I wasn’t one for comic books when I was a kid, but I loved to stay home “sick” and read “Calvin & Hobbes.”
Many of the metaphysical dialogues were over my head, but I loved the simpler plotlines that featured spiky-haired Calvin and his sarcastic stuffed tiger mouthing off to teachers, dumping buckets of water on his mother and pelting neighborhood children with “slushballs.”

Now that I’m older, the comics are even better.