Calvin & Hobbes, The Leviathan

Our beloved Calvin & Hobbes are back with a vengeance (fortunately in a way that does not involve Calvin pissing) and their buddy Bill is along for the ride this time, too.

With Tuesday's release of "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes," Bill Watterson is "speaking" more than he has in years. That's because the 1,456-page collection includes a 13-page introduction by the reclusive cartoonist, whose wildly popular comic appeared in more than 2,400 newspapers at the end of its 1985-1996 run.

More on the boys' return from the Washington Post and Editor & Publisher (from whence the excerpt above comes). Reams of salience here. Immediate fix here. Read good words about liberty in Chapter 13 from Hobbes's The Leviathan here.

[Cross-posted at The Agitator. I'm off to check the tiger trap!]