Something Chocolate This Way Comes: Baby Blues Scrapbook #21

Baby Blues Scrapbooks #21

by Rick Kirkman, Jerry Scott

Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott put out a very funny cartoon strip. You don't have to be a parent to enjoy this cartoon, but if you are, it hits close to home more than once. It's also nice watching the kids get older (albeit slowly) in a medium that seldom allows it's characters to age at all."
If art imitates life, then art could probably use a good vacuuming. That is, if you're talking about life around the MacPherson house. With three kids under the age of eight, things couldn't get much busier for Darryl and Wanda, who fill the comics pages with dead-on family humor.

Creators Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott have a special talent for distilling the essence of children, families, and married couples into a comic strip that, in frame after frame and strip after strip, creates a world that's both amusing and enlightening, in large part because their work mirrors our own experiences so closely. "Did you see the latest Baby Blues ?" is one of the most-often asked questions among the strip's millions of fans. "It looks just like us!"

Genres: Comics, Humor, Comic Book, Comic Strips, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Cartoon

128 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2006

About the author

Rick Kirkman is a cartoonist and co-creator of the comic strip Baby Blues. He received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1995, and the Reuben Award in 2012 for his work on the strip. He also served as co-executive producer of The WB animated television series of Baby Blues.

Reviews

[David Allen Hines · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've been reading the Baby Blues comic strips for many years, and recently decided to acquire and read all of the books in the series. Something Chocolate This Way Comes is as hilarious as its title, a parody of Ray Bradbury's epic science fiction novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes. This book contains the strips from about 2005 so the family has the three children already, with Wren still a crawling baby. The characters are now well developed and well drawn. This volume despite being nearly 20 years old has not aged at all, and remains very funny. One of the funniest strips is when Zoe gets Hammie to eat prunes! Any parents of children will be able to relate to all the funny adventures and strips and any fan of the series will love this collection of Baby Blues!

[Stasia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't know why, but adding Wren to the family dynamic really started to make the strip less funny for me.... I'm not sure why. I think one reason is because Zoe becomes so much bossier after Wren comes along, and so her character becomes more annoying, I guess? 🤷

[Valerie Gale · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great mental escape!

[Sonja Grönqvist · Rating 3 out of 5]

Somehow not as funny after I became a parent.

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Strips in the newspaper are SOOO funny, and this is all of those combined into one book, so that you don't have to wait for the next one each week!!!

[Duane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Baby Blues is a great comic strip that showcases the humor that family life brings. Nice and clean humor should please any reader. A great laugh out loud book anyone should enjoy.

[Molly · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved the book funny everyone should read this i love baby blues super funny