Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 15, 2024

Circumstantial evidence, will never hold up in court.

Tracer Bullet during winter.

Nice try Hobbes!

Snow makes for nice chalk outlines.

Only one step from here for Hobbes: to get a lawyer.

Looks like you are rather busted, Hobbes.

That’s all circumstantial evidence

He was framed

Well, that snowballed……

Very good, Philip Marlowe!!

No reasonable prosecutor would subpoena on that flimsy evidence.

This is very much like that recent Sunday reprint where Calvin was studying animal tracks in the woods and realised that the large animal which had frightened the smaller ones away was Hobbes.

Love Hobbes tongue sticking out in the last panel.

That’s a pawsible, er possible theory, Hobbes.

Calvin and Hobbes in CSI: Snowball Unit

Could be, Hobbes; but how many other tigers live in the area?

No; Hobbes has a point.

CSI Gocomics

I’m waiting for the magic snowball and second thrower theories.

NCIS: Calvin edition.

I agree with Hobbes. Who’s to say those were his tracks? Coulda been just about any tiger in the neighborhood.

An awful lot of trouble to diagnose a snowball.

He should’ve said no, that’s not tiger tracks, those are clearly from a snow leopard.

I really expected to find Susie’s footprints after yesterday’s strip.

LOL

Ahh…. a new adventure for Calvin ! A safari hunt for other neighborhood Tigers. Nice diversion, Hobbes.

Hobbes, you’re the only tiger around.

Columbo lives!

They could just as easily be bobcat, puma, ocelot, jaguar or snow leopard tracks.

CSI: Calvin

Incredible!

It’s all circumspective evidence.

So, [PIF!] by Misadventure?

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Apparently bite marks previously used to convict are no longer considered valid evidence according to recent news about a man released after wrongful conviction based on them.

He’ll need to take impressions of those tracks and bring them back to the lab for comparison

Last night, on America’s Funniest Home Videos, they showed a video of a man who went face first into a thick layer of snow and left a perfect impression of his face in it. Maybe Calvin can try this but more likely Hobbes will force it on him..

He deserved it, for all the times he bothered Susie.

CSI: Calvin Edition

There’s probably a lot of tigers in that town.

C can be awfully smart for being so dumb

CSI Winter

A good snowball that could do some damage would not have powdered remains, more like icy snow remains.

They’re Suzie’s tiger tracks

Hobbes’ defense is the fact that tigers don’t have opposable thumbs.

That and the fact that he’s imaginary.

Lots of tigers in the neighborhood.

when you think about it calvin is quite smart

I wish Hobbes had said, “Anybody’s tiger’S tracks.” Doesn’t everybody have a tiger?

But tiger Hobbes happens to be only in your presence, not otherwise. And The plot thickens.

Hobbes also has a certain sense of haute couture as can be seen by his stylish scarf.