{"id":435,"date":"2009-02-09T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=435"},"modified":"2009-10-13T16:14:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T20:14:51","slug":"why-my-bookshelf-is-cooler-than-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/09\/why-my-bookshelf-is-cooler-than-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"Why My Bookshelf is Cooler than Yours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Calvin &amp; Hobbes books\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/calvin_books.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;unless of course you&#8217;ve got these too.\u00a0 Then you&#8217;re in the cool kids club.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell 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This first one comes from the recent Superman\/Batman #75 and is by Brian Azzerello and Lee Bermejo.\u00a0 This comic strip is all over the internet, but I first found it on Forbidden Planet International.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Calvin and Hobbes&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Joker and Lex comic strip - Superman\/Batman #75 - Calvin and Hobbes","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/joker_lex.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":224,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/18\/calvin-and-hobbes-manga-style\/","url_meta":{"origin":435,"position":2},"title":"Calvin and Hobbes Manga-Style","date":"December 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some interesting manga-style interpretations of Calvin and Hobbes.\u00a0 The recent Charlie Brown Manga-Style post seemed to spark a lot of discussion, so I thought I'd do another on one of my all-time favorites.\u00a0 If you have any sense of humor or love for childhood, then Calvin and Hobbes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Calvin and Hobbes by ~loveariddle","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/calvin_hobbes2.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4328,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/05\/calvin-and-hobbes-inception\/","url_meta":{"origin":435,"position":3},"title":"Calvin and Hobbes Did Inception Years Ago","date":"October 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Just in case you're wondering, Calvin and Hobbes did Inception years ago.\u00a0 Christopher Nolan clearly ripped off Bill Watterson.\u00a0 Geez...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Calvin and Hobbes&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Calvin and Hobbes - Inception","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/calvinandhobbesinception.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2094,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/15\/dear-mr-watterson-a-thank-you-to-the-creator-of-calvin-and-hobbes\/","url_meta":{"origin":435,"position":4},"title":"Dear Mr. Watterson&#8230; A Thank You to the Creator of Calvin and Hobbes","date":"October 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear Mr. Watterson is a film project spearheaded by Joel Allen Schroeder.\u00a0 According to their website,\u00a0 \"Dear Mr. Watterson is a film that will look to the readers and fans of Calvin & Hobbes to tell the story of the strip and its creator. 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