andyman wrote:

Wood Goblin wrote:

chozo wrote:break your heart:

Is that a real strip? It's so simple, yet totally devastating.

There's a follow-up to that if you're feeling bummed about it.

could you post it? thx.

Too precious?



Seriously, voting crap on Calvin and Hobbes just makes me sad for whomever does it. I can't imagine the level of cynicism or jadedness necessary to consider C&H sappy or precious.

Jose Luis Perales wrote:the last calvin and hobbes strip is heart-breaking too.. in a different way.

I saved the newspaper page it was printed on the Sunday it came out. I think i still have it.

noise&light wrote:

Calvin on science.

Chumble Spuzz? Man, you couldn't go anywhere in 1997 without hearing their fucking song "Tubthumping."

kerble wrote:could you post it? thx.

Yikes. I came across it over at SA a year or so back and can't find it now. Like Antero said, the one above is a fake, so the sequel that was circulating is a fake too (but just as valid).

I think Hobbes snaps out of it and they hug.

Every once in a while there was some genuine insight and/or subversiveness in there to break up all the white suburban cookie-dunking.

Unenthusiastic N/C. Not as great as it is uniformly considered to be.

Damn you suburban whites!

Ty Webb wrote:Damn you suburban whites!

This is meant to be an ironically dismissive statement regarding what I posted, but I am not kidding at all.

The suburban white default for everything: FUCK OFF

Childhood worship: FUCK OFF

I agree that this is garbage Americana bullshit.

I mean come on, a tiger that talks? THERE'S NO WAY THIS FUCKING BULLSHIT WOULD HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE. This is just one long arduous, white rural fantasy. Yeah, I said it, want to cry about it you little white rural suburban sissy bitches? Yeah, what are you going to do about it? I love how everything is so cookie cutter "OH HEY CALVIN IT'S OK MOMMY IS HERE TO HELP YOU" bullshit, I mean jeez he probably doesn't even know the street value of a gram of mid grade weed. OH BOO HOOO A STUPID BIRD DIED WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO CRY ABOUT IT? If you lived in the city you would have already known how to walk past a dying man without glancing. Grow up you, infantile man children, and stop reliving your OH-MAN-I'M-GOING-TO-GO-ON-A-HIKE-IN-THE-WOODS-AND-THROW-SNOWBALLS-AT-GIRLS
(fantasies, because no one ever lives like that. You think the woods exist? Pfft, yeah, the only woods I know about are the ones that my friend Mickey went into when he smoked mercury on a dare; something Calvin would know nothing about.

Maybe if Bill Watterson gets his act together and starts addressing real issues I could enjoy it, but come on, paper hats and tree forts? I. FUCKING. HATE. WHITE. PEOPLE.

(Not racist, BTW.)

chozo wrote:break your heart:

YOU THINK THIS IS FUCKING SAD? TOUGHEN UP! SAD IS WATCHING YOUR FRIEND GET HIT BY A CAB ON O STREET BECAUSE HE WAS THROWN THERE BY A RIVAL 7TH GRADE GANG!