The Complete Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson Every Calvin and Hobbes strip, beginning to end. It’s the likability of Peanuts with the humor of Dennis the Menace. I’ll never know how Bill Watterson came up with so many unique strips using only four characters — one of which is imaginary (or is he?). Peanuts added and dropped new faces all the time and Dennis the Menace was only one panel. When I was younger, I got my fix of C & H collections in the library, but reading them in chronological order, you can see the scatters and misfires in the beginning, the peaks in the middle, and the…
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Analyzing the Disney Villains: The Queen of Hearts (Alice in Wonderland)
THE QUEEN OF HEARTS Origin: Alice in Wonderland (1951) The Queen of Hearts is a comic villain. Not especially threatening and she gets minus points for only appearing at the end, but her personality makes up for it. Granted, it seems like everything in Wonderland is trying to kill Alice (floods, apathetic dodos, broom dogs, setting fire to a house she’s in), but the Queen of Hearts is an active participant in the manslaughter. Motivation: I have no idea. It’s so hard to find the motivation for anything in Wonderland. The only character with any real goal is the White Rabbit, and he achieves it by the time we get…
