Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes is an Adobe Air-based software application whose purpose is to help you view Calvin and Hobbes comic strips using straightforward actions.

The utility adopts a clean and plain design that doesn’t hide any complex and intricate configuration settings under its hood.

It doesn’t come packed with a help manual but you do not need one in order to decode the program’s dedicated parameters, as they are highly intuitive.

The application makes the reading process seem nothing more than a child’s play. It automatically loads the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips directly in the main window and implements quick control buttons for helping you jump to the next or previous page.

What’s more, you can create a list with your favorite pages and view them enumerated in a dedicated panel. In order to remove favorite items, you need to double-click on the target page.

We have tested the utility on Windows 8.1 Pro and it runs smoothly without displaying errors. It remains friendly on system resources, so the overall performance of the computer is not hampered.

There are some essential features that are not implemented in the program. Calvin and Hobbes doesn’t let you resize the main window (where the reading takes place) so you are basically stuck with the preset size, which is too small for visualising all the details and text in the comic strips.

A full screen reading mode is not supported. The utility does not organize comic data by books, chapters or other criteria. It simply lists some famous parts from the Calvin and Hobbes collection. You cannot import custom images from your computer.

Calvin and Hobbes delivers a simplistic software solution for reading some parts from the Calvin and Hobbes collection. However, it is quite poor in offering reading features, so several improvements are welcomed.