Bret's been replaced. There is a dude who sits near me whose legal first name is Raz.
Haven't asked him yet if he smokes cigars.
There's our coinkydink of the day.
Wonder if he shoots guns and plays the guitar? I'll have to befriend him to find out.
And plays piano, and writes songs, and speaks Spanish, and writes code, and collects guns, and builds guns, and makes ammunition, and collects guitars, and has read Plato AND Aristotle, and Calvin AND Hobbes, and all the Federalist Papers...
I mean, these are appetites more than qualities. But if you're tryna replace me, you're gonna have to work a little harder than a sobriquet and knowing the business end of a cigar and a gun.
Calvin and Hobbes was definitely my favorite comic as a kid. 
And did you get the joke of the title?
Nope, because I'm not familiar with Calvin or Hobbes, the originals.
I was in college studying theology when Calvin and Hobbes went into syndication. Both the strip and its title fascinated me. So I wrote a final paper for a Western Civ class about it. The joke is not obvious, and I'm not certain even Bill Watterson completely intended it. Both John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes took a dim view of human nature, and both favored the notion of a benevolent dictatorship ruling the affairs of men as the true Divine order.
The joke is that Thomas Hobbes insisted that everything including thought was actually matter, physically real, and occupying time and space.
So, in the comic strip, Hobbes is "real," at least to Calvin, because he is the product of Calvin's thoughts. But Hobbes articulates the philosophical ideals of John Calvin - humility and submission to the predestined divine order - while six-year-old Calvin embodies the very human unruliness that Thomas Hobbes asserted made a dictatorial sovereign a political necessity.
