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1. less than a minute ago on Wizard of Id

   A Baby Yoda meme would have been appropriate for last Saturday. May the Fourth be with you.

2. 3 minutes ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I agree that Calvin would not have forgotten Hobbes. Your point confirms the view that Hobbes is NOT a toy that Calvin carries around with him. When this strip first appeared, I still largely believed that Hobbes is a toy although I had been questioning this belief for over a year due to those rare strips that show Hobbes doing things on his own. I believed that Hobbes was a toy and that Calvin had left him on the bed. I now accept that Hobbes could have gone back to bed without Calvin knowing and that Calvin’s parents hurried him up so much that he didn’t think of Hobbes. He suddenly remembers Hobbes at the beginning of tomorrow’s strip.

3. about 1 hour ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I certainly admit that I am careless in that quote from Watterson. He said that he suspects Hobbes is “more real than any kid would make up”. I seem to keep misquoting it as I see it which is that Hobbes is more real than Calvin could make up. As I keep pointing out, Hobbes seems more mature and a quicker thinker than Calvin is. Other people have made this point. One reader asked a few years ago, “If Hobbes is part of Calvin’s imagination, how come he’s smarter than Calvin?”

4. about 1 hour ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   As people have already commented, they seem to have ditched the Baseball arc reprints after the first of its three weeks. That story arc got sadder as it went on but the same can be said of this story arc.

5. about 1 hour ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   As I have mentioned before, this story arc set back my belief that Hobbes is NOT part of Calvin’s imagination. I thought that the last panel showed Hobbes as a doll. In fact, as someone pointed out to me, it shows Hobbes’ tail. For over a year, I had been questioning my original supposition that Hobbes was only alive in Calvin’s imagination. That was after reading my first collection and seeing two strips which showed Hobbes as alive when completely alone. I had been looking for strips which showed Hobbes on his own and trying to see if he was always alive on his own or whether he was ever a doll when on his own. As I say, I wrongly thought that this one showed him as a doll when on his own.

6. about 1 hour ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   The Baseball arc was in 1990. This was a rerun of a story arc from 1989. It appeared before the arc in which Calvin and Hobbes founded the GROSS Club.

7. about 1 hour ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I don’t know. Perhaps the Baseball arc was criticised in it’s first week of reprints.

8. about 1 hour ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   But then Mom would have to acknowledge that Hobbes is large enough to knock her down.

9. about 1 hour ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   She usually listens to his explanations but is unable to believe them.

10. about 1 hour ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    I have explained that when I started to suspect that Hobbes might not be part of Calvin’s imagination I was not sure that he wasn’t. I have also explained that it was Watterson’s comment “I suspect he’s more real than any kid would make up” which I read in The Encyclopaedia of Cartoon Animals in 1992 – three years after Watterson made the comment in an interview – which finally confirmed my own suspicion that Watterson wasn’t trying to limit Hobbes to Calvin’s imagination.