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Hehe.... Calvin and Hobbes rules...
Did you read that article comparing C&H to fight club?

Calvin and Hobbes = Awesome

Calvin & Hobbes are pretty much the best ever. :D

Hehe.... Calvin and Hobbes rules...
Did you read that article comparing C&H to fight club?Yeah. I read that.
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Hobbes is definetly the best.






I can identify with Moe, because I, too, am big and dumb. We would get along great. :cool:

haha, i hadnt seen that picture though, 'tis good

Ah, good old Calvin and Hobbes...I always will love the snowmen that Calvin made.

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There was one about anatomically correct snowmen that I liked alot.

This (http://www.solitaryway.com/calvin/sun.gif) (Sunday comic, to big to post as an img) sums up one of my favorite recuring bits in that strip. Largely because that's how my dad would explain the world, with utter bullplop. It did teach me to check answers I get from people....after embaracing me early on.....

C&H is most definitely one of the best newspaper-permitted cartoons out there. all the other ones are dry, political, or crappy humor, in my humble opinion. of course, you could argue that, since its only my view on american cartoons =p anything more radical would be disallowed, since it would offend something/somebody

Shermans Lagoon is a good, non political/crappy comic that appears in my paper.

Calvinball is the best sport ever.

I actually own most of the C&H Books, not all mind you, but in elementary school I loved the strip, and acquired the books.

Calvinball is the best sport ever.

Agreed. :D

My favorite currently printed comic is "Get Fuzzy." But C&H rules all.

I think some of the best material is real world happenings, like Calvin and Hobbes. Bill Watterson did a fantastic Job with that strip, and its too bad licensing issues forced him to retire.

Calvinball is the best sport ever.

We should start up a game thread (to play calvinball not to discuss it)

Calvinball is the best sport ever.
Calvinball does in fact rule.

Calvin and Hobbes was a defining source of inspiriation and creativity for me. My childhood seemed to mirror his, the dominance of imagination in his life was reflected in my own. I always loved the strip as much more than a source of cheap laughs, but as one way of living life to its fullest.

And yeah, I've played Calvinball. It rules; especially when you have 8 people making up the rules as they go.

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A few favorites:

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
-Calvin

"I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point."
-Calvin

"I"M SIGNIFICANT!! ...screamed the dust speck"
-Calvin

"So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?"
-Calvin

"Girls are like slugs—they probably serve some purpose, but it's hard to imagine what."
-Calvin

"If people could put rainbows in zoos, they'd do it."
-Hobbes

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Dude, C&H rules!

And for anyone who hasn't played Calvinball, you've gotta try it. It rocks out hardcore, and most of the time the game ends in a hillarious riot.

when my son was 4 and 5 years old he wanted to grow up to be just like calvin. hmmmmm, then he DID

it was so sad when watterson stopped doing the strip.

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HE RULES. i mean... THEY RULE. i loved it when he traded earth for " space leaves' so he could do his school project without trying. then they bring him back plainold leaves and take over the world:)

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Calvin & Hobbes is good.

Awesome comic. Sighs.. bring back memories in the hospital, where I would read it day and night after being bedridden by an accident for a month. :)

The author quit :(.. but at his prime. :)

Dude! Calvin and Hobbes kicks ass! I'm so sad they don't make new ones anymore.

I own almost every Calvin & Hobbes book. My favorite would probably be the one where Salvin makes the transmorgifier and he walks around telling everyone that he's a tiger.

When you think about it, Calvin and Hobbes is a little bit disturbing. In one strip Calvin is telling Hobbes a great trick of tying a person's shoe laces together when they're not looking. Hobbes agrees that it sounds like a great trick. Next panel, Calvin falls over cause Hobbes has already tied his shoelaces together. Final panel Calvin is hopping after a laughing Hobbes.


However, if someone was to watch that sequence of actions, they of course wouldn't see Hobbes. What they'd see is Calvin tying his own shoelaces together, talking to himself about what a great trick it is, tripping over and then hopping round the room yelling at his toy tiger.
As I said, pretty disturbing.


