Ode to Calvin and Hobbes
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How Calvin & Hobbes ended
http://calvinhobbesritalin.ytmnd.com/
or was it this one
http://lastcalvin.ytmnd.com/
http://calvinhobbesritalin.ytmnd.com/
or was it this one
http://lastcalvin.ytmnd.com/
The first one is so sad.
I loved this script, I remember someone who used Calvin & Hobbes to help teach vocabulary to kids. I always thought that it was one of the most creative ways to make something usually boring, fun.
-nobody
Not to mention that Calvin's combination of genuine childlike traits and adult insights allows the strip to grow up with a reader; I never noticed any of the grown-up stuff when I was 7 years old and first reading the comic--Calvin was just another kid then, one I understood. Now, all these years later, I can go back and reread the exact same strips and see a whole other layer of meaning that I didn't get before. Truly brilliant.
C&H, you are sorely missed, and always appreciated.
*bookmarks, for later consumption*
Ah, yes, Calvin embodies the procrastinator in all of us! 
Based on my avatars, my feeelins sould be obvious.
Having my own two boys now, I enjoy these even more. My take on the adult level of Calvins communication is it's the highlights of his obeservations during the day. I notice this with my two, their conversations are usually
Pokemon, Pokemon, Wii, other things <<<really insightful and intelligent observation, or idea>>> Pokemon....etc
Have to be ready for those in the middle moments.
Having my own two boys now, I enjoy these even more. My take on the adult level of Calvins communication is it's the highlights of his obeservations during the day. I notice this with my two, their conversations are usually
Pokemon, Pokemon, Wii, other things <<<really insightful and intelligent observation, or idea>>> Pokemon....etc
Have to be ready for those in the middle moments.
Hobbes is an infinitely cooler companion than any Pokemon, though. And I think Calvin would scoff at the concept of training an obedient companion animal to fight other animals. It's all he can do to keep Hobbes from affectionately disembowelling him.
Yeah. I loved his cardboard box inventions. I was always bummed as I kid that I could never find a box that big. (Of course, Calvin's proportions are not quite human.) All you needed to amend the invention was to write something new on the side. It's completely unscientific and yet it is never even questioned as to whether it's true. It just is. It's like when I was a kid and I designed a time machine powered by laundry detergent & dish soap.
YES! The best comic strip of all time. For years, I've even had some space on my website devoted to them:
http://www.rabittooth.com/calvin.htm
Plus... everywhere I go on the internet, I use a modified Calvin as my avatar:
-Rabittooth
Great avatars!! Very imaginative.
^I just noticed Calvin-Kirk is going to commit suicide...
I think the idea is that he's brandishing the phaser aggressively, but the 2-dimensionality of the image creates a misleading impression.
^I just noticed Calvin-Kirk is going to commit suicide...
I think the idea is that he's brandishing the phaser aggressively, but the 2-dimensionality of the image creates a misleading impression.
^ There ya go. Yeah...I actually did one where the phaser was pointing straight up, but it was unrecognizable as a TOS phaser when just showing the underside / boittom of it like the Steampunk raygun one.
-Rabittooth
Don't worry about it; Christopher has an "explaining things to the little people" gland which is one thousand per cent normal size. He just can't stop himself, sometimes.
