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Summary: Possibly The Best in The Series
Review: This one book might actually be the best book in the series of Calvin and Hobbes. It's got just about all the characters from the rest of the series, and it's got comics that you won't find in any other Calvin and Hobbes book. Like all the books in the "Calvin and Hobbes" series, this book has hilarious jokes. The part that really gets people attatched to these books is the personalities of the characters. The way these characters do stupid things and just hang around attatches people to these books. All of this applies to "It's a Magical World." If not the best book in the series, this book is a great ending for the whole "Calvin and Hobbes" series. It is actually is one of the best books that ends a series that I have ever read.
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Summary: Everyone has a little Calvin in them
Review: I remember first becomming a Calvin and Hobbes fan back when I was about 9 or 10. Some 14 years later I've got the entire collection in a magazine holder in my bathroom.
Let's get past the point that Calvin and Hobbes is funny. Of course it is. What Watterson does that's so impactful is remind us everytime we look at a Calvin and Hobbes strip how we all have a little bit of Calvin in us. Whether it's our desire to make crude snow figures everytime we see a snow sculpture to dreaming of T-Rex's in F14's during a class, Calvin still lives on.
I loved how this book not only reminded me of first reading them in the Sunday paper, but Watterson's explinations underneath a lot of the strips explaining what he was thinking when he first wrote them.
Calvin and Hobbes will always stand the test of time. From laughing at the strips when you're 10, to laughing once again when you're 20 at the ones you didn't get when you were 10, Watterson will always be missed.
Opening the Sunday paper has never been the same since his retirement. Watterson proves how typical blocked in comics lose their appeal quickly, and every now and then circles and frameless pictures make things come alive.
I dream of the day when I have kids old enough to be introduced to a world of a small boy and his tiger friend.
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Summary: Best comic strip ever
Review: If you have never read Calvin and Hobbes you are a deprived person. Bill Waterson's imagination and twisted humor are endlessly creative. It seems like every single strip is good, and that's rare in comic strips. Really rare. It's genuinely funny material with deep philosophical undertones. If you like philosophy, twisted humor, and intellectual conversations between a six year old and a stuffed tiger, you'll love Calvin and Hobbes.
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Summary: Bittersweet
Review: IT'S A MAGICAL WORLD is one of the best Calvin and Hobbes treasuries, but unfortunately there's a sad quality to it because it's the very last one. There are a few cartoons in the book in which it is evident that Watterson was slowing down a bit, but there are so many more great ones that it would be unfair not to rate it five stars. Even if you've read each and every C&H cartoon numerous times (as I have), you won't ever tire of reading this book.
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Summary: Terrific
Review: An excellent final collection of Calvin and Hobbes fun, including the last, touching, comic.
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Summary: Great collection
Review: Of all of Waterson's collections this is a definate fave. The illistrations are all in color and they are all beautiful. Calvin and Hobbes was introduced to me by a friend and I ended up enjoying them more than him. Calvin and Hobbes was and will always be a part of my life that I enjoy. The simplicity of being a child and how we all could step back and revisit those times when playing in a sandbox could lead to a trip to Mars and back. I believe that the conflict between the rational and irrational minds is one of the best comedies of all time, but when all is said and done you will and can only go as far as your imagination will take you.
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Summary: LOOK! CALVIN COMICS!! IN A BOOK!!!
Review: Bill Watterson brings to the table what no other cartoonist can bring: a true artistic, not cartoon, ability. Take just about any Sunday funnies in this book, among others. You will usually see a mass array of panels. They appear to be just a jumble, yet are arranged so that you can easily follow while reading, coming together with a great punchline at the end, or a beautiful portrait of the forest that Calvin & Hobbes walk through, or, both.What strikes me funny about this strip, more than others, is the intelligent conversations of this otherwise typical six-year-old boy. Some of them I'll have to read a comic a few times over to get the conversation, much less the punchline. Something ELSE that strikes me is how much of Calvin's ethical conversations about just about anything make sense almost half a decade later. I'm sure it's make sense 10-15 years from now, too. That's what helps make this cartoon so timeless & classic. Its just too bad that Watterson had to end while at the top, It'd be much cooler if Calvin & Hobbes was still running today. You should simply just drop anything you're doing & get the book now. You just can't miss out on Calvin's magical world.
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Summary: Bill is magical
Review: A book for all ages, I recommend everybody to read and enjoy this masterpiece of modern comics. Heavy criticism on the way of life from an innocent little kid is the secret behind this immensely successful comic. But there is more innocence and creativity involved in the criticism, and less sarcasm. Now thats the spirit of a good cartoonist and it comes out beautifully in all the Calvin and Hobbes books.
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Summary: The End of an Icon
Review: Plain and simple, Bill Watterson is a genius. Calvin and Hobbes set such an incredible standard in quality for comic strips that when the final installment appeared some 7 years ago in the newspaper, I stopped reading the comics section. My bias is well deserved, for no other comic strip has been able to deliver such an extraordinary amount of entertainment whether it be through reliving the mischievious deeds of our youth or the particularly astute observations and critiques that are made about modern society. Calvin and Hobbes can be enjoyed on so many levels that this, and all the volumes, make an essential addition to anyone's library. It's been my source of laughter, my philosophy, and my security blanket all wrapped up in one incredible comic strip. I only wish Mr. Watterson had continued, since it's very clear that in reading this last installment Calvin and Hobbes gets only better and better. I guess when you reach the top, there's no place left to go.
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Summary: Strong 'til the end!!!!
Review: I love Calvin and Hobbes. Since I was still young when it vanished from newspapers, I was eager to snap up the entire 16 book collection. Now that I look through them (and if you looked through all of them you'd notice this, too) I realized that the strip never really diminished in any way. When Calvin and Hobbes appear in "It's a magical world" the strips are just as, or funnier, than those of previous books. This is one of reasons that I have so much respect for the creator Bill Watterson. Very few strips can carry on for awhile without losing some of their humor, art, or general things that make them fun to read and look at.
For 11 years Calvin and hobbes dominated the newspapers. Now I urge you to buy the book that has the final Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. It's worth the money.
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