DESCRIPTION:

When Brian Gordon became a parent, he thought he was going to ruin his kids and/or make some catastrophic mistake. Fortunately, for both himself and for his kids, "Despite their fragile appearance, evolution has seemingly hardened small children against numbskull parents like [him]."

What Brian has done, is taken all the weird and wonderful, serious and strange and yet somehow universal parenting issues and day-to-day struggles and used them to create blisteringly hilarious comic vignettes. If you are a parent it will be near to impossible not to literally laugh out loud at Brian Gordon's FOWL LANGUAGE comics.

Using ducks (fowl) to represent the members of a family, the comics each represent a moment in parenting that all (or most) parents can relate to and that when seen in print will have readers laughing out loud.

This is the second book of Fowl Language Comics that I have read and reviewed. To see the review of BOOK ONE, visit http://bit.ly/FowlComics1  

I rate this hilarious book as 5 out of 5 Stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 and with its October release date it makes perfect sense to purchase as Christmas gifts for family and friends.

As always this was fun.. I follow the author on instagram and some of the comics I have already seen on there and loved.. It was fun to see the ones I hadn't.

This is a great comic book with quite cute (lol) and fun graphics and really fun writing and it is a great time pass and you can go back to it again and again..

I related more to it this time around as I recently became a parent. Loved every bit of this hilarious comic book.

And I totally agree with the title. :D The struggle is real. Ha!

Special thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for this copy.

This book did exactly what I needed it to, make me laugh. I love these compilation books of comics. I can power through them in no time and I feel like I accomplished something in my day.

<i>*I received this book from NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing in return for a fair review.*</i>

This is the second book in the series and second book I've read by this author.

Like the first book, this is a collection of funny little drawings with words on them focused on birds - humanized birds who are parents to baby ducks. Well, the ducks area also humanized. hmms. I probably could have worded that better. Right, so - a collection, as noted, of humorous comic strips about parenting.

There's an introduction - mentions some tips. Including:
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If you forget to priortize care for yourself, it's gonna bite you in the ass one way or another.</blockquote>

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If your kid will tolerate it, swaddle the crap out of them. It totally helped my son calm down as a baby. I'd still do it, but he's in fourth grade now, and evidently that's frowned upon.</blockquote>

hehe - 'if all else fails, try the cathartic act of bitching about your children by drawing them as ducks'

To remind readers, and/or show new readers, what the comci is like, I insert a panel:
<img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.fowllanguagecomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/sharing-old-movies.jpg?w=800">
(if the insertion works - that's the latest panel on the website for <a href=http://www.fowllanguagecomics.com/>Fowl Language</a>.

hehe - non-parents 'T.G.I.F'. Parents - 'T.G.I.M.' (at least while school is in session) - and TGIF becomes OMGIF

Lots of funny comics here. I kept having burst of laughter explode out of me.

Last time I did a review for a book in this series it consisted mostly of me giggling. I'm not really sure what else to put here other than another review of me giggling. So: Imagine me - giggling.

Parent tells kid that he sounds like a broken record. Kid wants to know what a record is. Then what a CD is, etc. hehe. Parent starts mumbling.
Kid 1: I think he's buffering.
Kid 2: Try refreshing him.

Parent: here comes the plane!
Kid: I don't like the way planes taste, either.

Publication Date: October 10 2017

Rating: 4.56

September 2 2017

As a mother of a six and a four-year-old, I could relate and laugh at the very funny jokes. My favorites were the ones about tired children, sibling's fights and why they won't try the food.

Don't read these during naptime, because you'll wake your kid up cackling. This is the perfect baby shower gift to a parent who already has a kid-- or maybe buy it for your spouse after a particularly bad tantrum (on either their or your kid's part). Super funny, super relatable, but definitely full of some foul language, so if that bugs you, might not be the best choice.

Apparently Fowl Language Comics is a bit of an internet sensation, but actually this is the first I've seen it, in the second book of the range. It's aimed at parents, covering many elements of parenting that others will be able to relate to, addressed in a humorous way using comic strips. Some of the strips are far funnier than others (some I didn't find at all funny), but on the whole it's an amusing book which would make a good stocking filler type present for any long-suffering and worn out parents!

There are obvious good and bad things to say about this book. The good is that the humour is spot-on, the hit rate is high, and the cartoons both look and read good. It's also that, even with so many chances, this book doesn't descend into inane stereotype and cliche. The bad is that a lot of the time the two-beat structure is awkward. By which I mean the first page of the strip is fine, it has a punchline or at least a comic point; only there's a second page to come, which sometimes works, but elsewhere seems to deflate what we've just enjoyed. The negative also includes the shocking lack of female representation - this guy is not a single dad, or at least I don't think so, but Mrs Fowl Language hardly gets a look-in, and seems to be a breeding machine but not a mother. Slap wrists, because I wanted to enjoy this for the fun it is and not the gender poltiics it fails at. Still, recommended.

