THE WORLDS attachment to Calvin and Hobbes, and the connection to its creator, remains strong and passionate nearly two decades after Bill Watterson took his boy and his tiger and went home, leaving the comics page ever since till this week.
Combine that with how cleverly Watterson and Stephan Pastis orchestrated the long-retired cartoonists return to the comics this week as an unannounced artist for three days within Pastis strip Pearls Before Swine and this officially became an event within the entertainment world.