{"id":30633,"date":"2024-10-01T12:28:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T12:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=30633"},"modified":"2024-10-01T12:28:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T12:28:01","slug":"bunny-vs-monkey-the-gigantic-joke-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2024\/10\/01\/bunny-vs-monkey-the-gigantic-joke-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Bunny vs Monkey: The Gigantic Joke Fight!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Jamie Smart<\/strong>, with Sammy Borras<\/strong> (David Fickling Books)
\nISBN: 978-1-78845-334-9 (Digest HB)<\/p>\n

Bunny vs Monkey <\/strong>has been the hairy\/fuzzy backbone of The<\/strong> Phoenix<\/strong> since the very first issue back in 2012: recounting a madcap vendetta gripping animal arch-enemies in an idyllic arcadia masquerading as more-or-less mundane but critically endangered English woodlands.<\/p>\n

Concocted with gleefully gentle mania by cartoonist, comics artist and novelist Jamie Smart (Fish Head Steve!<\/strong>; Looshkin<\/strong>; Max and Chaffy<\/strong>, Flember<\/strong>), his trendsetting, mindbending multi award-winning yarns have been wisely retooled as graphic albums available in digest editions such as this one.<\/p>\n

All the tail-biting tension and animal argy-bargy began yonks ago after an obnoxious little anthropoid plopped down in some serene British woodland, in the wake of a disastrous local space shot. Crashlanded in Crinkle Woods, scant miles from his launch site, lab animal Monkey<\/em> reckoned himself the rightful owner of a strange new world… despite every effort to dissuade him by reasonable, rational, sensible, genteel, contemplative forest resident Bunny<\/em>. No amount of patience, propriety or good breeding on the part of the laid-back lepine could curtail, contain or control the incorrigible idiot ape, who to this day remains a rude, noise-loving, chaos-creating, troublemaking lout\u2026<\/p>\n

A keen rivalry arose between them, as the ape intruder crudely made himself at home, and to this day Monkey remains a rude, noise-loving, chaos-creating, troublemaking lout intent on building his perfect \u201cMonkeyopia\u201d – with or without the aid of evil supergenius ally Skunky <\/em>or their \u201chenches\u201d Metal Steve<\/em> and Action Beaver<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

Problems are exacerbated by other unconventional Crinkle creatures, like Pig<\/em>, Weenie<\/em>, Ai<\/em>, Lucky<\/em>, Le Fox<\/em> and especially mad scientist Skunky <\/em>whose intellect and cavalier attitude to life presents as a propensity for building extremely dangerous robots, Brobdingnagian bio-beasts and sundry other super-weapons\u2026<\/p>\n

Here the mundane multi-coloured manic war of nerves and mega-munitions is temporarily terminated for a twits & giggles diversion in magnificent monochrome as the entire cast are embroiled in a mysterious competition to determine who knows the best jokes – a cunning ploy to resurrect the subgenre of cartoon joke books that made the 1960s, Seventies and Eighties such a tedious, ear-bending chore for teachers and parents and so much fun for us…<\/p>\n

The search to determine \u201cThe Funniest Creature in the Woods\u201d grips everybody and over \u2018Welcome to the Woods\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Bunny Makes a Funny\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Monkey\u2019s Merciless Mirth!\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Skunky\u2019s Genius Jokes!\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Weenie and Pig\u2019s First Go at Telling Jokes!\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Lights. Camera. Action Beaver!\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Metal Steve and Metal E.V.E.\u2019s Joke Processing\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Le Fox is Far Too Cunning\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Ai is So Fast\u2019<\/em>, \u2018A Very Lucky Joke!\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Weenie and Pig Return!\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Readers\u2019 Jokes – You Make the Laughs!\u2019<\/em> and \u2018And Now, the Conclusion!\u2019<\/em>, deliver themed and specialised chapter collections of Dad Jokes, Bum Jokes, Fart Jokes, Poo Jokes, Food Jokes, Baby Jokes, Knock-Knock Jokes and Pirate Jokes, as well as jests & japes about Genius, Robots, Computers, School, Experiments, Monsters, Ghosts, Chickens and Road Crossing, whilst also offering some riddles, brain-teasers and even tips on what Jokes are and How To Tell Them…<\/p>\n

Daft, compulsively addictive, dangerously read-out-loud-able and fearfully unputdownable, this cutting edge retro-treat is the perfect gift… for someone else\u2019s kids…
\nText and illustrations \u00a9 Fumboo Ltd. 2024. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Because You\u2019re Only Young Once, unless you\u2019re a Guy\u2026 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bunny vs Monkey: The Gigantic Joke Fight! <\/strong>Will be published on October 10th<\/sup> 2024 and is available for pre-order now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jamie Smart, with Sammy Borras (David Fickling Books) ISBN: 978-1-78845-334-9 (Digest HB) Bunny vs Monkey has been the hairy\/fuzzy backbone of The Phoenix since the very first issue back in 2012: recounting a madcap vendetta gripping animal arch-enemies in an idyllic arcadia masquerading as more-or-less mundane but critically endangered English woodlands. Concocted with gleefully … <\/p>\n

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