They are really awesome. I like the lengths he goes instead of just admiting he doesn't know.Nert said:I really enjoyed all of the bizarre explanations that Calvin's dad would give him (as well as the furious reactions from his mom when she was in earshot).
Kano On The Phone said:This thread is awesome, but please, please stop with this shit. Nonsense like this is like posting a phone camera picture of a great painting. Nothing can touch the heart and relevance of the comic itself, and everything even remotely referencing Calvin and Hobbes and not done by Bill Watterson is just completely trite and unnecessary and detracts from celebrating the comic.
This is a "here, this is my favorite Calvin and Hobbes comic" thread, not a "hey, I found something vaguely related to Calvin and Hobbes on StumbleUpon 2 years ago let me show you because I just have to have something to post" thread.
Plumbob said:There's no need to throw a fit. That picture is sweet, and it's a good tribute to the comic. If you don't like it, ignore it.
Yup, direct quote from the 10th anniversary anthology, which included such fantastic commentary on a lot of the strips and awesome history. Loved that book as a kid.Maron said:I kinda like the picture, but it's stuff like those "final" comics where Hobbes disappears after Calvin takes medicine that bother me. I think the reason for that is that I feel it goes against Watterson's intent with the character. I preferred his explanation of him saying that Calvin sees Hobbes one way and everyone else sees him another way. It just doesn't seem like anything Watterson would ever do with Calvin, so I guess thats why I dislike it (although I guess the same thing can be argued for the daughter picture too...)
The_Technomancer said:Yup, direct quote from the 10th anniversary anthology, which included such fantastic commentary on a lot of the strips and awesome history. Loved that book as a kid.
Chill out, they're meant as a joke.Maron said:I kinda like the picture, but it's stuff like those "final" comics where Hobbes disappears after Calvin takes medicine that bother me. I think the reason for that is that I feel it goes against Watterson's intent with the character. I preferred his explanation of him saying that Calvin sees Hobbes one way and everyone else sees him another way. It just doesn't seem like anything Watterson would ever do with Calvin, so I guess thats why I dislike it (although I guess the same thing can be argued for the daughter picture too...)
It's not Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin and Hobbes is in Watterson's voice and Watterson's art, especially since no merchandise or non-comic material was ever made with it.Plumbob said:There's no need to throw a fit. That picture is sweet, and it's a good tribute to the comic. If you don't like it, ignore it.
I started reading at that age, but bear in mind I've always adored reading anything period. I don't get how anyone couldn't love C&Hs, so go for it, and if it doesn't take just try again in a couple of years.ThLunarian said:So what would be the optimal age to start introducing Calvin and Hobbes to a kid? I don't have any kids of my own, but I have a godson who is 8 years old, and this thread inspired me to pick up a collection and let him read it. Do you think that's a decent age, or should I wait a little longer?
ThLunarian said:So what would be the optimal age to start introducing Calvin and Hobbes to a kid? I don't have any kids of my own, but I have a godson who is 8 years old, and this thread inspired me to pick up a collection and let him read it. Do you think that's a decent age, or should I wait a little longer?
I started reading them at age 6 or so, but I had to ask to have a lot of words explained to me. I still really liked them though. As I mentioned earlier in the thread though, sometimes I wonder how I even got some of them at that age...ThLunarian said:So what would be the optimal age to start introducing Calvin and Hobbes to a kid? I don't have any kids of my own, but I have a godson who is 8 years old, and this thread inspired me to pick up a collection and let him read it. Do you think that's a decent age, or should I wait a little longer?
I remember not understanding half of the comics when I was younger. Then I got the full collection and read through it all and I understood every single one.cooljeanius said:I started reading them at age 6 or so, but I had to ask to have a lot of words explained to me. I still really liked them though. As I mentioned earlier in the thread though, sometimes I wonder how I even got some of them at that age...
Kano On The Phone said:This thread is awesome, but please, please stop with this shit. Nonsense like this is like posting a phone camera picture of a great painting. Nothing can touch the heart and relevance of the comic itself, and everything even remotely referencing Calvin and Hobbes and not done by Bill Watterson is just completely trite and unnecessary and detracts from celebrating the comic.
This is a "here, this is my favorite Calvin and Hobbes comic" thread, not a "hey, I found something vaguely related to Calvin and Hobbes on StumbleUpon 2 years ago let me show you because I just have to have something to post" thread.
Salmonax said:I like this one.
drohne said:this was my favorite c+h strip as a kid, and it made 'it's psychosomatic, you need a lobotomy' my automatic response to anyone saying they were sick
Get him the Lazy Sunday Book.ThLunarian said:So what would be the optimal age to start introducing Calvin and Hobbes to a kid? I don't have any kids of my own, but I have a godson who is 8 years old, and this thread inspired me to pick up a collection and let him read it. Do you think that's a decent age, or should I wait a little longer?
In 2005, Gene Weingarten from The Washington Post was sent with a gift of a first edition Barnaby book as an incentive for Watterson's cooperation. He passed this, along with a message, to Watterson's parents and declared he would wait in the hotel for as long as it took Watterson to contact him. The next day, Watterson's editor Lee Salem called to tell him that the cartoonist would not be coming.
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nny said:Reading C & H takes me to such a cozy, warm place...it feels like home, somehow.
SenseiJinx said:I loved the beginning of one of the collections, can't remember which, that has a long poem about the monsters under Calvin's bed.
Oh, blood red eyes and tentacles!
Throbbing, pulsing ventricles!
Mucus oozing pores and frightful claws!
Worse in terms of outright scariness,
Are the suckers, multifarious,
That grab and force you in its mighty jaws.
Also, anybody remember the one where Calvin writes that story where he locks his dad in the basement, who subsequently has to live off mice and gruel for the rest of his life? So good.
Enron said:Pretty sure that's from "Something Under the Bed is Drooling"
Another reason why Calvin and Hobbes is such a joy to read, it has some awesome and lengthy story arcs:SenseiJinx said:EDIT: Oh, and I just remembered one of my favorites! Does anybody else remember the one where Calvin sells the earth to a couple of aliens for a leaf collection?