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* I first read ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' when I was nine, and thought it was quite funny. In the twenty years since, I've reread the series many times, and it feels like every time I do, another strip makes sense, or I notice a double meaning where I didn't see it before. That comic is an entire showroom of fridges. -- Wemmblyhogg
** I just realized that both characters are named after Renaissance philosophers. That is some heavy stuff for a comic strip.
** See [[Late to Thethe Punchline]], but a lot of comics also only make sense when you take into account the time in which they were written; Calvin's self-centeredness as a critique of attitudes in [[The Eighties]], his taste in comic books and movies being a jab at the then-ongoing [[Dark Age]], and so on. To a kid born after 2000 reading this, they're probably going to be even more confused, but still laughing at timeless gags.
*** I'm not sure the comic books are supposed to symbolize anything; Watterson openly says he hates comic books in the 10th anniversary collection. --[[Jonn]]
**** To be fair, just because he doesn't like comic books doesn't mean he wouldn't use them symbolically. Not all symbolism is positive.--[[opticwind]]
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