Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read The Newspaper
by Aaron McGruder

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Summary: 5 Stars

But tracking down newspaper websites is a long and bothersome business. Here, finally, is a collection of the funniest, most dangerous strip to have appeared since 'Doonsbury' in the early seventies. Aaron McGruder's world centres around Huey Freeman, a 'radical Black scholar' who would love nothing more than to reform the Black Panthers and rescussitate Black Power.

Unfortunately, as he's a pre-teen living in a suburban white neighbourhood wth his Grandpa and younger brother, he's got to deal with mowing the lawn, getting hassle off teachers, and railing against what George Lucas did with the Star Wars series in 'The Phantom Menace'.

Skewering childhood as accurately as 'Calvin & Hobbes', and the racial/politcal preoccupations of America as neatly as the aforementioned 'Doonesbury', 'The Boondocks' cast of buppies, pre-teen wannabe thugs and tae-bo practicing senior citizens look set to be a fixture in the comic strip world for the foreseeable. Good thing too.

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