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How about a Calvin & Hobbes thread?
Post God-tier strips and Sunday pages.
These "serious" ones never fail to amuse
>>80749049
This could be straight out of Archer.
Best one
>>80751313
Kid logic applied to adult life is comedy gold.
>The designs for Susie and Calvin's mom came from Bill Waterson's preference for short-haired brunettes
>>80751546
And Bill ended up marrying Susie in real life, while Hobbes was based on his cat Sprite.
Almost everything in the comic seems to be from his own life.
>>80751546
Good taste. Also, do you have a source? I remember him saying in the 10th anniversary book that Susie was like his wife, but I don't remember anything about hair styles/colors.
>>80751313
>let's hope it's a divorce
could have ended it at the second panel
>>80751313
Post the king of the jungle one
![calvin-and-hobbes-dreams[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/dUNbD7s.gif "calvin-and-hobbes-dreams[1].gif")
>>80751713
The first two panels in Watterson's Sunday pages always include a self-contained joke, while setting the premise for the rest of the page.
It's pretty clever.
>>80751713
Self-contained jokes in the bonus panels are great.
![da8e9a9f27be485cba030b65d5bac5c7[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/vprmNHB.jpg "da8e9a9f27be485cba030b65d5bac5c7[1].jpg")
>>80751800
Thanks for reminding me of that gem, famm.
>>80751713
Watterson would often put a one or two panel joke at the top because many newspapers would just cut off those panels anyway. You'll notice that a lot of his longer/weekend comics will do this.
>>80751810
>Watterson wrote the strip because his cat -- the thought-model for Hobbes in many respects -- had just died, and what made him feel better was realizing that they could always be together in his dreams.
![RBHlJ[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/QoJYQYB.jpg "RBHlJ[1].jpg")
>>80752143
Did someone say feels?
>>80751810
It's newspaper strip anatomy, they're meant to be set up that way. The idea is that the newspaper can edit out some of the panels if they need to reformat the strip.
Watterson fought against that and wanted artistic freedom. He got it, and that's why the later Sunday strips have wilder panel layouts.
>>80752258
>>80752277
![bill4[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/2omjt95.gif "bill4[1].gif")
>>80752258
Yeah, I know Watterson hated that restrictive layout.
This particular page was heavily let down by the format, in his eyes. According to him, it didn't live up to its potential. He particularly disliked the massive and blank first panel, which was a waste of space in his eyes. Though I see his point, I still think it's great, but you know how artists are.
I'm rescuing this thread.WITH NO SURVIVORS
>>80753181
I've tried to play Calvinball before in real life.
It was impossible. A somewhat depressing experience, if I'm honest.
>>80753295
Depressing because you realized you have no imagination?
>>80753267
How did they hide the bonus box without either of them knowing where it is?
![2011-04-05-17-37-42-9-the-tiger-hobbes-in-calvin-and-hobbes-which[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/P16INqB.jpg "2011-04-05-17-37-42-9-the-tiger-hobbes-in-calvin-and-hobbes-which[1].jpg")
>>80753220
Oh Hobbes. You and your casual misanthropy.
Why do they trust me if I tell them I'm not a robot?
>>80753327
I blame the guy I was playing with.
Should have played with my stuffed bear instead.
>>80751658
Even himself
>>80753370
You have to pretend you forgot.
>>80753299
I've always loved this one, even though it's completely retarded.
So much for C&H being a cerebral comic.
>>80753295
Yeah, real games structure. I've never played Calvinball, but I can't imagine it'd be very fun unless you're really young. Young kids have more fun with unstructured imagination.
I'm not dissing Calvinball though. It's great within the strip.
>>80753457
Ha ha. Perfect answer for Calvinball.
>>80753442
I'm pretty sure Calvin's dad was based on Bill's dad, although he looks a lot like Bill.
>>80753475
How can one be cerebral if they lack imagination? How do you know Tyrannosaurs DIDN'T have F-14s? How do you know dinosaurs aren't still alive? Have you ever SEEN Bill Waterson?
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>>80753498
That one is a masterclass in comedic timing, along with this one.
>>80753636
Angular velocity isn't that much of a mindfuck, famm.
It's pretty funny though.
>>80753299
This one always makes me chuckle. It has just enough absurdity to make the perfect punch-line to a joke that was hardly there.
>>80753745
Paradoxes should trip you up when you think about them, tbqh senpai. Maybe you're a less cranially developed form of humanoid.
>>80753327
>My tiger is the tiger that shall pierce the heavens!
>>80753882
oh senpai, a senpai wordfillet, senpai.
>>80753882
... It's not a paradox.
I mean I get why a kid who doesn't know what angular velocity is would be confused, but it's anything but a paradox.
I think I'm out.
>>80753993
What the father said is the first definition of a paradox. Brah. Go hit the bowl and come back when you're sober.
>>80753882
It's not really a paradox though. It makes complete sense, although it is a little puzzling when you initially encounter the concept of angular velocity. Every point on the disk has the same angular velocity, but the further a point is from the center, the higher its linear velocity.
Newtonian mechanics aren't like quantum mechanics. They're overall pretty intuitive, famm.
Also, even though it's a parody, it should be downright illegal to post Dobson imagery in a Calvin & Hobbes thread.
>>80753998
This is pretty much the greatest ending to anything ever.
I dare you to find a way to improve it.
>>80753396
>mydad.jepg
like, really spot on.
>>80753998
What I think I really like about this Sunday page is that it uses a format that's different from what Watterson disliked about the old Sunday format. I know that many of Watterson's Sunday strips got more creative when he was allowed to be so with them, but it's like the strip is, in more ways than one, leaving a reminder of its legacy for the finale.
That's especially poignant to me.
>>80749049
>post god-tier strips
but then we'd have to post the complete works from start to finish.
>>80754087
>>80753745
>>80753993
Mufuggas, I don't need you edumacating me on angular velocity. I smoke the bowl and I think good.
I love this one. It makes fun of itself. It has a lot of recursive layers (Hobbes wants to draw a cartoon of a painting of a comic, all while being within a comic). And it makes fun of itself for having that recursion.
>>80754316
Points off for shitty tumblr ant picture, but that is an amazing depiction of /mu/.
>>80749049
>>80751313
these ones are the best, i laughed hard when i was a kid, still have in this thread near 30 years later
thanks OP, life doesn't suck anymore
gonna go sock talky dames in the jaw!
>>80754316
>calvin discovers vaporwave
>>80749049
>I'D be Susie's patient!
Hobbes has good taste.
>>80753498
We all did this as kids, let's be real.
![150126102625-01-auschwitz-liberation-0126-super-169[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/yubKYuC.jpg "150126102625-01-auschwitz-liberation-0126-super-169[1].jpg")
>>80754856
Here's your new home, buddy.
>>80755467
Don't switch doors!
It's a trick!
>>80755467
What?
>>80755978
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
>>80753686
Bill said he was really proud of the beat panels in that strip.
>>80754316
>over 20 years later
>still accurate
I'll bring up this strip whenever someone says music was so much better in the 80s and 90s.
>>80752219
no no no
>>80753327
>those glasses
It reminds me of bro strider
>>80753745
it is when you're six
>>80754300
the ideal
>>80754537
ultimate kek
>>80756285
they're kamina's, famiglia
