John Calvin (1509-1564) was a 16th-century French Protestant theologian. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a 17th-century English political philosopher. Some MuseBloggers have become interested in their ideas and have requested a thread on which to discuss them.
Just kidding! We know about Bill Watterson’s comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes” and love it as much as you do. Here’s a place for you to talk about Snow Goons, propellor beanies, G.R.O.S.S., and other memorable parts of Calvin’s world.
I love Calvin and Hobbes! My school library has this ENORMOUS book full of all the comics! I go through it all the time.
100% cool!
GAPAs, could you add Calvin and Hobbes to the thread?
Yay!
Got that out of my system. So now, onto the subject of C&J…
ZVX,
Calvinball!
Yes! I love C&H!
Especially Calvinball. My friends and I used to play a game similar to that every summer. *Sigh*…good times.
Yay! and now, an exciting new thing… CALVIN AND HOBBES SSSS
(Calvin)
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads.
Gee, I wonder which you are.
I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!
(Hobbes)
(Calvin)
(Rosalyn)
Okay Calvin, listen up.
AAA! No! I’m not going to bed! You can’t make me!
You and I are going to make a deal.
A deal?! What kind of deal?! I’m not making any deal!
You don’t give me any trouble tonight, and we’ll play a game.
What’s the game?! “Kill the kid”?! No way!
plus, you get to stay up half an hour past your bedtime.
Notice how obediantly I’m sitting here.
(Calvin)
(Rosalyn)
(Calvin)
(Rosalyn)
(Calvin)
(Rosalyn)
(Calvin)
Sooner or later I’ll continue the segment. Where do you think Calvin lives? Gwyn and I think he lives somewhere in maine, but that’s just us.
I LOOOOOOOOOVE C+H! I have every single book, every single collection, down to the last comic strip!
*Wishes tis thread was about john calvin and Thomas Hobbes*
*Is a History Geek*
His house is “by the giant letter E in the word ‘States'” (reference the storyline where they go to Mars): therefore, he must live somewhere back East, but probably not as far as the coast. Perhaps one of the Great Lakes states.
I think he might live in Ohio. There are a couple of strips that mention buckeyes…
Bill Watterson is from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, although I think he lives in Cleveland now.
7- -bows down to history geek-ness-
You could probably talk about them as well.
Calvin and Hobbes is one of the few newspaper comics with a soul. it is in a class of its own. i cannot praise it highly enough.
10- -does double take- It’s Kagy! Wow! -hugs- -pies- Either I’ve been gone a long time, or you have. How’ve you been? Care for a cup of tea?
Kagz! You’re back! Yayzers! I used to be Go Bananas, but I needed a new start. GB was really immature and had sloppy writing. Ew. And I started this thread!
YOU were Go Bananas? It’s like I don’t even know you anymore…
(5, 8 ) Watterson lives in Ohio (not far from Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Grant O., I believe). We know Calvin lives in a place that gets lots of snow, so Ohio would fit — though, of course, other places near the second “E” also have snowy winters.
CALVIN AND HOBBES!I LOVE them!
Calvin: DAD, I WANT A BEDTIME STORY!
Dad: I’m busy Calvin. I’ll read you one tomorrow.
Calvin: IF YOU DON’T READ ME A STORY, I WON’T GO TO BED!
Dad: Once upon a time there was a boy named Calvin who alway wanted things his way. One day his day got sick of it and locked him in the basement for the rest of his life Everyone else lived happily ever after. The End.
Calvin: I don’t like these stories with morals.
14- It’s just not as good without the illustrations.
Why is this on DFTT?
This ma not be exactly right.
(Calvin’s dad)
What story would you like me to read tonight? We can read anything but-
Hamster Huey and the Glooey Kablooey!
NO! No more hamster Huey! Look, you know the story by heart!
IWANT HAMSTER HUEY!!!!!
Wow, the story sure was different THAT time.
Do you think the townsfolk will ever find Hamster Huey’s head?
(Calvin)
(Calvin’s dad)
(Calvin)
*later, in bed*
(Hobbes)
(Calvin)
This is my favorite! I love it SO MUCH!!!
