Let's say a studio has greenlit an adaptation of Calvin & Hobbes. What would have to be done for it for it not to be an abomination?

Let's say a studio has greenlit an adaptation of Calvin & Hobbes. What would have to be done for it for it not to be an abomination?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The production would have to be cancelled.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      yeah this

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The only answer

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It would need to be hand animated and come out like 20-30 years ago

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      fpbp
      Leave it be. Development hell is the only thing that could stop it.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    All black cast of course.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This, calvin couldn't be a rambunctious white boy, he'd have to be an underprivileged spook who got Hobbes by stealing him during a home invasion in an affluent white neighborhood, where all the white people are rich and bad.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Calvin's buzzkill dad would be white

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Hobbes voiced by Idris Elba, Calvin is portrayed by Zendaya. His parents are Beyonce and Denzel.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Dont even joke, thats how Boogaloo's get started.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    A Seth Rogen joint. Hobbes voiced by Seth of course.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Don't even joke about that shit

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      eHEhehe

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      CalArts style Calvin & Hobbes. Also, this

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this post made my blood curdle

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      he lurks here. nice job butthole!

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >WAKE UP IN THE MORNING FEELING LIKE P DIDDY

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Calvin & Hobbes is reddit garbage

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Watterson was 100% correct pretty much all the other comic strips were drawn by hack homosexuals, when they would put old C&H sunday strips next to the modern ones in my newspaper it was insane how pathetic everything else looked by comparison.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      lmao

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Watterson is the only based cartoonist of our time. He completely BTFO'd his competitors as hacks.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What about Dildobert

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          What he went off the depends?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Lol I was in another thread. Deep end* not depends. I'm a filthy phone poster.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Scott Adams never recovered from the suicide of his son.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          How can one man be so based? (Zyklon Ben, not Scott Adams)

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I remember the Dilbert animated series being pretty good.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      what a shit meme

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Calvin & Hobbes is reddit garbage
      If something was created before reddit, it can't be reddit you dumb homosexual.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >hey everyone I hate popular thing
      >please pay attention to me...

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Watterson is one of the only comic strip artists alive who could actually draw.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        This. Not only that, the dude even took a year off cartooning to get better at drawing. He's too good for this slimy rock.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Man I loved that he switch over to that large colored Sunday comic format for his later works because they look amazing in his books.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          And he forced the newspapers to accept it too because he was that great. They just wanted tiny little Sunday strips, but he said no.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        He ain't no damn mangaka stfu

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Comic strip artist, you fricking tool.
          Also, he's better.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You can really tell that this was done on a huge canvas.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        damn this picture makes me incredibly nostalgic for my childhood like nothing else
        it's just those fricking colors my god

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Calvin and Hobbes was unironically a masterpiece and is practically timeless

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You got what you wanted.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      7/10 bait, almost convinced me

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >modern newspaper comic artists who imbue their work with symbolism
      Such as?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Heathcliff

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          lmao that is actual kino

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      guy who made this wall of text meme was clearly butthurt and the people who post it still are butthurt

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >All that text
      Yes.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Calvin & Hobbes always was kind of shit. It’s put on this pedestal and overly praised. It’s a fine kids comic but don’t think it’s great just because the author didn’t want to sell out and make merch and cartoons of it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >always was kind of shit
        >a fine kids comic
        You earned this (You)

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Outside of all politics, and any preachiness the strip may or may not have, it's simply the funniest comic strip ever written, panel for panel. I read them and literally LOL like once every 5 strips, which is insane given the limitations of the medium.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        whats a better comic then, homosexual

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Peanuts

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >It’s put on this pedestal and overly praised
        I find it funny that this is your first point that you make. Kind of gives away your whole game, huh? Boring contrarian.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You're shit

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Doesn't change the fact that Watterson was right.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      God tier bait

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        im proud of myself for not replying to it

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    DO NOT give them ideas

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It would have to be fully hand drawn 2D animation.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      and a few C&H comic compilations would have to be sent in a wormhole back to the 70s so it would have the proper laid-back feel. anything later would try to make it too "epic"

