Complete Calvin & Hobbes coming in 2005

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$200 Canadian!!! Jeeze Louise!!!

Yeah, will be waiting for some kind of deal on this baby. In the end the complete Peanuts set is going to run me quite a bit of cash but those come out twice a year and I can justify the small purchases in my mind.
Hmm....I'm very interested, but this is somewhat odd phrasing:

"this edition will include all Calvin and Hobbes cartoons that ever appeared in syndication."
Could that mean the aforementioned vomit and possibly some other strips would not appear? I'm assuming those strips were not syndicated. Or maybe I'm not understanding how 'syndicated' works with a comic strip; I'm thinking of a TV program being syndicated, like in reruns on other networks, sometimes they get edited or not every episode is shown.
Quote: $200 Canadian!!! Jeeze Louise!!!

Yeah, will be waiting for some kind of deal on this baby. In the end the complete Peanuts set is going to run me quite a bit of cash but those come out twice a year and I can justify the small purchases in my mind.
Wow!!! That's what I was thinking. I will wait until I see it on sale or some sort of deal.
I picked up the Far Side one through amazon with STL, and finally broke down and got their credit card for the $30 credit for a total of $20. I expect I will wait to work my mojo again.
With STL it comes to just over $85. Completely worth it, imo.
Syndication in newspaper strips means pretty much the same thing it does with TV programming, that the content is sold to individual entities.

So a syndicated newspaper strip is sold to individual newspapers, just as a syndicated television series is sold to individual stations. (Syndicated TV programs can be original material, like Star Trek: TNG, or they can reruns like X-Files.)
after thinking about it, even though i am sure that i want to pick this up, i am wondering how long i might wait to see if a deal like the current amazon far side pops up.
So, wait, this will NOT include some of Watson's additional comics provided for the Anthology sets? That's too bad because those poems and such were nice extras for fans.

Is he even involved in this because I would hope some Forward by him would be included in such a massive collection of his work.
Quote: I think it's the one -- originally published on January 8, 1992 -- in which Calvin vomits all over Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa. We all laughed when we read it in the paper that morning, but when President Bush did the same thing later that day, the strip seemed eerily prescient and strangely inappropriate. Within days, Waterson was lambasted by conservative commentators, who accused him of a liberal bias (either unaware or deliberately ignoring the fact that the strip was written and drawn weeks before the incident, and was even published before Bush's mishap). Ever one to shy away from publicity, let alone controversy, Waterson vowed never to reprint the strip, and so far, he's kept that vow.
you sure that was the date.
in the archicves of that series, that week he and hobbes were talking to a ouji board.
I'm pretty sure JasonF was pulling a Groucho there.
I wonder how much Sam's will sell it for? The Complete Far Side was around $80 I think at Sam's.
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Quote: If anyone wants to Share the Love you can try me at [email protected]
I'd take one too.

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There is no more Share the Love. Amazon phased it out last week.
The phased it out as soon as I asked.
Quote: I think it's the one -- originally published on January 8, 1992 -- in which Calvin vomits all over Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa. We all laughed when we read it in the paper that morning, but when President Bush did the same thing later that day, the strip seemed eerily prescient and strangely inappropriate. Within days, Waterson was lambasted by conservative commentators, who accused him of a liberal bias (either unaware or deliberately ignoring the fact that the strip was written and drawn weeks before the incident, and was even published before Bush's mishap). Ever one to shy away from publicity, let alone controversy, Waterson vowed never to reprint the strip, and so far, he's kept that vow.
I think that's made up. I don't ever recall Calvin visiting Japan.
You think?
I don't know if this is news, but it's up for pre-order on Amazon, as this handy little DVDTalk-ified link indicates:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...146612-2030429

Amazon's asking $94.50 for it with a release date of September 1, 2005.
Quote: So, wait, this will NOT include some of Watson's additional comics provided for the Anthology sets? That's too bad because those poems and such were nice extras for fans.

Is he even involved in this because I would hope some Forward by him would be included in such a massive collection of his work.
Digging about the net for more info on this I found a forum where a gent was asking the same question as I was. He wrote the publisher so, answering my own question here, here is his post:

I emailed Andrews McMeel and they said: "Yes, it includes an introduction original to this book and the stories that appeared in the extant Calvin and Hobbes treasuries." which was what "complete" means I suppose.
I'm sure CostCo will have this for even less than Amazon (just like they did for the Far Side set). And unless Amazon ships it in a wooden crate, it could very well get damaged in shipping.

btw, what a great ending:



Detailed Specifications
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Author: Bill Watterson
U.S.: $150.00
Canada: $200.00
ISBN-13: 978-0-7407-4847-9
ISBN-10: 0-7407-4847-5
UPC: 050837231467
EAN: 9780740748479
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Hardcover
Published: September 2005
Frontlist Title
Category: Humor
Discount: Sliding Scale
Territory: W
Trim Size: 12 X 10.5 in.
Page Count: 1440 pp
Product Weight: n/a
Physical Size: N/A
Case Quantity: 1
Case Weight: n/a
Case Dimensions: N/A
Publicity: • Free-standing metal display unit
• National advertising campaign
• National media campaign
• Online publicity
Wow. Just wow.
What was Costco's price on the Far Side? I'm thinking $60-75 IIRC.
Yeah, CostCo charged like $65 for the Far Side set (and they had A LOT, and kept it in stock for a while), so I'm guessing around $75 for the C&H set, which has a higher MSRP.
wow...the books look amazing. Will i be able to hold these without pulling a muscle?
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