The other multiple, equally comical strips contained in this volume perfectly illustrate Calvin's ranting hyprocrisy, selfishness, and imagination. Sue me." to which Hobbes replies, "'Live and don't learn', that's us!", and though it is no less than what is to be expected of Calvin, it still drives me up the wall. The funny thing is, by the end, after the crisis is solved, Calvin states "Okay, so we didn't learn a lesson. It creates more duplicates, and each of these gets Calvin in trouble in turn. But the plan backfires, and the duplicate proves to be just as much of a lazy jerk as he is. He plans to use it to make a clone of himself that will be responsible for doing all the dirty work for him. Calvin remodels his old transmogrifier (really all he does is turn it on its side) into a duplicator. This book especially had me gripped because it contained one of my favorite 'card-board box' stories, which earned it the name 'Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"'. That's alot of meaningless adjectives, among many, to describe two of my favorite characters in the comic strip department. Together, the two make a whacky, noisy, messy, hilarious, unforgettable pair. Hobbes is a sarcastic, peace-loving, supportive, somewhat phsychotic stuffed tiger. Calvin is a hypocritical, imaginative, dim-whitted, self-centered, insensitive, brutish and rambunctious six-year-old.
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