>>118616847Here's why you're an ignorant faggot.
•The joke is that Calvin's dad successfully told an outlandish lie and it was believed despite attempts to test/debunk it. This is unexpected, since Calvin is established as a very intelligent child(regarding common sense, less so with 1st grade factoids or math). it is also unexpected of Calvin's father, who is not usually so misleading. Unexpected twists are the nature of western humor, and this is a multi-layered joke.
• the first two panels are removable due to the nature of syndicated comics in America; while popular artists get the entire allotted space for Sunday colors, they are told to design their work so that smaller papers can cut the top third off to mash more comics on per page. Watterson fought this practice in his contracts, but still designed his strips for this in case smaller papers did it against contract. In this case, the Dad statement/mom reaction is a decent visual gag of family roles that sets the stage for the main comic.
•despite your complaints of exposition, this comic supports the text with ZERO recycled faces, chaning expressions, perspectives, body language, foreground and background colors. This supports the theme of the comic; telling a false story about this history of colors in the world.
•Calvin & Hobbes frequently does not try to make a joke, but will instead muse on meaningful thoughts and philosophy, which is what the strip's main characters are named for(John Calvin & Thomas Hobbes).
