Calvin and Hobbes

[vezonex]

as I was wasting time on the internet today, i stumbled across a youtube video of a Robot Chicken parody of Calvin and Hobbes. it was not easy to watch, and...though i usually enjoy Robot Chicken, that one wasn't particularly funny to me. the sketch basically has Calvin sent to a psychiatrist, and eventually committed, a bumbling lunatic, because

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Ka-ZAM!

[polaris134]

What I found really touching about the final strip was that for years, we've seen Calvin beg the universe, the heavens, God, etc. for a good fresh snow to go sledding on, and be met with nothing (at least, whenever he asked for it straight up). And it was always funny to read his expressions of indignant childhood ire when he didn't get what he wanted. So it was really wonderful to see him wake up and be so excited to see so much good snow just waiting outside his window. It was a perfect expression of childhood joy, and I felt it with him.

I always related to him, growing up. He had such a vivid imagination and could see worlds beyond worlds, but it was something he couldn't really ever share with anyone, and in fact it often got him into trouble or labeled 'weird.'

One of my favorite strips is the one where he's walking around the house transforming things by yelling "Ka-ZAM!" His parents send him up to his room when he won't be quiet, so he yells "Ka-ZAM!" and transforms the world outside his window into this beautiful, twilight alien landscape. I always found that strip incredibly poignant, and touching on a very personal level.