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Wallace & Gromit: The Lost Slipper and the Curse of the Ramsbottoms
This is a comic writen by Davies Tristan. The Well Know Characters are from Nick Park. It is a typical Wallace and Gromit Story and especially the humour... I love it to bits. Its Cracking...! The first Story is a about wallace missing one slipper and is looking for it... in the past with his timemachine contraption... And ofcourse it goes haywire and they ended in the Norman time 1066 and after a adventure they escape to another time history and found out that all his ancestors are missing one shoe or slipper.... Very funny. The second story is another contraption adventure that I still have to take jet.
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48 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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November 11, 2012
Ee Gromit, it's all about us! Champion what? I think it's got everything, pooch! Cheese, time-travel, terrible jokes, lovingly drawn artwork. Cheese too! 'Oo could ask for more? And all them books you read, I'd never even noticed! Caninestein's Theory of Relativity! A Brief History of Time by Stephen Barking! Even a chess book by Garry Catsparov!
Well, I think that went about as well as could be expected. Now how about a nice cup of tea? Eh?
Well, I think that went about as well as could be expected. Now how about a nice cup of tea? Eh?
January 21, 2016
Really very cheesy, I think this book suffered as I read it straight off the back of A Clockwork Orange. It seemed like every slide for most of it was simply a pun, making the plot hard to follow in the lost slipper. The curse of the Ramsbottom's didn't suffer from this quit so much, and was far more enjoyable because of it.
August 6, 2025
This is two comics in one, so I'll review then separately.
The Lost Slipper (One Star): This one continues the tradition of Wallace taking everything to the extreme. First building a Rocket to the Moon just for cheese, and now going back in time just because he lost his slipper. By that premise, this should be in the exact same spirit as the original shorts, but no. This completely misses the charm and premise of Nick Park's original idea. The main problem is that Gromit, who even the most casual fan with know is supposed to be the real hero of the series, is just a sidekick to Wallace in this adventure. I don't know how you mess up the most fundamental part of the series that everybody recognises, that's like making a Star Wars comic and making Luke Skywalker Han Solo's sidekick. Plus, the whole premise of this just feels unfocused and random, which even for Wallace & Gromit, isn't a good thing. I like the premise to this one and some of the places they go, and I even liked how they save King Harold from being shot in the eye, only to have Wallace poke his eye out instead. But other than that, this one just felt so uninspired. And I also hate how they gave Wallace a stupid catch phrase.
The Curse of the Ramsbottoms (Two Stars): The main thing that surprised me with this one was how much I enjoyed it at first and how much it felt like a sequel to a Close Shave. When Wendelin reappeared and Wallace and Wendelin were reunited, it felt so heart worming, like we were returning to the story, exactly where we left off. It truly felt like a happy reunion, which it should as Wendelin was truly the closest Wallace came to true love and we all want to see them get back together. There is also a good mystery as Wendelin is now a spokesperson for cheese, despite her allergies and when they meet again, she is engaged to an evil count, and she is acting really funny. But after that, it just falls apart, the ending is just some stupid shenanigans and doesn’t live up to the first half. We also get the return of Presten from a Close Shave but not fan favourite Shaun, what the hell.
Overall, these comics had some good ideas and might have made a good story, but they just fail to live up to the original Nick Park shorts and were just lazy and uninspired. But either way, they were still better than Vengeance Most Fowl.
The Lost Slipper (One Star): This one continues the tradition of Wallace taking everything to the extreme. First building a Rocket to the Moon just for cheese, and now going back in time just because he lost his slipper. By that premise, this should be in the exact same spirit as the original shorts, but no. This completely misses the charm and premise of Nick Park's original idea. The main problem is that Gromit, who even the most casual fan with know is supposed to be the real hero of the series, is just a sidekick to Wallace in this adventure. I don't know how you mess up the most fundamental part of the series that everybody recognises, that's like making a Star Wars comic and making Luke Skywalker Han Solo's sidekick. Plus, the whole premise of this just feels unfocused and random, which even for Wallace & Gromit, isn't a good thing. I like the premise to this one and some of the places they go, and I even liked how they save King Harold from being shot in the eye, only to have Wallace poke his eye out instead. But other than that, this one just felt so uninspired. And I also hate how they gave Wallace a stupid catch phrase.
The Curse of the Ramsbottoms (Two Stars): The main thing that surprised me with this one was how much I enjoyed it at first and how much it felt like a sequel to a Close Shave. When Wendelin reappeared and Wallace and Wendelin were reunited, it felt so heart worming, like we were returning to the story, exactly where we left off. It truly felt like a happy reunion, which it should as Wendelin was truly the closest Wallace came to true love and we all want to see them get back together. There is also a good mystery as Wendelin is now a spokesperson for cheese, despite her allergies and when they meet again, she is engaged to an evil count, and she is acting really funny. But after that, it just falls apart, the ending is just some stupid shenanigans and doesn’t live up to the first half. We also get the return of Presten from a Close Shave but not fan favourite Shaun, what the hell.
Overall, these comics had some good ideas and might have made a good story, but they just fail to live up to the original Nick Park shorts and were just lazy and uninspired. But either way, they were still better than Vengeance Most Fowl.
July 8, 2008
This book was very funny, British comedy. The jokes were intended more for adults than for children, so children may not find it very funny. My daughter loves Wallace & Gromit and spent a lot of time justing looking at all the pictures! I think Wallace & Gromit are great, a good comic duo! I highly recommend this book!
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