While obviously American, it is also mildly regional and noticeably Midwestern.
Watterson was a genius not only of his own style, but also other styles of art his realism here is startling, in comparison to some of his other strips.Ī couple of strips betrayed something new to me on this reread: Watterson’s own dialect. Bun, to which Calvin furiously responds he didn’t want a baby, his posture and naked confusion are utterly identifiable and hilarious. When Calvin and Susie are playing house, and Susie pretends to bring home a baby, using Mr. I totally lost it while reading at least one script on this read-through. I’ve read this book an uncountable number of times, and yet I still find nuances I hadn’t gotten before, jokes I didn’t spot, and old retorts I can appreciate once again. Here we have the up and downs of winter, vengeance against Rosalyn the babysitter, a propeller beanie, unstoppable hiccups, another boring week of camping, a little incident with Calvin's parents' car, and a chilling break-in of the family's house.Calvin and Hobbes gets funnier as I get older. There are more adventures, and more significant discussions between the characters. Hobbes, wisely, tries to opt out of the operation.
The title of this book refers to the classic sequence of strips in which Calvin plots revenge on his "demonic" babysitter by kidnapping her homework and threatening to flush it down the toilet. This is the fifth installment of the "Calvin and Hobbes" series, and it just gets better every repeated reading.
"The Revenge of the Baby-Sat" offers such adventures as that in a funny and entertaining way. They're funny, creative, and are always getting into some sort of situation that could just about get them grounded for life. No matter how many times I read them, I can never get tired of Calvin and Hobbes.
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