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Calvin and Jobs (comic)
- aston 18y agoBoo for killing the almost homophone by inserting "Steve" in the title.
- geuis 18y agoMeh. The first comic was mildly funny. Not so much on the others.
- rbanffy 18y agoDon't be unfair. #3 is pretty good.
- mechanical_fish 18y agoIt's got a better hit rate than 90% of the college newspaper comics I've ever read. Not that that's saying much.
- Prrometheus 18y agoI hope that I am so famous and successful one day that people find it amusing to lampoon me using classic cartoon remixes.
- adnam 18y ago"Calvin and Prrometheus" doesn't ring, but you might pass as an extra in Asterix and Obelix. The sky is falling on our heads!
- rewind 18y agoI think I've made $0.03 since I started typing this.
- adnam 18y agoDon't stop keep going!
- Harkins 18y agoI'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?"
- SirWart 18y agoWell 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.
- thwarted 18y agoSo you think it could be like http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ ?
- icky 18y agoJobs minus Hobbes minus Calvin? (Hell, Hobbes minus Calvin would be trippy enough, since Hobbes is the imaginary friend...)
- benjamincanfly 18y agoNot imaginary.
- icky 18y ago(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.
- ComputerGuru 18y ago
- convolver 18y agoI 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!
- dandelany 18y agoNah, it just wasn't funny.
- convolver 18y agoOh, 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?
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- benjamincanfly 18y agoIt could be because Reddit has a subreddit specifically for XKCD (http://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd http://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd), and many HN readers are already familiar with it.
- convolver 18y agoEhh, you really think so? I mean XKCD stuff lingers up on hackernews all the time. My said post was nixed in ~40 minutes.
- tipjoy 18y agoyou 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.htm http://www.users.qwest.net/~yarnspnr/writing/adverbs/adverbs...
- tpiep 18y agoOriginal Flickr page: http://flickr.com/photos/35923610@N00/2723090810/in/photostream/ http://flickr.com/photos/35923610@N00/2723090810/in/photostr...
- benjamincanfly 18y agoThe Flickr image is actually just a photo of the latest issue of Mad Magazine. http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1547 http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1547
- Tichy 18y agoAre you saying Mad Magazine still exists? Interesting.
- lg 18y agodon't forget the other ones: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35923610@N00/2722267025/sizes/o/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/35923610@N00/2722267025/sizes/o...
- ComputerGuru 18y agoThanks. It's actually much funnier than the one in the OP.