 "If you laugh, you have to ask yourself, "How twisted am I?"" | 2008-06-25 |
| - Reviewed By ninjasuper |
For some reason, it's completely endearing and hilarious for bunnies to try to commit suicide. Perhaps it's because the ingenious and absurd machines, traps, and situations they put themselves in require a tremendously dark wit, and we don't expect these dandelion munchers to express such cynicism.
There are a number of people who try to imitate Andy Riley's bunny suicide comics, and they sometimes come out all wrong. For example, they tend to show the death of the bunny. This is unfortunate, because the joke is in the reader's mind, trying to figure what the bunny is thinking and how the suicide will work, not showing the reader the gruesome death.
People with a dark sense of humor will enjoy this book, and judging from the way it has been out of stock at some bookstores, there are a lot of us out there. |
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 "SICK SICK series" | 2008-05-16 |
| - Reviewed By User: AV3P46M80WT1D |
| Bunnies are sweet,loving,and innocent creatures and anyone who could write books with this sort of theme is a very sick person as are everyone who would find it funny!! If it was about children there would be a major outcry over it,but because its not its ok. Animals are just as helpless as children so if you wouldn't want books like this about children don't condone it about bunnies or any other animals!! |
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| "Poor bunnies" | 2007-10-06 |
| - Reviewed By la_solinas |
Bunnies are cute, fuzzy, and not very bright. And in Andy Riley's works, they're also suicidal.
In fact, you can guess just from the title of Riley's "The Book of Bunny Suicides" what the book is about -- wordless cartoons of bunnies offing themselves in unique, creative, and sometimes overly complex ways.
It's a running gag, but you'll never guess how many of these bunnies choose to off themselves -- they involve corkscrews, subway trains, stalactites, cigarettes, seppuku, airplane toilets, palm trees, pointy-nose jets, toasters, colanders, and many other seemingly harmless (or at least not VERY harmful) ordinary items.
There are even some pop culture references -- the bunny prepares to beam down from "Star Trek," sits atop the Wicker Man from the same-named movie, and one of the rare cartoons with dialogue, the death-pursuing bunnies infiltrate the legendary duel between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Hysterical.
Yeah, it's basically a one-gag book, but Riley manages to keep the chuckles rolling along through the book. Part of the humor is in the ridiculous stubbornness these bunnies have to off themselves, and Riley's creativity in coming up with surreal methods for suicide.
There are a few duds, admittedly -- the deli counter one took me several reads to understand, since you have to pay very careful attention to note the bunny in this one. And the overpass gag simply doesn't make much sense.
Riley's artwork is simple and clean, and his bunnies are amusingly stoic as they chase down death. And he shows a variety of bunny deaths -- some are gory, some are physically impossible, and some simply involve bunny parts flying bloodlessly. Some, in fact, only hint at the bunnies' demises -- and these tend to be the most hilarious of all.
"The Book of Bunny Suicides" is a fun quick comic book for people with a sick sense of humour and/or a hatred of bunnies. Darkly amusing. |
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 "It's cute but..." | 2007-09-25 |
| - Reviewed By User: AY9M5IB6C75KB |
Very cute humor but...
Unless your getting this as a gift for someone or it's an inside joke you've been looking for your whole life, I don't recommend buying this book simply because it is too short. Cute though... Not for animal rights advocates. |
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 "my cheeks hurt!!" | 2007-09-09 |
| - Reviewed By User: A34J7V50CT6RQO |
| If you are in anyway feeling a bit blue, take a look at this book! |
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| "Great!!!" | 2007-08-23 |
| - Reviewed By User: AHWEVNCOW8OXH |
| I love this book, if you like the bunny suicides this is a great book for the collections. |
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| "I have to meet this guy!" | 2007-08-10 |
| - Reviewed By drfood |
The first thing I'd ask him is when the
image of fluffy little bunnies doing themselves
in came to his mind. Oh yeah, and what was he
doing at the time. In church? Changing his
oil? Filling out a tax form?
Then the next thing I'd want to know is whether
it was difficult to come up with all these
mostrous ways to say goodbye. I mean-did the bunny
in the lobster tank with the scuba gear just come
to him?
And then finally I'd tell him about standing in a
bookstore in Rome with the Italian version of his
book and gagging with laughter. (Romans rarely laugh
in public) and having everybody stare at me. I'd tell
him about giving a copy to my 20-year old daughter who
speaks no italian and having her get it.
And then I'd take him out for a drink.
--Lynn Hoffman, author of THE NEW SHORT COURSE IN WINE and
the novel bang BANG. ISBN 9781601640005
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| "the perfect gift" | 2007-01-24 |
| - Reviewed By marise_shi |
| I really loved this book, I brought this as a present for someone who was leaving work, we share the same sense of humour. I think this book is really funny, a little sick perhaps but great. It is really simple, yet a creation of pure genius, it is enough to bring you out of the worst mood with a smile. |
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| "bunny review" | 2007-01-11 |
| - Reviewed By User: A13Q8HQTF0V837 |
| For those with a sense of dark humor this is a laugh out loud happy pill that I take as needed. |
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| "Great (Stupid) Conversation Piece" | 2006-11-24 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1KKSZCWTDPMGJ |
I leave this out in my living room and people inevitably flip through it and laugh a little. It's not a *book* by any means. It's just a collection of drawings featuring the ingenious ways depressed bunny rabbits think up to off themselves.
And heck, it's about time someone dealt head on with the whole "suicidal bunny" issue, isn't it?
Bravo to Riley for so heroically bringing this formerly taboo subject to the forefront.
It's a very random, very irrelevant bit of fluff. It won't cure world hunger, it doesn't propose new ideas to hedge global warming, it can't nurse an ailing puppy back to health. Regardless, I love it.
If you have no sense of humor and/or once lost a pet bunny rabbit to suicide, then you probably won't find this book amusing at all.
For the rest of the population, however, I think this might result in a giggle or two.
And if you're a real nutter (like me) then you'll find this endlessly entertaining. |
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