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gentlemanorcus from Virginia Since: Feb, 2010
#1: Oct 30th 2010 at 11:11:33 AM

One of the most charming, endearing, funny, and yet witty and intelligent comic ever made. I love it so much.

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AlirozTheConfused Bibliophile. from Daz Huat! Since: May, 2010
Bibliophile.
#2: Oct 30th 2010 at 11:17:36 AM

I often find strips of it that fit exactly what I am thinking, but in a funny, charming, and witty way.

"I don't need to compromise my principles, because they have no bearing on what happens to me" ~ Calvin, about bathing.

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Marioguy128 Geomancer from various galaxies Since: Jan, 2010
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#3: Oct 30th 2010 at 11:23:15 AM

I like those strips. They make me think.

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EgregiousEric from space (I am from space) Since: Jun, 2009
#4: Oct 30th 2010 at 11:36:10 AM

I think it would be much better and entertaining for me to only read early strips.

edited 30th Oct '10 11:43:45 AM by EgregiousEric

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#5: Oct 30th 2010 at 11:49:13 AM

Best Christmas present I ever ever got? The boxed collector's set.

ImipolexG frozen in time from all our yesterdays Since: Jan, 2001
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#6: Oct 30th 2010 at 6:38:11 PM

When I was a kid, every year my parents would buy me a Calvin and Hobbes book. I read the hell out of them. I even got told that I was like Calvin...and I took that as a compliment.

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gentlemanorcus from Virginia Since: Feb, 2010
#7: Oct 30th 2010 at 9:24:28 PM

I got the box set for Christmas once; all the comic collected into 3 huge volumes. I used to read them a lot. The binding on the second book is screwed up now, which makes me sad.

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BlackWolfe Viewer Gender Confusion? from Lost in Austin Since: Jun, 2010
#8: Oct 30th 2010 at 9:26:18 PM

This thread must stay active in order to preserve the genius that is Bill Watterson. Also, *BOINK*

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spasticgecko Dat Troper from Maryland Since: Oct, 2011
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#9: Oct 30th 2010 at 9:32:17 PM

I wish I had a collection of these. An old friend of mine in elementary school had a whole bunch, and I'm pretty sure I read all of them cover-to-cover multiple times.

Tumbril Since: Feb, 2010
#10: Oct 30th 2010 at 9:35:46 PM

I never read the series in order since I always just checked whichever volumes were in at the library at the time...

When I found out that the 'Let's go exploring' strip was actually the last of the series ever, I was sad...

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Nohbody "In distress", my ass. from Somewhere in Dixie Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#11: Oct 30th 2010 at 11:02:08 PM

^^^ Ah, the sound of scientific progress. grin

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BlackWolfe Viewer Gender Confusion? from Lost in Austin Since: Jun, 2010
#12: Oct 30th 2010 at 11:48:34 PM

grin Thanks, I was wondering if anyone would realize that was on topic.

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#13: Oct 31st 2010 at 1:25:41 AM

That's like the only collection title that I can remember without looking them up. tongue

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CentralAvenue Literally A Princess from The Palace of Serenity Since: Sep, 2014
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#14: Oct 31st 2010 at 8:31:25 AM

I started reading Calvin And Hobbes when I was, like, 6. They amused me, but I didn't really get it, you know...(I didn't even know a lot of the words Calvin used.)

When I re-read them all in my late teens, I had just a little bit of childhood nostalgia combined with a larger sense of "NOW I get it!"-ness. In short, C&H, was, and remains to this day, awesome.

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EgregiousEric from space (I am from space) Since: Jun, 2009
#15: Oct 31st 2010 at 8:36:04 AM

[up] This is a problem for me. I certainly enjoyed C&H more when i was younger, before i picked up on Watterson's rants.

"Sooner or later, all our games turn into Calvinball" is one strip i can't help from laughing at when i read it.

edited 31st Oct '10 8:36:25 AM by EgregiousEric

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#16: Oct 31st 2010 at 10:40:40 AM

Calvin And Hobbes taught me to read.

