Reviews
funny marketing on this omni when it only collects the third and fourth collection. for a long time I thought this was a "best of" collection from all the strips!
hobbes, susie, and calvin's dad become more delineated characters now as the strip is hitting its stride, adding a lot of color to the set ups and pay offs. watterson's art is even more ridiculous and detailed—his super accurate, highly detailed EC comics style pastiches on his sunday strips make me stop and stare each time. I definitely find myself thinking about the strips where watterson refers to other comics, or how people use comics, or what a comic is supposed to do, because he is really speaking from the heart.
reading this again is very nostalgic, my late grandma got me this as a graduation present. which is kind of a powerful idea, as calvin is in this transitionary state between knowing a bunch of crap (childhood) and internalizing the limits of that crap (adulthood). I was also in that boundary, and probably was for a long time after reading this, again.
she must have saw me reading my torn up and shredded paperback version, worn from comfort reading and getting beat up in my backpack, so she got me a new, hardcover version. that sounds just like her.
