I was very excited to see the American Reunion movie. I saw American Pie just after college and remembered it was quite funny.
Jim, Michelle, Oz, Heather, Stifler reunite for their high school...
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)
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.