Everybody should experience Calvin & Hobbes.

In short (or long, wow I didn't intend to write this much), this book is well worth picking up.

Nothing makes comics more meaningful than receiving some insight from the mind of the person that conceived it. Many strips also have a line or two of writer commentary which I love. The strips are fantastic, the stories remind me of myself and of ways that I wished I had been when I was younger. Again I was unable to get up until I read it cover to cover. Once I finished my last movie, I went into my room, remembered my purchase and sat down to flip through it. Imitating my young self, I left it on my bed, and proceeded to watch movies all day. Solidifying the bookseller's decision to have an impulse rack, (darn you!) I bought the book and went on my way. On my way out, I noticed the Tenth Anniversary book sitting on an impulse rack. I browsed for about ten minutes before sighing and resigning myself to going home empty-handed. The spot for it was empty, so here I was with ten dollars to spend and no book to spend it on. I was at my local bookstore, hoping to acquire a copy of Empire Magazine. I guess my real love of this comic didn't become apparent to me until earlier today. I won't say that I was forever changed, but I'm pretty sure I went outside and started acting like a dinosaur right after. First I skipped ahead to every colored 'sunday comic.' After exhausting the supply, I went back and read it cover to cover. It sat neatly on my bookshelf for a couple months, then on a summer day when I was too lazy to go pretend I was a knight (or a robot, or a jedi) I sat in my little nook in the house and started to read it. Noting a chance for something in common (I was a socially awkward kid) I begged my parents for it, saying that 'I always wanted this book!' When I looked at the inside cover, I saw that the previous owner's name was the same as a friend of mine. Show More thereabouts, and I really just picked it up because I was a bored little kid waiting for his parents.

Calvin and hobbes 10th anniversary book