Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 23, 2023

You can start with members of Congress.

Everyone except Hobbes.

A priceless historical document…..

The comic strip Calvin and Hobbes itself is quite an historical record.

Don’t forget to include yourself on that list!!!

Who started their list of mortal enemies first, Calvin or Sheldon?

How about that school bully of yours Calvin., You could start with him. He’s definitely a jerk.

I always imagine that we’re looking into a history time machine…. and that this is young Donald T. His attitude and smarts are about the same.

We assume your own name is already on it.

Don’t forget about that Calvin kid!

Hmm…wonder who I’d add on my list?!

In some circles ‘Convictions’ is not be good thing.

Mrs.Wormwood is in there some where, Calvin! She certainly knows how to push all your buttons…LOL

Hobbes is right…Calvin does have a rather limited group that he hangs around with!

Don’t worry Calvin. Your legend lives on from the Chippewa on down…

List of enemies? When Calvin is president, he can give it to the FBI. They’ll take care of them.

A total jerk? To paraphrase a line from Guardians of the Galaxy, I don’t know if I think anyone is 100% a jerk* (the word actually used was di@k)

Like Cavanaugh’s calendar

Well, Cal, I gotta tell ya. You don’t get noticed if you don’t do something either ultra grand or super gory . . . or run for high office. They’re about equal.

is this a historical record, or a confession of his crimes such as noodle incident?

Remember Calvin — “Subject, verb, object”.

This makes me think that maybe Calvin grew up to live in an isolated cabin and write manifestos.

If Richard Nixon could do it…

So far his book reads:

Jerks I’ve Known

Calvin

We all have lists, we are also on lists…

Hobbes is great…“Who else do you even know?” Too funny…

Since we’re all reading a 30 year old cartoon – he was actually being prescient!

I’m afraid I had this exact same thought process when I first started journaling daily. And I was three times his age.

Thankfully, the earliest notebooks were lost in a flooded basement many years ago. The more recent, surviving volumes are much less pretentious.

In panel two Calvin once again demonstrates that fantastic vocabulary. He is really a six year old genius.

Elon Musk?

90% of people I know are jerks- – I want a Hobbes of my own.

Don’t forget to add that stripped feline also in the journal. He is witness to history being created for the geniuses.

Calvin has convictions? I didn’t even know he had been arrested!

I’d list most of the people I went to school with. They no doubt would include me on a similar list.

The difference being, I didn’t bully them to the point of PTSD, and didn’t make their lives a misery for years on end.

Future republican presidential wanna-be!

if you really are a genius, they never self-label.

In “The Innocents Abroad”, Mark Twain’s book about his travels on what was essentially the worlds first “cruise ship”, he is approached by an earnest young man who announces he has begun a journal of the trip. Twain responds that a completed journal is a wonderful thing. Of course, by the third day, the young man is reduced to recording latitude and longtitude. By the end of the week, the journal is never mentioned again.

If you are going to complete a journal, it helps if you are Samuel Clemens. :)