BTW, I'm surprised no-one's mentioned about where their names came from.

Ms. Wormwood. :D

My favorite scenes are always his creativeness with the snowmen.

C&H is THE BEST!!!

He just reminds me so much of myself it's not even funny...

It sucks that Watterson quit writing the strip... It's probably the best one I've read...

And my favorite strips HAVE to be all the ones involving his parent's cooking...

Hilarious stuff...

There's one, and I don't have any idea how to find it or the lines verbatum, but it was a Sunday strip that had the two panel teaser joke that started it off where Calvin wants to do something that the other kids are doing, and gets the 'If your friends where jumping off a bridge...'

...and Calvin responds along the lines of "Well, if 100% of my friends had come back and reported that it was fun, like in my scenario..." which I thought really needed to be said.

I love Calvin and Hobbes, but it reallc can be disturbing if you think about hwat is really going on - many of his interactions with Hobbes just don't make sense if he is doing both and imagining Hobbes.

I love Calvinball, though. I played it once when we were supposed to be playing soccer for PE - that was awesome.

I love Calvin and Hobbes, but it reallc can be disturbing if you think about hwat is really going on - many of his interactions with Hobbes just don't make sense if he is doing both and imagining Hobbes.

I love Calvinball, though. I played it once when we were supposed to be playing soccer for PE - that was awesome.
One of the reasons that he never merchandized Calvin & Hobbes is because he didn't want a toy manufacturer to settle whether or not Hobbes was 'real.'

BTW, I'm surprised no-one's mentioned about where their names came from.
Famous philosophers.

And whether or not Hobbes is real is never definitively explained. On one hand, no one but Calvin can see Hobbes, and on the other, Hobbes did eat Tommy Chestnutt.

Famous philosophers.

And whether or not Hobbes is real is never definitively explained. On one hand, no one but Calvin can see Hobbes, and on the other, Hobbes did eat Tommy Chestnutt.
In the last book, Waterson breaks it all down - even using some of his favorite clips as examples. This comic was truly as genius as it was hilarious - I have all of the books, I grew up reading them for laughs in the paper every morning. I love Calvin and Hobbes so much. :)

ya' gotta love "Spaceman Spiff" and "Stupendous Man" but nothing beat Calvin's snow sculptures/art.

Ah, I'm getting misty, just thinking about the romance of such a youth. Calvin takes me back; I yearn for the days I could sit around reading those books, then going out and living life like them.

I love Calvin and Hobbes. I wrote a paper in 8th grade comparing them to their respective philosophers (except Calvin and Hobbes are the opposites of the philosophers that bear their namesake.) There was also an article kicking about a while back about the history of the comic.

I love C&H. I have a couple of the books. I liked his fights with the girl, Suzy? I think that was her name. And Spaceman Spiff zapping the teacher.

I love C&H. I have a couple of the books. I liked his fights with the girl, Suzy? I think that was her name. And Spaceman Spiff zapping the teacher.
Suzy Derkins, ah yes... and Mr. Bunny... hahahahahahahahaha

Do I like?! I have every book ever made, excepting Yukon Ho.

Just beats The Far Side as the most Consistently Funny cartoon strip out there and comes out on top for Greatest, because it also had heart. That Racoon Story was heart-breaking :(

Plus the artwork was kick-ass.

Zits is my favourite current strip, maybe because I'm a teenager and it's loaded with a lot of simple truths about people my age.

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I LOVE them! Best cartoon there is, maybe ever will be. I like Capser and Hobbes also.

Did you read that article comparing C&H to fight club?

Found it...
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Calvin and Hobbes as well as the farside are two of my favourite things ever.
(just to slightly go off topic with the farside... the one captioned "the often romanticised image of cowboys and aliens absolutely rules.")

But for consistency, as well as pure comic value, Calvin and Hobbes take the cake.
Especially the snowmen.