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- maize, on 10/12/2007, -3/+222I miss Calvin and Hobbes :(
- flernk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+198Calvin and Hobbes as representatives of the ultra-rich and "the sunday funnies" referred to as a "luxury." That may be the oddest comment I've read all year. I'm baffled.
- jcervoni, on 10/12/2007, -10/+126How can anyone not love Calvin & Hobbes? They are always so cute, and timeless.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+105RadiantBeing,
I was at the Berlin Wall the night before President Regan gave his speech. I guarded a small stretch of it (20-30' worth). I was an MP stationed in Berlin and left in Jan. of 89. What a strange time it was!!!! When I left, no one had any idea the end was so close. I was actually home sick seeing friends and places in and around Berlin on the news.
The worst part of the whole visit by Pres. Regan is that the german people didn't want him there. There was rioting in the streets the night before. Windows broken out of stores, cars set on fire, etc. The German gov't called in approx. 30,000 extra German Police to help. What a strange scene it was. But then again, Berlin was a strange place. - Feanor, on 10/12/2007, -7/+101http://web.archive.org/web/20051026081601/http://www.webskinz.com/photoshop_intro/projects/comic/calvin_hobbes1.jpg
Sorry for the comment abuse. - Dquinz63, on 10/12/2007, -1/+59http://www.transmogrifier.org/ch/comics/search.cgi
The full Calvin and Hobbes collection in a search able database for those of you who have not already found it. Search for war and it is the 3rd one down in full color. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+69wbreim wants to only read comics by unsuccessful artists that can't make it as a comic strip writer.
wbreim: Grow up. Get a life. The revolution is over. Che's dead. Get over it. - mogwaifearsatan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+55Calvin & Hobbes taught me more about the English language as a child than any class in school ever has.
- berwiki, on 10/12/2007, -2/+52@wbreim
umm.. check your local library, they will have copies of the sunday newspaper.
Even the most dilapidated and under-funded will have that 'luxury'. lol. - berwiki, on 10/12/2007, -7/+56I dugg you down because your comment was pointless and clearly flamebait.
Anyone who says "i saw XXX on YYY already" is juvenile.
grow up kid. - uberlord, on 10/12/2007, -8/+57Calvin and Hobbes is the single greatest comic in existence. Yes, better than snoopy, better than Marmaduke, Calvin OWNS!
- Doorfingers, on 10/12/2007, -6/+52Wait, didn't Calvin get shot in the helmet? That makes him the winner!
- DearSergio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44I will always digg Calvin and Hobbes. I think it's sad to say it, but my lifes teachings come from Waterson
- boomboxer, on 10/12/2007, -13/+51@ radiantbeing
we never went to war with the USSR. the berlin wall fell without major conflict. yes, of course war is sometimes necessary, but obviously not in the cases you cite. on the contrary, those cases provide great examples of how positive results can be attained without resorting to war. examples that the current administration apparently did not learn enough from. even though the cartoon was published in 1986, it is completely relevant today. in the current war, just like in the cartoon, flimsy justification for war creates a a scenario in which victory cannot be truly attained, and the only real result is death on both sides. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40Holy oversized jpeg batman!
Great comic, though. I must say it influenced my young life in ways I at the time couldn't perceive. - ajchavar, on 10/12/2007, -6/+40they both get hit by darts
therefore
they both die
therefore
no one benefits from war
. . . except halliburton? - boomboxer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35@ wbreim
the primary audience for calvin and hobbes was not latte-drinking snobs. it was children. I was one of those kids, and I must say that the comic was a positive influence. stop by a barnes and noble and flip through some of the old books. you'll see that calvin and hobbes is really just a story about growing up. - eugeneandbobo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+37you guys are both f-ing retarded
- danielrh9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32If you are interested in Calvin and Hobbes, here is a link to a full searchable database of every Calvin and Hobbes strip ever published by Bill Watterson:
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Full_Searchable_Database_of_Every_Calvin_and_Hobbes_Strip_Ever_Published - krets, on 10/12/2007, -8/+36Excuses, excuses. You're still a whiner.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31"all of the Calvin and Hobbes comics were classic..."
Yeah...but the best strips were the ones with Calvin making psycho/suicidal/homicidal snowmen. The parents' reactions were priceless! - benijuana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25@wbreim
only on digg could a nostalgic viewing of a childhood staple be turned into bad socio-economic commentary by some pseudo-intellectual high schooler .
If you think the sunday paper is elitist, wouldn't the internet be worse by your standards? It costs more anyway. Plus you'll see more latte drinkers with a laptop than a newspaper these days anyway. Grow up. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23You'd have to be an idiot to believe Calvin and Hobbes was pretentious.
- bigredgpk, on 10/12/2007, -6/+26I remember reading that as a kid and thinking how true it was. And how true it is today...
