Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 07, 2025

Never be your own lawyer, because you have a fool for a client…..

Wasn’t that in retaliation for the snowball she threw at him yesterday? Calvin and Susie are a likely pair—they can both dish it out but can’t take it.

What “lawyer”?? Hobbes isn’t even there!

We seem to have a continuity gap here.

Slugger Susie!

Spaceman Piff misses again

Wait till his future wife files for divorce. Won’t have money left to buy shelaces.

The defendant’s logic is a bit warped.

Confessions are good for the soul. Who’s soul it is, is debatable.

As some commentators have already said, today’s strip is a good contrast to yesterday’s strip in which Susie was the one who threw a snowball at Calvin. She did it with much more accuracy of course.

Ah,….young love…..

Calvin, you had the right to remain silent. (Not that it would have helped.)

Dang! What a waste of a perfectly good snowball.

What was that for, you brat? YOU’RE the one who threw a snowball at Calvin when his back was turned yesterday!

He could have admitted that he threw it, but claimed that he wasn’t throwing it at her.

He missed…she didn’t…

You and your big mouth, Calvin!

Calvin, be thankful you were slammed into snow. Better than Moe doing it to you on the playground.

That works better to Bart Simpson.

This is the one beef I have about Watterson. Susie often responds with physical violence beyond the measure of the insult that Calvin inflicts on her. Had the situation been reversed, it would not have been acceptable.

While male violence on women is too common, the reverse, which does exist, should not be tolerated either. It really should not be played for laughs, although I don’t know how the literal punchline for this strip would have worked without it.

In the 1950’s there was I Love Lucy. Since then sitcoms use the “stupid male” meme as their main theme. One of my most beloved shows, Frasier, did this and come to think of it Big Bang Theory did it too. I’m sorry that I do not have more current examples, except for certain sporting events, I don’t watch TV anymore.

In that third panel, she almost looked convinced for a minute.

Asking for a new trial is meaningless, since the sentence was already carried out.

Reminds me of the armed robbery case in my county where the Defendant decided to represent himself. Prosecution witness on the stand pointed out the Defendant as the one who’d held him up. Defendant begins his cross examination with “isn’t it true you couldn’t tell who it was who held you up because I was wearin’ a mask?”

Of course, sometimes even having a lawyer doesn’t help. In another armed robbery case, a colleague of mine had one of those clients who just would not stay quiet. When the witness testified that the masked man who held them up was wielding a black handgun, the client told his lawyer, in a whisper so loud the whole courtroom could hear, “She’s lyin’! That gun was silver!!”

I actually was in the courtroom for the second one.

Definitely incompetent!!!!

Susie doesn’t have Cal’ arm. Yesterday, she nailed him and knocked him out of his shoes. In this arc, she decked him but he still has his shoes on. She really likes him.

Didn’t she bean him the bed with a snowball just yesterday?

Want to fix things- to quote Shakespeare, “First, kill all the lawyers!”