Well, the cover of this latest Dilbert book certainly looks like Adams has stopped trying -- I don't think I've ever seen a more generic comic-strip book cover in my life.The strips included, though, are Adams pretty much doing the same thing he's been doing for the last several years. The jokes can be a bit repetitive, but I'm still finding a fair fraction of them funny, and so far that's been enough to keep following the series. The biggest interest for me, lately, has been following the minor tweaks drawing on a computer have made to Adams's aggressively minimalist style (it's particularly noticeable on teeth).
If you like Dilbert, you'll like this book. If not, it won't convince you. It's not a great strip at this point, or the breath of fresh air it was in the early '90s, but it's not a strip kept running long past its natural death, either (like Dennis the Menace, or Blondie, or a dozen other strips I'm sure your local paper still carries).
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