Calvin and Hobbes is awesome! My brother and I used to play Calvinball every time we visited out grandparents.
I’ve always loved the G.R.O.S.S. strips, as well as the ones with Rosalyn. Oh, and the ones with the cardboard box inventions too. Those pwned.
Oh, I looooove Calvin and Hobbes. I have a lot of the books; some of them have strips repeating though, so I don’t know if I can say I have “all” of them or not. >_< But possibly my favorite comic strip.
20 – Yeah, I have a bunch of the books too. One of my brother’s friends has the entire collection, though.
17 – Yeah, I just noticed that too.
Why is it there?
(Much apologies for the likely double post)
(17, 22) I thought that was what ZVX was asking me to do in comment 2. If not, I don’t know what he meant.
23 – Oh, I see that now. I was confused by it too.
Yay! I used to read all of my C&H books every weekend and they never got old because they’re just so good! I don’t have time for that luxury anymore, but I still like to have C&H marathons every now and then. Isn’t there a complete C&H out now? *wants*
25 – Yeah, my brother’s friend has that. I’ve probably got almost all of the strips in individual books, though, so it would be more or less a waste of money for me.
C&H is awesome.
*gasp* They devoted a THREAD to this??? THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU GAPAs!!!!!!!!!!!!! *bows reverently*
25- Yes. There is. I HAVE it!!! I got it for Christmas two or three years ago. I’ve read it at least five times and bookmarked all the funny ones.
My favorite C&H comic ever:
*is behind box that says Life 5 cents
All right, here’s a nickel. What do I get?
Nothing. I just ripped you off. That’s life!
(Calvin)
(Susie)
(Calvin)
29- I love that one.
I like the Spaceman Spiff strips.
I do love C&H!
Poor Calvin! He is always cold! 
Calvin: Boy is it col! Can’t we turn the heat up?
Mom: Heat is expensive Calvin. Just put on a sweater.
Calvin: Look, the thermostat goes all the way up to 90 degrees! We could be sitting around in our shorts!
Mom: Leave the thermostat alone Calvin.
Calvin: I can almost see my breathe. I’ll just crank it up to 75, OK?
Mom: I said don’t touch it!
Calvin: Gee, my hands are so numb, I can’t move the switch! Guess I’ll have to put on a sweater.
I ♥ Calvin and Hobbes!!! After I got the massive collection of every comic he ever made, I donated all of my tattered and loved comic books to the library. After that, I got my brother addicted.
31- I love that one!
John Calvin had a funny hat and a weird beard, but he had some interesting views.
And I have to say, Hobbes is one of those guys I’ve always wanted to meet, but never will. *tear*
One of my numerous favorite strips:
Calvin-Hi Mom! I’m making my own newspaper to report the events of our household.
Mom-That’s nice.
Calvin-Now I’m looking for a page one lead story. Can I interview you?
Mom-Sure.
Calvin- OK, what are you cutting up there for dinner?
Mom-Fish.
Calvin-KNIFE WIELDING MOTHER HACKS ICHTHYOID! GRIM MELEE IS EVENING RITUAL! SUBURBAN FAMILY DEVOURS VICTIM!
Mom-Out of the kitchen! Out! Out!
A favorite quote: “I’m so smart it’s almost scary. I guess I’m a child progeny.”
I love Calvin and Hobbes!
“What if animals bulldozed a suburb and planted trees?”
I love calvin and hobbes.
“GET AWAY FROM OUR DOOR WITH THAT DRILL!”
I LOVE spaceman spiff and scientific progress goes boink and attack of the deranged mutant killer monster snow goons and there’s treasure everywhere… oh geez I love all Calvin and Hobbes. hey, has anyone else read the original comics besides me?? HAMSTER HUEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
23- a picuter of C&H?
Calvin: Hello Susie, this is Calvin. I lost our homework assignment. Can you tell me what we were supposed to read for tomorrow?
Susie: Are you sure you’re not calling some other reason?
Calvin: Why else would I call you?
Susie: Maybe you missed the melodious sound of my voice.
Calvin: What are you crazy?! All I want is the stupid assignment!!!!
Susie: First say you missed the melodious sound of my voice.
