Read this series (click next a few times to see them all):
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05
It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.
Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
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#12I learned so many words reading Calvin and Hobbes as a kid. Just off the top of my head:
- "The pernicious poem place."
- "Demonstrates defenestration."
- The "salubrious" beats.
- "Mainstream commercial nihilism can't be trusted?"
Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
#13Read this series (click next a few times to see them all): https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05 It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.
Calvin and Hobbes always had a peculiar prescience about it.
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#14I had this idea so many years ago, cheers for the execution!
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#15Read this series (click next a few times to see them all): https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05 It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.
You picked a particularlly good day for that one, especially when Hobbes says "As is advertising easn't intrusive enough before."
If only you knew Hobbes....
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#16Read this series (click next a few times to see them all): https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05 It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.
Watterson could offer some biting social commentary, but towards the end of C&H's run he had also become a sort of curmudgeonly old man. For example, there are strips where he depicts modern art as being just as bunch of phoneys trying to hoodwink one another, but I know a few abstract artists personally and they are very sincere about the work they are creating (primarily for themselves, to scratch an inner itch), even if it isn't to everyone's taste.
It might be for the best that he retired near what everyone felt was a peak. Had he kept going, he could have even ended up like certain other long-running comic strips where the polemic takes over and the humor is an afterthought.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd love to hear what he has to say about modern life, esp about social media
I think he specifically does not want you to know what he thinks about these things.
Is it really a secret? Calvin and Hobbes contains a ton of relevant commentary. Just the amount of time Calvin spends outside tells you something.
He probably would leave it as observation rather than presciption, like most humorists.
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#18My favorite from recent times is https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2015/08/20
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#19Read this series (click next a few times to see them all): https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05 It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.
I grew up on Calvin and Hobbes, but in retrospect it's not terribly surprising Bill Watterson eventually decided to fuck off into the woods.
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#20One of my favorites - https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2019/04/07