Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 17, 2022

The lesser 6 year olds have duckies on their underwear.

He should put on his…..big boy pants.

You think your IQ is a burden Calvin? Try passing Harvard with it.

Burdensome

Two geniuses on my GoComics page today: Rat from PBS and Calvin.

If you weren’t on such a higher plane, you would notice what’s missing lower down.

I have the same sort problem, Calvin. Though not the underpants.

Wow! Trenchant! That is a ten dollar word.

Jealous lesser intellect!!

Careful Calvin, higher intellect amongst us homosapiens has always gone extinct first… especially once we got into this civilization game.

What little kid knows and uses the word “trenchant”? I had to look it up…

Have any REAL geniuses (Einstein, Shakespeare, da Vinci) been as braggadocios as Calvin?

Super genius.

Just wait until your fellow 6-year olds laugh you out of class.

Calvin DOES have a good command in vocabulary!

another Trump Jr in the making?

Being a genius isn’t hard. Just bribe the guy who gives you the IQ test.

Find a woman that likes Planet&Star underwear and she’s a keeper.

Going to use that ‘trenchant’ line on my boss later today.

Do trenchant comments come from someone with trench mouth?

I want planet-and-stars underpants.

“A Boy Of Destiny…Until Reality Hit”…the title of Calvin’s autobiography…

Sure, comparing to a stuffed animal IQ…

He’s only six and uses the word “trenchant.”

“…the crux of history…” Funny, as I understand it the crux is the most difficult point in a task. Sounds like Calvin has himself pegged to a tee.

Yes! It really is “lonely at the top”.

Got to give him credit. He’s using “trenchant” sarcastically.

I sympathize with Calvin. I try my best to be compassionate to the hordes of dopes roaming around unfettered.

Today’s dope slap goes to any wacko with an American flag tied to a pickup. You’re being disrespectful to the flag. Stop doing that.

The smartest person is the one who understands how little he knows;

Calvin is supposed to be a 6 year old. If so then he is surely a genius, and one of the higher ones. His imagination and views verify that. In the real world a kid like that would need more direction to keep his interest and challenges to keep his motivations. Kids like that need to be engaged or, with no experience, they will do it themselves, and not often successfully.

Future stable genius material here.

He thought his IQ was 181, but he was reading it upside down.

He’s a super genius because those planets and stars also glow in the dark

This is one of my all-time favorite Calvin and Hobbes strips.

As he says on the Far Side, Pants first, then Shoes.

IQ is essentially mental age/chronological age. Calvin often has some very adult thoughts going on.

Oh, the desperate struggles of the mentally-gifted super genius. Only Calvin and Wile E. can know.

I read that first frame and thought , " Uh, oh. Calvin is in a MOOD!"

“I get a headache just thinking down to your level. " Marvin The Paranoid Android

Wow Calvin ! It’s like, if I had been born years later as a boy .

Calvin and superego.

Don’t take self proclaimed ‘geniuses’ seriously. (This was Watterson’s week for ranking on the pretentious, wasn’t it?)

Calvin is years ahead of us—he is ’plaining Donald Trump.

We just thought you were making a Boston accent joke.

A boy talking about a boy arguing with a stuffed animal… Jeez…