Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 29, 2020

I never thought Calvin would go Goth.

Try it on Hobbes first.

Between fifth grade and some years after graduating high school, I never wore contact lenses when I was sheepish about wearing glasses.

Ya know, a part of me still thinks exactly like this.

I have no regrets.

Yes. I want this. I don’t care if you call me weird, I want it.

Get the boy what he wants it remember to video it so you can put it on YouTube when he tries to put them in his eyes

Blood shot and yellow striped? He didn’t want the eye of the tiger? Hobbes must be disappointed.

I saw some contacts that gave you nuclear-warning signs on your irises. Don’t know if that’s “cool” or just…odd.

Save it for Halloween, Calvin.

Heyyyy, I was just thinking of this particular strip!

That happens to me a lot…

I wish I’d had a stream to chuck things into close enough to walk to when I was a kid. Though I ‘spect my parents were glad we only had traffic, steep hills, bicycles, skates and household implements to damage ourselves. Oh, and a swing set that wasn’t anchored down. That was VERY cool, if you didn’t lose a tooth.

Imagine if Calvin has kids LOL

Being a kid was a lot more fun – you could still use your imagination.

That’s one point that the contacts marketing people missed.

Why are competent doctors not so cool too?

Keep a watch out for those contacts, Calvin…you never know when an opportunity hits you right between the eyes!

When you grow up it becomes about what’s practical.

I like how mom’s head has such an extreme swivel going on… like she’s half owl :-P

As for contacts, those kinds might look cool, but they are a PAIN to see out of, or remove if you don’t like “touching your eye”… ;-)

I´d love to get contacts but with the new social distancing wouldn´t they be illegal?

I would go for the googly eye effect

I used to have a cat’s eye pair and a pair with flames around the edges.

I’ll tell you what’s cool, my AC unit these past few weeks.

Protesting and destroying property seems “cool.” Being a responsible adult with a job and having to pay for the damages is not.

I was once enchanted, totally spellbound, instantly in love, with a girl wearing dark blue contacts. My wife was not amused.

There are people who do this sort of thing with contacts. Should have listened to Watterson.

Son had some tiger eyes contacts. Scary when you see them!

people ONLY grow up IF they have no idea what’s cool – those who know what’s cool never make it to grown-up. If you are not grown-up by 50 you just don’t have to grow up.

Don’t fret about it, Calvin. For your age group, with or without lens, you were cool before being cool was cool.

Now you just need to have Hobbes help you with some good lines to use on the Little Ladies who THINK they want a little guy with a blood red one and the other yellow striped.

No worries Calvin. Before you know it you’ll be old enough to get some tattoos and not to long after that you will be old enough to regret it.

I was having a conversation with an acquaintance and thinking to my introvert self that I should look people in the eye when I talk to them. I was in the middle of a comment when I noticed that she had one blue eye and one brown eye. I immediately forgot what I was saying and have tried to avoid looking people in the eye ever since.

Eye of Sauron contacts:

https://www.colouredcontacts.com/en/view-all/1028696-eye-of-sauron-colored-contact-lenses-daily.html#other-views-1

Was pondering that idea the other night. At some point in our lives we wake up and decide we are “grown up” able to run the world and reproduce. It is like an overnight thing. One night we are on a pub crawl and the next we are climbing the latter. Then I thought, Humm the process is not working out too well.

So true…

Would it change the iris or the sclera?

If he covered his face in bronzer and left white rings around his eyes it would be really frightening.

I dunno, I think they look cool

Some grownups still have similar ideas on what’s cool… like me!

I was binge-watching a TV show Monday and an actress was portraying her character’s grand-daughter and they had changed her hair color and length and she was wearing contact lenses that were of a different color as well. I did not recognize her until she spoke. The 50 year difference in fashion also helped.

I still don’t have my first tattoo.

“cool” is very loosely defined

How true!

Is it my imagination or did Hobbes just remove one of his glass eyes?

Uh, what kind of bug has eyes like that?

Gives me hope that Calvin grew up to work in make up/prosthetic effects, like Rick Baker.

Colored contacts aren’t really that comfortable anyway. You’re better off.

yes, yes you could

I don’t like putting things in my eyes, period.

I met a woman in New York once who had those back when they were all the rage, and frankly, it looked a tad bit creepy.