You say he’s better than Larson but then post two comics that get absolutely mogged by anything The Far Side. This guy needs three panels of setup with the reveal of the absurdist situation being the punchline, whereas Larson would have gotten it done in one with the caption being the dialogue for each respective final panel, knowing the stark presentation of an absurdist situation is funnier.
Deranged mutant killer monster snow goons will never not be awesome, in any iteration.
Feeding a kid sugar bombs before packing him off to school is probably not a good idea.
I remember I found my father's copy of scientific progress goes boink. I didn't know half the English but kept reading anyway. I remember the very first comic in that collection has Calvin vomit on the rug, and I didn't know what rug meant, I just knew the word carpet. After I finished it 3 times and finally understood all the comics, they got me the complete collection. I remember disliking Tracy because he used more complex language and had a lot more words per panel. But over the years I really got to appreciate all the comics.
That reminds me of that bit in Calvin & Hobbes where Calvin just sort of surveys a blank, snowy landscape like he’s Rothko in a bobble hat and then immediately decides it’s art worth a million dollars.
How is this funny
I'd argue its probably both
Arguably irrelevant, but this strip contains the one thing I never liked about C&H: he writes Calvin yelling "mom" as "mommmmmm". Makes me think he's holding the M instead of the O. I get that "mooooom" makes it look like a really long O sound, like a mooing cow, but I dunno.
lol. I've used 'chocolate frosted sugar bombs' since the first time I read it.
Imagine a rockstar turning down the opportunity to be wealthy
