incredibly great value
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I'm a bit new to doonesbury. Basically, I always dipped in and out of the strips in the Guardian, but although I realised that they were quite extra-ordinary, I hardly understood who the characters were and why they did what they did. I was anxious to find out to say the least. That's why the decision to get Bundles Doonesbury was quite easy; the CD was the main selling point to me. And once I got it (for Christmas), I was hooked. Not only the CD is incredible, the book too was a good read. Really marvellous book, get it if youre new to trudeau!
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the dark and evil empire has entered the guarded realm
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As has been said previously, the new strips were great but the rehash of strips from the previous two books was very disapointing. next time i ill review more carefully before buying. Now the bad part, what the F*** is going on when You can't read doonesbury on a mca but you can on a Wintel machine. Read my heading and you will understand. I was very disappointed as were a number of other friends of mine.
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Not just a book-based update - a packed CD-ROM as well!
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Trudeau's wit and wisdom has diminished not one whit in thirty years of cartooning, but his worldview has become both more pessimistic and a tad more sentimental as American society loses more and more grip on reality. High point since 1995 for me has been the re-emergence of Vietnamese orphan Kim, learning to talk English but only able to recite slogans and straplines in the 70s - and now an entrancing, razor-sharp geekette. What can she see in Mike? And it's great to see the increasingly appalling J.J.'s comeuppance. You don't just get the book, though; you get a truly wonderful CD too, full of Doonesbury history and skilfully designed to enable the Doonesbury aficionado to research the past by characters and by politics. Great comic animations and an easy-to-use format make this a must for fans.
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Mixed Opinions, but the CD is MUST HAVE!
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Let's start with the good. The CD is an absolute must have! I might have paid $100 for the CD alone, (depending on my propensity to spend when I thought about it). Getting all the comics from 1970 up to sometime in 1995 plus more is just incredible. Having said that, the book is a disappointment, it has a lot of comics that were previously published in the past few large format books. I thought that large format books didn't repeat each other (with the exception of Flashbacks), but this book rehashes Virtual Doonesbury and Planet Doonesbury, plus some newer stuff after Planet Doonesbury. Hey G.B., don't do that again, I'll let it pass this time 'cause of the CD, but now I'm going to be hesitant to buy in the future without reviewing your books for old comics. Finally, although I have Windows (it works on NT 4.0), I agree with the complaint that it doesn't run on Mac. It does seem quite out of character for G.B.'s anti-Microsoft (and somewhat pro-Mac) writings.
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Where's the Mac version?!
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Having been a Doonesbury fan since Watergate, I was thrilled to receive this book as a Christmas gift from my girlfriend. We were anxious to open the CD and install it when we realized that it was Wintel only. We were shocked and found it all the more ironic, given all the Mac references and digs against Microsoft in the strip. My faith has been shaken! Please tell me Trudeau hasn't sold out to the dark side! Does anyone know if a Mac version is available? If not, can the CD can be read in any way on a Mac? I don't want to open the software and be stuck with it unless I can use it. I would undoubtedly give a rave review but not without cross-platform availability.
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