Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
The 6th collection, published in 1991. Starts out with another food poisoning incident on page 5.
G.R.O.S.S. meets in the treehouse on page 10, and we hear yet another verse of the "password". how long is that password anyway?
On page 11, Mom and Dad get ready to go out, and Rosalyn comes to baby sit. This is the one where Calvin steals Mom and Dad's shoes, trying to prevent them from leaving. Then he locks Rosalyn out of the house.
Stupendous Man! returns on pages 17 - 18. He uses a lens off the observatory telescope to direct the sun's light at the school, burning it up and leaving a smoldering crater where the school once was.
On page 23, Dad explains color and Black & White to Calvin. . . . Yeah, right.
From page 32 - 37 Calvin has a series of mishaps that prevent him from doing any homework. First his personal gravity is reversed. Then he inexplicably grows to cosmic proportions.
There's a nice Christmas Scene on page 48, with a poem.
More creative snowmen on pages 50 & 53!
On page 55, we see Calvin's duplicator, which used to be the Transmogrifier. This is the story that inspired the cover art. Calvin makes a duplicate of himself, and that duplicate makes more duplicates. It runs through page 62, and Calvin can't think of a lesson that he learned from it.
Tracer Bullet is back on pages 65 - 66. The case of Mr. Billion.
Back in the treehouse on page 81, for another meeting with G.R.O.S.S.
On page 87, Calvin finds out his parents are really bug-eyed aliens from Neptune.
Rosalyn is back on page 88 - 92. Stupendous Man! makes an appearance, and fools Rosalyn into searching for Calvin outside, while Calvin is really back inside with Hobbes.
On page 96, the baseball series begins. I get a real kick out of this story. Calvin's non-conformity rises to the occasion, Spaceman Spiff makes an appearance, and it all leads to the development of Calvin Ball on page 101.
On page 108, Calvin is attacked by his food again.
On page 110 is an accurate rendering of my childhood school memories. Yours too?
A two-page Spaceman Spiff adventure runs from page 111 - 112. Calvin escapes from school.
On page 113, Calvin & Hobbes play more Calvin Ball!
Stupendous Man rescues some cookies and perplexes Susie who wants to borrow an egg for her mom.
Calvin turns neo-cubist on page 120.
Calvin & Hobbes use the box for a time machine on pages 123 - 126. They journey back to the Jurassic period, and photograph the dinosaurs. Strangely, when the film is developed, the pictures appear to be of toy plastic dinosaurs.