This book is a collection of comic strips which I follow almost religiously on Facebook. Surprisingly the book contained quite a few that I had not come across earlier.Even if it contained more repetitions it would still have been the enjoyable read it was. They contain heartfelt confessions from the point of view of a tired out parent. It is so well presented that those of us who have not yet gone through the phase can extrapolate to such a time and relate to it.

I loved this book!! The images are spot on and it did make me laugh - my daughter is six weeks old and I know that I have a lot of this to come with her! Perfect present for any new parents or those with toddlers and younger children - 5 stars!!

I do not have any children, but still found this book charming. I think I would find it more funny if I had children by my own. Or at least more relatable.

Still the cartoons are nice and charming, and funny at times. If I would buy it I think it would have to be as a present for my mom, as she probably can relate to the cartoons. This book also took some more time to read than the other cartoons I have read, which is a large plus as cartoons usually are too smal.

I found the book more of a this is what life with kids is, but I did not find the book humorous. I could see this book selling well in card stores when people are looking for something to add on to a baby shower gift.

This ended up being the second comic about parenting from the male perspective that I’ve read in as many weeks. Fowl Language has some chuckles for sure, but it wasn’t always wildly entertaining.

Creator Brian Gordon illustrates his family as ducks, probably because it’s just damn funny visually, but also because I’m certain that all kids like ducks for at least a week of their life… currently, I’m week 35. The visual of the ducks work extremely well because Gordon is able to add some simple expressions that become more dynamic due to the characters being ducks. To put it another way, the emotions emote better than if it were ultra-realistic or cartoon humans.
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The artwork is very professional looking, and I know that seems dumb to say, but I have read plenty of web comics in which you can see the professional style developing. Fowl Language could easily be syndicated it’s that professional looking.

Gordon has an interesting set up for his gags. They are almost all two-page gags, with a lot of them having one joke on the first page and then a tie-in joke on the second page. Often the second joke ended up feeling unnecessary and overkill. Other times it was like coffee after a good dinner and hits the spot, but those meals were far and few in-between.

Perhaps the other problem is that a lot of the gags seemed age-specific for the kids. As in you’d have to have a kid of that age to enjoy the joke to its fullest which was a shame. Great jokes don’t require specific life experience to enjoy them fully, but that’s this reviewer’s opinion.

Overall, it’s a solid collection and one any fan of the series should check out. I would definitely read more and perhaps even re-read this collection when my son has run through the aging process more.

This is the second Fowl Language book I have read and I still laughed at many of the jokes because I could identify with them. This book was a little different as after the joke, there was another panel that wasn't as funny, so I enjoyed the other one much better. I did see myself and my children on many of these pages and love that my son is going through this now with his own children. The fact that the characters are ducks makes it just a little cuter. I think the funniest pages for me were the meal one and the healthy snack one. I could hear those words coming out of my mouth. There is also mention of social media which is so prevalent in our society. A cute book for soon to be parents or for those fearing empty nest syndrome.

This comic always manages to crack me up, and I'm not even a parent!

I don't recommend trying to eat while reading this book as you are going to make a mess from laughing so hard and I do speak from personal experience! All I can say is that someone has clearly been spying on my family and those two ducklings are absolutely my kids. If we cannot laugh at the insanity that is parenting then all that is left is to cry and laughing is so much more fun.

I found a few of these comics funny or amusing, but mostly I didn't really enjoy the book. The author spends some of the time talking about how children are the greatest thing ever, but most of it treating his kids as annoyances rather than people. I guess it's just not my sense of humour.

A funny little book about the struggles of parenting. And, yes, it does use foul language throughout. Light read, recommended for new parents.

I received an advanced copy of Fowl Language: The Struggle is Real from Net Galley in exchange for a fair and honest review.
I’ve always been a huge fan of Brian Gordon and his sense of humor, so it came as no surprise to me that I enjoyed Fowl Language: the Struggle is Real. It’s a quick and fun read, and for those of you that haven’t been following him before now, I highly suggest you look up his webcomic (which is where the comics in the novel pull from).
Gordon has a knack for making his comics endearing and relatable – even to people who have not been in the circumstances he’s talking about. For example, I’m not a parent but I greatly enjoy his parent series, as it’s hard to miss the human elements he uses to tie everything together. I’m sure parents also find his work hilarious, likely shouting “me too!” or “been there!” at particularly whimsical moments.