#its apparently been 28 years since Calvin and Hobbes

[headspacedad]

so

was no one going to tell me Bill Watterson had finally written a new book?

my sister found it in a bookstore yesterday and bought it for me. The first line of the short story felt like coming home and for some reason it almost made me cry with relief and loneliness and longing. It took me forever to turn the page because I was savoring it.

It's not Calvin and Hobbes and the art is by John Kascht and yet it is so very distinctly Bill Watterson that there was no mistaking the writing.

It was like catching a scent while walking through a place you've never been and yet recognizing it and immediately feeling young and imprinted with a memory you can't remember, only feel.

Especially the end.

Gang, after all this very long time, there's a new Bill Watterson book out. It's called The Mysteries. It is not Calvin and Hobbes. It is still very entirely Bill Watterson.