Calvin: THIS IS BLACKMAIL!
I think I’ll scan the Hamster Huey’s Head Fell Off one and send it in. Is that all right?
33- Hobbes rocks! His dry wit is so funny.
Calvinball! I played with my brother once, and it was the most funy any girl could have with an 8 year old little boy.
37 – Yeah, everyone in this thread has read it, apparently.
37) YEAH! HUEY!
42 – I haven’t. No, don’t kill me! Just tell me where I can find them.
YAY GAPAs!!!!!! I love you guys, and that description of the thread was too funny…..
I’ll have to find some of my favorite strips………..I love them all though, really. I have all my C&H books on the shelf above my bed, some of the rare books that spend all the time in my room (others get shuffled off to the library in the barn).
In fact, my copy of The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes completely fell apart, so the spine is duct taped together….
44 – The Internet and Barnes and Noble.
Remember the story where Calvin holds onto a balloon and it takes him into the upper atmosphere?
“My transmoogofier gun! I just point it at myself and I’m safe!”
*turns into safe*
Hooray for Calvin and Hobbes! I like that the Bill Watterson slips in environmental messages/views- eg when Calvin and Hobbes stumble across the site for a housing development in the middle of the woods.
Calvin: “Dad, are you vicariously living through me in the hope that my accomplishments will validate your mediocre life and in some way compensate for all of the opportunities you botched?”
Calvin’s father: “If I were, you can bet I’d be re-evaluating my strategy.”
Calvin (later, to his mother): “Mom, Dad keeps insulting me.”
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!calvin and hobbes!!! in history we were going to do a puppet show on the enlightenment and we were going to have a bit on thomas hobbes and he was going to be a tiger but wwe decided against it. i used to have a fish named hobbes. pretty much every time i burp and dont say anything my sister clears her throaght and then we start reenacting one of the strips.
My dad LOVES calvin & hobbes.
My favorite C&H strips are the Spaceman Spiff ones and the ones involving Calvin’s imaginary dinosaur worlds. Really Bill Watterson was a great artist, besides a great cartooner.
I’ll have to find my favorite strip…I don’t quite have it memorized.
I’m still holding out for a transmogrifier. if you guys see one let me know.
44) library!
Transmogrifier pwn!
55- I first read The Authorative Calvin and Hobbes when I was 6, and I made my own transmogrifier. (the beginning of that book is about how Calvin turns into an elephan from his transmogrifier…)
Anyway, I was a bluebird for about three hours, and my parents seemed to consider me still human. It was very odd, I tell you, very odd.
The husband of our choir director knew Bill Watterson as a kid. In fact, he’s on the acknowledgments page in the Authoritative C&H. One of Brad’s stories about him was that a friend of theirs had a large chalkboard in their basement, and Bill Watterson wrote a poem on it that took up all the space. It was never erased, even when they sold the house. Of course, the new owners may have erased it, but who knows?
I like the strip when Calvin and Hobbes are playing “war” and when they both shoot each other they figure out what a stupid game it really is. I’ll have to dig it up and post it.
One of my favorites is the one where Calvin transmogrifies himself into a tiger. Eeerie.
57- cool.
57- I agree, that was a very good strip. I also liked the “digging for dinosaur bones” story where Calvin digs up a lot of trash and thinks it’s a dinosaur.
60–One thing I always liked about Calvin was his crazy imagination…I think I identified with his ability to make dinosaur bones out of coke bottles and wire hangers.
I thought of another one I like! The Attack of the Snow Goons! I love it when he goes out and freezes them all with the hose
62) That’s funny.
62- I agree, that one made me laugh out loud. “Monster killer mutant deranged snow goons!”
64- “They’re killer monster mutant deranged snow goons! Actually, this would be kinda cool if they weren’t out to kill me.”
Isn’t the phrase “deranged mutant killer monster snow goons”? That’s how I remember it.
A Sunday comic:
I like the strips like that; they actually have a message but are still funny.
Calvin PWNs!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*reads snow goons again* *cracks up*
“WWWWAUGH! THE WHOLE YARD’S ICE!!!”
“See? See?
They never see.”
I love Calvin and Hobbes!
