Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 23, 2014

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    BE THIS GUY  about 10 years ago

    Sounds reasonable.

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    arye uygur  about 10 years ago

    If Calvin goes to the playground by himself, Moe will make short work of him.

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    ORMouseworks  about 10 years ago

    Dream on, Calvin…however, I do agree with your line of thinking…especially if that lesson is coming from a math text! ;)

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    Ol Skool  about 10 years ago

    maybe the class could be taught in the playground, all that fresh air is good

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    rshive  about 10 years ago

    But the lesson won’t help me with what I want to do in life.

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    pelican47  about 10 years ago

    Calvin has ants in his pants.

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    flagmichael  about 10 years ago

    The strip is actually dated 12-23. Miss Wormwood is certainly a taskmaster!

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 10 years ago

    @flagmichael: The dates on these Calvin and Hobbes strips create hopeless confusion.Today’s strip was originally published December 5th, 1989. The 12/23 date on it was added this year for today’s rerun. So, Bill Watterson did not draw this strip with Calvin sitting in school the week of Christmas.There is also a 1994 date on today’s strip at the far right, but that is a carryover from when this strip was rerun during Bill Watterson’s second sabbattical. In 1994, the strip was run on December 13th.The month and day were handwritten on the original strips. When strips were rerun during Bill Watterson’s two sabbatticals, the handwritten month and day were erased and a new month and day were written in by hand, sometimes in a different panel of the strip.When a Calvin and Hobbes strip is rerun today on GoComics, the handwritten month and day are erased and the current date is printed on the strip using a computer font.Here is the original strip from December 5th, 1989. In the last panel you can see the “12-5” and the “1989.”Click here, or stretch the image below: Calvin and Hobbes (December 5, 1989)Now the next time you are at a party, you can impress everyone with your vast knowledge of Calvin and Hobbes comic strip dating trivia.

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    jrankin1959  about 10 years ago

    Tempting offer… but, no.

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    GROG Premium Member about 10 years ago

    If you keep this up, Calvin, you’ll be adjourning to the principal’s office all by yourself.

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    neverenoughgold  about 10 years ago

    Well, Miss Wormwood, life is filled with compromises…

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    Aaron Saltzer  about 10 years ago

    How about just shutting up and obeying the teacher?

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    AliCom  about 10 years ago

    Not to worry. Calvin will be joined by the ever faithful and ferocious Hobbs who will protect his friend and master to the death.

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    just_say_doh  about 10 years ago

    If I were Miss Wormwood, I’d be tempted to go for the offer.

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 10 years ago

    @Nun ’Ya Bidness and @luvdafuneez: Thanks, and Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays to you.

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    Charlie Fogwhistle  about 10 years ago

    With all the obese kids who grow up to be obese and diabetic adults today, a little time on the playground is probably just what the doctor would order for good health.

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 10 years ago

    In today’s strip, notice how Calvin is seen from the opposite side in the last panel. By changing the perspective, Bill Watterson has drawn the strip so that Calvin in panels 1, 2, and 4 is always facing Miss Wormwood in panel 3.This is different from the way that Charles Schulz generally drew Peanuts, with the desks consistently facing the same direction in all of the panels. But the teacher was never shown in Peanuts.

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    Squoop  about 10 years ago

    Child abuse!

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 10 years ago

    @neverenoughgold: Merry Christmas to you. Here’s one more detail for you that Bill Watterson cleverly worked into today’s strip: The teacher’s reply, “YES?” in panel 4 is actually pointing at Miss Wormwood in panel 3.

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    heatherjasper  about 10 years ago

    In the book of Revelation, there is a star named Wormwood. At first, that’s what I thought that Miss Wormwood was named after, but that’s not the case. Oh, well.

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    William Taylor  about 10 years ago

    Calvin’s generosity is heartwarming, always looking out for his classmates, never zoning in on just himself…….. No wonder Susie likes him so much……..(huh?)…….

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 10 years ago

    @heatherjasper: “Wormwood” is also the name of the demonic tempter who “sits on the shoulder” of a human Christian in an extremely clever book, The Screwtape Letters, written by C. S. Lewis:Click here: The Screwtape Letters (Wikipedia)

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    JP Steve Premium Member about 10 years ago

    As an alternative, Miss Wormwood could adjourn to the playground and leave the class behind.

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    Number Three  about 10 years ago

    You’ll be lucky, Calvin!

    xxx

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    pouncingtiger  about 10 years ago

    For Calvin, ignorance is bliss

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    westny77  about 10 years ago

    Don’t push your luck kid.

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    Red Ruffensor  about 10 years ago

    This doesn’t work at work either.

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    neverenoughgold  about 10 years ago

    I didn’t make the connection to wormwood and absinthe. I have a bottle of absinthe in my bar and might just have some of the “green fairy”….tomorrow!

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    NewCalvinhobbes  about 8 years ago

    LeadingEdge changed the DP, was searching for the comments :)

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