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Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" by Bill Watterson
Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" by Bill Watterson






Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" by Bill Watterson

This arc was reprinted in Scientific Progress Goes "Boink". So Calvin wrote 1,000,000,000 as the answer (when the real answer was 15, according to Susie, who happened to be right). He then "solved" the case by going to the archives and learning of an extremely suspicious "Mr.

  • Next, he was featured solving a case (math quiz), interrogating the "Derkins dame" (trying to copy off of Susie's paper), learning that Derkins had been "shut up for good" ( Susie didn't allow Calvin to cheat) and getting mugged on the way to a tavern (stopped by Miss Wormwood on the way to the water fountain).
  • This arc was reprinted in Something Under the Bed Is Drooling. However, he only appeared in 3/4 of one strip, and did not feature the usual format Calvin merely had a hat on.
  • Tracer Bullet's first appearance was in the story arc featuring Calvin's bad haircut.
  • Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" by Bill Watterson

    The actual storyline generally would progress through comments by Calvin or any associated characters, almost always in panels featuring the real world of Calvin, not the imagined world of Tracer Bullet. While Tracer Bullet's narration usually dominated the individual strips he appeared in, his monologues tended to only provide exposition or reflection on previous action. Cartoonists don't use black much anymore (the eye, being lazy, is attracted to empty white space, especially when the panels are so small), and we miss some dramatic possibilities that way." I'm not at all familiar with film noir or detective novels, so these are just spoofs on the clichés of the genre. " Tracer Bullet stories are extremely time-consuming to write, so I don't attempt them often. Tracer Bullet is a skilled marksman, and also claims "if business were as good as my aim, I would be on Easy Street". However, in his first introduction he claims business is poor, as he has "an office on 49th Street and a nasty relationship with multiple collection agencies".

    Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" by Bill Watterson Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" by Bill Watterson

    When Calvin was forced to wear a hat to cover his bad haircut, the alter-ego was born, and he would appear in a total of three story arcs. The character, a private investigator based on any number of film noir and detective novel clichés, makes his first appearance in a story arc in which Calvin gets a bowl haircut courtesy of Hobbes. He is one of Calvin's most prominent alter-egos. Tracer Bullet is a rarely-seen, though recurring, character in Calvin and Hobbes.








    Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" by Bill Watterson