Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 28, 2011

Sigh…

GM Marge and all! I’ll take the middle ground also.

Warm fire is tempting!

I would have gone for it…

LOL! I just love Calvin and Hobbes!

Calvin’s thinking, “Hobbes, you’re supposed to be a savage tiger!”

LOL!!! I would have taken the middle ground right from the start.. ;)

That fire and comic book would have looked better to me, too.

Of course Hobbes, being really Calvin, means Calvin followed himself to the middle ground……

My choice also. It doesn’t look like Hobbes had to twist his arm too hard to get him to take the sissy route.

Don’t forget to file a flight plan so the rescue guys will know where to start looking for your carcass.

Good tiger, gooood tiger…

Take the middle ground every-time, and turn the TV on and watch other idiots on Jackass, fail at what you were going to do.

Morning everyone!

The sissy route looks good to me,after the picture Calvin painted.

@VistaBill—I agree. If your not living on the EDGE you’re taking up to much SPACE!

@all is it just me or the fire looks like einstein’s profile photograph???

“Free your mind…jump.” -Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), The Matrix

If you made it, nobody would ever believe you and if you failed you could die before anyone found you, therefore the middle ground is the only choice

The fire, a good book and a double scotch - that’s for me.

Wouldn’t the middle ground be finding a hill where they are likely to only break a few bones?

Ummmm…… logic, sorry about that. Can I have some cocoa?

Middle ground has a fire!

**Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!**

Via Media, all the way!

I have jumped out of planes, flown planes and hang gliders, and all sorts of fun things - but never anything I thought was outright dangerous, and never anything I didn’t want to do. If I’m not comfortable doing it and I don’t have to do it, I’m hanging by the fire because I DO like that.

cdward - That’s it. I used to do “risky” things back in the day, too. But it was always something that I figured I could handle, not just throwing myself off a danggum cliff.

Maybe it’s my age, but the fire gets my vote.

It’s getting crowded, but cozy around the fire. I have a healthy snifter of Laphroaig and a good book and I’ll take that little space on the right hand side. Sorry to the person whose hand I stepped on.

Sometimes you just have to go ahead and take the risk.

Not the risk of doing something really stupid that you will pay a big price for, but the risk of being called a sissy weasel by your friend.

Kids go through this all the time, and it’s very difficult because both choices involve risk. Peer pressure is no fun.

Fortunately, tigers and humans are not peers.

At least Hobbes has some common sense, Calvin. You could use a little of your own.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠!

I”m with Hobbes. Wonder if he would like to run for an elective office? Hobbes in 2012! Put a Tiger in our tank!!!

Hobbes’ look, second panel, priceless!

would have been hilarious if hobbes was reading garfield or calvin n hobbes

When I was a young lad, I had a stuffed animal I would bring with me everywhere. It was “little foot” from the land before time. oh memories… and sign me up for that fire anyday over the snow.. we have tooooo much snow here.. blah

Hobbes I’m with you I would be a sissy too and rather be warm then injured.

Do it and you will remember this day the rest of your life and it will always be glorious. Fail and you probably won’t be aware of those last few days in the hospital anyway.

RIDE CALVIN, RIDE!!!

I would like to apologize to all for a few weeks ago, when I hit Flag on some of the comments. I thought it meant that I agreed and Liked them, now I heard it means u r flagging them to report them, which ws NOT my intention. The ones I flagged, were the ones I liked. Please accept my apology. I certainly meant well, and will try to get with the program! :-D

When we were kids we took chances all the time. Never did we think of the consequences. I think we were more afraid of getting an a$$ whippin if you were late for dinner…lol

I kinda wish I had a Hobbes to superimpose my wimpy onto.

I’m glad you remembered that line of Falstaff’s from Henry IV, Part 1, mightaswellbe. There’s another Shakespearian line that also applies here: “The cowardly die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

No guts, no Air Medal.

Or a very smart tiger!!!!!

A somewhat warped version of the Spirit of Adventure. But where would we be without the Irish monks who reached North America before the Vikings or Columbus, or those Vikings, or Columbus, or Magellan. Or Charles Lindbergh or Amelia Earhart or Yuri Gagarin or Alan Shepard. They had to pull up when they hit those rocks and hope they made it over the ravine. And they did. And here we are. Not everyone can do that, or even want to, but somebody has to. But we’ll let Calvin wait a while before he makes his mark. Or big splash.

AND I’M FREE, FREE FALLING! Bring it on!!!

@dahawk:

Be sure to read my last posting yesterday, which clears up some major confusion.

It seems that the winner of the “I want to be the final GoComics poster of the day” contest got confused with the winner of the “Interpretation of Calvin’s backwards snow-writing for jet pilots” contest.

Understandable confusion, really. This sort of thing happens all the time.

– Hobbes

That’s one smart tiger!!!

Sissy weasel? It looks more like a cat of discretion.

But it takes 25 or so years for the human brain to develop enough to give us discretion.

Obviously, tigers develop it sooner.

However, if tigers are like the smaller cats, they develop a sense of vanity that makes them clearly suggest, “I meant to do just that,” or “You didn’t see that!” when they do try something that fails.

47 comments so far.

This must be the most popular comic on this site.

Calvin will sit down by Hobbes and they will both read Comics!

The first 2 interplanetary ships should be named Magellan & Cook, as a reminder that you don’t have to survive to be a renowned explorer. I’ll keep the fire going in case you get back. It’s chilly yonder.

I just checked the postings for the 26th (first and last postings fun) and unless someone else wants the last prize, at this moment I HAVE IT!!!!!!

Discretion aka comic books and a warm fire is the better part of valor….when it comes to Calvin, the cat is always ahead of the curve….

I’m with Hobbes on this one. Give me a cozy, roaring fire … a nice hot cup of cocoa … a good book … and my best friend in the entire world and I’m in absolute heaven!!!!!

Let’s hear it for the Sissy Weasels!

@Giggle Hunter: No problem! Glad you got it straightened out. :D

calvin knows what it means to be a kid. you don’t think, i mean you know you can not be hurt, so you go full steam ahead. forget calvin, do it anyway.

@Mythreesons:

Aren’t you worried that, perhaps, 17 months from now, someone may add an additional comment to the end of the January 26th, 2011 postings?

By the way, if you look back at the earlier postings on the evening of the 26th, you will see that The Sojourner made the final posting before the strip of the 27th appeared online, and then JP Steve and I immediately awarded him the prize. So you will need to bribe The Sojourner, JP Steve, and me, if you want to share the title. :>)

It didn’t take 17 months. Sorry Mythreesons. And Yukoner said, about 18 hours ago

“The fire, a good book and a double scotch - that’s for me.”

I agree. Especially a good single malt. But at the moment I have a nice cold Mexican beer and it’s warm here in the tropics. También, Buenas Noches a Fer Lefer en el DF. Finally: I totally agree with Hobbes! Hasta mañana a todos.

All I meant was when he did not paint a pretty picture ,he was showing the crash cite or the celebration cite .But real short on specifics on how he was getting there . So I did at first and still do.take the fire side and rum and coke please.

I’m with Hobbes, I’d rather be a sissy weasel!

yay sissy route!