... so after a few years of that in conjunction with asking my mom about the vocabulary, I did know most of those words. tongue

edited 31st Oct '10 10:41:19 AM by FurikoMaru

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Roundy210 Since: Apr, 2009
#17: Nov 1st 2010 at 9:01:36 AM

That is awesome.

I am currently scouring the Internet for the means to create or obtain a Hobbes doll. The distinct lack of an official Hobbes is the only reason I don't like Bill Waterson's choice to not merchandise the strip.

That, and the decals of Calvin peeing on things.

Longfellow Fractally long Since: Apr, 2009
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#18: Nov 1st 2010 at 9:06:30 AM

Beautiful, manic, witty, thoughtful, in all the right places.

One thing about Calvin And Hobbes is I, and everyone I've met, remember the individual strips. They're that good. So many thoughts and moments remind me of a Calvin And Hobbes strip I never knew I remembered.

edited 1st Nov '10 9:07:13 AM by Longfellow

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TommyX from Atluff Since: Aug, 2010
#19: Nov 1st 2010 at 1:50:22 PM

In 6th grade, my friend brought one of the books to school. Flash forward a year later, I had all the books. Still have them all (except for the single books that were put into collections). I love Calvin and Hobbes.

frog753 Non-Action Guy from CT and/or MA Since: Jul, 2009
#20: Nov 2nd 2010 at 11:47:55 AM

I was actually rather late to the whole thing. I was technically alive for exactly half the original run of Calvin and Hobbes, but I was ages 0-5 at the time and therefore (in my particular case) not at all aware of popular culture. I never looked at the newspaper comics...hell, I don't even know if the Hartford Courant carried C&H in the first place! And yes, the books were coming out at the time, but I really knew nothing about any of it.

It's amusingly worth mentioning that I once, huddled in a Ford Aerostar for the sake of safety from a thunderstorm on my very first campout as a Cub Scout, noticed that some of the other older scouts were reading C&H books. I distinctly remember that I thought it was an incredibly sophisticated and mature thing, and didn't even bother to really join them. And that was the last I heard of C&H for years.

However, my friend Adam, the same guy who singlehandedly introduced me to anime when I was in middle school, also had some of the books at the time. I started reading them, and of course they were amazing. I started buying the books (the Essential, Authoritative, and Indispensible, plus all the later ones) myself, and I'm sure you can imagine the rest. For some reason, I still don't own the Snow Goons one (I can never get the full title right!) or Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat.

So yeah, it goes without saying that I'm a fan. When I want to read something amusing without thinking too hard, I run through my lineup of books again. It's important not to return to them too frequently, or the humor loses its punch. An interesting development is that these days I no longer gloss over some of Calvin's wordier musings, and that makes the experience all the more fun.

I firmly (well, sort of) believe that after Watterson's death, the town of Chagrin Falls, Ohio (his hometown or current residence or whatever, and the place that I fanonically consider to be the town Calvin lives in) should open a Calvin and Hobbes museum. Tourism would go up immensely in the area!

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Roundy210 Since: Apr, 2009
#21: Nov 2nd 2010 at 2:43:50 PM

AHEM.

I am currently scouring the Internet for the means to create or obtain a Hobbes doll.

HINT. HINT.

Karalora Since: Jan, 2001
#22: Nov 2nd 2010 at 2:52:51 PM

the Snow Goons one (I can never get the full title right!)

Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons

ImipolexG frozen in time from all our yesterdays Since: Jan, 2001
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#23: Nov 2nd 2010 at 3:46:04 PM

Something Under the Bed is Drooling was always my favorite title.

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darnpenguin Yakka Foob Mog from one friend to another Since: Jan, 2001
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#24: Nov 2nd 2010 at 3:46:19 PM

I have no idea what any of you people are talking about.

Anyway, it is my firm belief that I actually learned how to read from Calvin And Hobbes as a youngster. My father had a stack of the yearly black-and-white paperbacks as well as the Treasury Collections, which I continued to acquire for myself until the last ones came out in '96 or so.

The 10th Anniversary Book was also amazing, and gave me a chance to peer inside Watterson's head.

edited 2nd Nov '10 3:48:26 PM by darnpenguin

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#25: Nov 2nd 2010 at 4:04:48 PM

Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink!' FTMFW.

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