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   Margueritem said, 8 months ago

   That’s a bit sad, Max.

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   Elwoodman said, 8 months ago

   I like the way that Mum is more than happy to support Calvin no matter what he’s like.

   “He will when he’s ready”. Total acceptance.

   I love this strip.

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   Ivy0730 said, 8 months ago

   Truth Time! (alwayz between adults)

   and yeh, “Hurray” for Moms understanding!!!

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   rawriamadinosaur said, 8 months ago

   I love that! Awh, poor Uncle Max haha.

   I wonder what Calvin’s mom’s imaginary friend was like.

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   LX013 said, 8 months ago

   Most of my friends have been imaginary too!

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   blueeyesboy said, 8 months ago

   Amicus est tamquam alter idem…a friend is like the other me!

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   Calvinator said, 8 months ago

   Joke is on you mom and Max! Hobbs is REAL!

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   teaguemj said, 8 months ago

   Well, Max is imaginary. So are: Calvin, Hobbes, Mom and Dad, etc.

   And by the way: In 1985 Maxs’ shirt was very acceptable. Just check out any photos from then. No Homosexual ity implied here, I am sure.

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   BirishB said, 8 months ago

   Judging by Max’s imagination in this series alone, I would say that perhaps all his friens are imaginary.

   And, ohbytheway, Calvin is playing with a real friend: Hobbes. Sheesh Max, don’t you know anything?

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    Hellbo said, 8 months ago

    LOL, i like that Uncle Max!!!
    Still Hobbes aint no stuffed tiger….

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    Macushlalondra said, 8 months ago

    Well, we know Hobbes is alive but Mom doesn’t. But at Calvin’s age if I were his mom I’d figure his carrying around a stuffed tiger was normal and I wouldn’t have a problem with it. It’s a lot less of a problem than some of his other antics lol!

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    bfd5004 said, 8 months ago

    Calvin has hobbbes and suzy he’s set.

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    bald 716 said, 8 months ago

    uncle max didn’t have any friends - real or imaginary

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    Dry said, 8 months ago

    At least Max is helping with the dishes!

    And I see, Charlie37133 speaks! He can actually say more than “No Comprende!”

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    Penguin1021 said, 8 months ago

    Told you he was undercover Jon Arbuckle.

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    cleokaya said, 8 months ago

    My only comment is, why did Max bring a suitcase if he never plans to change clothes?

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    musicnut1986 said, 8 months ago

    teaguemj says:

    And by the way: In 1985 Maxs’ shirt was very acceptable. Just check out any photos from then. No Homosexuality implied here, I am sure.

    Maxs’ mustache was fashionable then also. Twenty years from now teenagers will think the goatee and mustache men wear today looks funny.

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    unemandarine said, 8 months ago

    Silly adults, they don’t know Hobbes is very real!!

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    attyush said, 8 months ago

    Max’s shirt looks like the Nachos print by Taco Bell. His “taste” in clothes is funny. LMAO.

    BTW, I don’t remember Calvin’s Dad ever helping Calvin’s Mom with the dishes.

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    Wildmustang1262 said, 8 months ago

    There you go! We all always have alot of an imaginary friends in our lives. What’s wrong with that? Sheeshhh! LOLs!

21. 

    Carmy said, 8 months ago

    I think Max looks like one of the Mario Brothers.

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    grazer said, 8 months ago

    Don’t worry about Calvin, uncle Max. Go buy yourself a teddy bear and learn from him and his stuffed tiger.

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    gerrytrout said, 8 months ago

    Why indeed did Max bring a suitcase? For Calvin to look through I suppose. But really the question I have: Are Hobbe’s friends real or imaginary?

    I’m thinking Max is just short lived foil for the whole nameless family, someone to pose the questions that Miss Wormwood can’t or won’t.

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    gerrytrout said, 8 months ago

    Hobbes’ friends, my grammar and spelling are going down the toilet.

