Saw this over on Say No To Crack; a parody of the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip using images of & quotes from John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes. (Click on the comic to check out the Uncyclopedia entry for Calvin & Hobbes.)
John Calvin is an ecclesiastical reformist and psychic detective who can see into the future because everything is “predestined by God.” He nominally attempts to solve mysteries, but usually ends up being sidetracked by getting into fights with Catholics or Arminians, whom he always eventually challenges to a game of Calvinball. His strict adherence to predestination means that he gives up pretty easily in everything he was doing, and simply says that God predestined him to give up and it was out of his control. This allows Calvin to generally be a lazy douche. While typically a devout Christian, when he is angry Calvin occasionally threatens God that he may become an atheist (see right). God usually has no comment but allows the parent in Hobbes to speak.
In contrast to Calvin, Hobbes is far more cynical about human nature. The two usually get into philosophical debates and crack big cases together. Interestingly, whenever someone other than Calvin looks at Hobbes, they simply see a stuffed tiger. When Calvin gets sidetracked, Hobbes reminds him that they should either solve the most important philosophical questions facing a weary mankind, or else go back to solving the current mystery – usually via some clever method of investigation that involves tossing water balloons at Calvin’s neighbor, Susie, from their tree house to get her to go to a wet tshirt contest.
I’ve often wondered if Watterson named the characters after the philosophers (if Wikipedia is correct, he did), but I would never have thought to replace the dialog in some of the strips with quotes from the writings of the philosophers, nor the faces with images of them.
Too bad they didn’t go any farther with this concept. Maybe something to do in my spare time. Yeah, right! I really crack myself up sometimes!