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- about 2 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes
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about 2 years ago
on Calvin and Hobbes
Itâs less about the promise of mud, and more about when youâre a child, the world seems so much bigger and grander⌠and so youâll find high adventure in even the most mundane and commonplace things.
For instance, my neighbors used to have this pit in their backyard filled with sand, and as kids weâd play in that thing for HOURS. Sometimes weâd build castles, sometimes weâd bring in toy trucks or action figures, but in EVERY instance, there were epic tales for the ages being written inside our tousled, dirt-caked heads.
Then I revisited it after coming home from my first year at college, and was dismayed to find it was just this⌠little hole in the ground. Call it personal growth or jaded adulthood â that perspective had irrevocably changed.
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over 8 years ago
on Calvin and Hobbes
Yâknow, I distinctly remember laughing at this particular comic when it first appeared in the newspaper. The idea of stores breaking out Christmas merchandise on November 1 in 1986 was still patently ridiculous. Whether merchants were being graciously polite, or just hadnât yet realized that seasonâs vital end-of-year economic uptick, in any case there was still an informal etiquette in place that reserved that commercial ceremony for the day after Thanksgiving (and even then, there wasnât talk of âBlack Fridayâ, except perhaps amongst overworked retail workers).
At this rate, I venture by 2046 Halloween, Thankgiving, Christmas and New Yearâs will have blended into a single three-month-long holiday, perhaps backed by a vague âdeath-to-lifeâ allegorical story of renewal (that Madison Avenue hasnât quite cooked up yet).
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over 8 years ago
on Bloom County
Aw, poor Opus. He tries so hardâŚ
Another strip I hadnât seen before. Though unlike the Cyndi Lauper/WWF arc, I can at least understand why this one was excised from the printed â80âs collections, as Lynchâs rather off-putting adaptation of Dune required a generous amount of time to settle deep within the public consciousness. Nevertheless, it wouldâve been nice to witness an exhibition of Oliverâs cultural literacy in the realm of sequential art, andâŚ
Ohmigod, Iâm doing it too!
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over 8 years ago
on Bloom County
Heh. This one aged like a fine wine, and wonât stop being relevant for a loooooong while, yet. Itâs also a rare strip where the specific choice of typography made it at least 80% funnier.
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over 8 years ago
on Bloom County
Ye gods. This is the very first time Iâve seen this particular BC comic arc â why on Earth was it left out of the printed strip collections, back in The Day? Itâs a classic â80âs âtwo-ferâ riffing on Cyndi Lauper AND the World Wrestling Federation, for pityâs sake! Plus, I guess Cyndi was Opusâ first love interest as well? Sheesh!
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over 8 years ago
on Bloom County
Heh. A bit of fourth-wall breaking, having Opus FINALLY take notice of this running gag of Breathedâs. He always loved making the last item on a list be something completely oddball and goofy, much like the âdogs and cats living togetherâ line in Ghostbusters. âDog hickeysâ was another memorable oneâŚ
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over 8 years ago
on The Best Medicine Cartoon
Not so sure about that. Being rather out of the loop, I recently binge-browsed the past yearâs worth of BC 2.0. The distinct impression I get can be best summed up with the âTrump Mockers in Crisisâ strip from March: one of ennui, and a desire to just get past the whole subject, altogether (despite half the audience evidently demanding, I dunno, Nast Vs. Tweed for the 21st Century or something). Plus, as BB himself admitted, personal crusades donât yield especially funny strips, eitherâŚ
Ah, the Great Newspaper Comic Size Imbroglio of 1987 (or thereabouts)âŚ
I guess itâs to Wattersonâs credit that this was really the ONLY time he brought it up in-strip, even though he obviously cared about the issue a great deal (see his writings in the 10th Anniversary C&H compilation, which make for great reading). Meanwhile, around this same year, Berke Breathed had constructed an entire story arc around it, with the Bloom County regulars going on strike (and getting badly/hilariously replaced).
And Watterson did sort of win at the end, in that he got the syndicates to (VERY grudgingly) accept a new Sunday size scheme for C&H that afforded him more creative usage of space.