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On Calvin and Hobbes and the Trouble with Nostalgia
This is a nice piece, but I have one small correction: Calvin's "I bet" in the comic you describe is a response to his mom's assertion that she is not going to tell him to get up again; he knows that she will. The remaining panels are not his imagined day, as you say, but his real day.
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 3:38 pm
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On Calvin and Hobbes and the Trouble with Nostalgia
@AJA I suppose it is susceptible to both interpretations. One reason I think mine is more likely is because some Sunday comics pages would not print the strips' first two panels, opting instead for an abbreviated version of the title panel (cheap bastards). As such, these would always involve some little joke that was not relevant to the substance of the strip. On your reading, the strip has a different meaning if you don't know about those first two panels. I'm just splitting hairs, though. These strips really defined my childhood. Thanks for the reminder.