If you've ever found yourself wanting to reread all the Calvin and Hobbes strips where he made horrifying, life-sized dioramas out of snowmen, or you itched to revisit the adventures of Spaceman Spiff, software engineer Michael "Bing" Yingling has you hooked up. He's created Calvin and Hobbes: The Search Engine.

After discovering a complete script (with both dialogue and panel descriptions) online, Yingling realized he could make it interact with GoComics' archive of Bill Watterson's beloved comic strip. So he did. The search tool currently only recognizes exact phrases, but users can also search by date.

To try it out, I searched for a few things and have included an example of each after the break below, but I can easily see spending hours on this.