Watterson was for real. I remember waiting forever for shit I ordered - comics, magazine subs... and now Calvin could place the order in the morning and get it that afternoon, but I don't know if it's worth it.
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Hello fellow Calvin and Hobbes fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.
Calvin and Hobbes is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as "the last great newspaper comic",[2][3][4] Calvin and Hobbes has enjoyed broad and enduring popularity, influence, and academic and philosophical interest… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes
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I remember getting free software this way. I don't remember what game it was, but I do remember it took like 8 months. They called me one day to tell me that the company they had paid to fulfill the orders had gone out of business, but they were working to get another one, and I would get the game at some point. (I might have sent a letter - this was the early 1990s - asking about the status).
It might have been Marble Madness for the IBM PC. I'm not sure.
Yeah... Things taking weeks to arrive... Crazy to remember things used to be that way. The only time something takes that long to arrive these days is when it's shipped from China.
I live in a developing country and anything coming from abroad still takes weeks. It's actually kind of great, I'll forget about things and then one day somebody hands me a box filled with stuff I like.
If you're Chinese then it's the other way round, everything outside China takes forever.