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?
The production would have to be cancelled.
yeah this
The only answer
It would need to be hand animated and come out like 20-30 years ago
fpbp
Leave it be. Development hell is the only thing that could stop it.
All black cast of course.
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.
Calvin's buzzkill dad would be white
Hobbes voiced by Idris Elba, Calvin is portrayed by Zendaya. His parents are Beyonce and Denzel.
Dont even joke, thats how Boogaloo's get started.
A Seth Rogen joint. Hobbes voiced by Seth of course.
Don't even joke about that shit
eHEhehe
CalArts style Calvin & Hobbes. Also, this
this post made my blood curdle
he lurks here. nice job asshole!
>WAKE UP IN THE MORNING FEELING LIKE P DIDDY
Calvin & Hobbes is reddit garbage
Watterson was 100% correct pretty much all the other comic strips were drawn by hack gays, 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.
lmao
Watterson is the only based cartoonist of our time. He completely BTFO'd his competitors as hacks.
What about Dildobert
What he went off the depends?
Lol I was in another thread. Deep end* not depends. I'm a filthy phone poster.
Scott Adams never recovered from the suicide of his son.
How can one man be so based? (Zyklon Ben, not Scott Adams)
I remember the Dilbert animated series being pretty good.
what a shit meme
>Calvin & Hobbes is reddit garbage
If something was created before reddit, it can't be reddit you dumb gay.
>hey everyone I hate popular thing
>please pay attention to me...
Watterson is one of the only comic strip artists alive who could actually draw.
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.
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.
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.
He ain't no damn mangaka stfu
Comic strip artist, you fucking tool.
Also, he's better.
You can really tell that this was done on a huge canvas.
damn this picture makes me incredibly nostalgic for my childhood like nothing else
it's just those fucking colors my god
Calvin and Hobbes was unironically a masterpiece and is practically timeless
You got what you wanted.
7/10 bait, almost convinced me
>modern newspaper comic artists who imbue their work with symbolism
Such as?
Heathcliff
lmao that is actual kino
guy who made this wall of text meme was clearly butthurt and the people who post it still are butthurt
>All that text
Yes.
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.
>always was kind of shit
>a fine kids comic
You earned this (You)
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.
whats a better comic then, gay
Peanuts
>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.
You're shit
Doesn't change the fact that Watterson was right.
God tier bait
im proud of myself for not replying to it
DO NOT give them ideas
It would have to be fully hand drawn 2D animation.
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"
Fucking cancel it.
bill waterson would never give up the rights, he wont even allow merch to be made
Why is he so protective of C&H? Dude could have been 10x more wealthy
I would imagine he doesn't want to see his art desecrated in front of his eyes
He was always really annoyed at all the bootleg "Calvin peeing on stuff" stuff.
And for that reason it'll always be kino.
They could probably turn this panel into a 5 minute animated short and it would win an Oscar.
this hits really different all these years later
Nice try gay.
Only a zoomer fag would say hits different.
You're stupid and should probably have a nice day.
only a retarded reddit gay would hit return so gratuitously
Don't bring up reddit, man. You can do better than that. I agree with you that he's clueless, regardless.
>y..y...yeah b..but you're r..reddit!
Grow up you stupid moron.
>Nice try gay.
>Only a zoomer fag would say hits different.
you sound really angry.
>You're stupid and should probably have a nice day.
nah
My father hits different now fr
haha w-why's it raining indoors all of a sudden hahaja....
he doesn't have to open the flood gates. he could just sell some merch
Lives in Ohio so he is good and doesn't need more money
Believe it or not, some people have a limit on how much money they can be comfortable having. Not everyone needs ALL the fucking money in the world.
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.
Absolutely. How long has it been now? Guys like him are few and far between.
how would selling a stuffed tiger devalue his comics?
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
You're right, I apologize.
I forgive you
dont apologize, you were right, and besides its bill's choice what he does
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.
so he's a brainlet?
No, you are. wtf anon? How did you not understand what he is saying with that quote.
you can buy a plus of toothless from how to train your dragon. I guess the dragon was a plush toy the whole time?
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)
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
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.
The premise of how to train your dragon is not if the dragon is a plush or not, anon. thats the difference
Because he's not a stuffed tiger salesman. Calvin & Hobbes is a comic strip, not a commercial.
he's a dumb pos for denying fans the opportunity to have a stuffed tiger
You're a dumb POS for thinking you should have any say in what someone does with their own property
>noooo i cannot consoooooooom
You are by far the biggest autist in the thread
>no no no nooooo WHY ISNT HE TRYING TO MAKE MORE MONEY WHAT A RETARD JUST BE LOGICAL LIKE ME
Unfortunately he's not alone. Go on literally any C&H thread on /toon/ and there's guaranteed to be several dozen retarded manchildren calling Watterson a pseud and a hack for not selling out and giving them colorful fluffy Hobbes toys like their autist brains desired.
Dilate
You first /toon/mblr chud
selling fucking 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 gay for holding that view
... until he dies and his kids get to do whatever they want with the rights.
