Life After “Calvin and Hobbes”
www.newyorker.com
Bill Watterson’s return to print, after nearly three decades, comes in the form of a fable called “The Mysteries,” which shares with his famous comic strip a sense of enchantment.
  • thorbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    I pre-ordered “The Mysteries” and it was … something. I guess. It’s like a kids books for adults, with a nihilistic, cold message that left me uninspired. Strange to think that a cartoon tiger could observe the world in a more profound way than this book.

    • jve@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I just bought it… wondering if I should have got it from the library instead. Ah well.

        • rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social
          5·
          1 year ago

          Well dang, I pre-ordered it also, and it is sitting at my parent’s house. They (and my long dead grandpa Calvin) kept me supplied with anthologies as they came out and this was something I was looking forward to…

    • big_slap@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m sorry you felt empty at the end of the book. I liked the message at the end and took it as a reminder that life’s mysteries are what make life exciting.

        • big_slap@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          is that not freeing, in a way? all the mistakes I beat myself up over, in the end, will not matter. I find that to be kinda nice and it does give me some kind of peace.

          I guess I looked at the ending in a glass half full type of way, but you thinking it’s depressing is completely valid as well.

          • thorbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            I suppose it is, but as a nihilist and an atheist, I know this already. I guess I was expecting something different.