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Fricking cancel it.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    bill waterson would never give up the rights, he wont even allow merch to be made

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Why is he so protective of C&H? Dude could have been 10x more wealthy

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I would imagine he doesn't want to see his art desecrated in front of his eyes

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          He was always really annoyed at all the bootleg "Calvin peeing on stuff" stuff.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          And for that reason it'll always be kino.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            They could probably turn this panel into a 5 minute animated short and it would win an Oscar.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            this hits really different all these years later

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Nice try homosexual.
              Only a zoomer gay would say hits different.
              You're stupid and should probably have a nice day.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                only a moronic reddit homosexual would hit return so gratuitously

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Don't bring up reddit, man. You can do better than that. I agree with you that he's clueless, regardless.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >y..y...yeah b..but you're r..reddit!
                Grow up you stupid Black person.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Nice try homosexual.
                >Only a zoomer gay would say hits different.
                you sound really angry.
                >You're stupid and should probably have a nice day.
                nah

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              My father hits different now fr

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            haha w-why's it raining indoors all of a sudden hahaja....

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          he doesn't have to open the flood gates. he could just sell some merch

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Lives in Ohio so he is good and doesn't need more money

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Believe it or not, some people have a limit on how much money they can be comfortable having. Not everyone needs ALL the fricking money in the world.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        he's adamant that the art should speak for itself. he believes any merchandise or secondary product outside the comic strip would dilute the intent and devalue appreciation of the art itself. he's got serious balls for sticking to his guns for this long. hard not to respect that.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Absolutely. How long has it been now? Guys like him are few and far between.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          how would selling a stuffed tiger devalue his comics?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            He was an environmentalist. Hobbes in a landfill probably didn't feel right.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              then make them all cotton or some shit. not believing in stuffed dolls for kids is like not believing in clothing. all of his comics eventually end up being recycled or put in a landfill anyways

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You're right, I apologize.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I forgive you

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                dont apologize, you were right, and besides its bill's choice what he does

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            He was an environmentalist. Hobbes in a landfill probably didn't feel right.

            then make them all cotton or some shit. not believing in stuffed dolls for kids is like not believing in clothing. all of his comics eventually end up being recycled or put in a landfill anyways

            According to him it would confirm that Hobbes is indeed a stuffed animal, when Watterson wanted it to be unclear/somewhere in between
            >He gave an example of this in discussing his opposition to a Hobbes plush toy: that if the essence of Hobbes' nature in the strip is that it remain unresolved whether he is a real tiger or a stuffed toy, then creating a real stuffed toy would only destroy the magic.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              so he's a brainlet?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                No, you are. wtf anon? How did you not understand what he is saying with that quote.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                you can buy a plus of toothless from how to train your dragon. I guess the dragon was a plush toy the whole time?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It's true that it's easy to separate a Hobbes plush from Hobbes in the comic, but for kids it definitely would re-inforce the idea that Hobbes is not real (especially since he IS shown as a stuffed animal in many panels)

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                if kids had a plush they would pretend it is real and talk to it and take it out on adventures. you know, exactly what the kid in the comic does. it is real to the kid and that's all that matters

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It's not that simple. Hobbes is obviously real to Calvin, but there's a lot of things Hobbes can do in the strip that can't be explained by imagination alone.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The premise of how to train your dragon is not if the dragon is a plush or not, anon. thats the difference

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Because he's not a stuffed tiger salesman. Calvin & Hobbes is a comic strip, not a commercial.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              he's a dumb pos for denying fans the opportunity to have a stuffed tiger

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You're a dumb POS for thinking you should have any say in what someone does with their own property

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >noooo i cannot consoooooooom

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You are by far the biggest autist in the thread

                >no no no nooooo WHY ISNT HE TRYING TO MAKE MORE MONEY WHAT A moron JUST BE LOGICAL LIKE ME