>kids
He only has one daughter, Violet. She was born probably sometime after '96 so she'd be in her mid to early 20s
...is she cute?
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
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.
brb going to southeast ohio tinder
Are we entirely sure Bill Watterson is his real name?
Piss on every car brands logo in existence
David Spade as Calvin
Daniel Tosh as Hobbes
No de-aging cgi
Krazy Kat, now that was a good comic strip
It would have to be immediately cancelled and then every single person involved would have to publicly apologize before committing seppuku.
*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.
1/10, apply yourself
Change Hobbes' voice to James Corden and Calvin's voice to Sarah Silverman.
The Calvinball scene is funny lol
Keep all the pretentious reddit bullshit from the strIps and the pseudo intellectuals will eat it up.
>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
Watterson needs to do something to keep it protected after he dies.
Woke shit
>the alternative
>not "alternatives"
dinosaur transphobic shit
Good ol Bill still sticking it to gays to this day.
>Geeks+gamers follower can't handle the bantz
Many such cases
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.
/misc/ actually likes Calvin and Hobbes? Why?
A zoomer wouldn't understand
Put the phone down for a few hours and go outside, you might eventually get a clue on why.
This is one of the precious few moments where
>takes long drag from cigarette
>You wouldn't get it...
is 100% appropriate.
zoom zoom
Wasted digits
Not reference anything thats happened post 2006. If the comic was written today Calvin would be bitching about fags, trannies and blacks while his Dad would remember the good ol days of AOL and Clinton
>Clinton
>Good ol days
Now I KNOW you're a zoomer.
Trump lost fucko, go shoot some kids to get your balls off
Sure he did sweetie, now go eat your tendies before they get cold
>biggest presidential scandal was fucking 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
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.
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 fuckin reddit or something and Garfield being fat and lazy would probably offend somebody somewhere so hed probably just be a comic like that fuckin Sarah Scribbles making the most basic observations ever
ok thanks, any non-spastic responses though from the late 30s+ crowd?
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.
newspapers had a particular odor and the ink would get all over everything
would use the old papers to line the bird cage
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.
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.
>Calling the comics "the funnies"
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.
This. I took for granted just how imaginative Calvin & Hobbes really was, and how, thinking back to other newspaper comics none were so creative.
>those first two panels
Holy Based
These were always my favorites.
/ourtiger/
based pedophile hobbes
Don't muck this thread up. Susie is cute though.
Calvin's fascination with lobotomies was always hilarious.
Adult Susie is a qt
Hobbes loving susie was my favorite gag
Ah I always loved this one.
Ok Boomer
Get off my lawn and go make something of yourself zoomzoom.
Is this from 9gag?
soul v souless
>tags: furry, e-boicon, NTR
I figured the dad knew the real answers to Calvin's questions and was just fucking with him
Based horny Hobbes-bro
>No, you're the president of Deluded Fruitcakes Anonymous
Toppest of keks, all these comics (playing house, Spaceman Spiff, Tracer Bullet) really wouldn't work in any other format but print
Forgot about this one, I teared up from laughing. Thanks for posting
>anon rejects the feminist establishment.jpg
>It take one to know one
this feels like a pre-internet shitpost
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.
Which Sopranos dream sequence is this
Why didn't she just learn how to cook?
She was an ass.
this reads like something 4chan would write about Netflix
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.
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,
the one about not bothering to buy a real xmas tree and keeping it in the garage lol
Good stuff. Also, the one where he convinces Calvin that real-life used to be in black and white.
my favorite is the one where he teaches calvin about rotational velocity.
Forgot about that one. Really good.
reminds me of my how things work book when i learned that bigger gears move slower and smaller gears move faster.
>bigger gears move slower and smaller gears move faster.
what?
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.
I do that to my kid, now I remember where it got it from!
Honestly if more parents did this, there might be way fewer smokers.
How much of a bitch 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
Calvin's kind of bitch made to be fair. Even Susie can kick his ass.
>Calvin's kind of bitch made to be fair. Even Susie can kick his ass.
kek true
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.
Good on you. Nasty habit. Became more about needing to do something than actually craving the cig itself.
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
Need to get back into taking care of myself. Was doing so good.
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 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
Thanks, man, it's time. Not trying to be diabetic.
I feel you. I almost never drink alcohol or coffee, I don't smoke, I eat salads, but I just fucking love chocolate cake and donuts. I swear sugar is the only thing I'm addicted to
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 gay treats. Got a clearance box of glazes doughnuts.
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
OK boomer
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.
He's 6 years old, lungs are built different for them
>built different
zoomer detected
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"
Pretty based
Hobbes should have a really deep black guy voice
Should be Phil Lamarr
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
Was really mulling over what black guy would work out, but I genuinely couldn't think of anyone better than him.
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.
robot chicken is absolute dogshit and that clip fucking sucks
>robot chicken is absolute dogshit
here's your Calvin & Hobbes movie
Unironically this.
Just adapt this into a awesome 90 minute movie.
How did one comic have so much SOVL
love it
I legitimately always thought there was a sign that said "LIBRARY" in the last panel.
