Calvin and Hobbes. A comic strip about a boy and a toy tiger that he imagines is real. Calvin has a high vocabulary, amazing for a kid at age six.
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How it starts is him telling his father he caught a tiger using a sandwich as bait. Ever since then, they have been the close of friends.
Calvin is the kid and Hobbes is the name of a tiger who is like Calvin's best companion. They stick together like glue, and sometimes, they have other characters besides him and his parents.
Calvin's parents:
Their first names are never revealed ever in the comic, but they do play an important role. His mom is a stay at home mother, and is more understanding. His father is a hard worker who tries not to get angry when Calvin does something bad. Together, they make a great couple, despite having a child that can be a little too much.
Calvin has a very overactive imagination, and when he doesn't want to listen to the teacher or even his parents, he either becomes Spaceman Spiff or a detective, or a robot...anything that he can imagination.
When he is Spaceman spiff, he doesn't realize that reality is infected as he thinks of torturous things his character does even if it is running away from a bully or forced to take a bath.
Moe the Bully:
All kids would have bullies, but for Calvin, he has one. It seems Moe might be in high school or something, but it seems Calvin finds a way to get into trouble and end up face down into dirt or his eyes punched as he receives a shiner. Anyway, Calvin tries to stay far away from this man.
Even if Calvin and Hobbes comics are gone, it doesn't mean the hilarity is dead too. They make parodies of Star Wars, Star Trek and much more. There is even a mud flap with Calvin peeing. Yep...that's true.
There were book series with interesting titles like "Yukon Ho" "There is something under the bed" "Scientific progress goes boink" "The days are just packed" and the last one... "It's a magical world."
There are other characters of Calvin's world like their neighbor Suzie that Hobbes has a crush on, and that Suzie likes. His teacher Mrs. Wormwood, their babysitter Roz. And every time he fantasizes, he pictures them in his dreams too.
Bill Waterson retired the duo in 1995 to focus on his life. He is still alive today and does make small appearances in comic cons. People ask him why he isn't making Calvin and Hobbes anymore with his reply being "there were just no more jokes to make about a small boy and his tiger"
All I can say is that I do miss them. They were apart of my childhood like Garfield and the Far Side are.
It doesn't mean the comics are gone, but it just means we can enjoy it with every generation...
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