Ziggy Treasury PB

by Tom Wilson

Book Overview

Single cartoons and complete color strips present the predicaments and small triumphs of the gentle and generally put-upon syndicated cartoon character. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0836207386
• ISBN13: 9780836207385
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

To love Ziggy is to love yourself

Ziggy is a person who is lonely, subject to a sequence of minor disasters, gets no respect from others and has some manic-depressive tendencies. This would make him the sum of what we can have go wrong during a typical day in our lives. We all have our good days, our bad days, encounter people who disrespect us and are lonely at times, especially when things go wrong. Therefore, we can all relate to him as he copes with the vagaries of his cartoon existence. Some cartoon strips give us social or political commentary, others are meant to be absurd and some are meant to reflect the daily existence that we all must cope with. Ziggy is in the category of a coping mechanism, which makes him lovable, because that is a way we can love ourselves when things go wrong.

Darn good read

Through a mistake, this is actually a review of Coleman's earlier novel in the same series, entitled A CALL TO ARMS. -------------------- I have just finished rereading this novel, having purchased it several years ago and enjoyed it then. Comparing it to several other of the Battlemech novels, I find it "a cut above." Coleman does very well with the blow-by-blow battle scenes. He seems to have some genuine knowledge of battlefield tactics and armored warfare that adds credibility. One welcome surprise in the novel were some excellent characters. The "mystery warrior," the beautiful Tassa Kay, is a delight. Raul, the protagonist, is better realized than in many of the Battletech books. The gist of the story is as follows: a "loser" has failed his mech trials and lost his place in the regiment. Along comes a "double invasion" of his planet -- first, by the Steel Wolves Clansmen and secondly, by an interloper mech group, the Swordsworn. Guns blaze, the situation gets hot . . . and the "loser" is now pressed into service by his old regiment as one of the very few experienced Mechwarriors available on-planet. Playing his cards "one hand at a time," so to speak, Raul finds himself drawn increasingly into the heart of the war. As some of Raul's commanding officers are killed, and as Raul receives some "battlefield promotions," he finds himself leading larger and larger military units, finally becoming a kind of post-facto battlefield commander. Raul is gutsy and not afraid to take chances,and he begins to turn the campaign towards victory. Last but not least, there are two romances with two beautiful women that complicate this poor guy's life. Great book for the plane -- keeps you turning pages. You will find better writing quality than is the case with many of these Battletech--Dark Age novels.