[caryatid]

... and one is an adult, able to put comic vulgarity and/or obscenity into context ...

That sounds just about as opposite to Calvin and Hobbes as anything could possibly be. The great joy of C&H is that it is like the simple faith of a child ...

[Turbopilot]

The great joy of C&H is that it is like the simple faith of a child ...

I first read C&H as a child. I've since reread all the strips as an adult. I'm well aware, as I assume any other adult reader would be, that the meaning of at least some of the strips definitely changes when read from the perspective of an adult. The strip about which I posted can be interpreted either way as well; the only problem is that some of those strips are, due to language and/or plot, not appropriate for children. One must try and view them as a child would, ignoring the adult content, and then view them from an adult context to truly understand the underlying dichotomy, the extancy of which made C&H so popular.