Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 18, 2015
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Transcript:
Hobbes: "I love fall" Hobbes: "I like the cool days, the smell of leaves, the low sunlight...and the sky looks even more blue when the trees are yellow and red!" Calvin: "I dunno... I think autumn is melancholy. Summer is over and in a week or two, everything will be hunkered down for the long, bleak winter" Calvin: "Nothing lasts. Fall is just the last fling before things get worse" Hobbes: "If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?" Calvin: "I like to have everything so good, I can take it all for granted" Hobbes: "I think the brisk air makes apple pie taste better too! Mm-mm!"
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Perhaps today’s strip contains some foreshadowing that the end of Calvin and Hobbes is approaching. Bill Watterson must have thought about the fact that he was drawing comic strips about fall for the last time, and that he would soon be saying goodbye to both Calvin and Hobbes.If Bill had continued to draw Calvin and Hobbes for additional years, the quality would have gone downhill. Creativity and genius at such a high level cannot be sustained forever in a comic strip.Instead, because Calvin and Hobbes didn’t last forever, we have a greater appreciation of how precious are the existing strips, which have been given to us by Bill Watterson as a unique gift.
Some of us are in the spring of our lives, and others are in the autumn. Each season of life is different, and each has its drawbacks, but each also has its beauty. If every day were perfect, we would never fully appreciate how precious is the gift of life.Mutts (September 23, 2012)Mutts (November 19, 2007)