I had a rather distrubing dream last night, and one of the disturbing elements (if not the most disturbing) was seeing, on television the latest animated series—Disney's [1] Calvin and Hobbes [2], done the drawing style of Ted Rall [3] with the feel of Tim Burton's [4] Nightmare on Christmas [5], only not as lighthearted.
Calvin [6] came across as being a whiny brat (well, more so than in the actual comics) and they didn't even get Hobbes' voice nominally close and the whole dark nature of the show (the opening credits had the family moving to a new house and Calvin imagining the house devouring them) didn't at all jibe with the comic and I was sad that Bill Watterson [7] had either sold out, or lost control of his intellectual property.
Good thing is was just a dream …
[2] http://www.ucomics.com/calvinandhobbes/
[3] http://www.ucomics.com/tedrall/index.phtml
[4] http://us.imdb.com/Name?Burton,+Tim
[5] http://us.imdb.com/Title?0107688
[6] http://www.ucomics.com/calvinandhobbes/characters.phtml
[7] http://www.reemst.com/calvin_and_hobbes/author/intrvw.htm