Review: Nice Restoration
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2013
Most of the ideas in the comics are just as funny as they were originally.  If you read them, they will probably make you smile, and think that some things never change.  Babette Lansing did a great job of restoring these comics.  It must have taken a lot of painstaking effort to get them to look so good!There are a couple of minor points that I felt were worth mentioning.1. Some of the comics are a bit dated. Maggie has quite a temper, and there is apparently some physical violence (on her part) in their relationship.  (Check out the cover, with Maggie's threat to use the rolling pin to beat up Jiggs.)  Today, it would not be socially acceptable to use that a premise for a comic. However, it is an interesting reflection of the time in which it was published, and it was very interesting to see the styles of the clothing included in the strip.  It is interesting how what is socially acceptable changes over time.2. In the copyright, there is a notice that, "the text and alerations to the illustrations..."  Since I hadn't ever heard Jiggs or "Bringing Up Father," before reading this collection, this note confused me a little.  What text is being referred to (does it include the text in the comics themselves, or not), and what changes have been made to the text and/or illustrations?  Did she change the text in the comics?  Did she change the pictures? Did the original comics include the titles?  How do the final comic strips compare to the original comic strips?  It might be nice to clarify this just a bit.  Of course, I don't know why I read the copyright notice anyway, and most people probably won't.  ;)