I read Bill Watterson's comic strip series Calvin and Hobbes and it brought back a lot of memories. I remembered reading Calvin and Hobbes sporadically when I was in elementary school and while I don't remember anything from the strip I somehow still feel nostalgic when rereading years later.
When reading the strip it's easy to get really into and the next thing you know you end up reading the entire pdf file during your one of your classes. It's strangely addictive and calming in a way. It relives old childhood memories of when most of us would humanize our toys and go on adventures on our backyard, and explore our imagination without inhibition in the way. But despite all this I do feel like this is a comic more aimed at adult rather than kids. While both demographics can certainly enjoy it on a surface level, I feel like adults would get the most out of it since much of the humor would go over little children's heads, and it taps in on nostalgia, something that would deeply resonate with grown up who looks back on their childhood with rose-tinted glasses. Throughout the series Calvin is constantly told how easy his life and how as a 6 year old he doesn't have problem like his parents does, and honestly he doesn't. He lives a very care free life with little things in his way.
The humor of strip is mostly dialogue driven humor but does occasionally have a shift in tone from the usual antics such as when Calvin asks Hobbes about the existence of god. Reading it now as an adult I feel like it resonate with me more than when I was Calvin's age.
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