Talk:Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)

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Contents 1 quote 2 Ext link 3 Improvement 4 stuffed animal vs. doll 5 Hobbes' species

[edit] quote

somebody should insert this quote into the section "Hobbes' reality"

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I don't think of Hobbes as a doll that miraculously comes to life whenever Calvin's around. Neither do I think of him as the product of Calvin's imagination. The nature of Hobbes's reality doesn't intrest me, and each story goes out of it's way to avoid resolving the issue

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Also if someone familiar with wikiquoting can provide an adequate citation for this quote, I seem to recall it being in the introduction of the C+H 10th anniversary issue written by Bill

[edit] Ext link

I've removed the link http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1449/ because the images there don't appear to work. Have tried in both Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Without the images, the site offers very little. --OscarTheCat^talk 09:58, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

That's strange. They work for me. - Mike (talk) 23:06, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Try this link. I don't get any calvin gif shown, I just get some geocities cruft on the right. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1449/strips.html?cabw1.gif --Oscarthecat 09:38, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

== Weiner ! ==

I want to thank those responsible for the current state of the article. Not only is it exhaustive and informative, but its prose is simply marvellous. --Kizor 22:12, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Improvement

Everyone seems to mark this article as good... but it really needs cleanup at the moment I think, does anyone else agree? Seems very un-encyclopedic. 67.140.227.39 03:06, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

• The article contains well-rounded information, but I think it should be re-organized for structure. Sherwelthlangley 03:45, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree, and especially the last sentence seems very out of place in its section. Diablomarcus 15:35, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] stuffed animal vs. doll

Greetings All,
Have inserted stuffed animal to describe Hobbes specifically even though, a couple of lines down, Watterson himself refers to the general idea of "... dolls coming to life". Regs. Technopat 10:37, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hobbes' species

The article says Hobbes is a Sumatran tiger. Do we actually know this for sure? It should probably be cited. 75.68.123.139 (talk) 02:46, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

No one's said anything so I'm going to remove it. 75.69.39.95 (talk) 18:11, 25 March 2008 (UTC)