“Figure 2 provides another example of how thought provoking Calvin and Hobbes can be. It clearly does not take an entire book to cause the reader to question his or her ideals. Calvin makes the point that Heaven is a place where one is supposed to be happy, but the conflict of how he defines happiness causes him to question Hobbes. A novel has the capacity to cause the reader to consider this exact same question, albeit through the use of language riddled with literary devices, double meanings, and pages of description and plot that are necessary due to the nature of what an academically significant novel is. Calvin and Hobbes provides a unique window through these simple rectangular panels that forces the reader to question how he or she defines their morals, ideals, and worldly perceptions. Great works of literature are written to invoke this type of response in the reader, and Calvin and Hobbes has caused even college professors to analyze the questions posed by the clever six year old (Beck n. pag.). Both the comic and the novel give the reader a new sense of understanding. Both are equally pertinent in the study of literature.”