Question on Calvin and Hobbes

[Spanky The Dolphin]

Again, I don't see why everyone's still saying it's so vague when you have the answere right up there in Ace Pace's post. It's just literally depicting two interpretations of reality. That's it.

But then Watterson tosses in stories like the one where Hobbes was slicing up Calvin's mom's magazines and putting the letters in Calvin's mailbox. Calvin genuinely thought they were from someone else until his mom noticed that her magazines were being cut up. Then he got pissed off and confronted Hobbes about it.

So, if it's simply two interpretations of reality, then what's going on? Was Calivn cutting up his mom's magazines and then erasing his own memory?

If you were a cinema major, you would already know the correct answer.

*myan*

[neoolong]

I'm telling you, it's like Batman's villain Scarface. A split personality personified in an inanimate object.

Scarface? I thought he was called Two-Face?

I don't know if he ever appeared in the comic, but there was a villain made up of a ventriloquist and a puppet. The puppet, Scarface, was merely one of the ventriloquist's split personalities.

[General Zod]

I'm telling you, it's like Batman's villain Scarface. A split personality personified in an inanimate object.

Scarface? I thought he was called Two-Face?

I don't know if he ever appeared in the comic, but there was a villain made up of a ventriloquist and a puppet. The puppet, Scarface, was merely one of the ventriloquist's split personalities.

scarface has made several appearances in recent batman comics, actually.

[RogueIce]

But then Watterson tosses in stories like the one where Hobbes was slicing up Calvin's mom's magazines and putting the letters in Calvin's mailbox. Calvin genuinely thought they were from someone else until his mom noticed that her magazines were being cut up. Then he got pissed off and confronted Hobbes about it.

So, if it's simply two interpretations of reality, then what's going on? Was Calivn cutting up his mom's magazines and then erasing his own memory?

And the Duplicator line (From "Scientific Progress goes Boink"), where he laments not having all the "fun" of what his clones are doing, though he gets punished. That and the first strips, where Hobbes seemingly comes out of nowhere in that trap, and his parents don't pay much attention to his new "stuffed" tiger. Personally, I think it is fairly vauge.

And Spanky, just what in the hell is that *myan* thing you keep doing?

[Spanky The Dolphin]

See my avatar thread in the Testing Forum.

Maybe the answer is vague, but I personally perfectly understand what's going on and why.

*myan*

[Slartibartfast]

They're both part of the imagination of the cartoonist. Therefore, they're both equally real, even if one's a stuffed toy. And other clever stuff.

[Kuja]

If you were a cinema major, you would already know the correct answer.

*myan*

Then how about expanding on that, you know, for the 99% of us here who are not cinema majors?

[Spanky The Dolphin]

I already freaking have. It just seems that you guys need more than what's required to understand the concept. I personally find it extremely difficult to explain things that are nearly second nature to me.

[The Kernel]

If you were a cinema major, you would already know the correct answer.

*myan*

Then how about expanding on that, you know, for the 99% of us here who are not cinema majors?

Kuja, what Spanky is trying to say (although he isn't trying very hard ) is that Calvin's reality is defined by how HE sees it. Trying to explain the actual causes of certain events is irrelevent because his reality is not based on your conceptions of his reality, nor are they based on his parents reality.

[CaptainChewbacca]

A few things, if I may:

1. Deranged, mutant, killer, monster snow goons.

2. Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie

3. Alexander Corriander and the Salamander Bellylander

4. The "noodle incident" and the "spaghetti incident" are never explained.

5. You never find out what Calvin's parents are.

As to whether or not he's magical, there seems to be a lot of stuff done without Calvin being around. I'd say #2, but maybe he's magic.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

First, thanks, Kernel.

Now then for CapChew:

There was no "spaghetti incident," just the noodle one.

What do you mean by "what his parents are," exactly?

Watterson has explicitly made it clear that Hobbes is NOT magical. Have you been paying attention, or sleeping in class?

[Rogue 9]

3: Wrong. Captain Coriander Salamander and 'er Singlehander Bellylander.

5: You mean what their names are, correct?

6: Mustn't forget homicidal psycho jungle cat.

[Shinova]

Calvin and Hobbes reminds me of Azumanga Daioh. Azumanga Daioh reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes.



Both are like a box of donuts from Krispy Kreme. Lolicious.

[Slartibartfast]

The Discworld explanation would be that kids always see "what is there" while normal adults have mental blocks and they can't see stuff like bogeymen, evil bears that eat you if you step on the lines in the sidewalk, and other weird stuff.

[The Yosemite Bear]

Eat your chocolate frosted sugar bombs or I'll send buzzy the humming bird to rattle your windows

[Peregrin Toker]

5. You never find out what Calvin's parents are.

Actually, one of my former classmates looked very vaguely like what Calvin's mom might have resembled as a teenager.

[PainRack]

Not when in the very first few strips, he showed Calvin father finding a stuffed tiger on the road and giving it to Calvin as a gift.

Huh?
The first strip clearly shows something differnt.

http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~corti/calvinfirst.html

IIRC, the third strip shows Calvin father picking up the tiger and handing it over to Calvin. But I see what Phongn means now, so I concede.

[PainRack]

Tracer Bullet? Those are funny, but he didn't do too many. The heavy shading made them time consuming.

Yeah, but they were so funny. Frankly, whenever someone says comics aren't an artform, I just look over at a Tracer Bullet comic.

[DPDarkPrimus]

Calvin's parents are purposely never named. They were meant to represent the everymomanddad. The only defining characteristic I can think of is that Calvin's dad is a patent lawyer.

[Darth Raptor]

3: Wrong. Captain Coriander Salamander and 'er Singlehander Bellylander.

Wrong. COMMANDER Coriander Salamander and 'er Singlehander Bellylander.

[Rogue 9]

DAMN it! >_< Well, I did good for 3:00 in the morning.