Scientific Progress Goes “Boink”
by Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel, 1991) [reprinted Sphere, 2007]
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The format is a little cramped (three dailies per page, Sunday strips in black-and-white). Watterson remains as creative as ever—the macabre snowmen!—yet the collection as a whole edges a bit too close to melancholy. What place imagination in this world?