Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons

he has an exceptional gift to capture both childhood and parenthood so perfectly. plus friendship, and you have this nearly perfect collection. loved this. (4.25 stars)

from august 2019:
this was fantastic, just what i needed right now. the world is trash and i wanted something light and funny to take my mind off it. i hadn't read these comics since i was probably in high school and they were different than i remember. much more imaginative and also grown up than i'd remembered. both in the words that are often used and also in the stories about parenting a wild and creative child. i didn't remember any comics about parenting, but those certainly landed now since our guy is the same age as calvin, and in some ways just as willful and show more energetic. i do wish he had toned down the "boys hate girls" theme that came and went throughout, but otherwise this was great. the drawings are simple (seemingly) but convey a full range of emotions and experience.

so it was a little less fun and escapist than i expected, but very good and insightful, and funny. probably i should read more of these now. (4 stars) show less

Calvin is the weirdest little kid, since he seems to enjoy winter as much as the rest of us enjoyed summer break. His priorities are all about nailing Susie with as many slushballs as possible, getting away with being a bad boy and still being on Santa’s “good list,” and building an army of deranged snowmen - which is the opposite of what I wanted to do during winter as a child (sipping hot cocoa by the fire with a good book, if you must know). He sure seems to have a lot of fun with it, even if it causes him some philosophical problems (can one get away with being bad, since Santa can’t possibly be able to monitor all children at all times) and gets him into major trouble with his parents. If we can learn anything from show more Calvin’s high-jinx, it’s that if you’re going to build snowgoons, make sure that your imagination isn’t quite so vivid that you hallucinate that they’re really coming to life and therefore have to stay up all night icing them into submission! show less

this was fantastic, just what i needed right now. the world is trash and i wanted something light and funny to take my mind off it. i hadn't read these comics since i was probably in high school and they were different than i remember. much more imaginative and also grown up than i'd remembered. both in the words that are often used and also in the stories about parenting a wild and creative child. i didn't remember any comics about parenting, but those certainly landed now since our guy is the same age as calvin, and in some ways just as willful and energetic. i do wish he had toned down the "boys hate girls" theme that came and went throughout, but otherwise this was great. the drawings are simple (seemingly) but convey a full range show more of emotions and experience.

so it was a little less fun and escapist than i expected, but very good and insightful, and funny. probably i should read more of these now. show less

This collection has some of the very best Calvin and Hobbes cartoons ever published. Among them are personal favorites, one of which hung on my door for years. Who can forget Calvin's discovery of an odd bone fragment from which he reconstructs the ferocious Calvinosaurus (and his dreams of fame, fortune, and revenge). Ah, and the mutant snow goons themselves. It's not often you read cartoons that are truly laugh-out-loud funny. These are hilarious, and the collection gets my highest rating.

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Title: Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
Series: Calvin and Hobbes #7
Author/Artist: Bill Watterson
Rating: 4 of 5 Stars
Genre: Comics
Pages: 128
Format: Kindle digital scan


My Thoughts:

Another fine collection by Watterson. I found myself laughing a lot more in this collection than in the previous one. I don't know if that is because this was truly funnier, or if it was because more time had elapsed since my last C&H show more read.

I've got a few more collections left. Once I'm done with those, I don't know that I'll ever plan on re-reading these. As a teen, C&H enthralled me. As an adult, they're amusing me. I suspect that as a mature adult, they will come across as tedious or shallow. I don't want that and I'd rather never read them again and keep the good memories.

Finally, is that title a mouthful or what? I had to go to Wikipedia and just search out Calvin and Hobbes and then copy/paste the title or else I would have gotten it wrong. show less

Includes quite a few comics of Calvin's crazy snowmen and other winter adventures. One of the later collections, where Waterson's art is most imaginative and original. Even funnier now that we are parents to 3 five-year-olds!

Raccolta di strisce e di tavole domenicali, prima di leggerlo pensavo fossero tutte correlate all'inverno (un po' come quelle a tema di Charlie Brown), invece sono un misto di tutte le stagioni e di tutti i temi, mostri di neve, biciclette killer, viaggi nella preistoria e nel futuro etc...
Calvin è un bambino dotato di una fantasia sfrenata mentre Hobbes la sua tigre di peluche; sono vignette comiche, riflessive, quasi filosofiche, da leggere insomma.