- storm8956, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I was privileged to have grown up reading Calvin & Hobbes. Even after the age of 20 I still have the occasional desire to read them. Thank you, Bill Watterson, for writing the best comic ever. And if you don't know much about Bill Watterson, it is because he always tried to keep out of the spotlight. He never allowed the sale of any Calvin & Hobbes merchandise other than the comic. Stephen Spielberg even wanted to make a movie, but Watterson turned him down. The world needs more people like Watterson to nourish the minds of children, humble, concerned and honestly caring. He stopped writing the comic when he felt it was at its peak, and that has made it an eternal classic.
- bIuebonics, on 10/12/2007, -8/+25actually, a gif would be way more optimal for a black and white comic strip... :P
- FearlessFreep, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Not sad at all. My wife and I quote them all the time.
Although the one I've been using the most recently seems to be "I bet your natural charm has made you a great sprinter" - freehunter, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23How much more of a credit to the source can you get then saying it is from Calvin and Hobbes? Reddit isn't the source. Calvin and Hobbes is.
- mAarontheGREAT, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20Calvin & Hobbes was great...as i child...i'd sit down with the comic strip...read it...then go get the dictionary to find out why it was funny...
my vocabulary became quite large...
...then college came...now i'm a bunch more stupider *sarcastic humor* - SimdudeS, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22How do you not digg calvin and hobbes?
- skelly6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Man, I miss Calvin & Hobbes more than any other piece of my childhood...
- CorpT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15It's Robert Heinlein, not Richard.
http://www.quoteland.com/author.asp?AUTHOR_ID=174
A great author. I highly recommend "Stranger in a Strange Land" and "Starship Troopers"
And for future reference, it's George Santayana, not General Santana. ;) - Sparkster185, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14That's something I love about Calvin & Hobbes, it appeals to all ages. Goofy enough for children, but sophisticated enough for adults.
- hammradio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Here is the comic in two other places:
http://www3.eou.edu/hist06/images/WarComic.jpg
http://www.neophilia.de/onlinehome/calvin/war.gif
The real metaphor here is not an actual ground WAR, but nuclear annihilation. As Joshua learned in War Games. There's no winner. Just mutual extinction. That's what Calvin and Hobbes learned here. - everynewday, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Calvin and Hobbes is the best comic ever. Well, maybe next to The Far Side. They're both better than anything that runs now by far.
- ejectMedia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13@wbreim
Last I checked the Sunday paper was under $1....and if you wait for it you can read them free at your library. How often do you see someone with their latte reading the sunday funnies? - Erroneus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12It's gone, it's gone, o why is the cartoon gone :(
- CorpT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11How about a nice game of chess?
- techykid, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17@ajchavar
Thanks for explaining it...
What I initially interpreted was, Since Calvin was wearing that Helmet sort of thing, he is actually saved. And Hobbes loses....
So War should be fought with proper defenses in place...
Now I know for sure... that I am actually dumb... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@bcardarella:
And I enjoyed it when it was originally published (under copyright, I might add) by Bill Watterson II.
And then I enjoyed it again when I bought the compilation books of Bill's work... that included it as well.
So now that Digg posts it, I'm supposed to care that it was on some other site? - bobpaul, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Who's the idiot that neggged biuebonics? GIF /is/ superior for low color count images such as this one. jpeg's dither ruins the sharp edges in the comic, and is only a better option for images with high color counts, like photographs. PNG is had to categorize because it can either be lossy or lossless. In the lossless form, I should expect it to compare pretty well with the gif, possibly look a little better but probably a slightly larger file size -- just a guess here. In the lossy form I think it's more similar to jpeg in it's compression scheme so that wouldn't be good either.
So... black and white comics: either lossless png or gif. - Doorfingers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Calvin and Hobbes are wise beyond their years.
- vhold, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Sunday newspapers pay for themselves with coupons. In my home town which was mostly lower-middle class almost every family had a Sunday morning coupon cutting and categorization ritual.
- reiner15, on 10/12/2007, -9/+17Anyone else have this load excruciatingly slow?
- Nytemare, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I own the whole collection, not only in the Annual releases, but the complete collection recently released. Gotta love them. Kept me alive during the "impressionist" years of my life. Gave me a reason to wake up and get out of bed. I remember hours of discussions with friends at school about the current strips. Watterson was a genious. I can't wait until my kids are old enough to appreciate it. They already read the strips at 6 and 4 years old.
- Siroro, on 10/12/2007, -10/+17Mirror: http://www.images.canoop.com/gallery.php?entry=images/1171990447.jpg
- derceto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9You're an idiot.
- lastninjaOS, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Calvin and Hobbes deal with life. Politics just happens to get in the way.
http://jinnie.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A6969A1DF2526A38!2152.entry - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and thoroughly immoral --
doctrine that `violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up
the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them
debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the
Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has
settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary
opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic
truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."
---- Richard Heinlein - threemagic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Funny, but you got buried for lameness.. that said, Calvin and Hobbes was never political, the beauty was his child-like viewpoint on everything. The whimsy...
One day, you'll be old and on your rocking chair yelling at kids to get off your lawn.. maybe then you can pick up a Calvin and Hobbes and regain a little child-like spirit and build the kids a baseball diamond in your yard... -
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