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Oh absolutely. I relate to both because I’ve been in both situations to some degree. But it was interesting looking back at it now: reading it as a kid, I was very much in Calvin’s situation, not able to connect and not understanding why. Now I feel like I have a better sense of how to be a part of things, and it’s a Nice Charlie Brown And Snoopy Play Baseball New York Mets Shirt little painful to read those strips now, not only because he’s struggling, but because he never really learns from it, other than “Sports is dumb,” or more generally “People are cruel.”I actually think you’ll find a lot of people in this community who relate to Calvin like that. I know that I had a really rough childhood – it wasn’t horrific by any measure but it was very lonely. It’s why I love Calvin and Hobbes so much.

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I assume that he wanted to continue the tradition that his father had started. Calvin was named for theologian John Calvin. Bacon is named for Sir Francis Bacon. (arguably more of a polymath than a pure philosopher). Both strips are products of their time. Peanuts reflect the grim optimism of the 1950s and 60s. With global destruction on the horizon and dramatic social change at home, the protagonist faces a world at odds with him, yet he perseveres. Calvin and Hobbes are symbolic of the Nice Charlie Brown And Snoopy Play Baseball New York Mets Shirt existential crisis of the late 1980s and early 90s. Nothing is certain to the main character, not even reality. Old ways of looking at the world were no longer relevant, and the individual had to discover the truth on their own terms.

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Or, maybe they were both just cute comics about a boy and his best friend. Oh, it’s a powerful idea for sure. Weirdly, I was fascinated by Garfield as a kid, even though it is, objectively, one of the worst comics strips of the era. To be fair, the earlier strips at least had SOME degree of cleverness: it gets much more awful after about the half-way point. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind cats, and when they’re friendly they can be downright pleasant to be Nice Charlie Brown And Snoopy Play Baseball New York Mets Shirt around. I wouldn’t want to have one as a pet though, I much prefer dogs. The biggest advantage cats have is in the name department. A dog needs a name you are willing to yell out in public, like Rex or Spot. You can call a cat anything, like Chairman Meow or Cheshire A. Arthur. It’s not like they respond to anything other than “Kitty, Kitty.”

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