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Summary: Norman Bates Has Nothing On This Tiger
Review: "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat" takes us back to a time in our lives when the only thing we had to worry about was watching cartoons on Saturday mornings, how many pennies we had in our piggy banks, and whether or not our stuffed tiger was waiting around the corner to pounce on us.Okay, so that last worry really belongs to six-year old Calvin. His best friend, Hobbes, the aforementioned stuffed tiger that comes to life when only Calvin is around, proves the old axiom "you can take the tiger out of the jungle but you can't take the jungle out of the tiger." Don't look now, but I think Hobbes is about to pounce on poor Calvin once again. This book is a collection of daily and Sunday "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strips from the early 90s. It proves, and reminds us, of just how much we miss this strip in our lives each day. Most "Calvin and Hobbes" fans believe that Bill Watterson ended the strip well before its time. But both Calvin and Hobbes will live on forever through the various collection books like this oen.
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Summary: A great comic for fans of Calvin and Hobbes
Review: Bill Waterson is argudably one of the best comic writers out there. Even through his retirement, he has made great books of past comics featuring his Calvin and Hobbes characters. I laugh and laugh at these comics he creates and I sometimes wonder how he comes up with such brilliant ideas sometimes with the storylines of some of the strips. Calvin, one of his best known characters, is the trouble-making kid in the school. He is funny and imaginative and likes to make funa and games with his "real" pet friend Hobbes. Through the comics, you can see the relationship between a stuffed animal and a human. In this comic though, Hobbes "comes to life" in Calvins eyes. The things that Calvin can sometimes get involved in is so hilarious and sometimes out of this world. I guarantee that anyone that loves comics will fall in love with this one and should definitely buy this book to start their collection of classic comics. All of Bill Waterson's comic books are very well done and very professional. His work is his life and it shows the time and consideration it took to make these characters come to life. Thank you Mr. Waterson for creating such a great comic and thatnk you people for reading my review!
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Summary: THIS BOOK RULES!
Review: Bill Waterson Is the best writer ever. this Calvin and Hobbes book rocks. It has every thing from Calvin ball to Stupendus Man. I strongly recomend this book to all Calvin and Hobbes lovers.
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Summary: One of the last great newspaper comics...
Review: Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes seems to be one of the last of the great newspaper strip panel comics. It's hilarious while also being insightful, poignant, and bitingly satirical. As most readers know, since Watterson has written it elsewhere, Calvin is named after John Calvin "a sixteenth century theologian who beleived in predestination". Hobbes also has a famous historical namesake in Thomas Hobbes, the seventeeth century author of "Leviathan" whose most famous saying is that life in a state of nature would be "Nasty, brutish, and short". From such a foundation, readers can expect more than a wacky strip full of slapstick, puns and sitcom-type pet or baby humor. There is much more, because Calvin and Hobbes, like all of the great comic strips, has depth. Reading just a handful of strips reveals this. This collection from 1994 includes a great satire on conceptual art (Calvin tries to sell Hobbes a landscape in a Sunday strip); a great satire on corporate philosophy (Calvin ends up telling his mother that he needs to be subsidized); Hobbes sends Calvin anonymous insults in the mail ("Most people have secret admirers, you have a secret detractor"); "Stupendous Man" invades Calvin's class to take an exam in Calvin's place (he still flunks); one of the best is a single panel strip in which Calvin asks his parents "What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?"; There are also loads of Watterson's great Sunday strips. Watterson is definitely one of the last cartoonist artists that fully appreciated the boundaries (or lack of them) of the color Sunday strip. Calvin's imagined dinosaurs, aliens, parodies of "Judge Parker" type strips, and multicolor tiger battles are amazing works of cartoon art. It's difficult to find anything that even comes close on today's incredibly shrinking Sunday comics page. Bill Watterson remains heavily elusive. What has he been doing since he voluntarily quit Calvin and Hobbes? Internet searches (at least cursory ones) don't elucidate much (one mentions that he is an intensely private individual - no doubt). Hopefully he's planning another amazing strip. Whether we hear from him again or not, in the end, we can be happy that he took up cartoonist's pen and graced the newspapers with at least one more great strip.
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Summary: Calvin! Where are your friends?!
Review: Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes, take us on another ride into the world of imaginary friendship and fun children at his age seem to create for themselves. With doubting parents such as his, who'd blame him. Still a very funny creation by Bill Watterson that is still running in sydication throughout the world's newspapers today.
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Summary: Calvin! Where are your friends?!
Review: Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes, take us on another ride into the world of imaginary friendship and fun children at his age seem to create for themselves. With doubting parents such as his, who'd blame him. Still a very funny creation by Bill Watterson that is still running in sydication throughout the world's newspapers today.
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Summary: Calvin and Hobbes- five stars
Review: Calvin and Hobbes are two of the most hysterical dynamic duo I have seen. The two, a tiger(Hobbes) and 6 year-old superhero(Calvin aka Spaceman Spiff or Stupendous Man) put together a hilarios story, fighting ways of unspeakable evil such as early bedtimes, resricted TV access, "Mom Lady"(Stupendoes Man's archnemisis), baby sitters, and baths, these two are so funny you will never be able to put the book down.
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Summary: The Greatest!
Review: Calvin and Hobbes is the very best. There funny smart. Bill Watterson is a genius, he realy shows the characters there dark sides and there lite sides. This Book I like because of its title. Also the cartoons. I wrap this review up by saying READ IT!
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Summary: Very funny!
Review: Calvin, the kid that seems to represent every kid and Hobbes a fragment of his imagination. Well, their at their best in this book and I encourage you to read it. And buy it from AMAZON.COM
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Summary: More C&H 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. This book has more encounters with Mrs. Wormwood, when Stupendous Man saves the day. More snowman fun and more snowballs against Susie. Students in particular will like this book since it has many creative ideas for dealing with homework. 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. "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat" belongs to the regular series and was published in 1994.
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