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Originally Posted by AOII_LB93
I call foul...don't even post that crap. Blasphemer! Hobbes was real....
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Semi-foul. There is such a strip, but Bill Watterson didn't do it:
[Sorry -- All attempts to link the image are failing, but you can see it if you scroll down toward the bottom of the page here.]
Aside from the fact that it is completely inconsistent with everything Watterson ever did with the strip, note that Calvin looks the same in the second and last frames, that Hobbes looks the same in the first three frames, and that the lettering doesn't look quite right. (Note the title, too.) Somebody else put it together. (ETA: The essay I linked to describes it as a fan-made strip and notes: "This strip is, obviously, a wholesale betrayal of the concept of Calvin and Hobbes.")
That said, I have read that Watterson considered at one point having the strip end by Calvin growing up enough to walk away and leave Hobbes behind. If that's true, I'm glad he decided not to do that.
In case anyone has forgotten, this is the real last strip:
My son has been reading C&H since he was 3 -- his favorite stuffed animal has always been a tiger that we got out of a claw machine; he named it Hobbes. I took a sharpie one time and put stripes on a red shirt so that he could go as Calvin for a costume day at school. He wore that shirt out.
I feel like playing Calvinball.