My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable

My new technique is unstoppable

by David Rees

The creator of the cult-favorite comic book Get Your War On shares a collection of zany cartoons and strips that captures the energy and outrageous characters of today's Web culture. Original.

Genres: Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels

64 pages, Paperback

First published October 7, 2003

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

David Thomas Rees is a cartoonist and humorist whose best-known work combines bland clip art with outrageous "trash talk" to incongruous effect.

Reviews

[Jason Koivu]

Back in my zine reading/reviewing days, I waded through a ton of bad zines. Some had nothing to say, some were chockablock full of TMI, and some just took themselves too dang seriously.

But then along came David Rees' My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable, a silly ziney-like comic about kicking butt and being a bad-ass...or at least attempting to kick butt and thinking you're a bad-ass.



This booklet was done up comic-strip style using clip art and old instructional illustrations out of context with added dialogue.



Rees did a couple of these, I believe, before moving on to other topics. In fact, if I recall correctly, I don't think all of the strips within this collection were fighting-related. Example:



These strips weren't all winners and even the funny ones weren't shit-out-your-pancreas hilarious, just good humorness on the whole.


Historical Footnote: Before this was a book it was a zine called My New Filing Technique Is Unstoppable and it was filled with office humor more hilarious than this stuff.

[Elizabeth (Find me on The Storygraph)]

I was not the target audience for this book.

[Richard]

This is one of the funniest books I read. If you work in an office, with cubicles, and an HR department, you absolutely must check this book out. If you don't, get it for someone who works in the corporate world...it will keep them sane. It's a little Tom Tomorrow-like, but with a sharper and keener wit.

[Sean]

I've had this for years, and worried that it wouldn't be nearly as funny the second time around. I was wrong. Basically just a compilation of David Rees web comics from years ago, before he went all political with Get Your War On. If you love inane humor, a metric ton of profanity and homemade production values, this is your ticket to an hour of pure ecstasy. Wish it were longer, and some of the strips are pure filler, but when it's on there's nothing else like it. Fast reading, but god is it worth it.

[Mutant Mike]

You know, I appreciate the concept of a crude computer clip art comic strip centered around martial artists, but in its execution, the humor just doesn't hit for me. Maybe I'd find David's political work more enjoyable. I've learned that he retired from cartooning to pursue a career in artisanal pencil sharpening, and I find that revelation far more intriguing and humorous than the strips in this book. With his deadpan demeanor it seems almost like a Nathan Fielder-esque business gimmick. After reading it, I must admit that I'm more a fan of David Rees' himself than of his cartoons.

[Wilde Sky]

A series of cartoons strips.

I found this book disappointing - I'd read another in the series, which was laugh out loud funny, but this one wasn't for me.

Reading time around an hour.

[Jeremy]

I usually only laugh at the failure of others, but this time I laughed because the thing I was looking at was funny. David Rees is funny like that guy you know who's funny, and that's the best kind of funny you can get.

[Seizure Romero]

Awful computer-generated clip art, Karate Snoopy and kicking motherf#@$ers in the face. Best way to spend a quarter at a book sale.

From the mind behind Get Your War On. So you know.

[Cody]

I just love David Rees. All his comics make me just fall down and laugh until I cry. It's all just so hysterical. The minimalist, stock pictures, the inane dialogue. All of it just makes me go completely nuts.

[Matt]

Pure literary and visual synesthesia.

[Michelle]

And he can't and he won't and he don't...

[Erin Tuzuner]

This is supposed to say "Filing" instead of "Fighting". So hilarious.