I have to admit I was a wee bit sceptical at buying this collection because myself & my daughter have a big selection of Calvin & Hobbes collections, but at the reduced price I decided to get it.
The overall presentation is in a word, stunning. The hard cover collections are beautiful to look at, & the print is second to none, hard to explain, you have to see it. For some reason the colours look hand painted on some pages, & the black & white strips have never looked better, crisp, clean & sharp, for some reason they really catch your eye.
The only problem I have now, I am scared to read them in case I ever accidently damage them, & where do I hide them because my daughter wants to read them. An overall well produced book collection.
I did have a wee peak at the final strip ever written (they are all dated by ra way) & it was a very fitting ending to a consistently brilliant comic strip, and somewhere along the lines you may have seen a wee bit of yourself in the antics of Calvin.
Get rid of all those other books on your bookshelf (you will need to, it's huge), this looks better up there & is probably funnier too.