Watterson was WAY ahead of his time
God I knew there was a reason I based my entire personality around Calvin when I was younger
Unironically prophetic
>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.
oh god
dont even fucking 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
Yeah, you know his family will most likely willingly sell the rights as soon as he goes.
He's not dead? I've spent the last 15 years thinking he was
Nah, he's still kicking as far as I know. Stuck to his guns.
He's only 63 right now. He started the comic in his 20s if you can believe it.
god ive done nothing with my life
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.
>Bill Watterson was born in 1958
>first Calvin & Hobbes was published in 1985
>he was fucking 27 years old
>tfw we are now the age of when most accomplished people did something with their lives
Same age. All I've done is release some ambient music on SoundCloud. Saddening.
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
>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
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
For me it was the Disney special
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.
One of my buddies leaves the collections in the bathroom for reading material and his kids got into it that way. Pretty heartwarming.
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.
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.
just realized in all my years on this shithole ive never seen rule 34 of calvins mom
Let's keep it that way for Bill's sake.
I did have a crush on Susie as a kid though for some reason.
how can one man be so based?
no friggin twitter, no politics, no tainting his legacy for bucks
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
>environmentalism
king shit, hes gonna be one of only two celebrities ill mourn their passing, other being jim henson
isn't henson dead
If there aren't any for Rosalyn that's a fucking crime
She's objectively cute and her bf is lucky
Rosalyn is built, designed, constructed, and exclusively handcrafted for blackmail and /ss/
>/ss/
You have no idea. Calvin gets to tackle her to the ground and climb all over her tight swimmer body, the lucky bastard
I love Calvin & Hobbes. Just popped into the thread to say that really...
I understand. First thread I've actually enjoyed in a while.
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.
Why are you trying to defend big tobacco?
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.
Why is there some sperg redditor in this thread frothing at the mouth that Bill Watterson won't sell merchandise? Who cares?
I prefer Bloom County.
Ironic, because that fucking hack won't stop using Hobbes.
>this crossover is actually real and sanctioned by Bill Watterson
That's actually quite good.
Is that supposed to be... trump hair?
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.
>current year calvin
>not pissing on a ford logo
CMON
That's pretty kino ngl.
I can hear the Cowboy Bebop music reverberating off this image
Back to redit boyo
You first buddy boy
I do not watch redit bebop tho
You do however spell "though" as "tho," making you a Redditor, a zoomer, and an illiterate, terminally online moron. Now get the fuck off my board.
Not as bad as someone who watches redit bebop thooooo LMAO
You're embarrassing yourself in front of all these nice people. Don't you think it's time you stopped?
not as embarrassing as someone who watches redit bebop LMAO
>wagon welded onto the front of the ship
kino
Breathed and Watterson were friends. Bill used to send Berkeley letters, playfully mocking his merchandising deals to support his power boating hobby.
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.
>unwoke, gender-fluid, beta phase pre-adults
god i hate it when boomers attempt political satire
Tracer Bullet was the best persona, change my mind
i'm more of a spaceman spiff afficionado
Why would you say something like that? Even in jest?
First of all Hobbes needs to be voiced by a black man and half the jokes should be about current issues.
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.
Who should play Calvin, though? I'm thinking an unknown.
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 fucking work.
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.
I could see something like that working for sure
Calvin just wouldn't work with a little kid voice
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?
Yeah definitely an unknown.
Thank god for that tbh
It's not happening in our lifetimes, Watterson would never sell out and the copyright doesn't expire until like 2100
checking the digits of this wonderful, wonderful post.
>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.
Saved. Thx senpai.
just give a hollywood budget to whoever made this and we're done
>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
I'm stuck. It's pathetic.
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?
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.
They would have to adapt Spencer & Locke instead, including the rape scene
The moon doesnt move like that
Hot
I got some Calvin and Hobbes merchandise
It would have to be in development hell for all eternity with nothing about its production ever getting out to the public.
Calvin and Hobbes is easily one of if not the funniest comic of all time. What do you read, Cathy?
meant for
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.
>Calvin and Hobbes is obviously the best comic strip ever
No. Go further back several decades.
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
Yeah calvin and hobbes and the far side are the two greatest comics ever made and this isn't up for debate, at all.
>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
>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.
I think Watterson neither likes nor trusts Hollywood and the media machine, so it's a foregone conclusion
I always imagine Calvin with the voice of Timmy Turner
>tfw this is now real
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.
we shouldn't have pissed him off Calvin and Hobbesisters...
Get some high budget jap studio to animate it and have Brad Bird direct it and it would have a sliver of a chance.
>Brad Bird
He sold his soul to Disney, Tomorrowland broke him
Jesus Christ this thread moved fast. Is this the power of artistic integrity?
offtopic threads are the absolute best of /misc/ thank god the janny is on an extended piss break or something
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.
Bump limit reached.
/cozy/ thread.
You're all amazing.
Fantastic thread. Thanks guys. Sometimes /misc/ is okay
I feel like we didn't get enough discussion about the totally real movie adaptation.
Perhaps we need to make another thread.
You too anon 🙂
It would have to not be made