“I pledge alliegance to Queen Fragg, and her mighty state of hysteria…”
I like the cardboard box ones the best, and Spaceman Spiff, and mostly the ones of his imagination and then one frame of real life.
I want the giant collection! We only have “Scientific Progress goes Boink” (which, by the way, is the best book title ever!).
*brrrrrrrring* Oops, got to go to 2nd period! See you later!
There was this strip where Calvin was saying, “Who was the guy guy looked at a cow and said, I’ll think I’ll drink whatever comes outta them?”
Who was the guy?
“In a couple days, he could make 100 of them! If all of those made 100, and all of THOSE made 100, why…”
“That would be pretty cool if they weren’t out to get me.”
*cracks up* I love those two lines!
66 – Yep.
“As far as I’m concerned, if something is so complicated that you can’t explain it in 10 seconds, then it’s probably not worth knowing anyway.”
That should be my motto or something. -hangs it on my wall-
That is so the kind of thing I would do.
Calvin: I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
I wanna have a T-shirt that says that.
“Sleepwalking?”
“Nightmare?”
“HOMICIDAL PSYCHO JUNGLE CAT!”
75-
I hate those bumper stickers of Calvin weeing on stuff; that is copywright infringement that Bill Watterson did not approve of!!!
Calvin: See any signs of Martian life?
Hobbes: Not yet.
C: Hey, look, it’s the old “Viking” spacecraft that landed here in the 70’s!
Hobbes: Gosh, I wonder if it’s still working.
*Run up to spacecraft and make funny faces*
new argument w/ your teacher. ask to study calvin and hobbes as a philosophy project
78) Ha ha!
Teacher: Who would like to summarize what we just read? Calvin, how about you?
Calvin: Sorry! I’m here against my will. I refuse to cooperate. They can transport my BODY to school, but they can’t chain my SPIRIT! My spirit roams free! Walls can’t confine it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
Teacher: Calvin, if you’d put half the energy of your protests into your school work……..
Calvin: You can try to leave a message, but my spirit screens its calls.
45 – Library? In a barn? *gets super excited just thinking about how amazing that must be*
78 – I had to study Calvinism in fifth grade, and I was so tempted to write something about martians and snow goons.
Yay for C ‘n’ H!!! That’s only, like, my favorite comic strip of all time!
But, hey, what do ya’ll think of Foxtrot?
82 – I love Foxtrot.
8- Not as good as Calvin. P.S. I like The Far Side too.
83-I know, it’s pretty awesome! Also, Zits is fun…
85 – Zits is funny, I also like Dilbert.
Far Side is good! But how about Get Fuzzy?
My Calvin and Hobbes – obsessed little brother is watching as I type this.
My three fvorite characters in Peanuts are Snoopy, Linus, and Woodstock.
The Far Side is nice, but not as nice as Calvin and Hobber.
My tiger. it seems, is running round nude.
This fur coat must have made him perspire.
It lies on the floor- should this be construed
As a permanent change of attire?
Perhaps he considers its colors passe.
Or maybe it fit him too snug.
Will he want it back? should I put it away?
Or use it right here as a rug?
I LOVE CALVIN AND HOBBES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! x 1,000,000,000
I have the complete box set in hardcover! Though I have to say homocidacal jungle cat is my favorite book
The whole story about running away to the Yukon is hillarious.
8- It depends on if the Atlas wrote “United States” on one line or two. But it was probably on one line, because the Southeast doesn’t get that much snow.
Foxtrot is pretty good, although it’s only on Sundays now and that makes me sad. I also like Baby Blues, Garfield, and a few others. But none of those can rival Calvin and Hobbes at all.
OH MY GOD!!!! Lynn Johnsen, the creator of “For Better or for Worse,” is ending her strip! Well, not exactly. She’s finishing it, then redrawing everything and tweaking it.
CLUNK.
That is the sound of my jaw hitting the table when I read that.
92- What about…Pearls Before Swine?
94- Yeah! But honestly, i think we’re getting off topic. Let’s just have a thread for miscellaneous comics.
Oh my goodness, did I forget to capitalize that I??????????
