"It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... let's go exploring!"

New entry on the Reading Bingo:



For the "A Book Set In A Different Continent" square I chose Bill Watterson's The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, since I live in Europe and Calvin & Hobbes is set in North America (and random distant planets).

I first read Calvin & Hobbes a few years back, and fell in love with it instantly. It was an old torrent file of jpegs of all the strips, but the quality wasn't great, just what you'd find on go-comics. I'd been wanting to buy the complete collection for a while, and then a couple of weeks ago I watched Dear Mr Watterson and that convinced me to buy it. I'm so glad I did, because the quality is amazing: the colours are crisp and the strips are bigger than in the newspapers, and you can really see all the details. Plus there's a great intro by Mr Watterson himself, and the paper smells amazing. The sunday strips are worth the purchase alone, and it's truly complete, with the poems and illustrations from the books too. Not to mention I've had a bit of insomnia these past few days, and reading the strips under the covers helped a lot.

I've just finished the third volume, and I already want to start reading it all over again. It never gets old. I'm sitting here laughing just thinking of Hobbes saying "smock, smock, smock!". :D