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Willo567 posted:ive said it before, but re-reading it as an adult, Calvin and hobbes feel incredibly misanthropic and bleak once you look past the strips about calvin's imagination That's a mirror you're holding.
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Willo567 posted:ive said it before, but re-reading it as an adult, Calvin and hobbes feel incredibly misanthropic and bleak once you look past the strips about calvin's imagination I truly don't mean this in a harsh or overly nostalgic way, but that's why it was so good. It didn't coddle its audience. If you got into Calvin and Hobbes at the exact right age, you were experiencing it at a time when you were getting sick of overly pleasant children's media, and craving something that actually reflected the friction with the world you were experiencing at that period in your life. Arist fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Feb 16, 2024 |
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Willo567 posted:ive said it before, but re-reading it as an adult, Calvin and hobbes feel incredibly misanthropic and bleak once you look past the strips about calvin's imagination monitor
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oh god, what just happened to my layout of reddit
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You can't call yourself a true Nuthead until you've seen It's The Girl In The Red Truck, Charlie Brown, a special which does not feature Charlie Brown and is mostly live action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndys1VvdLII
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GateOfD posted:oh god, what just happened to my layout of reddit you should stay over there and not report back
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Arist posted:I truly don't mean this in a harsh or overly nostalgic way, but that's why it was so good. It didn't coddle its audience. when i was a kid i didnt really connect to calvin because all the strip was to me was a kid and his tiger getting into trouble and it was hilarious. i didnt really notice calvin being very withdrawn from and skeptical of people until i was older. also, this is my other observation, but i'm not really a fan of calvin's character past 1991. felt like watterson decided to get rid of any positive character traits calvin had to make him into a mouth piece for everything watterson hated, and felt like i was being lectured a lot.
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Skill issue
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Waffleman_ posted:You can't call yourself a true Nuthead until you've seen It's The Girl In The Red Truck, Charlie Brown, a special which does not feature Charlie Brown and is mostly live action snoopy's mysterious family members were pretty much the newspaper comic equivalent of the bleach espada and 8 year old me would get hyped whenever i'd see a new one
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Furnaceface posted:Are you guys not getting all this snow+freezing rain? I have feet.
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I think that's plainly ridiculous given how often Calvin's perspective is mocked or portrayed as facile. At worst, Watterson was making fun of himself.
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Charles Schulz literally said he had intended Red Truck to be his Citizen Kane like that's a direct quote from Sparky himself lmao
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i bet he succeeded
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Also, and I mean this in the gentlest way possible, explaining the exact year Calvin and Hobbes "fell off" is pretty funny. It's like a full-grown adult coming up to me and telling me that SpongeBob hasn't been good since Season 3
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Big Leg posted:snoopy's mysterious family members were pretty much the newspaper comic equivalent of the bleach espada and 8 year old me would get hyped whenever i'd see a new one Charlie Browns mom pulling up with a giant 3 on her back 
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Arist posted:I think that's plainly ridiculous given how often Calvin's perspective is mocked or portrayed as facile. At worst, Watterson was making fun of himself. i just found it grating after a while and wasn't a fan of that direction of calvin's character, considering that while he was selfish and bratty before, he still had enough sympathetic moments that made you root for him, which i felt watterson heavily downplayed and hurt calvin's character.
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Furnaceface posted:Are you guys not getting all this snow+freezing rain? After watching this  and getting a kick-rear end pair of boots that are both waterproof and rated for walking on ice uphill, I no longer care how bad winter gets.
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Willo567 posted:i just found it grating after a while and wasn't a fan of that direction of calvin's character, considering that while he was selfish and bratty before, he still had enough sympathetic moments that made you root for him, which i felt watterson heavily downplayed and hurt calvin's character. this is essentially an artifact of consuming a comic strip in compilation form. same with tomochan. samey gags work much better at comic strip pace
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Did the Japanese Peanuts commercials get posted yet, too lazy to go back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wgjRiDmLf8
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woodstock vs tweety bird, who wins.
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The audience!!!!!
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Fluffdaddy posted:Charlie Browns mom pulling up with a giant 3 on her back me when weirdly fluffy or extremely fat beagle shows up in the monday strip: holy poo poo... this is getting intense
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[loudly from the back] Get Fuzzy was pretty good too
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as a little kid finding this in a secondhand book store significantly altered my conception of what a comic strip could offer
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gently caress yeah, I got a bunch of bloom county books at yard sales for next to nothing as a kid, and even if I didn't understand...the majority of it, what I could understand was fantastic It and calvin and hobbes were my big favorites
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Ohtori Akio posted:this is essentially an artifact of consuming a comic strip in compilation form. same with tomochan. samey gags work much better at comic strip pace The 3/4 panel format was also something he grated against, and talked about in one of his books. It's why some of his Sunday strips use very unorthodox layouts
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Arist posted:Also, and I mean this in the gentlest way possible, explaining the exact year Calvin and Hobbes "fell off" is pretty funny. It's like a full-grown adult coming up to me and telling me that SpongeBob hasn't been good since Season 3 theyd be right
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also guy who repeatedly brings up how, beloved childrens comic calvin and hobbes, is too bleak for them, is an incredible bit
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sorry guys this darkwing duck thing is too grimdark for me
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much like the Simpsons, one can pinpoint exactly when SpongeBob stopped being good, and that was after the first movie
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to be clear, that's why i chose that example, it's plausible
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Endorph posted:sorry guys this darkwing duck thing is too grimdark for me I like you a lot endorph, but I don't know why you're being so sarcastic about my opinion on this. it feels like you're just mocking me when I've never done that to you
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it is a fairly ridiculous thing to assert that does not really align with what calvin and hobbes is or the obvious artist intent and feels more like youre projecting onto it or just get a weird vibe specific to you off it that makes you feel this way
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Arist posted:to be clear, that's why i chose that example, it's plausible genuinely did not realize the movie was after s3. mea culpa
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Willo567 posted:I like you a lot endorph, but I don't know why you're being so sarcastic about my opinion on this. it feels like you're just mocking me when I've never done that to you You are being mocked
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Plutonis posted:i was barely awake fluff fixed anyway yeah it's cool I know you didn't do it maliciously
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Endorph posted:sorry guys this darkwing duck thing is too grimdark for me Jokes aside darkwing duck had to make up a Bruce Wayne persona so he could adopt a kid That's right folks, darkwing duck is super edgy and gritty and if you'd just give me a minute I've got a script for a pilot for an adult re-imagining of the cartoon I'd love for you to rea Oh no I've been banned
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