Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 22, 2019

Keep trying, it will help develop arm strength.

Which side threw which snowballs?

You would think that after building all of those snowmen, they would have the arms of Popeye.

another great series will be starting soon. instant gratification and anticipation are both featured.

Don’t listen to him, Hobbes. It’s a trap!

Or you need better artillery.

That’s MY kind of snowball fight!

Or you could venture out for a raid!

Do you think?

Ahhh, the joys of snow

Location, location, location. That’s the trouble with any fight, you need to be close enough to make a strike, but that puts you close enough for the other guy to strike back.

Maybe you should build some outposts.

That makes the game more interesting. You have to come out of the fort to launch an offensive attack.

Yes, too far apart, lets move more together now!!

It’s an arms race to be the first to develop the ICBS.

Hobbes doesn’t “have an arm” on him? (Yes, I know he’s a tiger, and a stuffed one at that; I’ve seen him throwing fastballs in their “Calvin-ball” games, so he must be able to throw…) :-)

A little distance can make a big difference in relationships

Calvin is watching so much television, he isn’t getting enough exercise.

The History Guy on youtube recently did an episode on Titanic Thompson, a hustler and gambler who reputedly cheated Al Capone. One of Thompson’s exploits was to challenge a horseshoe champion, Frank Jackson, to a game of horseshoes, with a $10,000 wager of course. Thompson won handily, because he had secretly moved the stakes a foot farther apart. Jackson apparently never found out.

Betcha Susie can throw that distance easily.

Mutual Assured Destruction is more complicated than it sounds.

Forts + Distance = Peace

This illustrates the beginning of the arms race.

I wonder whose are whose?

What gave you that idea, ‘Einstein’ ???

Kiss me, honey, honey kiss me……closer, closer now!!

It’s a lot more peaceful that way.

You could build a catapult, but then you would be pulting cats, and Hobbes wouldn’t put up with feline abuse!

The middle gets the worse of it

So charge across no-man’s-land and learn about WW I.

Yes, granted. But WHICH pile of snowballs are whose?

After all the wit above, there is nothing more left to say!

To far apart or they throw like girls?

Calvin and Hobbes need to buy a Rocket propelled snow balls launcher, or they stay like that until Spring starts