So is this lesson I'm supposed to take away from the strip are that people are scum, they'll never understand you and that it's better to escape into imagination?
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So is this lesson I'm supposed to take away from the strip are that people are scum, they'll never understand you and that it's better ...
No, the lesson is that there's treasure everywhere and you should go exploring
Half the strips are about how people think Calvin is a weirdo for his imagination and no one attempting to connect with him on his level. It doesn't help that Watterson has also talked about how he prefers being around his own cat than most people and how he refuses to answer for interviews because he thinks people have an ulterior motive
Calvin is like a 9 year old boy, of course he's weird
He's six, and like I said no one in the strip makes any sort of effort to connect to him on his level. The one time we see his dad bond with him, it's something that his dad finds normal and fin, not Calvin. Otherwise he continually insults Calvin
His other classmates find him weird though anon.
Huh, I never noticed that. And I say that as someone who thought this comic is overrated
Here's a good example. I honestly can't stand Calvin's parents
>he refuses to answer for interviews because he thinks people have an ulterior motive
That doesn't sound like he's in the wrong.
That just sounds like paranoia
Half the strips are about Calvin's imagination getting him into trouble. Which is totally in character for a clever, imaginative, and rambunctious 6 year old boy like Calvin.
Susie is still a kid, and Calvin enjoys messing with her. Of course she thinks he's a wierdo. And even still she does occasionally try to connect with Calvin and play with him and Hobbes, it's Calvin himself who usually pushes her away.
Rosalyn clearly just doesn't know how to deal with him. She's not the evil babysitter bent on making his life miserable that Calvin thinks she is, she's just out of her depth. And she eventually does learn to engage with him properly when she plays Calvinball with him.
His parents do attempt to connect with him, there's strips where they play with him, take care of him when he's sick, or comfort him when he's feeling sad, and they're clearly trying to raise him properly. They don't always engage with his fantasies and they complain about some of the weird stuff he does like the snowmen but they never forbid him from making them, or punish him for playing unless he's being harmful, destructive, or disruptive. They never really say anything about Hobbes or tell him to stop constantly blaming things on an imaginary friend either. They even go to great lengths to find him when he gets lost in the woods, solely because Calvin cares about him so much and is worried that something will happen to what they think is a simple stuffed tiger.
They're just regular people though, and they're not perfect. They get impatient, tired, frustrated, busy, and they have to deal with work and bills and house keeping and all the other shit adults have to deal with. They clearly think he's a smart and imaginative kid, they just struggle to fully understand their own child, like most parents.
too bad OP will ignore everything you say and proceed to make another thread with the same complaints tomorrow
My friends used to call me Calvin because of how distractible I was. They even thought I still had an imaginary friend or something.
The message to me is that you should never really give up on creative hobbies
Yes
What a dick
So the lesson I'm supposed to take away from this post is that OP is dumb, he'll never stop shitposting and that it's better to escape by hiding his threads?
Are you mad because I'm criticizing the comic? I'm sorry I'm not treating Watterson like he's Jesus Christ
It's just a comic strip in the funny pages.
So that means it should be free of criticism? Besides it's not like it was comedy all the time like the dying racoon or the dead bird strip.
When the only criticism you have is
>durr I don't get it
yes
What am I not getting about the strip?
I'm mad because you keep making these threads despite a lack of anything new to say.
I'm sorry I'm not felating watterson
>OP getting so assmad at people calling him out that he responded to the same post twice
Keep at it, lads
I'm not mad
Do you have an actual countrrargument or are you just gonna throw insults at me?
Do you have anything new to say or are you going to keep repeating yourself until the end of time?
It's not my fault people worship Watterson so fricking much that if you even so much as slightly give criticism of the comic the fans jump on your ass
It's not my fault you hate Watterson so much you feel the need to seethe about it every day making the same threads with nothing new to say. Get off Cinemaphile for awhile buddy.
I don't hate Watterson you moron. I fricking loved Calcin and Hobbes as a kid, but reading it as am adult now, the strip is still funny amd the art is frwat, but it's also needlessly misanthropic
>I don't hate Watterson
Yet you feel the need to repeat yourself day in, and day out, every single day for years on end, on how he's actually shit. Yeah, I'm sure you don't. Take that anon's advice and walk outside for awhile.
I made one or two threads about his mianthropy and how it bothers me
No
OK
Yes
The take away is that Calvin and Susie are made for each other.
That was back when Susie actually acted like a kid. For some reason Watterson removed any sort of personality she has after he came back from his first sabbatical - if you read the strips from 1992 onwards, she never brings up Hobbes or Mr. Bun
They will never understand each other anon
Why don't the mods finally start banning this spamming homosexual?
Op does not understand the concept of melancholy
So Calvin isn't allowed to grow up and at least have Susie start to understand him more?
Calvin & Hobbes is about a very specific time in childhood. When you’re young you feel misunderstood, you don’t understand why things are the way they are, it’s lonely, even with all the magic. I’m sure if the comic had him grow up he would be more understood and understand more, that’s just not what the comic is about