If I didn’t remember actually reading this in an actual Calvin and Hobbes book as a child I’d think it was ironically photoshopped like those comics where Mickey Mouse and Goofy talk about how reality is an illusion but this comic strip was actually just……. already………… like that……………
Calvin and Hobbes is one of those pieces of media that’s a lot smarter than you think.
You go in expecting wacky shenanigans of a boy and his tiger, and then out of the blue the comic just makes you think.
You’re just reading some comics and all of a sudden you get hit with a “sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Like, damn, bro. I just wanted to have a laugh, not contemplate human nature as a whole.
And I love it for that.