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post #1 of 59
Thread Starter 
Some guy misses the point of both Calvin & Hobbes and Garfield Minus Garfield.

http://www.jeffsocean.com/post/66858...n-minus-hobbes
post #2 of 59
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Originally Posted by Cameron Hughes View Post
Some guy misses the point of both Calvin & Hobbes and Garfield Minus Garfield.

http://www.jeffsocean.com/post/66858...n-minus-hobbes
Really pointless...after all, once you hit a certain age, you realize that Calvin was one really messed up kid.
post #3 of 59
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Originally Posted by ryoken View Post
Really pointless...after all, once you hit a certain age, you realize that Calvin was one really awesome kid.
Fixed that for ya.
post #4 of 59
Calvin was not "messed up". Why would you say that, Ryoken?
post #5 of 59
To this day, Im pretty sure everyone in Calvin's class was sure he was going to grow to be a serial killer.
post #6 of 59
Calvin Coolidge?
post #7 of 59
I'm calling it: Calvin had Asperger's.
*ducks*
post #8 of 59
Actually, he would most definitely be schizophrenic, ala John Nash, but, as Cameron pointed out, that would completely miss the point.
post #9 of 59
Didn't you guys have invisible friends growing up? Does every quirk in someone's personality need to spring from an identifiable pathology?
post #10 of 59
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Originally Posted by Mattioli View Post
I'm calling it: Calvin had Asperger's.
*ducks*
Nah, John Arbuckle has Asperberg, Charlie Brown had manic depression and so on.
Calvin was just one lonely, crazy kid...that or he grew up into a furry.
(That felt very wrong to type)
post #11 of 59
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Originally Posted by Princess Kate View Post
Didn't you guys have invisible friends growing up? Does every quirk in someone's personality need to spring from an identifiable pathology?
I had what I believed to be an invisible friend, but it turned out that it was actually the twin I had resorbed in the womb. He was pretty cool until he started trying to take over my life.
post #12 of 59
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Didn't you guys have invisible friends growing up?
I still have one. He tells me who's next.
post #13 of 59
I had one once, but it turned up that HE WAS A GHOST ALL ALONG!
What a twist!
post #14 of 59
Well anyway, I bet Calvin grew up to be a great person. He was funny and inquisitive and bright.
post #15 of 59
Charlie Brown, on the other hand, is an asshole now. Good ol' Charlie Brown.




How I hate him.
post #16 of 59
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Originally Posted by Mattioli View Post
Fixed that for ya.
Calvin and Hobbes did a really good job showing what its like to be an only child with an over-active imagination.
post #17 of 59
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Originally Posted by Chris Miller View Post
Charlie Brown, on the other hand, is an asshole now. Good ol' Charlie Brown.




How I hate him.
And Linus is a serial killer. He strangles people with his security blanket.
post #18 of 59
*Insert Obligatory Patty and Marcie are a couple joke here.* (not that there's anything wrong with it)

Also, all the kids from "The Family Circus" ended up in Tea party rallies, im sure of it.
post #19 of 59
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Originally Posted by ryoken View Post
Also, all the kids from "The Family Circus" ended up in Tea party rallies, im sure of it.
Actually, they are part of Fred Phelp's church now.
post #20 of 59
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Originally Posted by Princess Kate View Post
Well anyway, I bet Calvin grew up to be a great person. He was funny and inquisitive and bright.
Who was also, quite often, a total brat.
post #21 of 59
Did Calvin have any friends that weren't tigers?
post #22 of 59
For what it's worth I always found this epilogue C&H picture rather touching in a bittersweet way...

post #23 of 59
Huh... i wonder where Calvin picked up the kid.
post #24 of 59
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Originally Posted by The Rain Dog View Post
For what it's worth I always found this epilogue C&H picture rather touching in a bittersweet way...
Is that a real Bill Watterson cartoon?
post #25 of 59
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Originally Posted by The Alexor View Post
Is that a real Bill Watterson cartoon?
Honestly, I wouldn't have a clue. If I had to guess tho I'd say probably not.

It does feel like an appropriate 'last frame' for the series to me tho.
post #26 of 59
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Originally Posted by The Rain Dog View Post
Honestly, I wouldn't have a clue. If I had to guess tho I'd say probably not.

