Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 01, 2022

The 1980’s were the Al Franken decade. No reason the 1990’s can’t be the Calvin decade.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wyoaOZW7rTo&t=28s

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How about the people who were consumed by all the things that Calvin said? That’s a better question.

bummer, Calvin

You’re the wrong gender to get in on that ethos

Oh, the Me Generation is still with us. It’s perpetual. Look at DC and the elites. John Kerry and Joe Biden are some of the poster children.

Unbridled greed? Conspicuous consumption of wealth? Get-ahead-by-any-means? The FBI just squashed that at Mar-a-Lago.

Oh, Calvin, I know a six-year-old doesn’t want to hear it, but patience. You’re in 1992, and in another 25 years both you and the times will be just right for your propensities…

True, they cannot end my life, before I have really lived! It’s not fair!!

It’s still there!

Human nature transcends ideology.

Don’t worry Calvin; the future awaits.

Donald J. Calvin?

Calvin, meet Donald J. Trump—the REAL exemplar of unbridled greed!!

Sadly, he really did last for only a decade!

Calvin should try to be a cog of the corporate state.

I wasn’t aware that unbridled greed, the conspicouous consumption of wealth, and the get-ahead-by-any-means credo had ever left us.

Hobbes cracked me up in the last panel!

Didn’t anyone else think of Gordon Gekko: “Greed is good.” ?

I come to GoComics to get away from all the political comments…please.

It’s baaaack, Calvin. Bigger and “better” than ever.

Why would anyone follow the lead of a traitor, a confirmed liar, and a fascist?

to answer Calvin’s statement in the third panel…yes, they can and they often have!

Calvin, unbridled greed and conspicuous consumption of wealth is still here. It’s just that those who crave it are no longer willing to work for it. They want the government to steal it from those who have and give it those who want it.

The “get ahead by any means” has eliminated working for it

Calvin was there to watch the boomers pull that ladder up behind themselves

The “Me Decade” never left.

It all started when you were not allowed to spank your child or to keep scores at their games! Todays children can be PROUD at being failures! Russia, The Orient, Europe teach their kids to be the BEST, we are happy with mediocrity. If you can say your kid was not shot today at school or kidnapped while walking to or from school.. Then that kid is happy and content! I am still waiting for that massive blackout where cell phones can not be charged… what will our children do…..

Our view of society is usually the result of our perspective more than the result of what we actually see. Like all the other times in most of living memory, the “Me Decade” was a television phenomenon.

The Al Franken Decade

Well, yeah. Responsibility can be really dull.

It’s back with a vengeance but confined to a precious few

Now THIS is the kid that Lila should have adopted. They are so alike it is scary.

I have an inkling of what Calvin is going through. I was a little to young for the 60’s. All that sex, drugs and rock & roll was only a spectator event for me. …sigh.

Goal achieved Watterson’s little dude.

Wow, did those comments go south in a hurry!

Not to worry, Calvin, Identity Politics is alive and well.

Well, you could move to Texas (or some other equally laissez-faire state).

Don’t worry Calvin, you didn’t miss unbridled greed or conspicuous consumption. If they seemed to be momentarily on the decline, they’ve long since come roaring back.

Oh, Calvin, there are plenty of “Me’s” around. And it is ALL about YOU.

If it were up to you, Calvin, you’d have a “me century”.

It’s amazing at how well and how poorly some of these strips age.

Relax Calvin, none of that stuff is even slowing down, let alone gone.

It’s alive and well here Calvin. You just wait 30 years.

Calvinattitude! Didn’t we vote for that in 2016?

Calvin really needs a MAGA hat. He’s a natural.

Mitch McConnell as a young boy. Especially the get ahead by any means credo…

“Calvin stole that idea from me…Al Franken!”

Because I used to love me, but it’s all over now!

Love the sympathic sarcastic comments from Hobbes.

Someone who does not suffer from excessive greed is the author Bill Watterson, he cancelled Calvin and Hobbes in its prime. It is estimated if he started the comic up again with associated merchandise he could earn in excess of $200 million.

I liked the “Me Decade” better than the “Decade of Al Franken.”

Hobbes, this is an eternal struggle in our world.