent boy will recognize this seemingly inexplicable behavior: intelligence and impulsiveness locked in constant battle. This is the natural state of the teen male, and it's portrayed exquisitely in Zits.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Excellent comic book
Excellent comic book!!! Fresh and hilarious humor, that will definitely help you to bear your teenage son/daughter.
Rating: - Teenagers comic relief
This is one of the funnest teenager comics. If you need a "relief" from parenting a teen this is for you!
Rating: - Best of the Treasuries Thus Far
In this fourth mega-sized collection of strips, Zits hits its stride. There are more connected storylines than the earlier volumes had, and the resulting developments in the characterizations of Jeremy and his posse are rich. I found a lot of humor in this book, and shared a lot of the strips with my wife, and my 10-year old son, who is a Jeremy-in-Waiting.
Rating:  - Good, but definite problems
The Zits series is a good series. It consistently makes me laugh. However, I'm tired of all this talk of how accurate and exposing it is to the teenager's life. I laugh because of the jokes, the cluelessness of either the parents or Jeremy, his relationship with his teachers, friends and girlfriend, and so on. However, it is not funny because it hits on any truths, because it doesn't. These may seem like little things, but if you're going to build a comic strip on things like this, they need ... Read More
Rating: - Random "Zits
What is it like to be a fifteen-year-old boy? If "Random Zits," the anthology of the sixth and seventh "Zits" books, is any indication, then it's not exactly fun and games.
Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott (of "Baby Blues") continue to chronicle teenage angst, and the angst that comes with raising a teenager, as Jeremy continues to struggle with high school, romance, and the crippling embarrassment that comes with having parents.
In this treasury, Jeremy encounters new problems: ... Read More
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