A review by greenweasel11
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection by Bill Watterson
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.)