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EDIT: Adding the 'redemption', 'happy ending', or 'cop out' depending on your point of view...

Calvin and Hobbes — Off the Ritalin and high on life


I think its a cop-out, the first piece should stand on its own as it has loads of emotional impact. Great piece of fan art in my opinion, unlike the C&H fan pieces usually churn out. I think the creator of it should have held the line and let the first piece stand on its own. It upsets me but I think it really is a great piece of social and ethical commentary.

I actually think the follow up would have been much better without dialogue, so this...

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... packs more of a punch and feels less forced, in my opinion.
 
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EDIT: Adding the 'redemption', 'happy ending', or 'cop out' depending on your point of view...

Calvin and Hobbes — Off the Ritalin and high on life


I think its a cop-out, the first piece should stand on its own as it has loads of emotional impact. Great piece of fan art in my opinion, unlike the puerile shite most C&H fan pieces usually churn out. I think the creator of it should have held the line and let the first piece stand on its own. It upsets me but I think it really is a great piece of social and ethical commentary.

I actually think the follow up would have been much better without dialogue, so this...

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... packs more of a punch and feels less forced, in my opinion.
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I agree with your view on the stand aloneness of the first piece. Very poignant for me.

I also definitely prefer the follow up piece being included.
Something something about the strength of pals blah blah blah now I got something in my eye.
 
But that's not the end of the strip, so not sure where the fact that it's a cop out came in.

There was an epilogue written on Reddit in a writing prompt:

 
chuckdee said:
But that's not the end of the strip, so not sure where the fact that it's a cop out came in.

There was an epilogue written on Reddit in a writing prompt:

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That doesn't look like its the same author.

The creator of the two strips, stated this:

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And then made this comment on the follow-up:
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People, in the comments, thought it was a bit of a cop out or wasn't a great resolution. Others were just glad there was a follow-up that cancelled out the first one. I share the view it was a bit of a cop-out - eg, it being created because the first one upset so many. And inanimate Hobbes talking. He wouldn't. Its why I think a version of him not talking is more preferable, assuming you want to have a follow-up strip to the first one.
 
Rich H said:
That doesn't look like its the same author.

The creator of the two strips, stated this:

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And then made this comment on the follow-up:
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People, in the comments, thought it was a bit of a cop out or wasn't a great resolution. Others were just glad there was a follow-up that cancelled out the first one. I share the view it was a bit of a cop-out - eg, it being created because the first one upset so many. And inanimate Hobbes talking. He wouldn't. Its why I think a version of him not talking is more preferable, assuming you want to have a follow-up strip to the first one.
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I wasn't saying that anything about that reddit post had anything to do with the strip you posted- I just thought it was a good post.

And I didn't realize that it was actually a strip by someone that wasn't Watterson. That's where the confusion about the ending came in.
 
bleys21 said:
I mean, when exactly did Sears & Roebuck stop selling guns via catalogs?
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I dunno. I don't recall seeing them in the 70s and 80s. I do recall Big 5 still having them in the Sunday papers in the 90s
 
Bunch said:
I dunno. I don't recall seeing them in the 70s and 80s. I do recall Big 5 still having them in the Sunday papers in the 90s
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I meant it kind of as a joke about the US and guns, and I haven't bothered to look it up, but if I had to guess, I'd say it was when the gun laws changed in the 1960's. Or could be the 1920s/30s too, with the prohibition and smuggling issues at the time...
 
bleys21 said:
I meant it kind of as a joke about the US and guns, and I haven't bothered to look it up, but if I had to guess, I'd say it was when the gun laws changed in the 1960's. Or could be the 1920s/30s too, with the prohibition and smuggling issues at the time...
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Well if you want to ship a gun across state lines I believe it has to go from one authorized gun dealer to another. I'm not even sure you can legally self transport one.
 
David Johansen said:
My boss took his .22 to school for show and tell back in the late sixties and walked down the streets with it, and we're in Canada.
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One of my bosses used to walk to school with a hunting rifle so he could shoot dinner(squirrels, rabbits, etc) on the way home in Wichita Kansas. But that was in the 30's
 
Bunch said:
Well if you want to ship a gun across state lines I believe it has to go from one authorized gun dealer to another. I'm not even sure you can legally self transport one.
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Definitely across state lines. Sometimes even within the state, depending on local state laws.

And good question on self transporting firearms...I imagine that is its own can of worms.
 
bleys21 said:
Definitely across state lines. Sometimes even within the state, depending on local state laws.

And good question on self transporting firearms...I imagine that is its own can of worms.
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I may or may not have learned about those laws after moving from Washington to California. I will say it would require someone finding that out to have it matter.
 
There are ways that guns can be transported by owners or third party providers across state lines, but the exact procedures do vary a bit by state.

Generally, if you’re legally allowed to have the gun in the states in question, you can transport it from one to the other. Often it needs to be stored but not concealed in the trunk of a vehicle and the ammunition must be stored in a different area.

Gun-safes are also typically a means for safe and legal transportation.
 
Bunch said:
I may or may not have learned about those laws after moving from Washington to California. I will say it would require someone finding that out to have it matter.
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Like many things, if you didn't get caught, then it doesn't matter :-) Plus, if you own the firearms, and as hawkeyefan hawkeyefan said above, transport them safely and separate from the ammo, its all good. Law enforcement have lots of more important stuff to do...
 
hawkeyefan said:
There are ways that guns can be transported by owners or third party providers across state lines, but the exact procedures do vary a bit by state.

Generally, if you’re legally allowed to have the gun in the states in question, you can transport it from one to the other. Often it needs to be stored but not concealed in the trunk of a vehicle and the ammunition must be stored in a different area.

Gun-safes are also typically a means for safe and legal transportation.
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That's where it can get interesting. It is/was legal to own an AK-47 in Washington. It was legal to own an AK-47 in California when I moved there. I think it changed while I lived there. But it it went and came back and no one was the wiser who cares.
 
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