(From GifCities)

I thought I had read every single comic over and over as a kid, but this one I don’t recall at all.

Oddly (?) this is probably one of my least favorite in all of his work. It’s just that, well, it lacks something that is always present, or that quite abruptly it gives too much of something else?

There is only one other comic that made an even more negative impact on me (this one, I read it as a child and I never read again after that). It was one of those (many) French comics kids could buy for cheap back in the early 70s, whose name completely escapes me after 50 years. It was telling the sad story of a dog calmly lying on the grave of its recently deceased master, waiting to peacefully die. Some of the villagers weren’t happy about that and tried to chase the dog which did not agree. Frightened, they gathered a crowd and did exactly what crowds excel at: acting like a braindead asshole and that nice dog ends up being killed.

Reading those few pages, I cried my soul out and I was so angry at that unspeakable injustice that I just witnessed I threw the comic in the trash bin after tearing it apart in tiny unreadable parts.

All those years later, I still somewhat regret my lack of control and my inability to refrain from blaming the book and its author for my emotional reactions to it. In my defense, when all that happened I was 7 years old, at most. Edit: well I was almost the age of Calvin…

That is certainly not the same emotion/reaction I feel looking at this strip but I really do feel like it is saying something sad about Calvin & maybe about the terribly absent Hobbes would I also be tempted to note. Or maybe old as I’m today, I’m just still too emotional? Or, since I’m sick as a dog today (no pun intended) I may just have some fever going on clouting my judgment?

Edit: To make sure no ones gets me wrong: thx a lot for sharing this strip.

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