Rating: Summary: Deep fun! Review: Fans of Calvin & Hobbes who used to read the newspaper strip in the 80s and 90s will find great pleasure in reading this collection of C&H comics. These witty comics about the 6-year old Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes, named after the famous philosophers, will amuse people of all ages. The perceptiveness and humor of Watterson deserve the highest of cartoon awards, while his artistic creations exude hilarity. This cartoon is perhaps one of the most piercing yet funny critiques of modern society.More daydreams and more weird inventions from the wide imagination of Calvin. Contains all the usual characters, but more elaborate and more philosophical strips. Note that there are two series of C&H collections: individual wide-format albums, each covering an entire year of strips (will call it "regular"), and the vertical aspect ratio "treasury series" which covers selected comics from two regular C&H books. Note that C&H ran for a year in newspapers, so there's 10 regular books and 5 treasury books. Though the cartoons are slightly smaller in the treasury collection, each treasury book is far thicker and contains more strips than a regular book, and is furthermore less expensive, so treasury books are a real bargain. "There's Treasure Everywhere" belongs to the regular series and was published in 1996.
Rating: Summary: Deep fun! Review: Fans of Calvin & Hobbes who used to read the newspaper strip in the 80s and 90s will find great pleasure in reading this collection of C&H comics. These witty comics about the 6-year old Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes, named after the famous philosophers, will amuse people of all ages. The perceptiveness and humor of Watterson deserve the highest of cartoon awards, while his artistic creations exude hilarity. This cartoon is perhaps one of the most piercing yet funny critiques of modern society. More daydreams and more weird inventions from the wide imagination of Calvin. Contains all the usual characters, but more elaborate and more philosophical strips. Note that there are two series of C&H collections: individual wide-format albums, each covering an entire year of strips (will call it "regular"), and the vertical aspect ratio "treasury series" which covers selected comics from two regular C&H books. Note that C&H ran for a year in newspapers, so there's 10 regular books and 5 treasury books. Though the cartoons are slightly smaller in the treasury collection, each treasury book is far thicker and contains more strips than a regular book, and is furthermore less expensive, so treasury books are a real bargain. "There's Treasure Everywhere" belongs to the regular series and was published in 1996.
Rating: Summary: A Masterpiece Review: Five Stars (If I could, I'd give it more). That is the rating I would give to ANY Calvin and Hobbes book. This comic is most unlike any comic I, and most likely you, have ever read. It focuses around a six-year-old boy, who epitomises our worst side and yet has a astonihing vocabulary for a small child, and is best friend, a stuffed tiger. The way this strip is most obviously different then all others is the way Bill Watterson uses his comic strip to express, and critisize, moral issues and human nature while still retaining an impeccable sence of raw comedy, with several strips that are just plain silly. Very few cartoonist have this rare sence of humor and that shows itself throughout all his work esspecally this book. So whether Clavin is succking-up to Santa, pondering philosophy, or just riddiculing- well, everyone, Calvin and Hobbes is the perfect gift for showing the more comical side of the child in themselves.
Rating: Summary: Review of: There's Treasure Everywhere by Bill Watterson Review: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!! (gasp) It's FUNNY!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!!!...
Rating: Summary: Very inteligentely published, very bright idea with a voice. Review: I enjoyed this book and believe it the best Calvin and Hobbes
book ever! I have all of his books.
Rating: Summary: Absolutely wonderful Review: I finished reading this at three in the morning last night. Hilarious insights into human nature. Great visual humor with Calvin's snowmen. Poignant commentary on culture and society. And Tyrannosaurs in F-14s. Can't beat that!
Rating: Summary: Derseves more than a 5! Review: I loved Calvin and Hobbes when i was a little kid and I still do now! They're hillarious and Calvin reminds me so much of myself at his age (not in every aspect). Especially our family camp trips. calvin and his mom remind me so much of myself and my mom when our dad took us camping and it turned out to be a disaster, lol. These cartoons make me want to be a kid again. Almost everyone has said this but I'll say it again. You'll start out planning to read a few pages but you won't stop there. you can't. it's so additive. some of the younger kids might not understand some of the big words but older kids will. But I think that grownups will enjoy them the most. With the purchase of this collection all the sunday comics are colored! Get them all!
Rating: Summary: A comic treasure Review: I never thought that I'd have the urge to read a comic book from cover to cover in one sitting, but this book makes me do just that every time I pick it up. Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes is a simply wonderfully hilarious comic, and it is a shame that no new strips will ever be drawn. This book, the final "goodbye" for Watterson's delightful characters, will make you laugh out loud.
Rating: Summary: GREAT BOOK Review: I read almost all of Calvin and Hobbies collection. And I bring some of them wherever I go. And I will read it again and again. I love them all. I'm waiting for the new C&H from Mr. Watterson
Rating: Summary: My favorite Calvin and Hobbes book! Review: I reccomend, on page 95, i think, Calvin's prank call to the library! My favorite Calvin and Hobbes strip EVER!
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