I used to read Calvin and Hobbes when I was a kid; it always left you with the feeling that there was something slightly more under the surface. But of course, you were a kid, so you had no idea what it was. Instead you enthralled yourself with the adventures of Spaceman Spiff, laughed at Calvin’s gallery of twisted snowman displays, and wondered what horrible slop his mother was going to serve up for him that night. That was as deep as you needed to go.

Looking back now, there was certainly a lot more to that comic than what drew children to it. I never would have thought I would be seeing a 1400+ page hardcover edition of Calvin and Hobbes, but sure enough, here it is. Pretty cool, actually.