The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

I don't know about you, but I am a giant fan of Calvin and Hobbes. Bill Watterson did a superb job in bringing Calvin, and his tiger buddy, Hobbes to life; I enjoyed reading each and every strip.

The Calvin and Hobbes comic strip ran for 10 wonderful years before Watterson retired. I'm sure I've read every strip at least a dozen times and never gotten enough. Calvin and Hobbes is original, creative, and most importantly, outright hilarious.

When the strip was discontinued in 1995, I was very dissapointed. I hated to think that I wouldn't be able to look forward to purchasing the next Calvin and Hobbes collection when it hit the shelves. At the time, it almost felt like a 'coming-of-age' event; a point in my life when it seemed appropriate to mature out of comic books and start my journey to adulthood.

I'm pretty good at a fair number of things, but 'growing up' has certainly not been one of them. Regardless of whatever aspirations of adulthood I may have felt in 1995, 10 years later my Calvin and Hobbes books still retain the most prized real-estate on my bookshelf. I still read them on a regular basis. The bottom line; my world would never be a better place without Calvin and Hobbes.

Reading the news two days ago, you can imagine my excitement when I learned that the entire Calvin and Hobbes strip, from start to finish, is going to be re-published as a new 3-volume collection. Could there be anything better?

Carrying the title "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", the collection weighs in at 28 pounds and features every Calvin and Hobbes strip ever published. As a long-time fan, this will make an irresistable addition to my collection. I can't wait to get my copy.