What is Sup Forums's opinion on Calvin and Hobbes?

What is Sup Forums's opinion on Calvin and Hobbes?

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Sup Forums universally hates it and thinks anyone who likes it is a terrible person.

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Shit.

People look too much into it and pretend is something else.

Unrealistic garbage

plebbest of the pleb please gtfo

Fucking fantastic
My favorite comic strip alongside Peanuts

You ruined the joke, asshole.

everybody loves C&H there is nothing more to discuss have a nice day goodbye

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I read it when I was younger and was fascinated by the artwork, especially when I couldn't put every situation into context. Some 20 years later, after recently skimmed through an old anniversary collection book and watching "Dear Mr. Watterson", I have a new appreciation for the work.
There is truly an interesting spectrum of humor that ranges from the immature, the subtle-indirect, and the passive-agressive philosopher who is eternally bitter having accepted his fate in society's caste system.

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get a load of this faggot

its the best news comic

Pretty cute and clever when it was about childhood, but absolute trash when it got preachy. That hunting comic pissed me off.

Never was a fan of it, but most people seem to like it, so I suppose it's probably good.

I liked it fine, enjoyed it when got my first volume at around 8 years old.

However, I don't understand why people treat it like it's the Citizen Kane of comics, or get so offended by that one Robot Chicken short, which I think is hilarious.

When I was a kid I liked reading the comics, as an adult I now see them in a different light.

I lost all respect for this guy after his "I read the wiki" Spawn/Image video. Seriously, that was such a bad video.

shit tier

I think Calvin and Hobbes is one of the only things in the entire world that nearly everyone universally agrees to not hate.
Even if you don't care about it.
The only reason it doesn't get much threads made about it is because, while it's not obscure, it never had sequels or revivals, and most of Sup Forums comprises of underage posters who didn't read it.
There's nothing else to really discuss.

I adore Calvin and Hobbes personally, though I haven't read it in a while. It's a charming piece of Americana, and it appeals to a wide range of demographics while staying tasteful and clever.

Can you elaborate on that a bit more?

I'm half and half on KK.

It goes without saying that his video editing skills are legendary, and he's a very eloquent speaker. There are a couple things that irk me, though.

One is that you can notice his inner fanboy, especially on episodes like his Futurama one where he acts like it's genius writing in a Sistine Chapel of cartoons when it's just above average, that "no one wants to be Mickey Mouse" line at the end of the Bugs Bunny video.

Two, some of his videos are out of place, like the ones for Childish Gambino and Frank Ocean. Hey, what goes great with cartoons? Hip hop and rap musicians! It's as jarring and out-of-nowhere as Spoony's Wrestlemania videos.

I lost faith in him once I saw that video on Childish. Such a mediocre rapper.

Oh, totally forgot.

Another of his fanboy quirks is his hate for the Pissing Calvin sticker, and that Robot Chicken short, acting like both of them are like wiping your butt with Bible pages.

Never saw a video with him, but I did listen to a mashup of his lyric in a Caravan Palace video by Oneboredjeu. Didn't seem like anything special.

>hate for the Pissing Calvin sticker
Honestly, let's be fair, those suck.
You don't have to be a Calvin and Hobbes fan to dislike them.

very enjoyable.

I wonder if it'd be as famous/well-remembered if the comic ran for a longer time, or even still running today.

>Hey, what goes great with cartoons? Hip hop and rap musicians!
This is also weirdly appropriate in that Toonami and Calvin and Hobbes both served to help bridge two disparate aspects of my identity that would have otherwise left me with no small amount of confusion and cognitive dissonance. Anime/general geekery with hip hop/"black cool"; and my affinity for both imaginative escape and political/philosophical thought, respectively.

>shits on garfield
opinion dropped

Oh, fuck, guy from a few posts above, here, I totally forgot that one.

Garfield never had a place in my heart, but I didn't hate it. Why does Christian talk about it with so much venomous hostility?

Jealousy.

Because the whole video is about his pretentious "art over commerce" stance, and Garfield is all about monetization.

Look, I'm not going to deny that C&H is a literal masterpiece, and a far cry about Garfield by just about every metric. And I really respect Watterson for his "no merchandise" stance, even if I'd love a Calvin & Hobbes animated show -- that's his prerogative, and it's admirable.

But there's a place for strips like Garfield too, and I loved the shit out of it when I was a kid. I have the first ~34 volumes plus a dozen or more other books, and I read all of them multiple times. Jim Davis created something that made me happy as a kid; what do I care if he also made millions of dollars off of it?

Now where could my pipe be?

I love C&H, but I laughed like hell at the mars is amazing skit too.

I think half the reason it has the rep it does now though, is because Watterson was one of those rare as fuck people like Rick Moranis who did what they wanted to do, then just said "ok, that's it, I'm done, you can't use me or my stuff for anything else, piss off forever and take these shit coffee mugs with you."

Loved it, collected the series growing up, and I still have them.

I've honestly always wondered about the possibility of Watterson coming to a place like Sup Forums, being such a shut in autist.

I really like the first half, the second being mostly cheap rehashing.

he'd probably lurk drawthreads and draw weird crossovers once every 6 months

I hadn't seen that robot chicken sketch in a while and in the context of being robot chicken I'm ok with it, it was only sorta funny though.

HOWEVER THIS PEANUTS +FOOTLOOSE BIT IS HILARIOUS

Totally forgot about that fucking peanuts dancing lmao:

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that's fucking Family Guy tier

>mfw I loved Calvin and Hobbes as a kid
>The sunday comic strip placed perspective in my life and existential ideas

As far as robot chicken peanuts go, that is literally fucking pleb tier.

At least move up to

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The designs are really neat, I really like them, too bad this comicstrip wasn't published on my country

MARS IS AMAZING

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Can someone posts those Sunday comics where it's him going through the whole day in all the panels with a punchline in the end? Those were my favorite.

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thanks

damn that one is depressing

I've always enjoyed it.

Although I hope I wasn't the only one who found Calvins mother attractive

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He's a fucking Che tshirt

overrated entry level garbage. i'm honestly convinced people pretend to like it for whatever reason. you mostly see normies do it. its attempts at humor and """deep""" philosophical observations make me roll my eyes.

You sound bitter.

Pretty sure there is porn of her
I'd know

I always liked the design and i really liked how Calvin's imagination worked. Like most people I respected how Waterson went about his business.

I don't wax nostolgic for it and I think if I discovered it in a vacum as a grown man it would not have any more appeal than any other strip.

It would lend itself very well to animated feature or series. Waterson's concerns could be easily abated given how easy it is to produce and manage content today.

You know there's a fine line between being a contrarian and being a normie. A contrarian says "True Detective is teenage nihilism pushed " a normie says "I don't see what's so great about this Shakespeare guy, he's just someone who's hard to read because he wrote in early English." A contrarian says "the unquestionable confidence in the fields modern popular science have basis only in flimsy sensational press interpretations of fringe scientific journals; as consumers of the cult of science, we put faith in something that even the highest experts in the field have no faith in", a normie says "higher math is pointless, no one ever uses it in their every day life." A contrarian says "Watchmen is a pretentious comic in which Moore masquerades as a big fish in a small pond by bringing entry-level literary concepts to a genre that never asked for it" a normie says "Calvin and Hobbes is shit that people read to much into and pretends is something else."

Sup Forums used to be contrarian, but every day it becomes more and more normie. Just because you have no friends and have weird fetishes doesn't make you any less of a plebe, it just makes you more pathetic.

No shit buddy

It's Trash

Can anyone post the arc where Calvin s house gets robbed