"Get Fuzzy" is one of the more underrated and unappreciated strips out there, dropped by my local newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, some years ago after a readers poll. This says a lot about the editors at the Post and the local readership. "Get Fuzzy" is an intelligent, acerbic, wickedly funny and often hilarious strip that frequently wanders into brilliance. Rob Wilco is a single, somewhat reclusive man who lives in an apartment with Satchel, a dim-witted and good-hearted pooch, and Bucky, a single-fanged Siamese who is hands down the most misanthropic comics character I know of, and that includes the mouse from "Pearls Before Swine".

This is a particularly fine collection of strips; there are many where the wordplay beats anything the Marx Brothers ever did. This is a treasury book, which I inadvertently ordered online. I probably have most of these strips in smaller collections. But it's such a great selection that I don't mind. ( )