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Unfortunately he's not alone. Go on literally any C&H thread on Cinemaphile and there's guaranteed to be several dozen moronic manchildren calling Watterson a pseud and a hack for not selling out and giving them colorful fluffy Hobbes toys like their autist brains desired.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Dilate

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You first Cinemaphilemblr troon

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                selling fricking tiger plush dolls isn't selling out. making a goddamn C&H movie would be selling out. I don't want a plush doll, I'm just saying he's a dumb homosexual for holding that view

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      ... until he dies and his kids get to do whatever they want with the rights.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >kids
        He only has one daughter, Violet. She was born probably sometime after '96 so she'd be in her mid to early 20s

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          ...is she cute?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            There are zero pictures of her or Watterson's wife, and only a handful of Watterson himself that were taken back in the 90s. It's honestly incredible when in this age you can find pretty much anything online

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              pretty based tbh. I wish the Watterson family the best and I'm glad they're able to keep their privacy. I can always content myself with acting out imaginary conversations with the version of Violet I've created in my head anyways.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              brb going to southeast ohio tinder

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Are we entirely sure Bill Watterson is his real name?

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Piss on every car brands logo in existence

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    David Spade as Calvin

    Daniel Tosh as Hobbes

    No de-aging cgi

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Krazy Kat, now that was a good comic strip

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It would have to be immediately cancelled and then every single person involved would have to publicly apologize before committing seppuku.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    *This is America by Childish Gamibo*
    THIS SUMMER
    *alarm clock going off*
    Hobbes (voiced by Coach McGurk): Calvin, wake up! It's time to play Fortnite!
    THINGS ARE GOING TO GET...
    Calvin (voiced by the rabbit girl from Bob's Burgers): Prom is tomorrow, and I still don't have a date!
    Hobbes: You could go with Susie.
    *Susie is black now*
    *record scratch*
    *And I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston*
    A LITTLE...
    Calvin: As a white male, I feel it's important that at moments like this I check my privilege and for that reason I will be giving myself a handicap at Calvin ball. That gives me an extra two points.
    Hobbes: Uh, I don't think that's how handicaps work.
    Calvin: Yes they do!
    *fighting*
    IMAGINATIVE
    Calvin: You know, this film and others like it are just a shameless corporate cash grab pushed out by studios lacking in any sort of creativity and originality.
    Hobbes: So... you wanna see it!
    Calvin: YEAH! *high five!*
    *Calvin flosses*
    oh, and it's all animated in 3D and Hobbes has ultra realistic fur.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      1/10, apply yourself

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Change Hobbes' voice to James Corden and Calvin's voice to Sarah Silverman.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The Calvinball scene is funny lol

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Keep all the pretentious reddit bullshit from the strIps and the pseudo intellectuals will eat it up.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >What would have to be done for it for it not to be an abomination?
    >likeable/cute white kid/family (dennis the menace film for example)
    >henson made hobbs suit
    >blend of real world/over the top fantasy
    >no social commentary or sentimental bullshit, just a kid having fun

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Watterson needs to do something to keep it protected after he dies.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Woke shit

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >the alternative
      >not "alternatives"

      dinosaur transphobic shit

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Good ol Bill still sticking it to homosexuals to this day.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Geeks+gamers follower can't handle the bantz
      Many such cases

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    2d animation
    Expand a story arc from the comics
    Strong artistic vision

    Idk how not to make it a trainwreck if I'm being honest. Manga make good anime adaptions because the animators barely have to change anything and the source material works as a storyboard. For C+H you would have to take so many creative liberties to make a coherent movie that you would lose the soul of the comic.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Cinemaphile actually likes Calvin and Hobbes? Why?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      A zoomer wouldn't understand

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Put the phone down for a few hours and go outside, you might eventually get a clue on why.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This is one of the precious few moments where
      >takes long drag from cigarette
      >You wouldn't get it...
      is 100% appropriate.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      zoom zoom

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Wasted digits

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not reference anything thats happened post 2006. If the comic was written today Calvin would be b***hing about gays, trannies and blacks while his Dad would remember the good ol days of AOL and Clinton

