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Calvin & Hobbes: "Think BIG! Riches! Power!"
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Zaz
Title: Manager:
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6/6 11:51am
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RE: Calvin & Hobbes: "We prefer your extinction to the loss of our jobs."
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"It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw."
"The "realistic" art style and dramatic angles of comic strip soap operas like Rex Morgan, M.D. are funny enough when they're real, so Watterson didn't have to stretch too far for a parody. I mean, look at this. I wouldn't listen to two real people talk about whether to put their kid in day care, why would anyone actually read this? Also, that second panel is scary and I think Rex is driving so fast because his passenger has to hurry and get back to The Human League."
I love the doctor strips.
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Zaz
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6/9 12:42pm
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RE: Calvin & Hobbes: "It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw."
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Next: "The Duplicator Story.
Some of the stories told in this strip last weeks, and this was one of them. Calvin and Hobbes isn't particularly unique in this respect; after all, the last ten years of "Funky Winkerbean" have chronicled him making his bed. Calvin and Hobbes stories are so great because they give the strip the opportunity to spin completely out of control.
In this story, Calvin invents a device which allows him to instantly duplicate himself. His intent is to create a clone that will do all the hard work for him, but hell unleashes when he realizes that the clone, being exactly like him, is just as much of an asshole as he is. Calvin #2 manages to create Calvins #3-6, and they all cause chaos because they know that Calvin #1 will have to pay for it. It's just about the best alibi a kid could have. It probably reaches its climax when Calvin's mom sees #4 glued to the television when he's supposed to be doing chores and yells, "What are you doing watching TV?" #4 replies casually, "Why, are you taking a survey?" If I had responded like that to either of my parents when I was a kid, they would have shot me in the kneecap.
Needless to say, this is where we got the name of this website from."
I loved the replicator strips, too; they became philosophical in the best way.
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Strilo
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6/9 12:46pm
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RE: Calvin & Hobbes: "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink'?"
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This was one of my favorite sequences too.
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JMJacenSolo
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Date Posted:
6/9 12:49pm
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RE: Calvin & Hobbes: "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink'?"
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"What do you mean? This guy is a total jerk!"
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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The Duplicator story is probably my favorite long story too. It's the classic story of being confronted with yourself and being shocked at what a totally awful person you turn out to be. This being Calvin there is no realization of this, of course.
My favorite in the sequence is where one of the duplicates is asked by Miss Wormwood for the solution to a problem from the previous day; he launches into a ridiculously labynthine explanation of which duplicates come to school on which days and how to get the answer, Miss Wormwood will have to wait until Duplicate #3 (or whichever it was) cycles around again.
Final panel: Duplicate in front of Principal's desk; Principal has hands clasped on the desk and a look of complete weariness on his face. Duplicate is bellowing, "Look, I really don't see what's so hard about this."
The scary thing about this story is it makes you think; think of the kids you know. Wouldn't this explain a lot about their behavior? 
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Zaz
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6/9 4:51pm
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RE: Calvin & Hobbes: "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink'?"
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In a word, yes; it would. A lot.
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JediTrilobite
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6/10 8:06am
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I love Calvin and Hobbes. I need to pull my books out again and read through them.
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JMJacenSolo
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Also don't forget the rabbit Watterson pulled out of his hat with the "ethicator" variation of the storyline a few years later. That was genius.
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Zaz
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6/10 11:35am
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And...next:
"For a Mom, She's Pretty Cool"
"Probably the best approach a parent could take when their child asks of cigarettes. It's also the only strip where Calvin gets what he wants. Figures that she ***** all over him at the same time."
Calvin should've known it couldn't be that easy. Love that: "Eighteen? By then I'll know better!" Not always, kid.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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6/10 2:23pm
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RE: Calvin & Hobbes: "For a Mom, She's Pretty Cool"
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Yeah, I almost mentioned the Ethicator thing. It's a classic story too and it comes incredibly close to living up to the original. So many deathless lines in that one, particularly, "Do we have any prunes?" which always lays me on the floor.
Also, what's great about that one is that you're just dropped into the story for the first couple of strips without really knowing what the heck is going on, which adds the fun.
"Who could make my heart so woozy?
Who but thee, my dear sweet Susie."
Or words to that effect.
The smoking one is a fair effort, a particularly great art job on Calvin's expressions, but the strip is pretty predictable.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
6/11 12:28pm
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RE: Calvin & Hobbes: "For a Mom, She's Pretty Cool"
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"Words fail me."
The Transmogrifier Story.
"Ahhhhhh, The Transmogrifier. The Transmogrifier was composed of several strips, and was even made more efficient when held within the parameters of a squirt gun. This is my favorite Transmogrifier strip, because Calvin is adorable. This was also the strip where I realized that all Calvin and Hobbes strips were written in all-caps."
Couldn't find a jpg for this one. Essentially, Calvin goes into a cardboard box and becomes a tiger cub. Hence Hobbes' reaction.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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My favorite one in this one is where Calvin presents himself to his father and asks if he notices what's different about him. "New haircut?" Dad ventures. "Are you blind?" Calvin snaps, "I'm a tiger." "Oh, I thought you meant besides that; Calvin, Dad's kind of tired tonight," Dad says and echoes the words of millions of parents the world over.
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Zaz
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6/12 1:13pm
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RE: Calvin & Hobbes: "Words Fail Me"
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"I notice your oeuvre is monochromatic."
"Also setting Calvin and Hobbes apart was how surprisingly literate it was, especially for a comic that was not a specific commentary piece like Doonesbury or Bloom County. Watterson admitted in the Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary collection that he had held quite an interest in art for many years, and always had sort of a bemused fascination with the amount of bull**** people build around it. I'm, uh, paraphrasing, of course. Sad to say, there are many people who would find the "artwork" in these two strips to be utterly brilliant and pay a ton of cash for them. Then they'd melt. The art, that is. Or maybe the people who bought it too, hell, I dunno.
—Bill"
Again I can't find a jpg for this, but you can find it on the web.
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Strilo
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RE: Calvin & Hobbes: "I notice your oeuvre is monochromatic."
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Zaz you know GIFs work fine for this stuff right?
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I began to appreciate the 'art spoof' strips after I hit college; maybe because it was then that I realized how some people really talk about art. My favorite one: a snowman screaming that Calvin calls, "The Agony of Existence Weighed Against the Horror of Non-Being;" "as it melts," he opines, "It only becomes more tragic," about one snowman sculpture, though maybe a different one. Someone off panel bellows, "Hey, dummy, it's too warm for a snowman." "Ignore the Philistine," Calvin says, packing a snowball. Now, that's funny.
I really love the snowman/art strips now. I get it finally and they're as funny as any running gag he ever did.
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