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.
Never be without a Hat! Hot means heat. I don't care if your usage dates to 1300, it's my word, not yours. My Pm box is open.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
Pages Needing ImagesI 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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But soft! What rock through yonder window breaks? It is a brick! And Juliet is out cold.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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Thanks, I was wondering if anyone would realize that was on topic.
That's like the only collection title that I can remember without looking them up.
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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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
Pages Needing ImagesCalvin 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.
edited 31st Oct '10 10:41:19 AM by FurikoMaru
A True Lady's Quest - A Jojo is You!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
It Just Bugs MeI 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!
Flora Segunda | World Made By Hand | Monster Blood Tattoo ^You should read these series.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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One of the most charming, endearing, funny, and yet witty and intelligent comic ever made. I love it so much.
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