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Life through a progressive 5 year old Calvin and Hobbes
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Life through a progressive 5 year old Calvin and Hobbes
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Re: Life through a progressive 5 year old Calvin and Hobbes
#2Am I the only one who never found C&H humorous?
I loved comic strips as both a child and adult. Garfield, Far Side, Bloom County. I just never thought C&H was that funny.
Re: Life through a progressive 5 year old Calvin and Hobbes
#3Am I the only one who never found C&H humorous? I loved comic strips as both a child and adult. Garfield, Far Side, Bloom County. I just never thought C&H was that funny.
"Am I the only one who never found C&H humorous?"
Yes.
Re: Life through a progressive 5 year old Calvin and Hobbes
#4Am I the only one who never found C&H humorous? I loved comic strips as both a child and adult. Garfield, Far Side, Bloom County. I just never thought C&H was that funny.
I thought you were going to say something about how C&H made more insightful comments than jokes, but then you praised Garfield. Not to jump on the Garfield-hating bandwagon, but it isn't really in the same category.
Re: Life through a progressive 5 year old Calvin and Hobbes
#5Am I the only one who never found C&H humorous? I loved comic strips as both a child and adult. Garfield, Far Side, Bloom County. I just never thought C&H was that funny.
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Re: Life through a progressive 5 year old Calvin and Hobbes
#6Am I the only one who never found C&H humorous? I loved comic strips as both a child and adult. Garfield, Far Side, Bloom County. I just never thought C&H was that funny.
Most of the comics have their own niche. They are directed towards certain audience. For example Archies is mostly for teenagers and adults who still have musing for teenage life.
Garfield is mostly for those pet lovers.
Calvin and Hobbs in my opinion stood out because it's targeted audience was grown up people though the protagonist of the cartoon was a kid. As adult we try to see and perceive the world through the kid's eyes.
Whether it is pointless education, our cruelty for animals and nature, hypocrisy in art, falseness of popularity surveys or just plain simple living in imagination sort of stuff , C&H not only brings a smile but it silently pays a tribute to our lost innocence of childhood.
Re: Life through a progressive 5 year old Calvin and Hobbes
#7Am I the only one who never found C&H humorous? I loved comic strips as both a child and adult. Garfield, Far Side, Bloom County. I just never thought C&H was that funny.
Most of the comics have their own niche. They are directed towards certain audience. For example Archies is mostly for teenagers and adults who still have musing for teenage life. Garfield is mostly for those pet lovers. Calvin and Hobbs in my opinion stood out because it's targeted audience was grown up people though the protagonist of the cartoon was a kid. As adult we try to see and perceive the world through the…
I would agree with this. The part that I really like about this cartoon was that despite being Calvin's despise for education and he being termed as dumb by conventional educational standards, he comes across as a boy on unusual intelligence.
Re: Life through a progressive 5 year old Calvin and Hobbes
#8Am I the only one who never found C&H humorous? I loved comic strips as both a child and adult. Garfield, Far Side, Bloom County. I just never thought C&H was that funny.
I thought you were going to say something about how C&H made more insightful comments than jokes, but then you praised Garfield. Not to jump on the Garfield-hating bandwagon, but it isn't really in the same category.
The only similarity between C&H and Garfield is that most of the time they share the same paper space in the daily newspaper.
But then Porn Ad and Obama's speech too share the same space yet they are different :)
Re: Life through a progressive 5 year old Calvin and Hobbes
#9Am I the only one who never found C&H humorous? I loved comic strips as both a child and adult. Garfield, Far Side, Bloom County. I just never thought C&H was that funny.
No
Re: Life through a progressive 5 year old Calvin and Hobbes
#10Am I the only one who never found C&H humorous? I loved comic strips as both a child and adult. Garfield, Far Side, Bloom County. I just never thought C&H was that funny.
I thought you were going to say something about how C&H made more insightful comments than jokes, but then you praised Garfield. Not to jump on the Garfield-hating bandwagon, but it isn't really in the same category.
They both have a tigered cat in them, so they seem very similar to me. The humor is also kind of the same, in that nothing really happens and the actors just stand around staring into nothing for frames on end. It is supposed to be a witty comment on the absurdity of daily life (they both also seem to convey the message that food is all that matters). After about one frame or so, it becomes boring.