WELL?
>>63768140
>>63768140
How about a pair of generic philosophical esoterics?
>>63768886
We don't need a retort for that one because it's not as catchy.
>>63769078
A pair of hysteric parrots rehashing lyrics of dead clerics?
>>63768140
There's a simple response.
>>63769269
WELL NOW WE NEED TWO RETORTS
>>63769342
A pair of barbaric heretics with logic as feeble as carrot-sticks?
>>63768140
>>63769326
No, anon, we have simpler retorts than that.
Also...
>Frozen
>>63768140
The next one is funnier.
>>63769886
I found this today and it made me smile.
>>63770133
>>63770268
Ever strike you as odd that Susie has no other friends than Calvin?
>>63770297
when I was rereading my old collections what struck me more was that calvin had no other friends than hobbes
>>63770340
That, while kinda sad, is totally understandable because the kid is a nightmare.
>>63770268
>>63770297
She seems to be the only person who even tries to put up with him.
Remember the time he tried to join the baseball team? It was a disaster.
>>63770441
>>63770268
these are such good quality. where did you get them, or did you actually scan them yourself?
every time I've tried to find the strips online, they're always way too small and lose a lot of detail.
>>63770297
I seem to remember a girl with glasses who made an appearance once or twice. Also, there was Mr. Bun.
>>63770577
gocomics has the whole archive in this quality
>>63770618
thanks. when I checked there a while ago it looked they were missing strips or the quality was inconsistent or something, so I just gave up.
This will always be my favorite C&H strip
>>63770618
Well, there goes all that free time I planned on having sexual intercourse with myself.
>>63770577
Yep, gocomics. I don't recall their archive being this HQ either, it seems to be a recent upgrade.
This one bugs me slightly. The strip just seems like it would work better if it were either the first three or last three panels. Having both of the first and fourth throws the pacing,
>>63770594
>>63770297
Glasses was just an extra afaict. And Mr. Bun didn't seem to be able to come to life, so... lonely girl, Susie.
There's really been nothing on par with Calvin and Hobbes since it ended.
Except Nedroid. Maybe.
>>63771723
>And Mr. Bun didn't seem to be able to come to lifeNeither did Hobbes
>>63771895
Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes were the Golden Age nothing will ever be as great or take their place
My all time favorite strip
>>63771895
*tips fedora*
>>63771895
>Nedroid hasn't updated in 3 months
I am sad
>>63769507
this one could probably fit into a rap verse tbh
Here's the C&H from the day I was born. Not bad.
>>63772567
>>63769507
Why did i get the mental image of a old monk rapping?
>>63772627
Is there an archive that has that info?
>>63772726
Gocomics archive, again. They're sorted by date.
>>63771895
It's great but I wouldn't put it on par with C&H.
>>63772947
It seems so obvious now
>>63773056
I dunno... I might.
>>63772227
you shut your whore mouth before i punch your mother so hard she'll have to spread her ass cheeks to floss her teeth
>>63772287
i blame garfield, fastrack, and family circus for ruining news paper comics
>>63773057
Susie and calvin are gonna fuck like rabbit by age 16
>>63773390
I have never heard of fastrack.
>>63773177
Nedroid hits the mark quite often, but not consistently.
>>63773177
In terms of humor it holds its own but Watterson is a incredible artist and writer.
>>63773177
>>63771895
I don't have have the full comic this is from but I love this image.
>>63773672
>>63772287
Cul-de-Sac was pretty great when it was around. Of course, then the creator had to get Parkinson's, because there is some malevolent deity out there that doesn't want to let us have nice things (See also: Pratchett, Terry).
>>63773580
>>63773618
Nedroid's biggest flaw is an overreliance on the archive. Too many comics that exist primary to reference some other comic from 3 years earlier.
>>63773807
>>63773807
Y'know, while Calvin may be really intentionally obtuse when it comes to most normal learning, he sure is freakishly talented when it comes to sculpture. Kid's got a bright future ahead of him.
