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