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Calvin and Hobbes is saying something, but they're too subtle for me to figure it out. e: For context, we're in June of '92. Notable sequels released this year included Home Alone 2, Batman Returns, Honey I Blew Up The Kid, Pet Sematary Two, Lethal Weapon 3, Alien 3, and Meatballs 4.   Ripley's 
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Feb 23, 2016 19:06
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Hobbes wearing the shirt back to front kills me 
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Feb 23, 2016 19:33
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I always felt this strip walked a bit too close to the line of "Is Hobbes real?" It's supposed to be open-ended and up for interpretation, as Watterson intended. And while Calvin could have easily made that (he shows a lot of potential for sculpture with his snowmen), he is adamant he didn't make that tiger. So either Hobbes is real or Calvin has some clear issues to work through. This comment brought to you by Thinking Too Hard About Calvin & Hobbes
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Feb 23, 2016 19:55
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He also had Hobbes write a story that got an A last arc iirc. Further thinking too hard... I know some things are potshots at real life things, I think he said avant-garde snow sculpture art comics are digs at newspaper strips, but I cant work out if this is a dig or if it is just regular ironic calvin joke stuff.
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dirksteadfast posted:I always felt this strip walked a bit too close to the line of "Is Hobbes real?" It's supposed to be open-ended and up for interpretation, as Watterson intended. And while Calvin could have easily made that (he shows a lot of potential for sculpture with his snowmen), he is adamant he didn't make that tiger. So either Hobbes is real or Calvin has some clear issues to work through. There's also some strips later on that call into question whether or not everything that happens is just all in Calvin's imagination (The duplicator story arcs for example, particularly the second one where he uses it to make a "good" version of himself to do things like go to school in the like while the real one stays home. If it was his imagination, that would mean that one day he decided to comb his hair down and start applying himself/being nice to people while at the same time imagining he was his usual self at home talking about this with Hobbes, or one scene in the first arc where in one scene Calvin somehow moves to different rooms in the span of a few seconds and enters and exits the same room multiple times, I bring these two arcs up because they're one of the few times that those outside Calvin's world like his parents actually take notice that something is going on.) So either these things are actually happening or Calvin's just a kid with an overactive imagination and way too much time on his hands, but once again I'm probably thinking too hard about this. I do kind of like the theory though that Hobbes is basically just Calvin's internal monolouge and as he grew up the "Hobbes" persona would eventually become his dominant personality. Larryb fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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Feb 23, 2016 20:27
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treasureplane posted:King Aroo (January 30, 1951) For a second I was reminded that if this was a Kevin & Kell cartoon then the bird would be eating the firefly. gently caress Kevin & Kell! 
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LordPants posted:He also had Hobbes write a story that got an A last arc iirc. It's probably a dig at the comic strip industry as a whole, and especially his syndicate's relentless attempts to get him to merchandise Calvin & Hobbes.
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Senior Woodchuck posted:It's probably a dig at the comic strip industry as a whole, and especially his syndicate's relentless attempts to get him to merchandise Calvin & Hobbes.
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Moomin Classic Dilbert  
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The Classic Dinette Set knows you have to spend money to make money. Working Daze shows off the "O"-face.  Super-Fun-Pak-Comix knows that free will is a lie. 
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Luann  Look, friend, it's surprising enough that the Evanses actually went through with playing the Gay Card. Did you really think they were planning to dip a toe into the hoary netherworld that is asexuality? The Amazing Spider-Man  Sally Forth  The Heart of Juliet Jones 
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this originally how Evans planned to write Luann's old love interest Aaron out of the picture, before opting for that weird "he's engaged already or something" angle? I guess I'm glad that we're apparently at the point where homosexuality is safe enough you can put it in a comic other than Doonesbury?
