Mascot Zodiac: the animals inside us that let us be more than ourselves

From the panels shown above, it looks good. I love the little toy alligator (or is it a crocodile?); it reminds me of Albert the Alligator from the old Pogo comic strip. But the first thing I thought of when I saw the panels was “Calvin and Hobbes”, not that “C&H” has the monopoly on children dreaming up cruel revenge on their parents for giving them nasty food, or on them dreaming up anything else, for that matter.