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SUMMARY:Calvin and Hobbes Turn 25
DESCRIPTION:November 18, 1985\r\nCalvin and Hobbes first appeared.\r\n
 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1985/11/18\r\n\r\nBy the time
  Bill Watterson wrote the Tenth Anniversary Book, he had changed his o
 pinion about Calvin and Hobbes's first meeting, saying it was unnecess
 ary and even detrimental to the feel of the strip. Much later, it is a
 pparent in several strips that Hobbes and Calvin have known each other
  their whole lives, including when Calvin was an infant. This contradi
 cted the first two strips, which show Calvin and Hobbes' first meeting
 .\r\nHobbes shared his final appearance with Calvin in the final strip
  published on the 31st of December 1995.\r\nhttps://www.gocomics.com/c
 alvinandhobbes/1995/12/31\r\n \r\n \r\nHobbes is named after 17th-ce
 ntury philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who had what Watterson described as \
 "a dim view of human nature.\" Thomas Hobbes is famous for his claim t
 hat humans' natural state is one of war, and that there \"the life of 
 man [is], solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.\" Hobbes' persona
 lity does not match with the philosopher's worldview.\r\nHobbes is oft
 en the voice of reason, contrasting Calvin's manic impulsiveness. Read
 ers are left to wonder if this rationality is in Hobbes as a distinct 
 personality, or in Calvin as a kind of conscience. In the end, the que
 stion becomes less about absolute truth and more about different versi
 ons of reality: the nature of Hobbes' existence was never a puzzle to 
 be solved, but rather a subtle comment on the power of imagination, an
 d on the similar power of a lack thereof. All in all, Hobbes is real i
 f one believes he is.\r\n \r\n \r\n In some comics where Calvin has 
 a math problem, he is as dumb as Calvin and makes up math formulas suc
 h as \"Y as in Y do we care?\". However, he may just be fooling Calvin
 , shown with his reaction to Calvin believing three dimes was less tha
 n a quarter: \"I think you better study harder.\"\r\nIn one comic wher
 e Calvin asks Hobbes what 3+8 is, so Hobbes teaches Calvin, \"Well, fi
 rst you assign the value as X. X always means multiply, so you take th
 e numerator [that's Latin for \"number eighter\"], and you put that nu
 mber on the other side. Then you take 3 from the other side, so what t
 imes 3 equals 8? The answer, of course, is six.\") This, however, is m
 ost likely intentional. Hobbes still claims that his knowledge of \"ma
 th theories\" is from instinct.\r\n  \r\nHobbes also refers to the i
 nfamous \"Noodle Incident\" quite often, much to Calvin's dismay. Calv
 in is very defensive about it and gets mad when Hobbes makes a referen
 ce.\r\n\r\nSometimes Hobbes breaks the fourth wall and speaks directly
  to the reader, such as when Calvin tries to parachute from his house'
 s roof (\"His mom's going to have a fit about those rose bushes\").\r\
 n \r\nhttps://calvinandhobbes.fandom.com/wiki/Hobbes\n\nFor more info
 rmation visit https://agilephilly.ning.com/events/calvin-and-hobbes
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CATEGORIES:historical
LOCATION:the not so distant past
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