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Clinton
      >Good ol days
      Now I KNOW you're a zoomer.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Trump lost fricko, go shoot some kids to get your balls off

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Sure he did sweetie, now go eat your tendies before they get cold

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >biggest presidential scandal was fricking an intern
        >a couple years where the US wasn't involved in any wars, not even proxy ones
        Definitely seems like a more innocent time

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm curious what all the 35+ year old anons think who actually read the funnies growing up and Calvin and Garfield would be on the front page in color on Sundays.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      37 here, I dont think kids really go out and explore or anything anymore so if Calvin was made today, it'd be the exploration of frickin reddit or something and Garfield being fat and lazy would probably offend somebody somewhere so hed probably just be a comic like that frickin Sarah Scribbles making the most basic observations ever

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        ok thanks, any non-spastic responses though from the late 30s+ crowd?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Waterson is right to not let them tarnish it. It's far too late to let anything like an animated series happen. When I was younger I definitely was into them creating a series, but I'm glad they didn't.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          newspapers had a particular odor and the ink would get all over everything
          would use the old papers to line the bird cage

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I loved it. I still have my old Calvin and Hobbes books form when I was a kid. They really filled my young mind with wonder and imagination. I also loved drawing and the comic was everything I wanted to be.

      Also people make fun of Garfield all the time, but when you were a kid back then he was pretty cool too.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      33 here. I think maybe the younger generation could connect to C&H but it would be abstracted, eg. his saturday morning cartoons are their clash of clans on an ipad. Also I don't know how often kids play outside unsupervised today, so they might whiff completely on that entire section. Being dragged around by your family to miserable trips as a kid is still a universal experience though, I imagine.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Calling the comics "the funnies"

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Calvin and Hobbes was something I grew up reading in the early 2000s, after the comic had already finished, and absolutely loved. A few years ago nostalgia got the better of me and I bought a collectors edition and reread through it, and realized what a masterpiece it truly is. So much of that comic I could never truly appreciate as a kid. Brilliant stuff.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This. I took for granted just how imaginative Calvin & Hobbes really was, and how, thinking back to other newspaper comics none were so creative.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >those first two panels
        Holy Based

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        These were always my favorites.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous
          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            /ourtiger/

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            based pedophile hobbes

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Don't muck this thread up. Susie is cute though.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Calvin's fascination with lobotomies was always hilarious.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Adult Susie is a qt

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Hobbes loving susie was my favorite gag

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Ah I always loved this one.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Ok Boomer

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Get off my lawn and go make something of yourself zoomzoom.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous
              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Is this from 9gag?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                soul v souless

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >tags: furry, e-girlcon, NTR

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I figured the dad knew the real answers to Calvin's questions and was just fricking with him

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Based horny Hobbes-bro

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >No, you're the president of Deluded Fruitcakes Anonymous

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Toppest of keks, all these comics (playing house, Spaceman Spiff, Tracer Bullet) really wouldn't work in any other format but print

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Forgot about this one, I teared up from laughing. Thanks for posting

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >anon rejects the feminist establishment.jpg

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >It take one to know one

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          this feels like a pre-internet shitpost

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Because he learned from the very old strips like Krazy Kat and Pogo, which were great.
        I don't know why these more elaborate strips died out, aside from Calvin and Hobbes.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Which Sopranos dream sequence is this

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Why didn't she just learn how to cook?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        She was an ass.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this reads like something /misc/ would write about Netflix

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      She's a pretty good mom tbh. Most moms would have just freaked out and said "NO ABSOLUTELY NOT BECAUSE I SAY SO" but she understands her son well enough to know exactly how to make him lose interest on his own.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I was mainly joking, but the banter between the 3 of them is great. How pissed she gets at the dad for feeding Calvin false info is pretty funny,

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          the one about not bothering to buy a real xmas tree and keeping it in the garage lol

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Good stuff. Also, the one where he convinces Calvin that real-life used to be in black and white.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              the one about not bothering to buy a real xmas tree and keeping it in the garage lol

              my favorite is the one where he teaches calvin about rotational velocity.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Forgot about that one. Really good.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                reminds me of my how things work book when i learned that bigger gears move slower and smaller gears move faster.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >bigger gears move slower and smaller gears move faster.
                what?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                If you have one gear at 100% size, and another gear at 25% size, the smaller one will need to make four full rotations in the same amount of time it takes the large one to rotate once.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I do that to my kid, now I remember where it got it from!

