Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 18, 2020

I guess Dad has lousy peripheral vision because of his nearsightedness.

Hi.

This strips a bit different, mixing Calvin’s imagination with another person being there.

Dad’s getting too warm a welcome.

Dad is blind.

So who is actually having this dream/nightmare?

Now the same disaster with Dad!!

It’s like Calvin is everywhere, huh?

Dad should play along just to see Calvin’s response.

You’d think by now she’d be used to diplicators and transmogrifyers and spacecraft and decapitated snowmen, etc., etc…

I know! Let’s turn the duplicates loose on Mo!

Darlin’ you don’t know the half of it!

Now there are two people to drive crazy.

This is all Calvin’s fantasy, so when it comes to his parents, there’s only ONE Calvin here, not multiples

Dad, while you’re talking to Calvin, get him to clean his room and throw out the duplicator.

I wonder it this is how Elliot Alderson got started? I mean the similarities are pretty obvious. Hobbes is his Mr Robot.

“We appear to have developed an infestation of Calvins.”

Better go to Costco or Sam’s and stock up on industrial size boxes of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs cereal!

Calvin has multiple personalities but they are all exactly the same. Sybil sure would have been a boring movie with that premise.

You know, Calvin never considered what would happen if MOm found the duplicator, and made copies of herself.

The only way to retain Watterson’s traditional dichotomy of fantasy and reality (relatively speaking) in the strip is for this all to turn out to be a dream. Likely Calvin’s but not necessarily.

Just wait until dinnertime – see if there are enough chairs for all of them, or they have to eat in shifts.

Membership in G.R.O.S.S. is way up.

The plot thickens.

Well…trying to control a cadre of Calvins is probably like herding cats. The tails will be just beyond the margin of your reach, with the heads always going the wrong way. Of course you’ll see double…three times over. Might as well give in and serve cookies in the kitchen—then slam the doors shut!

If they really want to drive Mom and Dad nuts they should all wear different clothes.

Be suspicious, Dad: The real Calvin doesn’t like you enough to say hi!

Mom is not going to be sympathetic as she had to deal with this all day! ☺