Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 23, 2024

If your best friend can’t get you into trouble, who can?

What’s Hobbes going to do with $2500?

He’s the architect of his own misfortune.

Is that all, Hobbes, I surely thought it be a lot higher, like a zillion.

Those pesky 5 inches.

I just knew that that Hobbes was trouble!

And if Calvin was successful, Dad would have confiscated the $100 for a new hat!!

Hobbes is so used to being blamed for Calvin’s poor decisions. It doesn’t faze him in the slightest…….

You could say. It doesn’t get under his fur in the slightest….

Sure, Calvin. Go ahead and bet a hundred dollars – you’ve got nothing to lose!

If the groundhog saw its shadow, that would mean 6 more weeks of grounding for snowball related antics. Maybe that’s why they call it the groundhog?

Hobbes has a wallet?

HEADSHOT!

He knocked Dad’s head out from under it. Close enough.

He’s lucky he can sit down, even on a soft bed

Hobbes is gonna be one wealthy tiger when all is said and done. At least on paper.

Super trivia: It look like Hobbes is using an Apple Newton or a Palm device, not pencil and paper. Looks like an original Newton stylus, plus, what looks to be an antenna bump. He probably earned the money from other bets with Calvin.

Nothing like a cold, wet, icy snowball down the back of the neck!

Calvin, you should know better than to throw snowballs at your father.

Calvin hopes to get even in water balloon season. :)

Hobbes keeps a ledger!

$2,500 plus interest.

How typical, blaming others for your misdeeds!!!

Dad did not ground you for now after that event. That seems to be a bigger relief, fella. Count your blessings.

What will come first? Trump pays up anything he owes or Hobbes sees his $2500?

And just where is Calvin going to get #2500? I would wager NOT from Dad…