All Your Base & Calvin and Hobbes...

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:53 pm

Calvin and Hobbes is one of the funniest comic strips ever!
I remember reading these back since 1990.

This is one of the later shmup related strips.

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:37 pm

Man, this is getting stupid. Making fun of the same people who made Batsugun!!!

Samudra · Post by **Samudra** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 8:10 pm

Merely an inadequate translation of originally meaningful text. No blemish on their creativity, is it?

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 8:12 pm

If I hit it right, that's actually a compilation of several different C+H strips, some of them edited/Photoshopped (most notably the one with the TV popping up), with the "All Your Base" dialogue added in. To the best of my knowledge this was never an actual strip; the presence of several different dates marked on the bottom of some panels (usually the creator dates the strip someplace once to show when it appeared), and the lack of a signature by Watterson (replaced by someone else's) seems to support that.

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 8:13 pm

This was not ment to be offending in any way.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:45 pm

Foxtrot actually had an "All your base" strip.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:38 am

Funny how "All your base..." is so popular and none of that popularity rubs off to the shmup genre.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:59 am

How about this... Zero Wing: the musical.

shiftace · Post by **shiftace** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:22 am

It's supposed to be "somebody set up us the bomb." I demand higher editing standards in amateur Engrish photoshoppery on the internet.

Metrackle · Post by **Metrackle** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:36 am

All Your Base is so 2001.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:38 am

*whimpers*

I feel so OLD!

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:08 am

I think part of what makes us sour towards all this is that the ignorant public do not care for the heavenly greatness that is Toaplan...

Minzoku · Post by **Minzoku** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:21 am

Metrackle wrote:All Your Base is so 2101.

Corrected

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:26 am

What you say.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:00 am

(before the setting of the lock)

Tacos like!

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:24 pm

high fives specniff

Tar-Palantir · Post by **Tar-Palantir** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:13 pm

Pah. All your tacos are belong to CATS

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:19 pm

i love how that whole "tacos" thing has become a "thing" with some people here. *cough* spec *cough*

but why precisely would the mods have reason to lock this thread?

oh, and great eye bm. detail oriented indeed.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:42 pm

Comes with the territory of being someone way too old to watch/read cartoons who still does so anyways, heh heh.

Though I actually misstated something in the first post; there are actually 3 Watterson signatures in there (second, third, fourth panels). Of course, it's still evidence that this isn't a real strip, but I still feel a sense of shame, notwithstanding.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:51 pm

It's definetly not. I own two copies of every single C+H collection and that strip isn't in any of them...

Calvin and Hobbes was my favorite thing in the world when i was little. While all the other kids were jumping off the roof pretending to be Spider-Man i was sitting in a card board box pretending to be Calvin pretending to be Spaceman Spiff.

... or running through the woods with my cheap dollar store whip playing Simon Belmont.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:38 am

Oh man, as a C&H fan I just wanna say that was brilliant. lol

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:44 am

Specineff wrote:Foxtrot actually had an "All your base" strip.

Yeah, I actually thought it was kinda lame. It was just Jason repeatedly saying "All your base belong to us" in front of his parents just to weird them out. And I am a rabid Foxtrot fan. I would have preferred something like Jason setting up an "All your base" 'anti Page website,' woulda been much funnier.

Samudra · Post by **Samudra** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:48 pm

Just saw this on another forum. Might as well post it in this thread. It is well made and made me laugh.

Zero Wing Bohemian Rhapsody

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:17 pm

One of my favorite All Your Base referances was that "what if machine" episode of Futurama where Fry asked the machine something like "What if the whole world was like a video game?".

incognoscente · Post by **incognoscente** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:46 pm

("Anthology of Interest 2")

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:51 pm

^^^

Don't forget the Space Invaders finale with Rush music. "Haha, FOOLS! You should have aimed for where I was going to be, not where I already was!"

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:25 am

Wasn't the Zero Wing craze in 2001? I thought Calvin & Hobbes had been canceled before then.

Too bad C&H and The Far Side are gone nowadays. Good thing there's still quirkiness in comics like Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine -- I read those daily.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:02 am

Samudra wrote:Just saw this on another forum. Might as well post it in this thread. It is well made and made me laugh.

Zero Wing Bohemian Rhapsody

Already posted.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:45 am

Sage:

Yeppers, C&H ended in 1996 (Bill Watterson retired young and is now a bit of a J.D. Salinger'esque recluse). The All Your Base strip is a joke, not the actual dialogue.

Fortunately we still have Foxtrot and yes, Pearls Before Swine and Get Fuzzy are excellent. My current fave though is Patrick McDonnel's Mutts. Charming and very cleverly written comic about a dog named Earl and his Cat friend Mooch with beautiful 1930s style art and an old fashioned yet zen-like sense of humor. Better yet, the Sundays Mutts strips are done in watercolor paint and are works of art. Check it out at:

www.muttscomics.com