| Blueprint for Disaster | |
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| Book Information | |
| Publisher: | Andrews McMeel Publishing |
| Release Date: | October 1, 2003 |
| Pages: | 128 |
| Collection Type: | Collection |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7407-3808-1 |
Blueprint for Disaster is the fourth Get Fuzzy collection as well as the fifth Get Fuzzy book overall, which was released on October 1, 2003. It contains strips from January 13, 2002
to November 09, 2002
.
Publisher's Summary[]
The adventures of a naive dog, a Siamese with plenty of "cat-titude," and a modern bachelor is the blueprint for the hilarious comic strip Get Fuzzy, named the best newspaper comic strip of 2002 by the National Cartoonists Society.
You have to wonder what kind of pets cartoonist Darby Conley had as a child. If they were anything like Bucky Katt and Satchel Pooch...well, life in the Conley house must have been interesting to say the least. The wacky triumvirate of Bucky, Satchel, and Rob are back in this Get Fuzzy collection, Blueprint for Disaster, and "interesting" doesn't begin to describe their antics.
Rob Wilco is the mild-mannered ad executive caretaker of Bucky and Satchel. Satchel is a sweet and naïve shar-pei-yellow-Lab cross, while Bucky is a Siamese with "cat-titude" to spare. Bucky and Satchel get along like, well, like cats and dogs. Like a beleaguered parent, Rob constantly must thwart Bucky's schemes and protect the unsuspecting Satchel. His pets' mischief continually disrupts his attempts to meet women. (You try explaining to your date why your cat thinks he's a gangsta rapper and your dog is filming his "crib" for MTV.) Would anyone live with humans who behaved like this? Bitingly funny with a wry sense of the absurdity of life with pets, Get Fuzzy appeals to everyone who has ever lived in a mixed-species household.
Darby Conley is an illustrator and former elementary school teacher who was born in Concord, Massachussetts, but grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee. He attended Amherst College and currently lives in Massachussets with his cat. He first sketched the characters Bucky, Satchel and Rob in 1996, and the strip was syndicated in 1999. Get Fuzzy now appears in over four hundred newspapers worldwide.
Storylines Included[]
| Plot | Pg # |
| Satchel's Conference on World Canine Relations | 11-12; 14-15; 18 |
| Bucky knocks a hole through to the Garcia's apartment to attack Mr. Squiggly, gets hit on the head by some plaster thrown by Mr. Squiggly and is sent to his closet | 21-22 |
| Chaser, an FBI bomb dog, joins Satchel's Playgroup and steals Oreo's attention away from Satchel, making the latter jealous | 23-24 |
| More apartment life: Bucky has the Monday blues; Satchel in his room playing Monopoly with Mr. Squiggly; Bucky is told to clean his litter box | 26 |
| Bucky wants to host a cat conference since Satchel had a dog conference and buys a “Tivo” as part of his campaign to persuade Rob: Calico Dave is the only attendee | 27; 29-30 |
| A ferret flap is installed to allow Mr. Squiggly access to Satchel's room; Bucky is shocked and appalled when he discovers it; Mr. Squiggly's first name is revealed to be Fungo | 33-34 |
| Bucky sets out to trap Fungo and record it on video; the plan backfires when Fungo yanks on the other end of the snare, slamming Bucky into the wall and knocking his fang and a molar out | 34; 36-37; 39 |
| Bucky and Satchel go to Rob for help with fixing Bucky's tooth | 39-40 |
| Satchel watches English Premier League Football | 41 |
| Bucky and co. go to the vet to fix his tooth; Satchel complicates matters by inadvertently swallowing it | 40; 42-43 |
| Bucky must wear a brace for his broken fang | 46-47 |
| Non-canon: Horoscopes | 49-50; 52-53 |
| Bucky searches for his other tooth that was knocked out, little realising that Fungo is wearing it on a chain around his neck | 55 |
| Bucky plans revenge, Rob tells Joe it feels like a Star Trek episode around the apartment | 55-56 |
| Satchel's friend Burger comes for a visit and thinks Bucky is a robo-cat | 58-59; 61 |
| Bucky's head brace is removed, Rob gets the vet's bill, Bucky broods on the ferret | 61-62 |
| Non-canon: Rejected characters | 64-65; 67-68 |
| Bucky places ads on himself like a NASCAR in an attempt to make money | 70; 102 |
| Bucky wants to charge people for hugs | 71 |
| Bucky plans to sue Fungo for assault on the Judge Judy show | 74; 76-77; 79, 80, 82-83 |
| The trio journey to California, preparation for the trial | 85-86 |
| The trial of Fungo Squiggly | 88-89; 91-92 |
| Bucky loses the case | 92; 94; 97; 98 |
| Bucky discovers that Fungo is wearing the other tooth that was knocked out and charges at him, causing Satchel to grab Bucky, accidentally knocking his fang out again | 94-95 |
| Bucky holds a conference of cats named after famous conquerors to plan world domination | 106-107; 109-110 |
| Bucky talks in the third person | 112-113 |
| Bucky tries to turn the lives of himself, Rob and Satchel into a TV show | 115-116 |
| Satchel has a crush on a news anchorwoman | 118-119 |
| Bucky gets intoxicated from drinking fermented juice | 122 |
| Halloween 2002/Bucky turns Satchel's room into a haunted house | 124-125 |
Other Editions[]
Spanish Edition
Get Fuzzy ~ A contrapelo
Portuguese Edition
Aqui Há Gato
- Aqui Há Gato, #4. Gatástrofe: Portuguese, 128 pages, Published by Bizâncio in February 2008: ISBN 978-972-53-0371-9
- Get Fuzzy (A contrapelo) Vol. 4. Proyecto de desastre: Spanish, 128 Pages, Published by Astiberri Ediciones on June 1, 2008: ISBN 978-84-968156-3-6
- Blueprint for Disaster: Kindle Edition, Published by Andrews McMeel Publishing LLC on May 15, 2012
Trivia[]
- This collection along with The Get Fuzzy Experience: Are You Bucksperienced? is part of Bucky Katt's Big Book of Fun.