Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes was an enormously popular comic in all major newspapers in the USA. The story is about a six-year old boy, Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes. For Calvin, Hobbes is a ferocious big tiger, for everybody else, it is just a small stuffed puppet. Calvin and Hobbes where two famous philosophers and I do not think it is by accident that the two main charactors of this comic are named after them. They often have philosophical discussions, especally when they are racing in a cart down a steep dangerous slope, and almost always there is something to these discussions. Calvin is an egocentric boy, doing everything except what he should do (like his homework), while Hobbes has a dim view on humankind and is convinced of the superiority of tigers. Calvin has an incredible phantasy and invents a lot of games to play with Hobbes and also alter-ego characters like space-man spiff, jet pilots, dinosaurs or both, like a Tyrannosaurus Rex flying a jet fighter. These stories usualy start in Calvins phantasy world, like spaceman spiff landing on a remote planet in another galaxy being attacked by hideous alien monster who suddenly turns out to be Mrs. Wormwood, his ground school teacher. Calvin and Hobbes are my favorite comics. It is difficult to describe in a review like this, but I find the sudden switches and disconnects between Calvins phantasy world involving aliens dinosaurs etc. and the cold reality involving his parents, teachers and the neighbor girl Susy extremely funny. Bill Watterson uses a very rich vocabulary and especially for non-native english speakers (like myself) there is a lot to learn here.

originally got this when i was 9 years old. One of the best comic collections to come from the weekend newspaper. Its nice to put it back on my bookshelf.

It is all about imagination, you need to come in to this book !

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This is such a cute book, and would make a great present for any kids 12 and above as well as adults. I got this book for my daughter, and read the whole thing as soo'n as I got it out of the package. Very cute and funny, but all information on book is good positive words and not any bad or ugly information we normally see in most books or movies in this day in age. Is you like comic reads this is one for you. After writing this review I will probably read it again.