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This write up at progressiveboink ruined my childhood...or just totally cleared my mind. I have no idea what to think.

The Transmogrifier Story.

Ahhhhhh, The Transmogrifier. The Transmogrifier was composed of several strips, and was even made more efficient when held within the parameters of a squirt gun. This is my favorite Transmogrifier strip, because Calvin is adorable. This was also the strip where I realized that all Calvin and Hobbes strips were written in all-caps.
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I never realized this...what the hell?
 
I think I'm going to check out Calvin and Hobbes because of this thread.
Would you people say it holds up for an adult who has never read it before?

Also, wtf at the doctor claw action figure.
 
Danielsan said:
I think I'm going to check out Calvin and Hobbes because of this thread.
Would you people say it holds up for an adult who has never read it before?

Also, wtf at the doctor claw action figure.
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Calvin & Hobbes is the greatest comic strip ever written. If you don't like it, you have no soul.
 
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The second movie was good though.
 
Fuck me sideways I'm still freakin out about that fucking bird. That shit was photoshoped right? Please tell me it was photoshoped :'(
 
McLovin said:
Fuck me sideways I'm still freakin out about that fucking bird. That shit was photoshoped right? Please tell me it was photoshoped :'(
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I'm guessing it is very unlikely the neck would stay upright like that. The cervical vertebrae of birds have a high degree of articulation, about the same as most venomous snakes (but not as mush as python vertebrae, which are very highly articulate).

If you removed the muscle material around the neck, it would very likely go limp like a slinky spring.

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Danielsan said:
I think I'm going to check out Calvin and Hobbes because of this thread.
Would you people say it holds up for an adult who has never read it before?

Also, wtf at the doctor claw action figure.
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I would say that if this thread made anyone give C&H an honest chance, then it was worth seeing that Dr. Claw action figure. It's THAT good. My love for Calvin and Hobbes has absolutely nothing to do with nostalgia, and absolutely everything to do with it's incredible quality.
 
Bernbaum said:
I'm guessing it is very unlikely the neck would stay upright like that. The cervical vertebrae of birds have a high degree of articulation, about the same as most venomous snakes (but not as mush as python vertebrae, which are very highly articulate).

If you removed the muscle material around the neck, it would very likely go limp like a slinky spring.

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It just removed the skin.
 
McLovin said:
Fuck me sideways I'm still freakin out about that fucking bird. That shit was photoshoped right? Please tell me it was photoshoped :'(
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Birds are very skinny underneath all their feathers. It's not like the bird was mostly eaten or anything. just missing the feathers :-)
 
Bernbaum said:
I'm guessing it is very unlikely the neck would stay upright like that. The cervical vertebrae of birds have a high degree of articulation, about the same as most venomous snakes (but not as mush as python vertebrae, which are very highly articulate).

If you removed the muscle material around the neck, it would very likely go limp like a slinky spring.

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i think only the feathers and skin were removed.. it looks really skinny in comparison, because the feathers normally obscure the true thickness of the neck.


look how skinny this defeathered chicken's neck looks in comparison to a normal one:

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wenis said:
This write up at progressiveboink ruined my childhood...or just totally cleared my mind. I have no idea what to think.



I never realized this...what the hell?
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Almost all comic strips and comic books are written in all-caps. The exceptions are usually done by amateurs who don't know the conventions, or terrible things like Ziggy.
 
wenis said:
This write up at progressiveboink ruined my childhood...or just totally cleared my mind. I have no idea what to think.



I never realized this...what the hell?
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Actually, not all of Calvin and Hobbes were written in caps, the bully Moe's word balloons were written in lower case.
 
My favorite take on what happened after Calvin and Hobbes was this...

http://metaphilm.com/philm.php?id=29_0_2_0

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In the film Fight Club, the real name of the protagonist (Ed Norton’s character) is never revealed. Many believe the reason behind this anonymity is to give "Jack" more of an everyman quality. Do not be deceived. "Jack" is really Calvin from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. It’s true. Norton portrays the grown-up version of Calvin, while Brad Pitt plays his imaginary pal, Hobbes, reincarnated as Tyler Durden.

Part I: The Hobbes-Tyler Connection

Picture this: a hyper, self-absorbed child initially concocts an imaginary friend as the ideal playmate, to whom more realistic qualities soon become attributed. This phantasm becomes a completely separate personality, with his own likes, dislikes, and temperament—and the imaginer and the imagined clash and argue constantly, though remaining fast friends. This pattern continues to the point where the child begins to perceive what was originally mere fantasy to be reality.

Just as Calvin has an imaginary jungle-animal friend named Hobbes, whom everyone else believes to be nothing but a stuffed toy, "Jack" in Fight Club has an imaginary cool-guy friend named Tyler, whom no one but Jack can see.

In both cases, the entity that began as the ideal companion soon took on a more realistic, three-dimensional quality. In other words, they became real. This is evident in that both Hobbes and Tyler also began to function as scapegoats for their creators. For instance, consider that Calvin often blames broken lamps and other assorted household mischief on Hobbes, and that Jack is inclined to believe that Fight Club and other various anti-society mischief is brought about by Tyler, not himself. Calvin claims Hobbes pounces on him every day after school; Jack believes Tyler beats him up next to 40 kilotons of nitroglycerin in a parking garage—the list goes on and on. The relationships between the two sets of friends are the exact same. Is this mere coincidence?

