Garfield without Garfield

[SuperSurfer]

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[JOE SOAP]

I see it as a rather pointed comment about drugging our children up to the eyeballs for being children and that it kills imagination, and in that way, it "is" the saddest strip ever drawn. Genuine or not.http://www.goaste.cx/goaste/stuff/calvin/calvinretouchdistressed.jpg">

[JOE SOAP]

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[TordelBack]

Yay!  You've just added to the store of human happiness, garageman!

[TordelBack]

Yay!  You've just added to the store of human happiness, garageman!

[satchmo]

Oh I haven't seen that one before cool! It's like a great sequel to a shit film :)

[johnnystress]

urge to buy.....risinghttp://images.andrewsmcmeel.com/media/3102/large.jpg">

[Proudhuff]

Never liked Garfield, but that is genius and a tad frighting


Proud without Huff

[JTurner]

Awesome.

It's quite disturbing that Jon is using imagined conversations with his cat to justify his clearly deranged behaviour.

[Proudhuff]

This thread has now won me over to C&H!
well done chaps

Huff

[the shutdown man]

Hell, I didn't know there was a full hardback C&H. I'm sorely tempted, but I already have a load of the books. Mind you, I could just give them away......

I could put it next to my similar looking Complete Far Side.

[Buttonman]

£70 for Calvin and £50 for the Far Side - them's spicy meatballs!

I liked C&H but reading the treasuries got a bit repetitive and I think the author showed a lot of class in cancelling the strip when he did.

Calvin's Mom is pretty hot, especially when her tongue is hanging out!

Amazon also think I'll be interested in the complete Peanuts, but I'm so not.

[Hoagy]

Grief!

[Robin Low]

"No word of a lie - this although I can't do justice to this in words, this sequence reduces me to tears every time. I'm bloody sniffling as I write this! Right there, in three panels, is the end of childhood, the loss of innocence, as perfectly encapsulated as any writer in any medium could ever hope to achieve, but without sacrificing the magic of C&H. "

I remember reading that strip. I have a similar reaction to The Snowman, which doesn't pull its punches - Calvin at least will get a few more years of Hobbes and have time to grow-up, but the Boy gets one glorious day... and then childhood is over.

Regards

Robin

[I, Cosh]

Calvin & Hobbes is unbeatable.

I can't remember where I first saw it, but I had an old bookmark for something very similar to that Garfield thing.

Link: http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4997" target="_blank">Garfield without Garfiled's speech.