>>63773967
Still relevant all these years later
I think you guys overrate the consistency of Watterson's work. There are many, many strips in the C&H history that are either the weaker variations on the same theme --which a non-daily cartoonist would generally not publish-- or recurring standbys like the dozens of strips where the joke is that Calvin gets mauled.
>>63773514
on the fastrack is a shitty comci about a tech company and people trying to make internet humor.
not only is it unfunny, it doesn't make any sense.
it what an old dumbass thinks how the web works.
>>63774473
Which is not to say that the maul strips weren't funny, but they were never hilarious.
>>63773807
man, unlike most comic artist...Bill could draw like no ones business.
impressive for news print
>>63774897
anybody got other cool C&H fanart?
>>63774897
who ever drew that likes one piece.
>>63775011
>one piece.
whassat
>>63775073
the pic.
calvin is drawn based on Zoro and susie looks like nami
>>63775247
oh, word
totally unfamiliar with those two
>>63774637
Best C&H comin through
>>63772366
loled irl and I've read that strip like five times.
>>63775056
This strip really improved my vocabulary as a kid. Back then I used to keep the dictionary handy when reading through my dad's big C&H compilation books, since Calvin used so many words I didn't recognize.
>>63772366
>>63775348
I'm pretty sure C&H is responsible for me being such a pedant.
>>63775291
...really? you dont watch one piece?
funimations dub is excellent but you can skip most of the ennis lobby arc unless you have some serious patience.
>>63776334
I wouldn't be surprised if most people here haven't seen an anime since DBZ.
>tried to make snowmen like Calvin when I was a kid
>always came out like trash
So much of it is impossible, even stuff like stub arms made of snow. The best I ever did was a one laying on its back with Xs for eyes.
>>63773807
I want to make a joke about video games here
>>63776379
well thats a shame, most of whats been on toonami has been gold.
especially space dandy.
bleahc and naruto still sucks, and i dont get Blue Exorcist.
>>63776400
>tfw you will never recreate dismembered snowmen
>>63772287
Get Fuzzy wasn't so bad either.
>>63776076
Mah nigga, I always had to tote a dictionary around with my C&H books as a kid too.
>>63776334
>>63776379
>>63776738
I'm that dude who dunno One Piece
I fell out of watching Toonami, unfortunately
been watching random animes here and there, Black Lagoon was the Last Big Thing I got into
tried Claymore, but that shit got gay after a while
>>63776334
One Piece has been terrible for half a decade, and not even in a fun trainwrecky way. I can understand still reading it since it takes no time, but why would anyone possibly WATCH One Piece?
>>63777945
ennis lobby was a wreck but its back on track.
and the funimation dub is actually REALLY good.
and really....the cast is just too damn likable, everyone has excellent chemistry and the animation, designs, and imagination keeps it fresh.
its just....Fun.
>>63778173
No crew member since Robin has been likeable.
>>63778298
you dont like Franky or brook?
fuck you and your mother.
>>63778391
No, I do not like either of the single dumb jokes pretending to be a character.
>>63778484
then i repeat.
fuck you and your mother.
>>63778519
Fuck you and your stagnant, medium-ruining LULSORANDUMB mad lib of a comic.
>>63778577
>thinking its random
no the characters are quiet consistent.
i think maby you're just hating with no real thought.
>>63773807
Bill Watterson getting a little self-referential here.
>>63780299
Definitely. though his mainstream art isn't all that toned down vs. his student stuff.
>>63773940
That, and the fact that it hasn't updated in 3 FUCKING MONTHS.
>>63780430
Anthony's working on a thing with KC Green at the moment. It's been decent so far.
>>63777411
I loved it. That may have been because I open a Sharpei though.
>>63768140
Only one response to that sort of talk.
>>63773056
>>63773177
Too bad Nedroid updates are almost as rare as Lackadaisy's.
>>63773807
I really love that first snowman that Calvin made.
>>63770340
>>63770411
GTFO
>>63775011
Doesn't everyone like One Piece?