GRAARGH. I’ve basically memorized all the strips from Calvin and Hobbes…*sigh*
96- It happens to the best of us.
Doctor: Yep, that’s Chicken Pox all right.
Calvin: CHICKEN pox?! Mom, what IS this guy? A veterinarian?!
Doctor to Mom: The virus should run its course in aboout a week.
Calvin: He’s mad! MAD, I say! I’ll bet the REAL doctor is tied up and gagged in the other exam room!
Doctor to Mom: He’s extremely contagious, so keep him away from other kids.
Mom: Calvin has to be INSIDE for a WEEK??!!
Doctor: That’s a nasty twitch you’ve developed.
Calvin: Hey Doc, for 10 bucks I’ll make sure you see those kids in the waiting room again REAL soon!
My favorite comics, in order:
PEANUTS
Calvin & Hobbes
Dilbert
The Far Side
Larry Gonick’s comic, whatever it’s called
Dork Tower
Heathcliff
Foxtrot
Pickles
Adam@home
100th post! w00t!
My favorite comics, in order:
Calvin and Hobbes
Dilbert
Foxtrot
Peanuts
I leave out Raw Materials because it’s not a comic in a newspaper and if I put in all of the web comics I like… well.
What? None of you like Pearls Before Swine?
Some of my favorite comics:
Pearls Before Swine
Get Fuzzy
Dilbert
Foxtrot
Peanuts
Zits
Adam@Home
Calvin and Hobbes
The Far Side
102) I’ve never heard of Pearls Before Swine before.
102 – Oh, yeah. Forgot.
But, yeah, I love that comic. 
102 – Pearls Before Swine is good.
102- I read it every day! I like that terrorist kitten.
106 – Haha, I love Commie Kitty (as I call en) and I also like the “zeeba neighba”. XD
Have you read the peanuts lamp one?
YAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! Today we got these book order form thingys. (from which you can order books
Some Scholastic thing prolly.) And I saw TWO COLLECTIONS OF CALVIN AND HOBBES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *and more exclamation points*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ect.)!!!!!!!! 4 books, and a huge 256 paged one called “The Authorative (this in fancy red writing) CALVIN AND HOBBES (this in big and bold letters)”
I am going to get it.
I might have a drawing that might rejuvenate the thread. Wait, I do have it! Okay, I’ll send it right now.
Haha, Pearls Before Swine is Amazing. I do very much enjoy the zeeba neighba.
Did you get my photo? I think TMFA will like it… ^-^
Why won’t people take comics seriously!
I was recently re-reading one of my C&H books.
“Horrendous Space Kablooie!”
I’ll send in my photo again, through my old email… *sigh* *opens new tab*
Zinc sent this alternative view of Calvin and Hobbes:
But… but… but… Calvin has a black beard! But Hobbes is right.
Do we have a Garfield thread? We really should.
116 – Hahaha! That’s so funny!
GARFIELD THREAD!!!! FOXTROT THREAD!!!
116- Cute! Did you draw that yourself?
117, 119- No talking about Garfield on Calvin and Hobbes! If only because Garfield has been in a sad decline for the past 10 years.
In the introdution to The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson says that he stopped writing Calvin and Hobbes so it didn’t degenerate and become a bunch of merchandise and advertising. AND THAT’S WHAT GARFIELD IS NOW!!!
I weep for dead comics.
121- Poor Garfield.
I’m going right on over to the Suggestion Box and pestering the GAPAs to no end.
I have the first 16 Garfield comic books and number thirty-something. I’ve never really looked at many Calvin and Hobbes comics though… *braces self for onslaught of pies and WHAT?s*
119- No, Pearls Before Swine thread! Dilbert thread!
We’ve had threads devoted to the general topics of comics, manga, and graphic novels, but with very rare exceptions, we don’t devote threads to individual comics, any more than we do movies or novels.
I love that picture! Did you make it yourself?
I found this cute comic on Deviant Art of Calvin at college age, opening a box to find Hobbes and then having Hobbes come to life again and pounce on him, just like before.
Hey, that picture was my desktop background at one point!
It’s actually by Nina Matsumoto.
I like to think that’s what happened to C and H. And then they went on having adventures.
