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Here is the second gathering of ``Calvin and Hobbes,'' the brightest new syndicated comic strip since ``Bloom County.'' Calvin is a very sharp, smart-mouthed little boy who spends lots of his time in fantasy adventures or just plain play with Hobbes, who's a stuffed tiger whenever other people are around but metamorphoses into a kind of big brother when they're not. In his introduction, prizewinning political cartoonist Pat Oliphant likens Watterson's strip to ``Krazy Kat'' and ``Pogo,'' but that seems way off base. What it is is an up-to-the-minute ``Dennis the Menace'' with a healthy injection of Charles Schultz-like sophistication. That it appeals to both adults and children and to those put off by the political and social criticism of ``Bloom County'' and ``Doonesbury'' bespeaks how firmly Watterson has his finger on the American pulse. RO. 741.5 Cartoons and comics [OCLC] 87-73254