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I Miss Calvin and Hobbes

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  1. The Retroist
    Pirate King

    Was looking through my Calvin and Hobbes books last night. Not a miss in the whole collection:

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    Damn your talent Watterson!

    Fan of the recently nostalgic
    Posted 3 months ago #

  2. Retromus Prime
    Member

    One of the eternal classics. I really love the snowmen strips - pure comedy gold.

    Posted 3 months ago #

  3. ctupa
    Member

    The best comic strip ever -in my opinion

    Posted 3 months ago #

  4. mooncity
    Member

    I made a Wattersonesque comic with snowmen a last year:

    http://autumnlake.com/comikaze/comics/00000452.gif

    Reversing the polarity of the neutron flow since 1976!
    Posted 3 months ago #

  5. Fiftydollarjones
    Member

    Awesome strip...my six year old nephew looks like Calvin,acts like Calvin,and he has no idea who Calvin is.Nor would I expect him to,since(as I think I pointed out),he acts like Calvin and would only think that Calvin acts like him(Sam).

    I have a question to ask,and I sure hope if you read it that you have seen the last strip(it was a Sunday one) so that my question doesn't act as a de facto spoiler.

    Q: What do you all think happened in the last Calvin and Hobbes?

    Do you think that Watterson was implying that they walked into a Whiteout and never returned?

    That Calvin would stay eternally Six years old?

    That the strip was never,ever,NEVER coming back?

    Posted 3 months ago #

  6. The Retroist
    Pirate King

    I actually have this comic on my wall (right next to my Tupa works :)

    I think it was an invitation for us to make up our own adventures. Each day is new and fresh like that white piece of paper. It is unlimited as are Calvin and Hobbes' adventures.

    I would love to be able to live with that 6 year old's mindset.

    It might also be the mindset of an artist coming to the end of a creative period and looking forward to the limitless possibilities of the next.

    Posted 3 months ago #

  7. The Retroist
    Pirate King

    for those not familiar with the last comic:

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    Posted 3 months ago #

  8. mooncity
    Member

    Bill Watterson has been pretty much adamant that C&H will never return. Even if it did, miraculously, and Watterson were somehow willing to return to the grind of doing a daily strip, newspapers are dying off. The younger audience members comics need to really thrive and grow up with readers aren't there anymore. There are twentysomethigns who have never so much as picked up a newspaper in their lives and wouldn't buy it just for the comics page as it is now, even if C&H were ressurected. Watterson said he wouldn't do a webcomic, either, so I guess the big ol' three volume box set is about it for C&H.

    :C

    Posted 2 months ago #

  9. The Retroist
    Pirate King

    It is such a re-readable and comprehensive body of work I am happy with the 3 volumes.

    Posted 2 months ago #

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