Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 03, 2015

I am sure, the principal will be very impressed.

Technology is your friend. Use it.

Beware, you are out numbered Calvin.

An other new start!

That’s definitely thinking outside the lunchbox.

Would snow count as a lethal weapon in school?

An “A” for creativity.

Calvin has a magic thermos. The volume of those three snowballs is much greater than the interior volume of his thermos, especially after you subtract all of the space required for the insulating layer.

Calvin is ambidextrous again today. He pounds on the thermos with his left hand but throws the snowball with his right hand. He’s drawn that way so that the reader can easily see what he is doing in each case.

Click here (or stretch image): Calvin and Hobbes (January 6, 1994)

Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (February 15, 1986)

Good morning. Hobbs,thank you for your additions in the comments. :)

LOL! And thanks, Hobbes, another great one!

And in two days, the bringing of a thermos to school is going to be forbidden.

Throw it at Susie. I dare you.

In two seconds, your parents will hear about this as you sit in the principal office!

Hi iammu. Glad you enjoy the extra strips. I’ll be on my spring sabbatical soon, returning after Easter.

and in about 3 seconds Calvin will wish he hadn’t

@ Hobbes-the-commenter: Thanks for those! I love that Hobbes-the-tiger uses “momentarily” according to its original meaning of “any moment now” instead of “for a moment.”

Brilliant! Why didn’t I think of this when I was in grade school? All I could come up with was creating a volcano from a half-pint of milk and a straw. Guess you had to be there but as a second-grader, it was top-notch lunchtime entertainment…we couldn’t afford Wayne Newton.

That does it; I’m contacting my Representative to begin a campaign to prohibit the use of this Dihydrogen stuff. I have personally seen what it does to my car, and my garden. Worst of all, it can fall out of the sky, anytime, anywhere, and with little or no warning. Sometimes so much falls from the sky that we have to actually walk through it. It’s as if it’s a part of nature we can’t live without.

This strip reminds me of Bill Cosby’s routine about making a perfect snowball and putting it into the freezer. His plan was to use it to smack someone in July when they’d never expect it. If you don’t know the routine, I won’t tell you the punch line.

This will not end well. Haha

As a kid I once stored a snowball in the freezer for a couple of months. It had pretty much shrunk to a ball of ice by then.

Calvin generates his bad little boy side again!

Careful, Calvin. Think about that kid who recently got suspended from his school for proclaiming that he had a magic ring from “Lord of the Rings”.

You’re not anti-Swedish, are you?

Calvin’s Mom (on the phone with the Principal! — Dad’s at work, of course!): “AIEEEEE!!! CALVIN SUSPENDED FOR WHAT??!!!”

“Does he have another side?”*lWP – Actually I was wondering that this morning. Most little kids have a naughty spirited side, and also a cuddle side when they’re tired and Grandma’s lap is open.*Have we ever seen Calvin in cuddle mode?

And have everyone die of thrist? Wow.

Sadly, two seconds is the farthest ahead Calvin can think.

Never thought of using a Thermos. A friend of mine used to save snowballs in the freezer for use in July.

Calvin would be enough to challenge anyones patience but hes great isnt he?

Throwing things in school halls can be very dangerous and I will not throw anything while in school — I had to write it 1000 times for playing catch with my papier mache artwork in the hall. (I used carbon).

@neverenoughgold: Just trying to keep up with Bill Watterson and his sabbaticals, taking a break from Calvin and Hobbes. I generally take some time off from GoComics two or three times a year, especially in the spring during Lent.

It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold. How do it know?

The thermos is the most incredible invention ever! It keeps things hot or cold, but how does it know which to do?