Can anyone confirm if this is a real C & H strip? Warning: sad.
[Snip. No, not real. –Admin.]
Sorry, URL didn’t work. Let me try this one:
[Snip. Still not real. –Admin.]
THIS THREAD IS STILL ALIVE?!?!?!?! *glee glee glee*
I LOVE CALVIN AND HOBBES!!! Pseudo and I quote them to each other all the time! I like the ones where they go to the lake *glee times three*
LadyG: *nonfriendly pies* WHAT?
My favorite ( side ) character from Calvin and Hobbes: Hmm. Ms. Wormwood?
What fun is being cool if you can’t wear a sombrero?
My friend showed me a copy of Calvin and Hobbes in French. It appears that Bill Watterson’s ingeniousness knows no language barriers. (This also may be a sign that I’m getting better at French.)
They have Calvin and Hobbes in French?! I should practice with that! Or not, since I know most of them and it might be kind of pointless.
I love the ones with the monsters under the bed, and the snowmen!!!
SFTDP, this thread needs reviving.
But I remembered another strip – that one where Calvin chews salad like a cow eating grass?
*rotates jaw to right, then down, then to left, then grinds teeth*
That one was hilarious.
What was the one that always makes me crack up? Oh yes, the one where Calvin & Hobbes are in the back seat on a road trip and Calvin’s dad (CD) yells at them to be quiet, then they have a weird face contest, then CD wins.
Also, the one where Calvin and Hobbes think there are monsters under the bed and Calvin arms himself with a dart gun, and Hobbes starts making noise with the honker. And CD bangs open the door and goes, “WHAT’S ALL THIS NOISE?” and Calvin goes “Aieee!” and shoots the dart gun at him and then CD goes, well I don’t remember. But .. *makes self laugh*
OFFICIAL STATEMENT:
Garfield and Fred Basset have never been funny in the entire several decades that they have been published.
END OFFICIAL STATEMENT
I can see why some people would like Garfield, since about one comic in every collection is funny, but Fred Basset is a different story. How is it possible that anyone can like it who is less that 60 years old?
Anyway, I love Calvin, and I have officially read EVERY SINGLE CARTOON. I know this because we own the complete Calvin and Hobbes hardback set and I read through the entire thing in about 3 or 4 days.
Ohh!! Me too! Wait, I’m gonna search for a funny quote. Here it is! It’s from Book One, page 263, middle strip;
Calvin-Calvin the zombie searches for food
Calvin-Horribly, the undead feed upon the living!
*Calvin makes a PB&J*
Calvin-…Although, in a pinch, a PB&J will do, if you eat it messily enough.
“Scientific progress goes boink?”
One of my favourite stories is when Calvin decides to be “cool”, and Hobbes tries to be cool, too, but he doesn’t do too well.
“What fun is being cool if you can’t wear a sombrero?” –Hobbes (One of my absolute favourite quotes)
We need a Get Fuzzy thread, but I’d probably be the only one on it…
I love the one where Calvin’s dad tells Calvin a scary story about a disembodied hand, then hides his own hand under his shirt and pretends the disembodied hand is strangling him, and Calvin faints.
That’s one of my favorite strips…I should try that out on my six-year-old sister!
This is the best one ever.
Moe: Hey, Twinky, gimme a quarter.
Calvin: Your simian countenance suggests a heritage unusually rich in species diversity.
Moe: What?
Calvin: Here you go. (walking away) That was worth 25 cents.
I used to love that comic even before I could understand what Calvin said…
Silver Lining, I’d be on it! “I pledge allegiance to the can of the perfect food that is tuna, and to the fishy of which it cans, one portion, just for me, with (???), and pickles, on top.”
Someone revive this thread…please!
The Snow Demons have honored me and my snow dancing, and there will be snow tonight! I will be a one-legged kid going that way tomorrow morning *glee*
139- Me, too. And it turns out he’s really saying “Your mother’s a monkey.”
I love this strip:
Calvin: Can we burn these leaves?
Calvin’s dad: No, that pollutes.
Calvin: But how can we appease the Mighty snow demons if we don’t sacrifice any leaves? We’ll have a warm winter!
