The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium Set 1

Grateful to a Tumblr post for giving me enough nostalgia to seek out a Calvin &Hobbes collection from my local library. I gather this is a two book set sold in a single case when not part of a library collection, but for my purposes it was two books chock full of marvelous comics. There's something to be said for multiple strip - what I guess would have been multiple day in newspapers - story lines. I like that while Calvin can be a pest, basically nobody lets him get away with it for long. The sheer volume of original imagination that Watterson channels through this kid. Hobbes is a treasure and Susie is necessary balance. The parents don't feel like bland stereotypes inserted just to be irritated either - reading these as an adult probably had me paying more attention to their POV. 😏  Hilarious and cheeky and then  sweet and touching, verging into profound before veering into ridiculous. I think I'll have to see how many other collections my library has, because this was such a lovely experience. ⚠️animal death