I began reading "Get Your War On" shortly after it began. I was a 9/11 iconoclast who felt alone and maybe even a little sociopathic as I coldly observed the victimhood-embracers around me. Reading David Rees' work gave me immense relief. It came from the heart of a fellow spirit; a cry of grief and rage over Bush's insane joke of a war.

Certainly many readers may be put off by Rees' street talk. (I grew up when middle class children seldom heard such words and many weren't printable.) But there is a difference between people who use profanity through ignorance--or hack writers who want an easy laugh--and David Rees. As a writer, his command of American vernacular English impresses me even more than David Mamet does in "Glengarry Glen Ross." Furthermore, his language is entirely suited to his purpose.

I've alway been a great fan of Tom Tomorrow. His use of old advertising images gives an additional level meaning to his work for those who remember the 50's. Although I'm amused by Rees' use of familiar clip art I believe he has the imagination to go much farther.

I urge you to buy and read this book. I, for one, am very eager to see where Rees' talent will take him next.

If you are a twenty-something or younger, lean left politically, don't care whether your cartoons look pretty, and are into irreverent and usually vulgar humor, Get Your War On is the promised land. I find Get Your War On to be gutbustingly funny, but through trial and error I've discovered that receptiveness to the humor is limited by certain demographic realities.

I've tried to share this with my left-leaning sixty something mom and she just couldn't get past the profanity. I tried to share it with some left-leaning twenty somethings and they couldn't get past the clip art. I tried to share it with some politically conservative hipsters and they couldn't get past the politics.

So, sadly, a narrow demographic. But for that demographic, it just doesn't get much better. These are the kinds of WTF? conversations that you had with your friends after 9-11, trying to make sense of a world in which even the good guys seemed nuts. A world in which the question "Why do they hate us?" was answered in record speed with the trite "because of our freedom."

Get Your War On has all the emotions of the post 9-11 world: ambivalence, fear, dread, rah-rahing in spite of oneself, and finally resignation to living in a world that is dominated by religious extremists and misguided actors.

If you're reading this review, you likely know what Get Your War On is all about from looking at the strips at www.mnftiu.cc. So your last remaining question may be what the book's production values are like and whether it is worth buying. The answers are: very good and yes, buy it, the profits go to clearing mines in Afghanistan. Besides, it's more convenient to leave the book on your coffee table instead of a dedicated monitor displaying the comics from the website.

I laughed at some of these, but alot of them just came across as bitching disguised as humor. I mean, biting humor is supposed to be about humor, not about just flat out hostility towards the butt of your joke.

"Get Your War On," by David Rees, consists of a series of cartoons in which a cast of office drones discuss life in America during the post-9/11 war on terrorism. Among the topics covered are the military campaign in Afghanistan, the anthrax scare, and the phenomenon of suicide bombing. The tone is satirical, with a very harsh edge.

I found the book sometimes clever, but sometimes it is just unfunny ranting. Much of the humor comes from the pairing of banal white collar images with the often over-the-top, profanity laden dialogue.

This book, and THE FRENCH and GERMANS, really have it right. This war was a waste of time, money, and American lives.