Often the humor comes from the clash of Calvin's fantasies with the reality around him. Calvin assumes such alternate identities as sci-fi hero Spaceman Spiff, caped superhero Stupendous Man, and private eye Tracer Bullet. The Calvin and Hobbes stories are great because they are funny celebrations of the power of a child's imagination. Everything goes fine for a while, until his duplicate develops a crush on Suzie, making him look bad. His plan is to make his flawless duplicate do all of his homework and chores, while he himself gets all the credit. Last but not least, Calvin builds a human duplicating machine out of a cardboard box, and he makes a special copy of himself that represents everything good in him. Other story lines involve Calvin getting chicken pox his creation of his own TV show and his club known as GROSS (a warped acronym for "Get Rid Of Slimy girlS"). "Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons" refers to one of these story lines in which Calvin creates a mutant snow man which in turn creates an army of similar creatures. Calvin is an academic underachiever, rebel, performance artist, disgruntled philosopher, and all-around bringer of chaos-although his playmate/rival Susie refers to him as "the incurable weirdness poster child." Whether discovering a new dinosaur species (the "Calvinosaurus") or evading the dreaded monster under the bed, Calvin is hilarious.
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