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Honestly if more parents did this, there might be way fewer smokers.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          How much of a b***h do you have to be to cough from one puff of a cigarette? I get if you're made to smoke a whole pack but one cigarette doesn't do shit

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Calvin's kind of b***h made to be fair. Even Susie can kick his ass.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >Calvin's kind of b***h made to be fair. Even Susie can kick his ass.
              kek true

              It's just an exaggeration. My dad made me smoke half a pack in a row and it turned me off for a while, but I still ended up smoking for years.

              Yeah agree. tbh I smoked once or twice living abroad around smokers, and everytime I woke up the next day feeling like shit not wanting to smoke again for years.
              Only done a handful of cigs in my life though, never was a smoker.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Good on you. Nasty habit. Became more about needing to do something than actually craving the cig itself.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                yeah I did it a few times really young drinking with friends to add an extra buzz, and a few times in Japan because everyone smokes there, but it's honestly disgusting and that shit isn't worth the cancer. I also like being able to exercise.
                hard to believe cigarettes are legal everywhere but weed isn't. Not saying weed is good for you but tobacco is horrific

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Need to get back into taking care of myself. Was doing so good.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You got it, eat some healthy food and move a little extra tomorrow. It's normal for there to be a flux with diet/exercise even with elite athletes

                This. I took for granted just how imaginative Calvin & Hobbes really was, and how, thinking back to other newspaper comics none were so creative.

                This is one of my favorites
                >let's hope it's divorce
                loved the sunday ones, always came with two jokes when most comics don't have one

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Thanks, man, it's time. Not trying to be diabetic.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I feel you. I almost never drink alcohol or coffee, I don't smoke, I eat salads, but I just fricking love chocolate cake and donuts. I swear sugar is the only thing I'm addicted to

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It's one thing or the other. Just make an honest effort. I'm off the other shit, but lately, I've been craving fat homosexual treats. Got a clearance box of glazes doughnuts.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah they're always so cheap. I am trying to not have heavy desserts/treates two days in a row, and to just have small pieces of chocolate when I have cravings. I've been doing better but could easily eat 6 donuts at 2 am if I didn't exert self control

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            OK boomer

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            It's just an exaggeration. My dad made me smoke half a pack in a row and it turned me off for a while, but I still ended up smoking for years.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            He's 6 years old, lungs are built different for them

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >built different
              zoomer detected

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          This is almost what happened to me.
          >12 years old
          >Beginning to hang out with The Cool Kids, who smoke sometimes
          >Smoke like three menthols from my mom's pack, not too bad I guess but tastes kinda shitty
          >Start feeling sick
          >End up pale and sweaty for ~2 hours lying on the couch
          >Mom comes home and I tell her what happened, says "welp hope you learned your lesson"

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Pretty based

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Hobbes should have a really deep black guy voice

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Should be Phil Lamarr

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        this is a pretty good choice. he has a higher-pitched, overly-friendly voice (think Hermes minus the jamaican accent) that would work pretty well, but would ideally be mellowed out a little bit. if you could move a slider between that and his deep black guy voice, it would be 80% towards the friendly guy

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Was really mulling over what black guy would work out, but I genuinely couldn't think of anyone better than him.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            this is a pretty good choice. he has a higher-pitched, overly-friendly voice (think Hermes minus the jamaican accent) that would work pretty well, but would ideally be mellowed out a little bit. if you could move a slider between that and his deep black guy voice, it would be 80% towards the friendly guy

            Should be Phil Lamarr

            Hobbes should have a really deep black guy voice

            https://i.imgur.com/8twe5Nb.png

            Let's say a studio has greenlit an adaptation of Calvin & Hobbes. What would have to be done for it for it not to be an abomination?

