”After being Calvin’s best friend for over a decade, Hobbes is packed away in a box, or tossed carelessly into a garbage bag, perhaps even stuffed under the same bed that once contained so many monsters. This is all, of course, very painful for Calvin, so much so that he represses it all in shame. Little does Calvin suspect that while he is busy growing up, deciding what “dinette set defines him as a person,” Hobbes is also maturing in the recesses of his mind, waiting to be unleashed at an appropriate time.
Galvin P. Chow, Fight Club: The Return of Hobbes