> Dang. I stand partially corrected. For the record, it's the second strip on page 12. Though in my defense, he's being very official and grandiose when he refers to himself. The entire quote is (and this just exemplifies Bill Watterson's way with words and poetry):
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True, but isnt he always? i guess he was embellishing it more than usual this time. That's another great thing about C&H, the poem things. like in 'the days are just packed' the story Calvin wrote about aliens sucking up our oceans and atmosphere, and when he's pretending he's a t-rex eating people downtown. They're well written and also funny, a great combination.

> Amazon.com lists three different versions of the book (hardcover, softcover and turtleback). Somebody want to tell me what turtleback is?

Out of curiosity, i searched yahoo for turtleback books, apparently its a book catalog for skools and libraries. I tried searching their site for 'The days are just packed' and found it, so Turtleback is just the name of a book distributor.