{4.5\/5} “Sherman, I’m beginning to question my carnivorous lifestyle.”<\/p>\n
Sherman’s Lagoon 1991-2001 Greatest Hits and Near Misses<\/strong> by Jim Toomey, published in 2002<\/p>\n Sherman is a shark. Megan is his girlfriend, Fillmore the turtle and Hawthorne the crab are his friends, and Ernest is a young fish who’s still in school. Sherman looks after his nephew for a while, runs into some aliens, becomes a rock star, and eats humans when he’s hungry. They meet vegetarian piranha and a fish that came from an aquarium.<\/p>\n Toomey gets a lot of mileage out of the basic dichotomy of the characters. They sometimes act like people — they think and talk. But they also act like animals — in particular, the sharks like to eat humans.<\/p>\n This comic strip is one of the best that’s not The Far Side<\/strong>, Calvin and Hobbes<\/strong>, or Bloom County<\/strong>. In other words, it’s on par with Dilbert<\/strong> and other strips that are funny most of the time.<\/p>\n This is the first Sherman’s Lagoon<\/strong> collection I’ve read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {4.5\/5} “Sherman, I’m beginning to question my carnivorous lifestyle.” Sherman’s Lagoon 1991-2001 Greatest Hits and Near Misses by Jim Toomey, published in 2002 Sherman is a shark. Megan is his girlfriend, Fillmore the turtle and Hawthorne the crab are his friends, and Ernest is a young fish who’s still in school. Sherman looks after his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,54,5],"class_list":["post-6591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-comic-strips","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6591"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9395,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591\/revisions\/9395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}