tmawhir's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
FUN
katmystery's review against another edition
5.0
Beware! Beware! Beware, beware, beware!
Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
They've been planning attack for many moons!
Beware! Beware! Beware, beware, beware!
Calvin and Hobbes to the rescue
To hide and panic and defeat them, too!
Beware! Beware! Beware, beware, beware!
How do they defeat the monsters of snow?
The answer is unknown--oh no!
Beware! Beware! Beware, beware, beware!
The solution is just under their nose
Spray them with the hose!
Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
They've been planning attack for many moons!
Beware! Beware! Beware, beware, beware!
Calvin and Hobbes to the rescue
To hide and panic and defeat them, too!
Beware! Beware! Beware, beware, beware!
How do they defeat the monsters of snow?
The answer is unknown--oh no!
Beware! Beware! Beware, beware, beware!
The solution is just under their nose
Spray them with the hose!
raquel_reading_stuff's review against another edition
5.0
Yet another timeless Calvin and Hobbes treasury. This is my favorite cartoon/comic, and I love it. It is hilarious, creative, insightful, and appropriate for kids and amusing for adults. One would be missing out to not read at least one collection.
mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition
4.0
A bit of a mixed bag. I'm never a fan of Calvin being bratty and he's almost always being bratty. And Spaceman Spiff puts me to sleep. So mostly I like it when we see Calvin as a stuffed animal. Or anyone else is doing the talking. Or when Calvin is doing something visibly imaginative like making awesome creepy snow creatures. This volume didn't quite have the balance I was looking for, but a lot of it was good. 3.5 of 5.
ybel's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
jesthemess's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
greenweasel11's review against another edition
5.0
The strip just kept getting better. This, of course, is the last collection before the new Sunday format debuted, and really the beginning of the golden age of Calvin and Hobbes (which lasted until the very end).
After reading this book again, I am convinced that Calvin and Susie grow up to get married. ("Grow up to x"? That's a strange idiom, when you think about it. Sometimes I use idiomatic phrases and then worry that I'm using them wrong or making them up and other people will just think I'm stupid.) Obviously I'm not the first person to believe that, but I hadn't given it much thought until now. But the strip on page 42 where Hobbes convinces Calvin to reconsider Susie's invitation to the milk and cookie party really made me ponder it, and then, as others have pointed out elsewhere online, the fact that his "good" duplicate unironically writes Susie a love note seems to indicate something about how Calvin will discover he feels about her when he matures. Also I realized Susie is my favorite character. She's kind of cute as an adult in the strip on page 67. I agree with Hobbes in the last panel.
…Yes, I am giving this much thought to fictional characters from a comic strip whose run ended before I was born. It's important to me, OK?!?
This was the only Calvin and Hobbes book my parents owned when I was small, and for some reason they took it away from me for years and only allowed me to read Garfield and Little Lulu and comics about Scrooge McDuck etc. But I got my revenge by appropriating the book once I finally got to read it, and I will defend to the death my claim that it belongs to me now.
(1:49 a.m., Saturday 30 July 2022)
(I looked it up once and "a.m." was said to be the best way to write that abbreviation, but the Unix "date" command says "AM", as do many other sources, so maybe the article I read was less definitive and authoritative than I hoped it would be.)
After reading this book again, I am convinced that Calvin and Susie grow up to get married. ("Grow up to x"? That's a strange idiom, when you think about it. Sometimes I use idiomatic phrases and then worry that I'm using them wrong or making them up and other people will just think I'm stupid.) Obviously I'm not the first person to believe that, but I hadn't given it much thought until now. But the strip on page 42 where Hobbes convinces Calvin to reconsider Susie's invitation to the milk and cookie party really made me ponder it, and then, as others have pointed out elsewhere online, the fact that his "good" duplicate unironically writes Susie a love note seems to indicate something about how Calvin will discover he feels about her when he matures. Also I realized Susie is my favorite character. She's kind of cute as an adult in the strip on page 67. I agree with Hobbes in the last panel.
…Yes, I am giving this much thought to fictional characters from a comic strip whose run ended before I was born. It's important to me, OK?!?
This was the only Calvin and Hobbes book my parents owned when I was small, and for some reason they took it away from me for years and only allowed me to read Garfield and Little Lulu and comics about Scrooge McDuck etc. But I got my revenge by appropriating the book once I finally got to read it, and I will defend to the death my claim that it belongs to me now.
(1:49 a.m., Saturday 30 July 2022)
(I looked it up once and "a.m." was said to be the best way to write that abbreviation, but the Unix "date" command says "AM", as do many other sources, so maybe the article I read was less definitive and authoritative than I hoped it would be.)
bdesmond's review against another edition
5.0
After a short hiatus, I am back with more things that I love about Calvin and Hobbes. This time for the seventh collection of Watterson's beloved work.
I love:
- When Calvin gets chicken pox. Which of course, by constitutional right, grants him extra summer vacation time.
- When Watterson draws a weekly panel as one single panel, rather than the typical four.
- When the characters break the fourth wall.
- The bicycle wars.
- Calvinball! (and of course, modified baseball as well)
- Calvin and Hobbes' water balloon fights.
- The insane, ultra-perilous wagon rides and subsequent philosophizing. Which I'm sure I've mentioned before.
- The return of Club G.R.O.S.S., resulting in Hobbes' kidnapping.
- Calvin as the star of his own TV show.
- The snowman that Calvin brings to life, resulting of course in the eponymous deranged mutant killer monster snow goons.
- Two best friends meeting in their dreams.
- The return of Tracer Bullet, private eye.
- The modification of Calvin's duplicator. This time using an ethicator to ensure the duplication of only his good side. This goes as well as you'd imagine.
- And of course, Calvin the Bold. Who will hereby be referring to himself in the third person.
There is much to love in every volume. Number eight is next.
I love:
- When Calvin gets chicken pox. Which of course, by constitutional right, grants him extra summer vacation time.
- When Watterson draws a weekly panel as one single panel, rather than the typical four.
- When the characters break the fourth wall.
- The bicycle wars.
- Calvinball! (and of course, modified baseball as well)
- Calvin and Hobbes' water balloon fights.
- The insane, ultra-perilous wagon rides and subsequent philosophizing. Which I'm sure I've mentioned before.
- The return of Club G.R.O.S.S., resulting in Hobbes' kidnapping.
- Calvin as the star of his own TV show.
- The snowman that Calvin brings to life, resulting of course in the eponymous deranged mutant killer monster snow goons.
- Two best friends meeting in their dreams.
- The return of Tracer Bullet, private eye.
- The modification of Calvin's duplicator. This time using an ethicator to ensure the duplication of only his good side. This goes as well as you'd imagine.
- And of course, Calvin the Bold. Who will hereby be referring to himself in the third person.
There is much to love in every volume. Number eight is next.