            It could never not be an abomination, because it is impossible for Calvin not to sound creepy. No matter what voice you choose, it will inevitably sound wrong, because he is such a paradoxical character.

            The voice for Hobbes in the Robot Chicken sketch was good, though.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              robot chicken is absolute dogshit and that clip fricking sucks

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >robot chicken is absolute dogshit

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    here's your Calvin & Hobbes movie

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Unironically this.

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Just adapt this into a awesome 90 minute movie.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        How did one comic have so much SOVL

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        love it

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I legitimately always thought there was a sign that said "LIBRARY" in the last panel.

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Watterson was WAY ahead of his time

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous
      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        God I knew there was a reason I based my entire personality around Calvin when I was younger

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Unironically prophetic

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >what is the self-help craze
          >what is the Me Generation
          I won't pretend that new developments like social media haven't made things worse but it's not like prideful, self-centered people didn't exist in the 80s anon.

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    oh god
    dont even fricking meme this into happening, i hope i outlive watterson outlives me so i dont have to watch his kids or dog or whatever inherits the IP sell it to disney

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, you know his family will most likely willingly sell the rights as soon as he goes.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        He's not dead? I've spent the last 15 years thinking he was

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Nah, he's still kicking as far as I know. Stuck to his guns.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          He's only 63 right now. He started the comic in his 20s if you can believe it.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            god ive done nothing with my life

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I get it. I hear about late successes and think that could be me, but I'm a lazy bastard. But, I'm talentless outside of the piano.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          He's only 63 right now. He started the comic in his 20s if you can believe it.

          >Bill Watterson was born in 1958
          >first Calvin & Hobbes was published in 1985
          >he was fricking 27 years old
          >tfw we are now the age of when most accomplished people did something with their lives

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Same age. All I've done is release some ambient music on SoundCloud. Saddening.

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    was there a spaceman spiff comic which ends with him eating an ice cream sandwich? i swear i read this when i was younger but have never found it in a C&H collection since

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >was there a spaceman spiff comic which ends with him eating an ice cream sandwich?
      Yeah. I'd post it but the image quality is too low

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    zoomers will never know what it was like to be excited for sunday morning so you could read the full color comic page with calvin and hobbs, on the floor while dad read the sports page and mom made breakfast

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      For me it was the Disney special

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Do kids read C&H collections anymore? Is that an extremely weird kid thing? I don't know how they'd get started with newspaper cartoons anymore, even newspaper-style webcomics seem way less prominent than a few years ago.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      One of my buddies leaves the collections in the bathroom for reading material and his kids got into it that way. Pretty heartwarming.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      28 here. When I was in school kids were reading comics collections everywhere, Calvin & Hobbes was king of course but there were also guys reading Garfield, Dilbert, Boondocks, even Baby Blues collections.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Huge fan, but any form of movie would be terrible.

      I doubt it. I would read the comics while my dad read the newspaper, then got into C&H and dad bought me books. My friend was also a huge fan and we'd trade books/collections

      Print newspapers are rare these days, and even if a kids dad had one, most kids are probably on their smart phones.

      Not even trying to say "back in my day paper blah blah blah" I don't hate smart phones just saying I think it's pretty unlikely.

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    just realized in all my years on this shithole ive never seen rule 34 of calvins mom

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Let's keep it that way for Bill's sake.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I did have a crush on Susie as a kid though for some reason.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        how can one man be so based?
        no friggin twitter, no politics, no tainting his legacy for bucks

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          He has artistic integrity. Something that's in short supply across every facet of the entertainment industry. As far as I know the only politics he included in Calvin & Hobbes was environmentalism

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >environmentalism
            king shit, hes gonna be one of only two celebrities ill mourn their passing, other being jim henson

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              isn't henson dead

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      If there aren't any for Rosalyn that's a fricking crime
      She's objectively cute and her bf is lucky

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Rosalyn is built, designed, constructed, and exclusively handcrafted for blackmail and /ss/

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >/ss/
          You have no idea. Calvin gets to tackle her to the ground and climb all over her tight swimmer body, the lucky bastard

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I love Calvin & Hobbes. Just popped into the thread to say that really...