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    JanCinVV said, 8 months ago

    Cleokaya: How many guys do you know that change clothes more than once in a single day? Max arrived at the airport, unpacked, had dinner with the family and helped with the dishes. It’s still the same day!

    Teaguemj: Yes, that shirt was very acceptable in the 80’s. My husband had a shirt that was similar, and so did every other man I knew at the time. Of course now none of them would be caught dead in it. My, my, how times do change.

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    yyyguy said, 8 months ago

    That should have been Van D Y KE (I hope it doesn’t get bleeped again) like the artist of the same name.

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    yyyguy said, 8 months ago

    Maxs’ mustache was fashionable then also. Twenty years from now teenagers will think the goatee and mustache men wear today looks funny? Some people think the Van bleeep (to give it the proper name) look is silly right now.

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    pattiG65 said, 8 months ago

    I know how he feels! :(

29. 

    Northwoodser said, 8 months ago

    A Calvin comic without Calvin isn’t nearly as funny.

30. 

    Tabby Lynn said, 8 months ago

    so sweet. i am seeing a whole new side to his mom.

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    Yukoner said, 8 months ago

    As more and more of our interactions are done through e-mail, chat rooms, face book, etc,I fear that Max’s comment will come to be the norm for an ever increasing number of people. Sad!

32. 

    jackofstories said, 8 months ago

    I have the goatee and mustache combo largely because my full beard has become mostly gray.

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    musicnut1986 said, 8 months ago

    yyyguy, from your photo it looks like you wear a full beard. I have to agree with you that the current trend of the combined mustache and goatee looks a bit silly. That is why for the past 20 years or so, as facial hair trends have come and gone I have stayed with a nice full beard. Besides, my wife likes it. This is just my opinion and I hope this does not hijack this board.

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    PaulAtreides said, 8 months ago

    musicnut1986 says:
    “Maxs’ mustache was fashionable then also. Twenty years from now teenagers will think the goatee and mustache men wear today looks funny.”

    Well I already think it does.

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    TapiocaHead said, 8 months ago

    I wonder what Max’s friends thinks of him, Max sure looks imaginary!

36. 

    Margueritem said, 8 months ago

    tabbylynn: Where have you been? Was your computer not working again?

37. 

    yankees121 said, 8 months ago

    its funny because hobbes is a stuffed animal around other peole but when he fights calvin hes gets all ruffed up then somebody asks what happend. so obviously hobbes is real

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    jqheart said, 8 months ago

    If they were like mine, they were imaginary.

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    shermscott said, 8 months ago

    I thought I had a real friend once, but I imagined it.

40. 

    NebulousRikulau said, 8 months ago

    Are you trying to tell me that you guys are REAL??

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    Parson1 said, 8 months ago

    I hope Max isn’t about to come out of the closet.

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    si_rat said, 8 months ago

    some people have imaginary friends, but they do not even know about it. Friends of super-man scale… :)

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    Ivy0730 said, 8 months ago

    shermscott says: I thought I had a real friend once, but I imagined it.
    LOL good one!
    Im so envy Calvin, wish I could have a Hobbes! lol from now on! I will try to imagine one!

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    SuperPickle2 said, 8 months ago

    Yeah!!

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    Tabby Lynn said, 8 months ago

    margueritem says:

    tabbylynn: Where have you been? Was your computer not working again?

    yes, it has been being crazy and i have been bomed with homework have not made it to bed before 11 in God knows how long. sadly my computer is still not working right so as of now i can not see the comic and it is depressing. i hope by tomorrow i will beable to see them. i miss this alot. thanks for asking.

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    Coffee-Turtle said, 8 months ago

    if he’s trying to say that Calvin may grow up to be a psychopath… he’s too late! :) j/k people

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    Loomis_C said, 8 months ago

    I’ve always thought that the way Max is leaning on that counter in the last panel seems a bit effeminate and creepy.

    I agree with Gerrytrout that Max serves just ask questions. I also remember from one of the C+H collections that Watterson said that he didn’t like Max because he didn’t add anything to the strip, which is why he didn’t show up that much.