Calvin and Jobs (comic)

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by nickb • 18 years ago

132 28 18 years ago

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aston• 18 years ago

Boo for killing the almost homophone by inserting "Steve" in the title.

geuis• 18 years ago

Meh. The first comic was mildly funny. Not so much on the others.

rbanffy• 18 years ago

Don't be unfair. #3 is pretty good.

mechanical_fish• 18 years ago

It's got a better hit rate than 90% of the college newspaper comics I've ever read. Not that that's saying much.

Prrometheus• 18 years ago

I hope that I am so famous and successful one day that people find it amusing to lampoon me using classic cartoon remixes.

adnam2• 18 years 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• 18 years ago

I think I've made $0.03 since I started typing this.

adnam2• 18 years ago

Don't stop keep going!

Harkins• 18 years ago

I'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• 18 years ago

Well 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• 18 years ago

So you think it could be like http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ ?

icky2• 18 years ago

Jobs minus Hobbes minus Calvin?

(Hell, Hobbes minus Calvin would be trippy enough, since Hobbes is the imaginary friend...)

yef• 18 years ago

Because we all miss Calvin and Hobbes. So it makes us feel nice to see Calvin again, even if it's not the "real" one.

convolver3• 18 years ago

I 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• 18 years ago

Nah, it just wasn't funny.

convolver3• 18 years ago

Oh, 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?

benjamincanfly4• 18 years ago

It could be because Reddit has a subreddit specifically for XKCD (http://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd), and many HN readers are already familiar with it.

convolver3• 18 years ago

Ehh, you really think so? I mean XKCD stuff lingers up on hackernews all the time. My said post was nixed in ~40 minutes.

tipjoy• 18 years ago

you 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...

tpiep• 18 years ago

Original Flickr page: http://flickr.com/photos/35923610@N00/2723090810/in/photostr...

benjamincanfly4• 18 years ago

The Flickr image is actually just a photo of the latest issue of Mad Magazine. http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1547

Tichy• 18 years ago

Are you saying Mad Magazine still exists? Interesting.

lg• 18 years ago

don't forget the other ones: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35923610@N00/2722267025/sizes/o...

ComputerGuru2• 18 years ago

Thanks. It's actually much funnier than the one in the OP.

Calvin and Jobs (comic)

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