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I understand. First thread I've actually enjoyed in a while.

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Cigs are less chemically addictive then they are made out to be. 90% of the "addiction" is really just your brain etching in a habit. Quitting is extremely easy once you solve the habit.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Why are you trying to defend big tobacco?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Not defending them lol just never liked how deceptive the campaigns are. My disillusion with them led me to start smoking once I realized they were bullshit, but then I didn't like smelling like smoke and spending money on them so I quit. Nicotine is cool and helps me focus but it's not worth the societal cost right now. It's much less addictive than caffeine, that is a fact.

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Why is there some sperg redditor in this thread frothing at the mouth that Bill Watterson won't sell merchandise? Who cares?

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I prefer Bloom County.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ironic, because that fricking hack won't stop using Hobbes.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >this crossover is actually real and sanctioned by Bill Watterson

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          That's actually quite good.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Is that supposed to be... trump hair?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Just marathoned this storyline. They spend most of it tracking down Calvin, and when they finally do they mail Hobbes to him. Time has passed in this world so Calvin is in his 30s, and he's become Spaceman Spiff for real.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >current year calvin
            >not pissing on a ford logo
            CMON

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            That's pretty kino ngl.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I can hear the Cowboy Bebop music reverberating off this image

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Back to redit boyo

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You first buddy boy

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I do not watch redit bebop tho

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You do however spell "though" as "tho," making you a Redditor, a zoomer, and an illiterate, terminally online Black person. Now get the frick off my board.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Not as bad as someone who watches redit bebop thooooo LMAO

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You're embarrassing yourself in front of all these nice people. Don't you think it's time you stopped?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                not as embarrassing as someone who watches redit bebop LMAO

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >wagon welded onto the front of the ship
            kino

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Breathed and Watterson were friends. Bill used to send Berkeley letters, playfully mocking his merchandising deals to support his power boating hobby.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Hom and Breathed have been friends since the 80s, and they have lots about banter about how Breathed was a sellout, you can see a caricature of him in the C&H anniversary book.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >unwoke, gender-fluid, beta phase pre-adults
          god i hate it when boomers attempt political satire

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Tracer Bullet was the best persona, change my mind

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i'm more of a spaceman spiff afficionado

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Why would you say something like that? Even in jest?

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    First of all Hobbes needs to be voiced by a black man and half the jokes should be about current issues.

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    1. Animated in the exact same style as the comic , NO CGI.
    2. Story must be treated with total nonchalance by all characters.
    3. Main emphasis must be comedy
    4. Ending must be sweet, but not saccharine
    5. NO MEME CASTING.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Who should play Calvin, though? I'm thinking an unknown.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I could really only see Calvin working with a younger teenage voice, slightly more mature.
        I'm trying to picture him with a little boy / old woman pretending to be a young boy voice and it just doesn't fricking work.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Who should play Calvin, though? I'm thinking an unknown.

          Billy West's Fry voice at a higher pitch might be one way to do it. Calvin is a little kid, but he's so verbose that it'd sound weird with an actual kid's voice.

          I'm not saying Billy West specifically, but I think an experienced voice actor with a lot of preexisting credits would be acceptable. Wouldn't have to be a complete unknown who had never worked before, just not an ill-fitting A-list star whose name would be a selling point overshadowing the character.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I could see something like that working for sure
            Calvin just wouldn't work with a little kid voice

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Someone doing what Tom Kenny did with Spongebob would be an interesting approach. Spongebob sounds like both an immature adult and something of a kid himself. He sounds like an undefined age. He's a cartoon.

