# I Miss Calvin and Hobbes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2002, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276 "2002-06-16T00:06:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/41 "2002-06-18T05:45:57Z")
> [@](#): > > ## The problem with Hobbes still being around when Calvin’s older than about 14 is it would make Calvin come off as nuts to most people. > > I don’t see that a problem–a strip titled “Calvin the Ordinary Guy” probably wouldn’t be very entertaining. Actually, speculation about what Calvin would be like when he was older was addressed in [this article](http://whatever-dude.com/posts/145.shtml) . ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/42 "2002-06-18T14:36:22Z")
I wish he had sold out, I would love a stuffed Hobbes. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/43 "2002-06-18T16:36:17Z")
Watterson could do something similar to the movie **Drop Dead Fred**. Maybe Calvin hits his head after one of his famous wagon rides and forgets all about Hobbes until Hobbes is found when Calvin is going through some boxes after leaving home. I think this “whatever happened to” situation would make for a good graphic novel. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/44 "2002-06-18T17:34:27Z")
Why hasn’t Watterson or someone sued the ass off the lousy farks that make those peeing Calvin stickers? ---
**Author:** ![PolishSausage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@PolishSausage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PolishSausage)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/45 "2002-06-18T17:58:39Z")
Guess what I just read, [Calvin and Hobbes The Movie](http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=12534) !!! I know it sounds scary, but read the article. If it’s true and it’s being done under Watterson’s complete control, how could it nor be cool? ~t ---
**Author:** ![PolishSausage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@PolishSausage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PolishSausage)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/46 "2002-06-18T18:14:49Z")
or ‘NOT be cool’. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/47 "2002-06-18T18:33:35Z")
I don’t know… as long as we only have cartoon bubbles and text… having voices will only ruin it. ---
**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/48 "2002-06-18T19:22:07Z")
I have extreme doubts that this is true… I could see the comic coming back before this movie… ---
**Author:** ![Jenner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@Jenner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenner)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/49 "2002-06-19T01:14:12Z")
Yeah, it sounds like wishful thinking to me. I always felt that if Watterson ever decided to produce an animated Calvin and Hobbes, Kevin Kline would be perfect for the voice of Hobbes. This actually came to me in a dream once. I dreamt that I was watching _Calvin and Hobbes: The Movie_ on the big screen, and Hobbes was voiced by Kevin Kline. It seemed so perfect! ---
**Author:** ![Osbie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cdc98d/32.png) [@Osbie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osbie)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/50 "2002-06-19T03:01:41Z")
I LOVE “A Nauseous Nocturne”! _It seems some ill-proportioned beast, anticipating me deceased, is drooling poison puddles on the floor…_ Brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/51 "2002-06-21T01:05:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Glory \* > \*\*I wish he had sold out, I would love a stuffed Hobbes. \*\* Yeah, if Watterson had licensed just that, it’d have been _waaaaaay_ cool! Think of all the kids out there who’d take their Hobbes doll and start doing all the things that Calvin did! 😃 (I know my brothers’ would both be cursing me for giving 'em to my nieces and nephews, along with copies of the books. [Hey, I was the youngest and got picked on all the time, I want my revenge, damn it!]) ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/52 "2002-06-21T02:57:03Z")
So do I. I got really into it right when he was ending the strip, but thankfully I was able to go back and buy books and find all of the old strips. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/53 "2003-07-28T14:55:53Z")
I thought this thread deserved a resurrection. I found one of my C&H compilation books this weekend, and had a happy stroll down memory lane. Anf there’s a thread in IMHO right now about being afraid of the dark, and one poster mentioned tentacles coming out from under the bed… which made me think of the times that Calvin realized that something under the bed was drooling, and when the monsters tried to bribe Hobbes with salmon to push Calvin over… Ahh, good times. ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/54 "2003-07-28T15:40:44Z")
This thread makes me very very very sad. I read it and remember how great Calvin and Hobbes was and just wish it were back. However, I don’t want it around if it looks like it would be a Garfield/Peanuts hack comic which I am afraid it may have gone eventually. ---
**Author:** ![Taran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Taran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taran)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/55 "2003-07-28T16:03:45Z")
This strip fills the same niche for me that Calvin and Hobbes did. There are differences, of course, but it’s got the same spirit. ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/56 "2003-07-28T16:40:30Z")
I pretty much consider Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman’s **Zits** as its’ spiritual successor . . . ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/57 "2003-07-28T16:44:35Z")
You can get a daily dose of Calvin & Hobbes reruns [here](http://www.ucomics.com/calvinandhobbes/). ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/58 "2003-07-28T16:56:26Z")
Taran, I do love Ozy and Millie. It isn’t quite the same though Ozy does have a hobbesque quality to him and Millie is definately a Calvin. It doesn’t capture the childlike innocence that Calvin and Hobbes did though. However, LLewellyn is great! I wish he was my father. ---
**Author:** ![Jerrybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jerrybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerrybear)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/59 "2003-07-28T17:57:20Z")
I agree on both of the sentiments expressed in this thread: 1. I miss “Calvin and Hobbes” the comic strip. 2. I hate, hate, HATE the stupid rip-off “Calvin peeing on a auto company logo” stickers! They also have other variations, many of which play into other redneck/right wing obsessions…such as Calvin peeing on “Anti-Hunters,” Calvin peeing on “Bin Laden,” and etc. Probably also Calvin peeing on “People who think Auto Racin’ Is Not A Real Sport” and Calvin peeing on “France.” ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276/60 "2003-07-28T18:22:50Z")
I miss Calvin. One of my favorite strips is when he calls his dad at work wanting to hear a story, and so Dad (a patent lawyer) starts reading him the patent application, something to the effect of “The impeller port (fig. 1) is open to the intake vent (fig. 2) through a series…” Am I alone in believing that “Frazz” is Calvin today? Similar hairstyle, appropriate age, similar off-the-wall-yet-pointedly-relevant comments… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/114276.md?page=4)