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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: EskimoJoe on December 14, 2010, 08:12:20 PM
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Have any of you ever read the comic? I absolutely love C&H (Calvin and Hobbes, AS WELL AS Cyanide and Happiness).
Calvin and Hobbes is the only comic book I liked as a kid, still love it today. For those that don't know what it is, it's basically about 8 year old Calvin with a hyperactive imagination, and his various escapades with his best friend Hobbes (a stuffed tiger).
Also, I was looking for a thread to hi-jack with this picture(see below), but reasoned I'd be better off starting my own thread.
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yes high-jacking is just bad manners.....
so how about that new Panther Tank???? I hear its awesome!!!
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I would go to the library when I was younger and got every calvin and hobbes book they had, loved it.
-BigBOBCH
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Yes I liked it quite a bit.
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Own every book. Bloom County too. :aok
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Pfft
Asterix is where its at :banana:
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My cats name is Hobbes
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My cats name is Hobbes
Mine was too, but he was an outdoor cat.. Unfortunately, he didn't return one day, and we found him frozen solid in a ditch a few weeks later.
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used to buy these books at the school book fairs when i was a kid. was a sad day when watterson decided to hang it up.
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it's basically about 8 year old Calvin
i'm sorry to nitpick, but he's 6 :aok
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i'm sorry to nitpick, but he's 6 :aok
I wanted to say 6, but I wasn't sure and 8 sounded about right, considering some of the more philosophical things he says :)
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I stopped reading the Sunday paper when they took the Calvin comic strip out!
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Calvins great but Farside trumps him
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Calvins great but Farside trumps him
Completely different styles, though it is worth noting that Gary Larson was one of the very few cartoonists Bill Watterson held in high regard.
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Calvins great but Farside trumps him
+1 :aok
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I stopped reading the Sunday paper when they took the Calvin comic strip out!
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One line from Calvin I'll never forget.
"Mrs Wormwood, could we arrange our desks in a semi circle and have a discussion? Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism should be grounds for leniency in murder cases because it's less wasteful."
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One line from Calvin I'll never forget.
"Mrs Wormwood, could we arrange our desks in a semi circle and have a discussion? Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism should be grounds for leniency in murder cases because it's less wasteful."
lol
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My favorite Calvin and Hobbes Toon.
Calvins Mom sitting at the table writing checks. Calvin standing across from her wearing a football helmet
as well as having a bedroom pillow tied across his chest.
Caption: "Mom! We seem to be out of Dynamite!"
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Calvin Ball for the win
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How could you not like Calvin and Hobbes?
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C&H is unbeatable. The best. :D
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Hobbes: What are you doing?
Calvin: I made a crash test dummy, so I can see if the hill is safe to go down.
*Calvin pushes the snowman on the toboggan off
*Both look down at the snowman
Hobbes: Ugh, I think I'm going to be sick.
Calvin: Well I wouldn't have steered like that, he deserved it!
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http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/ (http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/) :)
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There was NOTHING like snowman season on Calvin and Hobbes....
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http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/ (http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/) :)
Thanks for the link! Definitely going to bookmark that one.
There was NOTHING like snowman season on Calvin and Hobbes....
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Agreed! Did a quick google search for C&H snowmen, absolutely hilarious. Great comics galore!
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Calvins great but Farside trumps him
different animal...but all things being equal, i disagree.
far was is good. very. but it lacked the depth of calvin and hobbes.
there has never been an equal in it's class.
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Absolutely, I have every book as well and would probably die without rereading them. So great.
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+1, I still read Calvin and Hobbes whenever I'm sitting around my house looking for things to do. One of my favorite C&H Books is probably Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat. :rock
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+1, I still read Calvin and Hobbes whenever I'm sitting around my house looking for things to do. One of my favorite C&H Books is probably Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat. :rock
Weirdos From Another Planet (Which has QUITE a bit of symbolism and references to human behavior, I might add). :)
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Weirdos From Another Planet (Which has QUITE a bit of symbolism and references to human behavior, I might add). :)
Watterson had a gift for subtly covering the fact that he is a very, very smart man.
First signal - the title of his strip. Calvin was a boy, and Hobbes a tiger - but consider that John Calvin believed that every tiny detail was predestined by God's plan and power, while Thomas Hobbes believed that all power should derive from the consent of the governed.
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My wife got me the big hardback book of Calvin and Hobbes from Barnes and Noble I think. Awsome!
The first time I ever saw C&H, Calvin was in some kind of fighter, Hobbes in back, ship on fire, going in....then he comes to in the classroom looking out the window. I said "that's me".
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Ah yes, predestination and consent of the governed. He gives little morals such as in the Weirdos From Another Planet, that there is no one definition of normal "We're just humans, not an alien like he is." Or I especially love the hundreds of references as to how humans are destroying the planet little by little through pollution.
He mixes it rather well with many seemingly innocent cartoons. And then there is the couple cartoons where Calvin tries to destroy his school (A reference to Watterson hating the school systems? I know that Harper Lee doesn't enjoy them much :D ).
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Jeez, thanks for ruining it for me with all the philosophical, political undercurrent. Now I gotta boycott him along with Springsteen, Alec Baldwin and George Clooney. :lol
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Jeez, thanks for ruining it for me with all the philosophical, political undercurrent. Now I gotta boycott him along with Springsteen, Alec Baldwin and George Clooney. :lol
Oh no! Not in the same category at all!
Waterson isn't political, he just is capable of THINKING...which puts him far ahead of Baldwin, Gere, and the rest of them!
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:lol
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Snowman season was the best.
Thanks for the good laughs and the excuse to pull down the C&H books.
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