Why Calvin and Hobbes still delights comics fans Bill Watterson s masterwork said goodbye 25 years ago, but its brilliance refuses to dim.
By Michael Cavna Washington Post February 3, 2021 2:17pm Text size Copy shortlink: A new year.a fresh, clean start! a joyous boy in red mittens said a quarter-century ago this week, shortly before soaring forth on the most famous sled in American arts this side of Citizen Kane. And just like that, the high-spirited 6-year-old and his best buddy were never seen again at least not in new images.
Yet the beloved duo have never really left us. Calvin and Hobbes, one of the greatest strips ever to grace newspapers, blazed across the pages for a beauti
Calvin and Hobbes said goodbye 25 years ago Here s why Bill Watterson s masterwork enchants us still
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suspect in this case tried to buy a type of ammunition at a phoenix gun show prior to the shooting called tracer bullets, essentially they re coated with a pyre tech nick charge that would have allowed the the suspect to see where his bullets were landing. the drawback of that is potentially police could have also seen where those bullets were landing and potentially located paddock much earlier. we are told by experts that you probably wouldn t use every bullet as a tracer bullet but perhaps every fifth bullet might have done it. he wasn t able to buy that ammunition just because they didn t have it in stock. his motive here is still very unclear, continues to frustrate investigators but what they have found inside of his room is a note. it says not a suicide note, though. it is not a man at the scene to. it has a series of numbers on it. the police are now having to analyze for any type of meaning or significance. they are also continuing to question his girlfriend, marilou
sources are telling us in recent weeks paddock did go to phoenix to a gun show and wanted to buy tracer bullets that allow you to identify your target. he was not able to purchase them. he did purchase a lot of other ammunition, however. our law enforcement analyst explains to us, our tracer bullet, especially under the cover of darkness would provide the accuracy. since he did not have it, he would be spraying into the darkness not knowing where he was going at all and the accuracy would not be there. we know two rounds hit a 43,000 gallon jet fuel tank that was 1,100 feet from where the concert venue was. it did damage the fuel tank and we obviously don t know if he was aiming toward that or if it just happened to spray with all of the other bullets. law enforcement is not at all publicly saying what they