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Just hours after I said Bloom County was taking a time out for commerce, they went and dropped this on us. Skippy (December 25, 1928)  Pogo (February 25, 1958)  Peanuts: Year Four (April 29-May 2, 1954)    
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Rarebit Fiend (click for huge)  Outbusts of Everett True   Good Time Guy (click for big)   Gay and Her Gang (click for big)   Feiffer (click for big)   Wee Pals   Life In Hell  
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SomeMathGuy posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this originally how Evans planned to write Luann's old love interest Aaron out of the picture, before opting for that weird "he's engaged already or something" angle? I guess I'm glad that we're apparently at the point where homosexuality is safe enough you can put it in a comic other than Doonesbury? Only if you're writing a nonthreatening lesbian character, though
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Prudence has a weird character design even for Greg Evans. I'll just hope it is an homage to a lesbian he knows.
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Well, at least the twist is way better than the "Pru is trans" idea that one or two people here were hypothesizing. Lord only knows how that'd would've been handled.
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The Sphinxster posted:Prudence has a weird character design even for Greg Evans. I'll just hope it is an homage to a lesbian he knows. All of the new characters look weird and don't fit with the original cast.
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Gil 05/24/15 Piranha Club   Dick Tracy  Dishonest John, you say?   Judge Parker   Cut him some slack, Neddy. Hank has his hands full putting together your free building that Rocky's money had paid for. 9 Chickweed Lane   
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For a strip that is so obsessively on point with regards to baseball stuff, It bugs me how Charlie Brown lifts his head as he makes contact. That's bad technique!!
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I can't believe Charlie Brown is bad at baseball.
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Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Arlo and Janis  Andertoons  Pluggers 
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Peanuts (February 26, 1969) Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (October 29-30, 1928)   Thimble Theater (September 12, 1929) 
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EasyEW posted:Just hours after I said Bloom County was taking a time out for commerce, they went and dropped this on us. I don't really like Bloom County, but Colbert's fuckin ear 
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SNL Guys 1 and 2. Come on, they have names. Also there's a guy with a flatcap.
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Tina's Groove Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert  Red Meat 
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drat, straight up refusal of several schools of Zen. Way to offend the enlightened guy Mr. Therapist.
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Mark Trail Pearls Before Swine  But remember, you can't call a strip "Heavenly Nostrils." The Phantom 
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Selachian posted:Rhymes with Orange What are these, so wither'd and so wild in their attire, that look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, and yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught that man may question? You seem to cook a meal, by chopped meat, tomatoes and peppers stew'd within thy pot: it should be chili, and yet yon carrots forbid me to interpret that it is so.
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SomeMathGuy posted:Mark Trail Calvin and Hobbes    Ripley's  What if Ripley's just started running ways people have committed suicide?
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The Classic Dinette Set is sized to fit. Working Daze makes an overdone nerd joke, adds a second punchline, is terrible.  Super-Fun-Pak-Comix thinks long term. 
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EasyEW posted:Out Our Way (October 29-30, 1928) Someone please  this to me.
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Nenonen posted:Someone please It's pretty simple. Boys been running his mouth about things he shouldn't. The boys mother has been having problems of some sort, that I would imagine she would like to have kept private. Yet her son has been telling that lady(and others?!) about these problems. I would think the lady in the back ground is a mother of a friend of his. See the boys playing football in the background?
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Evil Mastermind posted:Super-Fun-Pak-Comix thinks long term. This is why that 90's Godzilla movie sucked so bad. (Well, *one* reason)
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That does not even crack the top 100 list of reasons that movie sucked. The whole thing was made of Bad Ideas Comix. Pooch Café   Chazz, if he got inside he could open the door. You don't need a key to unlock the door from inside. Ballard Street   Wendell, that dog looks like Jack Nicholson on a boat. Which I guess is pretty buff for Ballard Street. Lost Side of Suburbia   You can tell Lucius is really stressed out, he's dropped his brooding badass persona entirely. We all knew he was faking that poo poo.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Super-Fun-Pak-Comix thinks long term. If a dragon breathed a giant cloud of CO2 at you, you might suffer some medical problems anyway when it displaces all the breathable air in your vicinity.
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