The Mysteries

A fun little story co-authored by by Bill Watterson, the man who made Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, a master caricaturist.

Maybe it’s because I am a young person who grew up with climate change being a well-discussed point, but it seemed quite late-to-the-game. It’s incredibly hard to capture deep nuance in the format of nearly-a-children’s book, so I don’t blame him for that. But the message was already not very potent on account of the format, and the timing—published in 2024—only makes it rougher.

The last two lines of the book “went hard”, as the youth say.