HardcoreRobot
Lifer
- Nov 7, 2000
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I love Calvin and Hobbes, it's one of the best, if not THE best, mainstream comics ever published. Bill Watterson is a genius.
That said, this comic has been posted to every forum/digg/reddit/etc once an hour for the past 4 months. We get it.
That said, this comic has been posted to every forum/digg/reddit/etc once an hour for the past 4 months. We get it.
Cerpin Taxt
Lifer
- Feb 23, 2005
- 11,940
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As much as I mourn the loss of Calvin & Hobbes, I have to give credit to Watterson for exiting the stage at a time when we would all remember him fondly and crave more of his material for pretty much the rest of our lives.
His quiet, spotlight-detesting genius is truly an inspiration to me.
His quiet, spotlight-detesting genius is truly an inspiration to me.
JulesMaximus
No Lifer
- Jul 3, 2003
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dainthomas
Lifer
- Dec 7, 2004
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Originally posted by: jagec
Garfield is the most un-funny comic ever created.
/edit: Well, maybe Family Circus...
FC doesn't even try to be funny. Seems like a lot of it is aimed toward grandparents who think their grand kids do the darnedest things. Even then, the part about having the ghosts of dead grandparents haunt the family is quite disturbing.
I guess the demographics are terminally ill, senile old people.
You probably did not enjoy the Far Side either.
My personal favorites:
Far Side
C&H
Bloom County
Sherman's Lagoon
Atomic Playboy
Lifer
- Feb 6, 2007
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destrekor
Lifer
- Nov 18, 2005
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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I was around thirteen when I started reading it and loved it.
I think that's when I stopped reading Garfield
Haha same.
I'm not so brilliant in class grades now in college, mostly because I don't put any effort into school anymore, but in elementary and junior high I was basically ahead of the curve in anything I cared about, which the number of things I care about have dwindled in recent years. :laugh:
But yep, used to get Garfield collections all the time to read through, then stumbled on Calvin and Hobbes and found it hilarious. I still find it hilarious to this day, and while I'll enjoy the occasional Garfield strip in the newspaper, reading anything C&H blows it out of the water. It's definitely geared towards the 'adult' crowd, but is easy to understand for the young folks who pay more attention to the world around them then most their age.
I still want to recreate Calvin's snowmen one of these days. Those snowmen strips were hilarious.
Originally posted by: destrekor
I still want to recreate Calvin's snowmen one of these days. Those snowmen strips were hilarious.
The "Attack of the killer snow goons" series was so damn funny.
acheron
Diamond Member
- May 27, 2008
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Originally posted by: Train
Originally posted by: destrekor
I still want to recreate Calvin's snowmen one of these days. Those snowmen strips were hilarious.
The "Attack of the killer snow goons" series was so damn funny.
"I guess we've probably learned a lesson from all of this."
"What lesson is that?"
"'Snow goons are bad news'."
sdifox
No Lifer
- Sep 30, 2005
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was just looking for a scapegoat... I just ordered http://www.amazon.com/Milwauke...&qid=1231439528&sr=8-1
because they are throwing in
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006H4B3E
actually cancelled the milwaukee and went with hitachi 18v Li Ion kit... I should not be left alone at amazon.com...
acheron
Diamond Member
- May 27, 2008
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Also, there's this: http://www.s-anand.net/calvinandhobbes.html
Searchable index of all comics. The one I just (mis-)quoted is http://www.s-anand.net/calvinandhobbes.html#19910119
Searchable index of all comics. The one I just (mis-)quoted is http://www.s-anand.net/calvinandhobbes.html#19910119
PepePeru
Diamond Member
- Jul 21, 2005
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Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I was around thirteen when I started reading it and loved it.
I think that's when I stopped reading Garfield
Haha same.
I'm not so brilliant in class grades now in college, mostly because I don't put any effort into school anymore, but in elementary and junior high I was basically ahead of the curve in anything I cared about, which the number of things I care about have dwindled in recent years. :laugh:
But yep, used to get Garfield collections all the time to read through, then stumbled on Calvin and Hobbes and found it hilarious. I still find it hilarious to this day, and while I'll enjoy the occasional Garfield strip in the newspaper, reading anything C&H blows it out of the water. It's definitely geared towards the 'adult' crowd, but is easy to understand for the young folks who pay more attention to the world around them then most their age.
I still want to recreate Calvin's snowmen one of these days. Those snowmen strips were hilarious.
same story as me.
i used to read garfield until about 4th grade. there were a few garfield cartoons that i remember just cracked me up.
then after about 4th grade i started getting, enjoying the Far Side / C&H cartoons more and more.
Yeah those snowmen series were awesome. I remember one where he'd built a snow man in front of the car with the head resting on the hood of the car (like it had been hit w/ the car) with a couple other snowmen starring in shock, the dad says something like 'we need to get that kid some help'
awesome.
iamwiz82
Lifer
- Jan 10, 2001
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Originally posted by: jagec
Garfield is the most un-funny comic ever created.
/edit: Well, maybe Family Circus...
Claire: What do you have against the Family Circus?
Todd: Okay, you sit down to read your paper, and you?re enjoying your entire two-page comic spread, right? And then there?s the Family Circus, bottom right hand corner, just waiting to suck. And it?s the last thing you read, so it spoils everything you read before it.
Claire: You could just not read it.
Todd: I hate it, yet I?m uncontrollably drawn to it.
The day when I realized that those stickers were supposed to be Calvin (because obviously Watterson didn't give the rights for that) I wanted to kidney punch every single car owner for tainting the legacy.
C&H is my favorite comic of all time, but that's not saying much since I really didn't read many others as a kid. The collection books are also one of the best things to set by the can since you can read through however many you need to.
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