Conquer Club

I've loved this comic, for many years. Today, StumbleUpon brought me to 25 Great Calvin & Hobbes Strips. Each strip has an explanation from the guys who made the site, about why that particular strip is so great. It must be tough to pick a shortlist when faced with the huge amount of greatness that is the Calvin & Hobbes collection, but these guys seems to have done a decent job of capturing a lot of what really made the series so great.

Timminz wrote:I've loved this comic, for many years. Today, StumbleUpon brought me to 25 Great Calvin & Hobbes Strips. Each strip has an explanation from the guys who made the site, about why that particular strip is so great. It must be tough to pick a shortlist when faced with the huge amount of greatness that is the Calvin & Hobbes collection, but these guys seems to have done a decent job of capturing a lot of what really made the series so great.

Awesome- I like the simple strips the best:

Symmetry wrote:

Timminz wrote:I've loved this comic, for many years. Today, StumbleUpon brought me to 25 Great Calvin & Hobbes Strips. Each strip has an explanation from the guys who made the site, about why that particular strip is so great. It must be tough to pick a shortlist when faced with the huge amount of greatness that is the Calvin & Hobbes collection, but these guys seems to have done a decent job of capturing a lot of what really made the series so great.

Awesome- I like the simple strips the best:

That's one of my personal faves, as well. I always get a good belly-laugh from it, no matter how many times I read it.

Incandenza wrote:

lol... Calvin and Hobbes goes meta.

Incandenza wrote:

This has been my desktop background for like, years.

I own every single C&H compilation. By far the best comic strip in history.

That being said, Fox Trot is in a similar vein.

Anyway, comparing the usual comic strip fare to C&H is like comparing "See Spot Run" to "War and Peace."

awesome. cheers timmy!

Last year I bought the Complete Calvin & Hobbes (cost me fifty odd quid but absolutely worth it), containing every Calvin & Hobbes strip ever. This has inspired me to reread it for the nth time, so cheers for bringing this up.

danansan wrote:Last year I bought the Complete Calvin & Hobbes (cost me fifty odd quid but absolutely worth it), containing every Calvin & Hobbes strip ever. This has inspired me to reread it for the nth time, so cheers for bringing this up.

50 quid? Here it's 100 euros. Which I don't have.

Snorri1234 wrote:

danansan wrote:Last year I bought the Complete Calvin & Hobbes (cost me fifty odd quid but absolutely worth it), containing every Calvin & Hobbes strip ever. This has inspired me to reread it for the nth time, so cheers for bringing this up.

50 quid? Here it's 100 euros. Which I don't have.

Too many taxes.

thegreekdog wrote:

Snorri1234 wrote:

danansan wrote:Last year I bought the Complete Calvin & Hobbes (cost me fifty odd quid but absolutely worth it), containing every Calvin & Hobbes strip ever. This has inspired me to reread it for the nth time, so cheers for bringing this up.

50 quid? Here it's 100 euros. Which I don't have.

Too many taxes.

More than britain?

I think it has to do with shipping and stuff like that. it's only like 20 euros more.

I love Calvin and Hobbes.

The complete collection has been on my amazon shopping list for some time now, never quite seem to pull the trigger on it because I still have a bunch of the old paperback collections which I pull out from time to time, so it's a little hard for me to justify the c-note.

What still amazes me about C&H is how strong the strip was even up to the very end. One of my all-time favorite storylines was a very late one, where Calvin and Rosalyn finally bond over a game of Calvinball. Great great stuff.

Agreed C&H was great. Smart and funny. Nothing else even compares or will. I agree with another poster saying that Fox Trot is good. My current favourite is Pearls Before Swine. It isn't run in the local daily so I have to read it online. But it is the only comic that makes me laugh day to day.

My friend used to have his parents send him this cartoon from the Sunday paper in Massachusetts to him at university in Canada back in the early 80's.

I have been a fan for many years. I also learned to love Doonesbury.

The only comic strip out there that really makes you question the world around you.

Timminz wrote:

Symmetry wrote:

Timminz wrote:I've loved this comic, for many years. Today, StumbleUpon brought me to 25 Great Calvin & Hobbes Strips. Each strip has an explanation from the guys who made the site, about why that particular strip is so great. It must be tough to pick a shortlist when faced with the huge amount of greatness that is the Calvin & Hobbes collection, but these guys seems to have done a decent job of capturing a lot of what really made the series so great.

Awesome- I like the simple strips the best:

That's one of my personal faves, as well. I always get a good belly-laugh from it, no matter how many times I read it.

Calvin and Hobbes and the Far Side are a fair tie in my mind. I even liked Sponge Bob.. waaay back. He had a lot of almost Calvin and Hobbes type humor before he went commercial. (sorry, no samples... they were lost long ago in a move .. )

Anyway, I loved the comics. I have to say I did not think much of the commentary in that link. They kept trying to put all sorts of "deep meainings". You know what? Calvin is a fairly typical, slightly more creative than usual, 6 year old.. and the world from a six year old's eyes is a lot clearer than many adults. Analyzing it too deeply is where adults go wrong. (and yes, that most definitely applies to me! ..lol)