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Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"

(Calvin and Hobbes (Sagebrush))

By Bill Watterson

(80)

| Hardcover | 9781417642137

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Book Description

In just over five years of syndication, Calvin and Hobbes has become an American comic strip sensation - touching the hearts (and funny bones) of the millions who read the award-winning strip. One look at the new Calvin and Hobbes collection and it is immediately evident that Bill Watterson's imagiContinue

2 Reviews

Funny melancholy

Calvin and Hobbes is fun, but in a melancholic way. Anytime I read this strip, I cannot but think about Calvin as a grown-up... Will he attend college? Is he going to get married? Does he still keep his stuffed tiger in a closet, as a souvenir of days gone by?
I guess it is because my own kids are ... (continue)

Calvin and Hobbes is fun, but in a melancholic way. Anytime I read this strip, I cannot but think about Calvin as a grown-up... Will he attend college? Is he going to get married? Does he still keep his stuffed tiger in a closet, as a souvenir of days gone by?
I guess it is because my own kids are growing, and part of their childish features are slowly giving way to more mature ones: this is natural, but I know I will miss some (and some I definitely will not).
As always, Bill Watterson is a pretty good read.

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VM71 said on Jan 20, 2012 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

This is my favorite collection out of the Calvin and Hobbes books.

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dalai lala said on Dec 30, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback