Calvin and Hobbes loves using dinosaurs to show off Calvin’s imagination, but some strips show a dark side of its main character’s flights of fancy.
Dinosaurs are one of the most common recurring running gags throughout Calvin and Hobbes. In addition to Calvin’s antics with snowmen and his outlandish adventures as Spaceman Spiff, the imaginative six-year-old loves dinosaurs and spends quite a bit of time thinking about them. It’s not exactly an uncommon obsession for a kid, but many of Calvin’s fantasies can be a surprisingly macabre.
9 Snowman Village Snowmen and Calvin and Hobbes are a match made in comedy heaven. The comic strip got a lot of mileage out of Calvin building morbid displays of snowmen in grisly situations. Here, the strip blends Calvin’s dark behavior with snowmen with his overactive dinosaur fantasies. After building up a collection of small snowmen, Calvin puts on a wicked grin before diving into a fantasy where he’s an enormous dinosaur destroying a city as people flee in terror.
6 That Grin As bright as Calvin is, he’s still a kid and prone to boredom quite easily. Calvin’s parents have taken him to an art museum where the statues of “decapitated naked people” aren’t doing anything for him. As Calvin’s parents take in the art, Calvin starts up a new dinosaur-themed daydream and imagines himself turning into a tyrannosaurus. Calvin’s fantasy goes dark quickly as he eats a security guard whole and hundreds of paintings are torn to shreds.
3 Rooftop While most Calvin and Hobbes strips show Calvin pretending to be a dinosaur from his point of view, this particular one shows readers his mom’s perspective. Calvin assembles a homemade costume and goes outside with his mom thinking nothing of it. That is until she hears the sounds of a ladder and realizes Calvin is attempting to jump off the roof to fly, causing her to race outside to stop him. It’s no secret Calvin’s imagination can bring out his worst behaviors.
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