Filling in the time-gap between Calvin and Jack, we can imagine the story as something like this: Once Calvin reaches the hostile environment known as the seventh grade, the constant teasing from the other students and the frustrated concern of his parents finally becomes too much, and a reluctant, disillusioned Calvin is finally forced to grow up, or at least begin to. This decision is sealed by one of the hardest things young Calvin will ever have to do in his life: un-imagine Hobbes, an act which to Calvin is essentially no different from murder. After being Calvin’s best friend for over a decade, Hobbes is packed away in a box, or tossed carelessly into a garbage bag, perhaps even stuffed under the same bed that once contained so many monsters. This is all, of course, very painful for Calvin, so much so that he represses it all in shame. Little does Calvin suspect that while he is busy growing up, deciding what "dinette set defines him as a person," Hobbes is also maturing in the recesses of his mind, waiting to be unleashed at an appropriate time.

It’s worth noting that during these twenty or so years, Hobbes never bears a grudge against Calvin nor wishes any ill upon him. Hobbes, remembering the depth of their past friendship, does not hate Calvin but rather hates the society that made Calvin put him away. Hobbes, residing in Calvin’s mind, sees and experiences all that Calvin does—and truly despises all of it. He witnesses a bright, superbly imaginative kid (with a genius-level vocabulary) reduced to nothing more than another nameless cog. Fighting off the tears wept for his conventionalized pal, Hobbes resolves to set Calvin free, paying special attention when Calvin idly looks up homemade-napalm recipes on the Internet.

Flash forward to the timeframe depicted in Fight Club. Calvin/Jack has reached an all-time low. He has done everything society has told him to do but is completely void of happiness. Hobbes, newly adjusted as "Tyler Durden" (after all, grown-up Calvin would no longer accept a jungle animal walking, talking, and eating canned tuna), re-enters Calvin/Jack’s life, determined to show Calvin everything he’s done wrong, whether he likes it or not.

Tyler to Jack: "I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I’m smart, capable, and most importantly, I’m free in all the ways you wish you could be."

Calvin has always idolized Hobbes. In Weirdos From Another Planet, he dresses up like a tiger and attempts to live in the woods. Like Hobbes, Tyler is cool, collected, and incredibly cerebral. Given this evidence, one can conclude that Tyler is Hobbes, reincarnated after being trapped inside Calvin/Jack’s brain for so many years. Just as Calvin is Jack, Hobbes is Tyler.

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wenis said:
This write up at progressiveboink ruined my childhood...or just totally cleared my mind. I have no idea what to think.



I never realized this...what the hell?
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all new paper comics are. In fact most comics are...
 
omg.kittens said:
Okay, this is the first reference that I don't get in this thread. Help?
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I want to ask you one question. If I had some nuts, hanging on the wall,
what would I have honey? I said, "Darlin, you'd have some walnuts!" She
said, "Well, Daddy, if I had some nuts on my chest would those be chestnuts?"
I said "Hell yeah." She said, "Well, Daddy, if I had some nuts on my chin
would those be chin nuts?" I said "Hell no bitch, you'd have a dick in your
mouth!
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Or in this case running up the said of your head...hope that helps
 
viciouskillersquirrel said:
The character is from the show Hey Arnold! and is the titular character's grandfather.
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Oh, okay, thanks. I was a little too old for that show when it came out, plus I never had cable, anyways.
 
omg.kittens said:
Oh, okay, thanks. I was a little too old for that show when it came out, plus I never had cable, anyways.
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I find it hard to believe you were ever too old for Hey Arnold! I think I was in high school when I watched it.

Can anyone tell me, aside from that one "date" they had when Helga pretended to be Arnold's French penpal Cecille, did those two ever get together?
 
viciouskillersquirrel said:
I find it hard to believe you were ever too old for Hey Arnold! I think I was in high school when I watched it.

Can anyone tell me, aside from that one "date" they had when Helga pretended to be Arnold's French penpal Cecille, did those two ever get together?
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Didn't the end of that movie suggest something between the two?
 
For anybody that's interested, they are re-running all the Calvin and Hobbes strips daily on www.CalvinandHobbes.com. Having one to (re)read each day is preferable in some ways to sitting down with a full book and knocking a bunch out at a time imo.

subzero9285 said:
I'm surprised know one has mentioned Vigo yet.

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Why would that ruin my childhood?
 
Monroeski said:
For anybody that's interested, they are re-running all the Calvin and Hobbes strips daily on www.CalvinandHobbes.com. Having one to (re)read each day is preferable in some ways to sitting down with a full book and knocking a bunch out at a time imo.


Why would that ruin my childhood?
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Maybe because he scared you shitless as a child in the same way Pennywise the clown did.
 
subzero9285 said:
Maybe because he scared you shitless as a child in the same way Pennywise the clown did.
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Ah. I guess I was just in "comics or remakes that ruin something about your childhood" mode, having moved out of the "holy shit scary" mode the OP suggested.
 
viciouskillersquirrel said:
The character is from the show Hey Arnold! and is the titular character's grandfather.
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Well, that shouldn't be surprising. Wasn't the main character's head shaped like a football?

Never did watch that show.
 
Shiggie said:
It just removed the skin.
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That bird had a "wtf am I gonna do now" look on its face.
Judging from all the replies it could go either way. I'm just gonna assume it was photoshoped so I can get some sleep tonight :lol
 
Dai Kaiju said:
Pic in OP needs more love. It's pretty incredible. Is it from something aside from some fucked up kids imagination?
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Its a twisted version of the Catbus stop scene in My Neighbor Totoro
 
Cyan said:
Calvin & Hobbes' awesomeness and massive popularity predate shitty internet memes by about a hundred years.

And while internet memes are short-lived one-offs of some dumb joke, C&H was an incredible ten-year run of sustained greatness.
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I still can't read it without getting emotional. It has a personal meaning to me, because I was that lonely kid with no friends in school who just wanted to be out among the natural things. And this is my favorite strip of his, it was so awe-inspiring to see it in the Sunday paper among all the other drab, lifeless cartoons:

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