I love cartoons and comics of all kinds, and my LT files indicate that I've read more than 150 book collections on this genre. However, I found nothing remotely amusing or entertaining in this particular work. Nate is a wise-ass little 6th grade boy who dislikes his teacher, bothers his older sister, and mocks his father. The characters are primitive and unlikeable, and the attempts at humor are puerile. The vague similarities to Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes reflects the author's lack of originality. However, this work lacks the wit, cleverness, irony, and humanity of such cartoon treasures as Calvin, Bloom County, and even Peanuts. Most reviewers at Amazon give books of this series high ratings, and I wonder if they know what they're missing. I found the 140 strips included herein to be unfunny, repetitive, and boring. ( )