Save Yourself, Mammal!: A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Collection (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
Not every cartoon in this book is a bonafide comedic gem, but many of them are really quite great. More importantly, Zach W. opens up the form of the single panel cartoon to new possibilities. While the caption below the panel is traditionally written from a 3rd person omniscient perspective, Zach plays with this convention, allowing characters to comment on the action within the panel. Many of Zach's captions feature first person commentary or even additional imagery. This innovation with his captioning leads to a lot of new possiblities for humor, subverting the reader's expectations in new ways and invoking the meta-awareness of postmodernity.Job well done. SMBC is quite possibly my favorite webcomic, and I've been waiting for a print collection. This collection is a pretty solid first outing, oversized so that the strips can print in readable size and format, and featuring a "best of" collection of some of the funniest strips.Truthfully, I would rather have had a comprehensive collection, even if it had to be a multi-volume affair, but I get the decision to start off with the cream of the crop, and Weiner's choices definitely include many, if not all, of my favorites.
What do You think about Save Yourself, Mammal!: A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Collection (2011)?
I liked the math and science related ones, and the comicbook geeky ones, but some I just didn't get.
—cserna
Funny! I want the t-shirt with the title comic panel! :)
—janellido
Interesting collection of panels on random SF topics.
—inch
