Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 28, 2021

I hope Hobbes uses an anti-bacterial mouthwash.

Cats get covid too.

“What a maroon.” ~Bugs Bunny

Oldest trick in the book.

You don’t see that on episodes of the Zoo !

Someone tell Calvin that Hobbes is a tiger not a lion.

Well that’s one way to get a haircut.

It’s all about the timing.

When I yawn big, my jaw usually snaps shut after.

Damn you Hobbes. Made me start yawning.

*ClapClapClapClap *Applause…“Encore!!”

You’re flirting with disaster there putting your head in the tiger’s mouth, Calvin.;P

Third panel had me scared to death!

Go one Calvin, do it again.

Cal’s really a mouthful, isn’t he, Hobbes?

I have done that with every doberman (4) that I have owned.

Shhh! The little one in the picture THINKS he is a doberman like his brother ;-)

Last time this strip was reprinted, a commentator wondered what anyone in the strip who was watching Calvin would see. I presume they would see Hobbes as a stuffed doll lying on the ground and Calvin strolling up to him and pressing his head against the stuffed doll’s face. They would wonder what Calvin was imagining and they wouldn’t be able to see or hear Hobbes yawn. They would also miss the marvellous look on Hobbes’s face at the end.

I’ve just been reading the replies to the comments that I made on Tuesday. Connie Shearer tells me that she is amazed at how I keep my position that Hobbes is not a figment of Calvin’s imagination. As I explained on Tuesday, I did start out thinking that the stuffed Hobbes was the real Hobbes and that the real Hobbes was imaginary. I gradually began to question this because of how well Hobbes is characterised and because he is shown the same way on the rare times when he is all alone. What finally convinced me that Calvin does not imagine the things that Hobbes does was Bill Watterson’s comment about feeling Hobbes is “more real than any kid could make up.” I think that this shows that Watterson didn’t try to limit Hobbes to Calvin’s imagination.

This is off topic, but how does Calvin have the logic, reasoning, and intellect of someone 6-8 times his own age yet he does horrible in school

“And for his next trick, the Great Calvini…”

Sorry for you Hobbes. I’m not going to say any thing about, referring to or using the word “head”. ..no…stop it. Just move on.

Show-off…

See, that’s why Calvin loves Hobbes so much, because Hobbes won’t bite his head off.

One Of My All Time Favs!

Tiger morning breath? Hmmmm.

THAT couldn’t have tasted very nice! The lengths that Calvin goes to to avoid taking a bath – that head is surely filthy!

Ever see a cat yawn and look inside its mouth? That cavity accounts for about 90% of the volume of its skull, with eyes, nose, and ears taking up another 9%. Figure out for yourself what that leaves for the brain.

If he’d been a little more awake, that might have ended differently.

Fortunately for Calvin, he quit using his tuna-flavored hair gel last week.

Can’t even yawn in peace.

Now Calvin’s hair will smell like tuna the rest of the day.

CALVIN VORE

Morning breath is bad enough, but that just makes it worse. I hope Hobbes has mouthwash.

Ask Roy Horn (Siegfried & Roy) how well that works out in real life.

Slightly hilarious.

That’s easy to do when the animal is asleep.