Product Description

Ever want to know the best way to combat "the silent treatment"? How to destroy society? Apply video game skills to real life? Well, read Help Is on the Way, a collection of strips from the hilarious online web comic Basic Instructions! Cartoonist Scott Meyer will guide you through some of life's more uncomfortable moments with plenty of absurdly bad advice, usually packed economically into four side-splitting panels. This is the kind of stuff that jumps from the weekly paper onto your cubicle wall in seconds flat! Learn how to apply the laws of physics to your personal relationships! Help Is on the Way, by Basic Instructions creator Scott Meyer, is your "all-inclusive guide to a life well-lived."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61157 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 120 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781593079956
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Great stuff
The Basic Instructions comic strips have been my best discovery since the genius of Scott Adams/Dilbert.
Scott Meyer provides a range of cartoons to help with a range of everyday situations from "How to disguise a yawn" to "How to lie to a child" - they work because of the self-deprecating humour and because they are so accurate. Really good stuff and Meyer has a website (Basic Instructions) so it is easy to check out and see if you like his humour before you consider buying this, but you should because it is very good indeed.

Hilarious
If you've read Scott's comics on his web site then you won't find anything new here. But his comics are hilarious and having them in one, easy accessible book is definitely worth it. I've re-read it countless times and it still makes me laugh!

Belly laughs. Really
I've enjoyed Scott Meyer's quirky, ironically detached "How to"-style cartoons over the web for some months now, so I decided to get the book. The comics are funny doled out a couple per week, but sitting down and reading this collection after a hard day at the office built up some kind of critical mass so that, a few times, I needed to set the book down so I could start breathing again.

It's hard to analyze humor, but there's something about how the Scott Meyer character is at the same time so knowing and confident and yet, so often, a complete idiot -- a fact his wife's character is quick to point out -- that is altogether too realistic. (Not necessarily for Scott; I'm speaking generally here.) The minimalist traced drawings somehow add to the surreal familiarity.

OK, I'll stop. I'd say, search online for "Scott Meyer Basic Instructions", read a handful, see if you think they're funny, and I'll tell you -- if you like them by the each, you'll love them by the lot.