Let’s be honest: most teenagers procrastinate. Most teens don’t, however, confront an eight-foot stuffed tiger prowling around their bedroom at one in the morning.On the novel’s very first page, however, Calvin blunders through both.Then again, 17-year-old Calvin doesn’t exactly conform to standard high schooler behavior --- he knows what your R cortex does, considers dead spiders a token of affection and thinks he’s the star of Calvin and Hobbes ..
Calvin is 17-years old and has been linked to Calvin and Hobbes from birth: he was born on the day the last strip was published, his grandpa left a stuffed tiger named Hobbes in his crib, and he even has a best friend named Susie. He looks and behaves like comic-strip-Calvin and played with his Hobbes until he fell apart in the washing machine. But now Calvin is falling apart. Susie has been pulling away by getting friendly with his bully and he's been falling behind in school..