From the Bookshelf: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

At Christmas, my parents gave me the boxed set of "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes." My brother also received the exact same set from them, and something about buying two copies of the somewhat pricy set struck me as somehow peculiar... but it does, of course, seem ungrateful to question a Christmas present, so I've tried to remind myself that one or the other of us don't have to visit the other just to view the complete Calvin and Hobbes. At the time that it was running, I suppose I was tempted to see it as "the comic strip for my time"... now that it's well in the past, revisiting all of it at once was an interestingly different experience.
( In which I may use enough comparisons to give something away about me... )