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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 11 points 5 days ago (5 children)
[–] Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Alternative and much darker theory, the "snow" is ash from burning bodies. Happened near holocaust death camps due to the sheer amount of people being burned. Seen it with wildfires as well, but his mom's reaction has me thinking it's the former

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Huh, I assumed it was nuclear winter / fallout situation...

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

I thought about asbestos.

Snow can be magical, whimsical, and fun (Calvin) or a back-breaking nuisance to clean up plus road conditions get dangerous, and property damage can rear up (parents)

Alternatively: this is the end times. It's never going to stop snowing, the parents know that snowmageddon will blot out the sun, and by this time next week the family will perish in the icy wastes. But Calvin doesn't know that and is excited for the big snow day.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

He anticipates a closed school… he’s gonna be disappointed

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In much of the northern United States it takes a truly absurd, downright dangerous amount of snow to get a snow day.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 12 points 5 days ago

So the whole comic is "Calvin thinks its a school day but its not gonna be one"?

[–] Janx@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

Because apparently many US schools just pivot to online learning for the day, robbing children of their snow day!

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A fan made this? When it was spinning like that?

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Feel free to point me to a published source.

I could not find any reference where this phrasing was used by Watterson.

It's also a weird two panel layout that is the wrong shape for a newspaper comic but he was known for pushing against that so that alone says little but it is suspect.

Sir, this is !okbuddyrosalyn@lemmy.world. Fan-made "trash" is our specialty.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Alternative and least dark theory: Calvin’s too short to see out his bedroom window and his parents don’t realize he knows that it’s snowing already. They’re worried about how hyper he’ll get