"How to tell when you are old: part 3. When people your age tell others they are pregnant, everyone congratulates them instead of just saying 'ohhh' or sucking air in through their teeth"

"You can be anything you want to be when you grow up if you are rich!!" ( )

From Amazon: Toothpaste for Dinner offers a sarcastic but honest portrayal of modern existence. The characters, barely more than stick figures, provide a blank slate on which readers can impose their own experiences and frustrations. Everyone has a coworker who regales them with tales of weekend drunkenness, or swings by their cubicle every day with an insipid joke. We want to tell our boss that nobody cares about the antics of her craaaazy cats, or that despite his idea that he’s the "office clown," everyone hates the IT guy. We never say these things aloud, but we want to. And the indignities of modern life go well beyond the office. We all know the frustration of standing in line behind someone having a much-too-personal mobile-phone conversation, or the problem of deciding whether an article of clothing is ironically hip or just plain stupid. But then there’s Drew, in his internet fiefdom, saying the things we can’t, pondering the confusing, annoying and just plain weird, and making us feel a bit less alone. ( )

Just like 99.999% of the webcomic writers out there, this guy shoulda stuck to eating toothpaste. This is a world with Dostoevsky and blueberries and hot sex with someone you love in it--don't waste time giving "Drew" the clickthroughs he clearly craves.

ADDENDUM: Oh no! This guy used to be the band KOMPRESSOR. Shitty webcomics retroactively ruin funny parody German industrial hip hop acts. ( )

If the comedian Mitch Hedberg had worked in an office and had drawn little cartoons, these would be them. Most of them are absolutely inane, but then again, I'm sure that most of you have been at that point of crazed boredom where these little doodles would make you laugh uncontrollably. Go ahead, try it. -Emily

A print collection of the popular webcomic, "TFD" is one of the funniest things to come from the Internet. Ever. Alternately morbid, profound, brilliant, oblique and obscure, the comic is about as simple as a comic can be while still being that. Collapsing cliché's in the search for new veins of humor, Drew unleashes his unconscious into the mouths of lopsided stick figures that complain about work, coffee (i.e. the lack of), society at large and whatever else happens to be going on. "If I ever have kids, they will get The Existential Playset for Christmas," begins the caption to one comic. "It is composed of all their other toys, plus a shop vac, so that occasionally, one of them will get sucked into the void for no reason." While all of Drew's comics are available online for free, the book is worth owning just as a way of saying "thanks." It's also one of the funniest things published so far this century., so there's that as well.

(This review originally appeared on zombieunderground.net) ( )