Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 28, 2015

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    BE THIS GUY  over 9 years ago

    She’s smart enough to know she has to work hard.

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    Susie Derkins :D  over 9 years ago

    Well, that’s a normal story to hear.

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    MusasMama  over 9 years ago

    ha ha!!

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    Hunter7  over 9 years ago

    … that’s how she got to be so smart…

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    rentier  over 9 years ago

    She IS smart!!

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Great euphemism in panel 1.And since when does a six year old “review notes from the last chapter and … reread” anything? Just ask mom!

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    Alexander the Good Enough  over 9 years ago

    I’m with Calvin on this one. It’s clear (to me, anyway) that excessive smarts is decidedly maladaptive.

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    elvoycehooper  over 9 years ago

    I have met a lot of people who think like Calvin. Went to high school with many. Guess which group, the Calvin’s or Suzie’s succeeded in life.

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    chovil  over 9 years ago

    I’m actually with Calvin on this one. Smart people I’ve met are often very lazy, because learning is effortless for them.

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    bluram  over 9 years ago

    Calvin hasn’t a clue has he?

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    dustspecks Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Go figure, Calvin.

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    GROG Premium Member over 9 years ago

    I had an aversion to working that hard at her age.

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    pathfinder  over 9 years ago

    I was a Susie type at that age … I knew that there was a LOT that I didn’t know and I wanted to know. Now, on the other hand, I know that there is a LOT that I don’t know, but I don’t have the time to learn it all, so I don’t care. Amazing the difference a mere 60-odd years makes, isn’t it?

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    Kaputnik  over 9 years ago

    Taking a strip too seriously, of course, but it’s obvious in the comic as a whole that Calvin is smart. He’s just going to have to learn at some point that raw intelligence isn’t enough.It’s the handwritten notes that seem anachronistic in this strip.

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    thirdguy  over 9 years ago

    Whose head do you think is rounder, Susie, or Charlie Brown?

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    tripwire45  over 9 years ago

    Suzie has the study habits of a college student. Calvin seems more like a normal six-year-old.

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    cubswin2016  over 9 years ago

    I just hope whatever Calvin has isn’t contagious.

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    egyptlandpa  over 9 years ago

    To understand some instructional manuals, one has to read them twice.

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    KEA  over 9 years ago

    It’s only work if you don’t enjoy doing it. Personally, I can’t think of anything I’d rather do than learn something new or master something I’ve already learned.

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    Comfortably Numb  over 9 years ago

    I’ve re-read this strip a couple of times, and now I think I understand it. ;)

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    Puddleglum2  over 9 years ago

    @AlexanderTheGoodEnough (Don’t call me Sandy!),Are you a Xander Bogearts (Red Sox) fan?As Boris Badenov might say, “Excessive smarts is decidedly oxymoronic.”Btw, even Alexander the Great wasn’t good enough (or he wouldn’t have been alcoholic and died young), but Rocky and Bullwinkle usually were. If you can make sense out of all this comment, you have “excessive smarts”. :o) P.S. Your name is clever!

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    Puddleglum2  over 9 years ago

    @LeadingEdge,“Is Susie a nerd or a geek?”…or a dweeb, even? (Snagglepuss)

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    Sailor46 USN 65-95  over 9 years ago

    It looks like Calvin was the main recipient of Hobbe’s Frank Exchange of Ideas.

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    Alexander the Good Enough  over 9 years ago

    In my trade, I sometimes have occasion to tell people that I’m an autodidact. Much of the time, in response, they’ll then ask, “What’s an autodidact?” I just hand them a dictionary.

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    flowergirl19  over 9 years ago

    This arc is absolutely hilarious! I love that Hobbes is in love with Susie.

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    neverenoughgold  over 9 years ago

    I’m well past prime (a plugger by some standards) and hardly a day goes by I don’t learn something new!.Today might be one of those days…

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    westny77  over 9 years ago

    Sometimes you don’t see the solution on the first try. It is the same thing with work. I can’t reconcile a bank statement. Then later I reconcile it.

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    the calvinosaurus that calvin wanted to discover  over 9 years ago

    oh boy, homework

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    Comfortably Numb  over 9 years ago

    Had to read it twice, but now I think I understand the strip. ;)

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