Calvin’s dad: I don’t know whether your grasp of theology or meteorology is the more appalling.
Calvin: I guess I’ll go light some candles around the toboggan and beg for mercy.
Ha! Me, too. And also the one where Calvin says to Rosalyn, “My mother loves me more than life itself, unlike you, you nasty ol’ barracuda.” I am SO calling people nasty ol’ barracudas from now on.
I like the story where Hobbes cuts Calvin’s hair!
That’s a terrible strip, you nasty ol’ barracuda.
Just looking for an excuse to call someone a nasty ol’ barracuda. Which you’re not.
Kidding! I like it too
IT’S SNOWING! PRAISE SNOW DEMONS!
I prayed to the snow demons today, actually.
Do any of you like the strip with the transmogrifier gun?
I do!!
That would be awesome if that existed. I like Spaceman Spiff and Stupendous Man. Oh, and the one where he’s very, very small.
Yes, Spaceman Spiff rocks!
This may be my favorite comic of all time
Calvin is eating dinner.
Calvin: Blecchhh
Calvin’s food comes to life.
Dinner: To be??or not to be? *sigh* That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune…or to take arms against a sea of troubles…and by opposing, end them?
The dinner stabs itself with a fork.
Dinner: To die; to sleep; – no more! And by sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to… *sniff* ’tis a consummation devoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep! To sleep, perchance, to dream: Ay, there’s the rub! …For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come when we have shuffled off the mortal coil may give us pause.
*Silence*
Dinner: FEELINGS, wo,wo,wo
Calvin’s mom: You finished that right up! Did you like it?
Calvin: Let’s not have this ever again.
♥ ♥ Shakespear.
I LOVE THAT ONE SO MUCH!!!
What about that one where there’s no gravity? And that one where the balloon carries him up in the air?
Hobbes: What could you possibly regret?!
Calvin: I regret I wasn’t born with opposable toes.
Has anybody seen the strip where Calvin sword fights with his food?
No. That sounds really funny, though!
Yeah, I think so…is that the one where he splatters oatmeal all over the wall and his mom goes *facepalm*?
150- Oh, yes, the balloon adventure is a classic.
One of my favorite C&H quotes:
I have a hammer! I can put things together! I can knock things apart! I can alter my enviroment at will and make an incredible din all the while!
My friends and I invented a game called Calvinball, but its not like the game in the comic book- it actually has a few rules. There’s a defensive team and an offensive team. The offensive team stands on a street corner and tries to use hockey sticks, howdy horses, water pistols, or any bat-like object to bat a beachball into the street. The defensive team tries to bat it away from the street. When we played it, the offensive team was called the seven deadly sins. They were the ones with the howdy horses.
154 – Interesting, can I play?
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
So true…
And freezing your fingers in it is like drowning in an inch of water.
Calvin’s Mom: Those are, um, peculiar bones.
Calvin: So do you think I should ask for more money?
Hobbes: So are we still going to sell it/ them / something else?
Calvin: Not at full price, anyway.
So, today I had a pretty stressful day, and when I came home, the first thing I thought was, paraphrasing C+H: “Somedays, even my fingerless gloves don’t help.”
Rocket underpants…haha.
I was re-reading the “There’s Treasure Everywhere” book, and I found a strip I’d completely forgotten about, where Calvin is an astronaut landing on the moon. He uses the moon rover to write “Calvin Is Great” across the face of the moon in script. Then the strip shows him in his house, looking at the moon and sighing.
Calvin: “I wish I could go to the moon.”
Dad: “I wish you could, too.”
Mom: “Dear…”
I love that book.
Yesterday at sailing they were talking about starboard and port…
“See? I was right! Starboard is right! Port is left!”
I was just reading the Calvin and Hobbes tenth anniversary book. If you’ve got it, go and read the forewords. It’s very sad. Bill Watterson has very high ideals, to the point of sounding a little high and mighty at times, but he’s right about the comics being cheapened. I liked the early strips better, which were not so wordy. No six-year-old I know uses such big words as Calvin. The best essence of the strip is when Calvin is doing normal kid things. Things that sound like fun, that I always want to do, but I know in real life it won’t be as fabulous.