Grimmy: The Revenge of Grimzilla!
YA-The imaginative and indecorous yellow dog created by the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist appears in this collection of black-and-white weekday and a few Sunday color strips originally published between 1996 and 1998. Grimm has the social wit of a 13-year-old boy so there is a fair amount of scatological content, but nothing that would deem a more restricted rating than PG. In addition to stories about the dog; his owner Mother Goose; and his best friend, a large cat named Atilla, there are occasional panels featuring unrelated characters and tales. Most in this latter category, as well as many of those featuring Grimm's cast, rely on puns or malapropisms. Some of the humor requires that viewers be acquainted with popular culture across several decades rather than offering cutting-edge commentary. Most of the selections, however, require familiarity only with such commonplace events as eating pizza and raw cookie dough, walking in frightening surroundings, or failing to do one's chores. Grimm will find an audience among middle schoolers and adults, with most high school comics readers bypassing his hearty merging of witty crassness and conventional funny paper adventures as they lack the compelling attraction of current superheroes or a trenchant third-millennium outlook.Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CACopyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.