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Calvin and Jobs (comic)

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I hope that I am so famous and successful one day that people find it amusing to lampoon me using classic cartoon remixes.

"Calvin and Prrometheus" doesn't ring, but you might pass as an extra in Asterix and Obelix. The sky is falling on our heads!

Boo for killing the almost homophone by inserting "Steve" in the title.

I think I've made $0.03 since I started typing this.

Don't stop keep going!

I'm trying to figure out why Calvin is even used, and all I can get is the lame almost-ryhme in the title. Calvin could be anyone or no one, all the character does is stand there and say "What's the punchline, Mr. Jobs?"

Well he uses Moe, which is another character from Calvin and Hobbes in the strip. Overall it's mostly Jobs though. Also, Jobs doesn't take on any of the characteristics of Hobbes, who is usually the voice of reason, which I think would have been clever.

So you think it could be like http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ ?

Jobs minus Hobbes minus Calvin?

(Hell, Hobbes minus Calvin would be trippy enough, since Hobbes is the imaginary friend...)

Not imaginary.

(First off, let's be clear that I'm using "real" and "imaginary" in the context of the fictional world of the comic strip).

The portion of Hobbes that is real is just an inanimate stuffed toy tiger. Hobbes as a motile, living, thinking being exists entirely as a figment in Calvin's mind, projected into the object of the toy tiger. So Hobbes the toy is real, while Hobbes the being is imaginary.

What?! Hobbes doesn't actually talk??? Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmm!

I prefer to think of the motile, living, thinking Hobbes as a real being that most people can't see.

Because we all miss Calvin and Hobbes. So it makes us feel nice to see Calvin again, even if it's not the "real" one.

I find it mildly amusing that just the other day my XKCD-Cautionary edit post was killed off. Perhaps it was too close to home, or in too poor taste.

Nevertheless, Calvin and Jobs, utterly hilarious!

Nah, it just wasn't funny.

Oh, I'm glad the master of humor decided to chime in here, thanks for setting everything straight.

/me shrugs off bs

Your insulting comment doesn't have a thing to do with why it was killed off in the first place.

I'm also fairly surprised you aren't railing on about how nickb's post is pulling hackernews down into the terrible dredges of fark! We wouldn't want to minimalize our up mods now would we?

It could be because Reddit has a subreddit specifically for XKCD (http://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd), and many HN readers are already familiar with it.

Ehh, you really think so? I mean XKCD stuff lingers up on hackernews all the time. My said post was nixed in ~40 minutes.

you are both 'mildly amused' and 'fairly surprised' - I find this unsurprising, but amusing. also, I recommend: http://www.users.qwest.net/~yarnspnr/writing/adverbs/adverbs...

Meh. The first comic was mildly funny. Not so much on the others.

Don't be unfair. #3 is pretty good.

It's got a better hit rate than 90% of the college newspaper comics I've ever read. Not that that's saying much.

don't forget the other ones: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35923610@N00/2722267025/sizes/o...

Thanks. It's actually much funnier than the one in the OP.

Original Flickr page: http://flickr.com/photos/35923610@N00/2723090810/in/photostr...

The Flickr image is actually just a photo of the latest issue of Mad Magazine. http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1547

Are you saying Mad Magazine still exists? Interesting.

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