I always found Calvin to be a mixture of misanthrope and bon viveur, while Hobbes alternated between being Calvin's fellow fantasist and being his foil. IIRC, they had many fairly heated disagreements, though Hobbes was certainly not the outright adversary that, say, Rosalyn the babysitter or Moe the bully were.
I don't include Susie Derkins in that group because she never quite had the hate-hate relationship that Rosalyn and Moe did with Calvin. She even helped him out a time or two when he'd gotten himself into particularly bad trouble. And every once in a while Waterston threw out the implication that Calvin and Susie secretly liked each other.
I will, for the sake of fairness, offer a criticism: I never particularly liked the passivity of Calvin's parents with regards to his antics. I realize that that was a necessary conceit, but even so, it never sat right with me. With some exceptions, all they ever seemed to do was scold him, no matter how dangerous or mean his stunts became.
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Date: 2008-02-02 03:43 am (UTC)I don't include Susie Derkins in that group because she never quite had the hate-hate relationship that Rosalyn and Moe did with Calvin. She even helped him out a time or two when he'd gotten himself into particularly bad trouble. And every once in a while Waterston threw out the implication that Calvin and Susie secretly liked each other.
I will, for the sake of fairness, offer a criticism: I never particularly liked the passivity of Calvin's parents with regards to his antics. I realize that that was a necessary conceit, but even so, it never sat right with me. With some exceptions, all they ever seemed to do was scold him, no matter how dangerous or mean his stunts became.