It does feel like an appropriate 'last frame' for the series to me tho.
Yeah, that's why I asked. It would be a great ending for the strip.
post #27 of 59
It's not. Also, it's apparent whoever did the cartoon assumed Calvin ended up with Susie Derkins, in complete violation of G.R.O.S.S. guidelines.
post #28 of 59
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Originally Posted by The Alexor View Post
Yeah, that's why I asked. It would be a great ending for the strip.
It's definitely not a Watterson. Different style, and it would kind of ruin the original ending if it were:



Although this would also work :

post #29 of 59
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Originally Posted by t3cii View Post
Who was also, quite often, a total brat.
So, basically like a real kid?
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post #31 of 59
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Originally Posted by Misfit View Post
Calvin Coolidge?
We should all be like Calvin. His best friend was a tiger, he always went on dope adventures, and if anything stood in his way, he just peeeeed on it!
post #32 of 59
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Originally Posted by ryoken View Post
Nah, John Arbuckle has Asperberg, Charlie Brown had manic depression and so on.
Charlie Brown isn't manic depressive - he never has the "up" cycles needed for that "manic" part of the diagnosis.
post #33 of 59
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Originally Posted by Mattioli View Post
So, basically like a real kid?
Most kids don't have such large vocabularies.
post #34 of 59
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Originally Posted by t3cii View Post
It's definitely not a Watterson. Different style, and it would kind of ruin the original ending if it were:



Although this would also work :


Ugh, that's tragic.

EDIT: PS, One time at a book sale I picked up this used activity book/coloring book. It had NOTHING to do with Calvin and Hobbes and it was from the mid-80s. It was FILLED with faces and characters that were straight out of Watterson. Is it possible that it was the product of some sort of gig for him? There were no credited artists
post #35 of 59
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Originally Posted by Princess Kate View Post
Ugh, that's tragic.

EDIT: PS, One time at a book sale I picked up this used activity book/coloring book. It had NOTHING to do with Calvin and Hobbes and it was from the mid-80s. It was FILLED with faces and characters that were straight out of Watterson. Is it possible that it was the product of some sort of gig for him? There were no credited artists
It seems unlikely. He would have been doing Calvin and Hobbes at the time so I think he would have had his hands full. And as far as I know most of his previous work was for a college newspaper and political cartoon journal.

An early Watterson:

post #36 of 59
This, it breaks the heart a bit:

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post #38 of 59
Not an actual Watterson.
post #39 of 59
Well, yes and no, someone just did some cutting and pasting and added different text.
post #40 of 59
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Originally Posted by Chris Miller View Post
Well, yes and no, someone just did some cutting and pasting and added different text.
So, not Watterson.
post #41 of 59
Well, yeah. I'm just saying technically that's his drawing, just perverted by someone who doesn't get the point. Or, who get's the point and doesn't care.
post #42 of 59
It's just every time that strip gets posted, I've seen it followed by "Holy crap, was that the final strip???" So I figured I'd nip that in the bud right away.
post #43 of 59
I always liked this one:

post #44 of 59
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Originally Posted by Chris Miller View Post
Well, yeah. I'm just saying technically that's his drawing, just perverted by someone who doesn't get the point. Or, who get's the point and doesn't care.
Or someone who gets the point and is trying to make another point?
post #45 of 59
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Originally Posted by Paul C View Post
Or someone who gets the point and is trying to make another point?
What was the original text?
post #46 of 59
It could have been any number of comics where Calvin is talking or complaining about his homework. I guess whoever ripped Watterson off by doing a bad cut and paste job on his comic was making a remark about how ritalin makes Hobbes go away, because Calvin's active imagination was just a product of ADD. Ha.
post #47 of 59
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Originally Posted by Chris Miller View Post
It could have been any number of comics where Calvin is talking or complaining about his homework. I guess whoever ripped Watterson off by doing a bad cut and paste job on his comic was making a remark about how ritalin makes Hobbes go away, because Calvin's active imagination was just a product of ADD. Ha.
Clearly not someone who gets Calvin and Hobbs.
post #48 of 59
Whoever did that strip, I read it as a comment on how overmedication can kill the imagination of all the Calvins out there. On that level it works for me. I'm not saying it's genius on the level of Watterson. But it is, plausibly, a line that Watterson himself might've followed for a week if he'd been in a really dark mood.
post #49 of 59
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Originally Posted by Martin Blank View Post
Whoever did that strip, I read it as a comment on how overmedication can kill the imagination of all the Calvins out there. On that level it works for me. I'm not saying it's genius on the level of Watterson. But it is, plausibly, a line that Watterson himself might've followed for a week if he'd been in a really dark mood.
That's also my interpretation and I also believe it easily could have been a Watterson comment on medicating (or drugging) kids.
post #50 of 59
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Originally Posted by The Alexor View Post
That's also my interpretation and I also believe it easily could have been a Watterson comment on medicating (or drugging) kids.
I don't think he would have made such comments as he'd usually try to be careful to not make the strip too preachy. And having Calvin be medicated would just bring the strip into uncomfortable territory, territory I strongly doubt Watterson would dive into in this strip.
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