Does anyone care about Calvin and Hobbes anymore?
>>153038514Yes, it's a classic comic that should be read by everyone. I've got the complete collection sitting on my desk as I write this.
>>153038514>You have Hatred tattooed on youI also have Calvin and Hobbes tattooed on me, and he isn't pissing on him. They're hugging!
>>153038514Calvin and Hobbes comes across as a little pretentious for me.
>>153038514Heck yeah.
no
>>153038514I always found both it's creator and it's fans to be pretentious and somewhat dumb
>>153043608>>153041126Genuinely how?It's basic philosophy made accessable enough so that an 8 year old could understand it, while still being funny.
>>153041126That's the joke
>>153038514I care but it's a finished story. I think it's okay it's not very prominent in the social ziegiest
>>153041126>>153043608Based
>>153043608>it's creator and it's fanslet's all gather round mr. typo and hear what he has to say about who's smart and who's not
>>153038514It's a great comic. I hadn't read it until recently. It's fun, clever and well-drawn.My favorite parts are when the art style suddenly changes
>>153043897No u
>>153038514Too pretentious, it insists upon itself
>>153039366My parents had Calvin & Hobbes, Beetle Bailey, Archie, and whatnot. The Watterson books were the ones we all liked so they got that full set one Christmas and it's one of the Christmas presents I value most in hindsight.
>>153041126>>153043608I'm sorry you never got that official Hobbes plush you wanted, Anon
>>153043907Really showcases the range that old school comic artists had, because they were properly taught from a school that actually wished to teach. Nowadays you get to watch a comic artist's work regress in real time.
I rather admire Calvin as a character written as a bit of a loner who isnt good at most things involving other people, yet Watterson had the restraint not to give him any rudolf the reindeer bullshit where "he's actually a talented artist/genius just like the author is and when it matters people will recognize that." Calvin makes witty remarks to Hobbes and is a mouthpiece for the author a lot, but nobody in the strip is ever impressed or humbled by it. It never helps him in school. There's a focus on imagination and creativity but it isnt something that makes Calvin's problems go away, more often than not his creativity is the route he takes to make the situation worse for himself. I just think that theres too much media that depicts people who dont fit in as actually being better than everyone, and I think that Calvin is just a prickly kid who actively makes things worse for himself in a pretty realistic way. There's also something interesting going on with the intersection of wide open fields and forests in the comic, with a very specific, inescapable suburbia Calvin & Hobbes exist in that is hyperspecific to the midwest. It's really interesting.
>>153044317Nowadays he'd have teachers telling him that he's autistic, has ADHD, or he's neurodivergent, instead of just what he actually is: A kid
>>153044317I can't remember the specific strips but there are the moment where the "voice of reason" authorities in Calvin's life sympathize with his position. His parents and Susie do have those moments where they try and understand him and he's actually open and honest about it. Or they're just envious about him being a kid still.This is somewhat not relevant but there's that time where he thinks he's lost Hobbes, who was just in the wash, but his parents don't belittle him for his panic.The Berkley Breathed series of comics about retuning Hobbes to an adult Calvin concludes without a single line from Calvin but shows that he found his way - and he pulled a win without really compromising the creativity he had as a kid.
