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...cartoonist who craves Calvin and Hobbes but knows that all strips must one day fall flat, I worry that Watterson will start creating a series of new personas for Calvin without improving either the presentation of those characters or the psychological depth of Calvin. Yukon Ho! focuses on the presentation more than showing a more human side to Calvin, but the approach is still fresh...
...last year, Calvin has invented his Stupendous Man persona, and Watterson has manipulated it to begin showing us Life With Calvin from non-Calvin eyes...
...strip we see Calvin's father reading quietly, when Calvin runs into the room, deflects an imaginary bullet off his chest near his dad and then runs off again. The strip is done with only four words and with the father's viewpoint in mind, and it succeeds...
...Sunday strip, Calvin is a God who condemns humans to the under-world in a stark series of panels, and in the last we are jolted back to comic strip form to hear his father say, "Have you seen how absorbed Calvin is with those tinkertoys? He's creating whole worlds over there...
...book is full of such leaps from the cosmos to suburbia and back again. Watterson's watercolor treatment of Calvin's alternate realities is striking in the Sunday comics sections of America, but, unfortunately, Yukon Ho! has no color. Instead of a blue insect head, we get a shade of grey. Instead of a rainbow of colored clothes pouncing on Calvin one morning, we see a few black and white objects flying at him. The strips are still funny, but they lose much of their artistry. No comic strip in the last 20 years has used color so well...