          It's a challenge, of course, being that this is a comic strip that's existed for decades and everyone might have their own idea of what he should sound like. But once in a while you strike gold. Who can read a Garfield comic now without hearing Lorenzo Music?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah definitely an unknown.

        It's not happening in our lifetimes, Watterson would never sell out and the copyright doesn't expire until like 2100

        Thank god for that tbh

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's not happening in our lifetimes, Watterson would never sell out and the copyright doesn't expire until like 2100

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        checking the digits of this wonderful, wonderful post.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Animated in the exact same style as the comic
      Never happening. Disney and anime have abandoned cels and digital looks awful. This is the worst time to be alive for a fan of traditional animation.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Saved. Thx senpai.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        just give a hollywood budget to whoever made this and we're done

  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >you'll never be 12 years old again, reading a Spaceman Spiff strip on a Sunday afternoon while humming the Star Wars theme in your head
    take me back I wanna go back I don't like it here

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm stuck. It's pathetic.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Jesus. I can remember so vividly reading Calvin & Hobbes books while eating breakfast with my parents. The memories are so warm. Everything feels so cold now. What happened to me?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Seek Christ and cherish the memories of goodness and beauty that you still have. Also for me it was perusing the Calvin and Hobbes books that the developmental therapists (read: sperg wranglers) had in the waiting room.

  45. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They would have to adapt Spencer & Locke instead, including the rape scene

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
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        Anonymous
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          Anonymous
        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The moon doesnt move like that

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Hot

  46. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I got some Calvin and Hobbes merchandise

  47. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It would have to be in development hell for all eternity with nothing about its production ever getting out to the public.

  48. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Calvin and Hobbes is easily one of if not the funniest comic of all time. What do you read, Cathy?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      meant for

      Calvin & Hobbes always was kind of shit. It’s put on this pedestal and overly praised. It’s a fine kids comic but don’t think it’s great just because the author didn’t want to sell out and make merch and cartoons of it.

  49. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Calvin and Hobbes is obviously the best comic strip ever, but I give golden age Garfield a lot of credit for being as decent as it was with so little material to work with.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Calvin and Hobbes is obviously the best comic strip ever
      No. Go further back several decades.

  50. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i can hardly believe there are disingenuous pieces of shit who hate this board and its users so much they actually pretend to not like calvin and hobbes just because we all love it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah calvin and hobbes and the far side are the two greatest comics ever made and this isn't up for debate, at all.

  51. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >this strip doesn't deserve its widely beloved status because of the meta praise online about the artist refusing to sell out
    I can understand getting tired of the latter but the artistic and intellectual merits of the strip are undeniable

  52. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >What would have to be done for it for it not to be an abomination?

    Coax Bill Watterson out of retirement and have him co write it.

    Anything other than that is just corporate fan fiction. Thankfully I don't think Bill will let that happen.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I think Watterson neither likes nor trusts Hollywood and the media machine, so it's a foregone conclusion

  53. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I always imagine Calvin with the voice of Timmy Turner

  54. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw this is now real

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Calvin's dad's cycling fixation and general masochism was great. We need more people like him just as long as they stay in the goddamn bike lane.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      we shouldn't have pissed him off Calvin and Hobbesisters...

  55. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Get some high budget jap studio to animate it and have Brad Bird direct it and it would have a sliver of a chance.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Brad Bird
      He sold his soul to Disney, Tomorrowland broke him

  56. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Jesus Christ this thread moved fast. Is this the power of artistic integrity?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      offtopic threads are the absolute best of Cinemaphile thank god the janny is on an extended piss break or something

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Don't lie Satan, jannies don't get up to piss. If anything his dilator probably got stuck halfway up and he's been trying to slowly ease it out of all the hair and pus.

  57. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Bump limit reached.
    /cozy/ thread.
    You're all amazing.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Fantastic thread. Thanks guys. Sometimes Cinemaphile is okay

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I feel like we didn't get enough discussion about the totally real movie adaptation.
      Perhaps we need to make another thread.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You too anon 🙂

  58. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It would have to not be made

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