>>63774197
it will always be relevant
>>63773729
I remember laughing at this one so loud and hard my parents yelled at me.
>>63782996
Why are so many of these strips 4chan in a nutshell? It's uncanny.
>>63782996
>4chan in a nutshell
>>63783058
>>63783068
MIND HIVE!
>>63782996
>>63783058
Because we are grandiloquent jumped-up children.
>>63783213
>>63783150
I like how they were funny when I was a kid, then funnier when I was older and actually got some of the philosophical/self-deprecating humor, then even funnier now as I keep seeing 4chan coming out of Calvin's mouth.
>>63783253
>>63772635
>>63783326
Krillin?
>>63783326
delicious ice cream
>>63783348
always pops in my head when I think monk
No Bloom County?
Anyone who got those three comics Bill made for some other dude's comic a couple of months ago?
>>63783481
I miss that comic. I used to have all the books til time and bad housekeeping destroyed them.
>>63768140
I've never heard of anyone taking the time to rhyme weird insults
>>63770133
Up or down?
>>63770411
try being named after him
>>63785776
Calvin is a nice name.
>>63785802
it's...
alright
>>63773337
Anon is right, you know?
Mr. Bun and Hobbes are lifeless stuffed animals!
>>63778173
>my favorite arc was ennis lobby
fuck...
>>63772627
This one's mine. Could be worse.
>>63772287
Can't stand Far Side, it ranks up there will Peanuts in terms of shitty humor. Maybe it's just the newspaper format I can't stand.
>>63776379
...is that supposed to be a bad thing? Anime belongs in the trash.
>>63782996
>>63783058
>>63783068
And here's Calvin on tumblr.
>>63791989
This one's always been a personal favorite of mine.
>>63768140
I'd tell them to gotake a walk.
>>63774897
Oh god! Hobbes lost an eye, thats disgusting! Who draws this stuff!
In fairness, Superman and Thor have gotten away with much more implausible identity swaps.
>>63774897
This is adorable.
>>63786173
Just say you were named after the theologian and not the comic strip.
>>63773635
That cat's bad news.
>>63792594
I don't think that's necessarily better.
>>63783481
I consider Bloom County and its successors (to a somewhat lesser extent) on par with Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side.
>>63792779
Yeah, I really don't get Bloom County. I think I'm just too young.
>>63792863
I'm too young to understand 80s culture that well, but the collections do have a lot of annotations. Some of them could probably even be edited to be more relevant to today.
>>63770465
>Remember the time he tried to join the baseball team?
Oh, just found that part. May '94.
AT LEAST I'M NOT A PICHIRUCHI LIKE OP!
>>63792863
Idk I grew up reading Bloom County and even though the political/pop culture references flew over my head, I was still drawn to the weird funny little world that Berke Breathed had created.
I wonder why Calvin never played videogames. The comic took place in those decades, and it might have made a fun story arc for him to have gotten a video game system but get bored with it or something.
Sure, the jokes may have ended up a lot like the TV jokes, or the modern gaming webcomic, but it's not something that you'd have seen often then.
>>63776076
I-I thought I was the only one.
>>63793556
He was a 6 year old for 10 years, he probably never left 1986
>>63793556
Calvin's dad would never buy a video game console
>>63793556
Watterson likely didn't know about or care for video games
>>63789036
ROXANNE
I KNOW I'VE LET YOU DOWN
I'VE BEEN A GOOF TO MYSELF
I THOUGHT THAT I COULD HYUCK FOR NOONE ELSE
>>63793064
I loved Bloom County. Remember the arc where Oliver made the machine that turned Steve black and they sent Opus and John up on a floating wheelchair to pigmentize the ambassador from South Africa?
>>63789036
>>63794022
I never knew I wanted to see this until this moment.
>>63776379
You'd be surprised. At six my favorite capes were Spidey, Hulk, Cap, Superfriends and G-Force.
>>63771723
>And Mr. Bun didn't seem to be able to come to life
That's because the strip is in Calvin's perspective, not Susie's