Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 24, 2011

Hmmm… it’s coming back to me now.

Oh so that’s what you are up to Calvin… you seem to have powered up your “Duplicator”

At last things have become clear and sensible. I was just going crazy. Now mom is free to go crazy when she finds out.

I do love this arc! It will get better. ROFL

G’Morning, Grog, Marg & Mike!

Calvin is great getting Mom close to a nervous breakdown.

There is a twin??

I knew there was something fishy going on….hmmm..

I remember the arc, but not how it ends. This is fun!!

She knows better than that, Hobbes. She may not know what Calvin is up to exactly but she knows he’s up to something.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠!

It’s not him fully!

OK - I don’t speak the lingo - what’s an ‘arc’ ? Archive?

Calvin, you’re safe, but only as long as you stay under the bed.

Story Arc. From Wikipedia: “A story arc is an extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling media such as television, comic books, comic strips, boardgames, video games, and in some cases, films.”

I forgot how he came up with the dupe.

Mom will catch on soon Calvin…watch out!!

hahaha… there we find “real” Calvin

I’ve wondered how Calvin does that… manifest the objects of his imagination into the real world like the snow goons. Guess there is a part of his personality that likes to keep people on their toes!

He should have made the dupe more realistic, so Mom wouldn’t get suspicious! As it is, NO-ONE will believe it’s him!!

An evil twin, but which one is it?

I feel the same, Hobbes… uh, Hobbes?

He used his amazing transmogrifier, didn’t he?

(Funny - Google Spell Check doesn’t have any suggestions for ‘transmogririer.’)

Haha, this is amazing. No spoilers please people. The spoiler was leaked already but some people are trying to enjoy so just sit back and enjoy the amazing plot up ahead. This is an awesome arc!

The guy who shouts out, “I remember, the butler did it” is usually found beat up behind the theater.

I like to shout, “The butler did it,” even when I know it was really Colonel Mustard. But I get beat up anyway.

Yet another instance of Calvin’s imagination actually affecting the real world. Watterson always made things confusing because some stories would strictly be in Calvin’s mind (Tracer Bullet, “You only see things in black and white”, imagining his parents/teacher as aliens), some would marginally affect the world (Hobbes most of the time, Stupendous Man - how did he get that giant snowball in the tree?), and some would be 100% real (the duplicator, Hobbes tying Calvin to a chair)

So maybe he really did have all his mathematical education sucked out!

Whew, the real Calvin lives. There for awhile I thought we’d lost him in an accidental transmogrification.

AHHA! We knew it couldn’t be the real Calvin! And that explains Hobbe’s disappearance, too! Why hadn’t Mom noticed his absence?

“An evil twin, but which one is it?”

Clearly, the original Calvin in the evil twin.

@zero. Thanks for the explanation. First rate!

The only thing with the daily comics is that I can’t read the end yet!!!! So impatient!! :D

And thus emerges the monster from under the bed.

LeslieAnne, “…but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation works patience, And patience, experience, …” Romans 5:3,4 :o)

She’s just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Watterson said that he couldn’t do this arc until a few years into the strip, to make sure the people reading knew what Calvin was like normally. The reason being is that he dropped us in the middle of things at the start

Look at the panel over the comic, to the left…

Here’s what I found in the dictionary:

transmogrify (trænzˈmɒɡrɪˌfaɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]

— vb , -fies , -fying , -fied

jocular ( tr ) to change or transform into a different shape, esp a grotesque or bizarre one

[C17: of unknown origin]

Of course the humor comes from the contrast with the self-willed brat that Calvin normally is (indeed this does get better!), but I STILL like the “good” Calvin infinitely better.

Maybe I’ve finally gotten tired of negativity being the root of this world’s senses of humor.

I will miss the new Calvin less trouble, but then Calvin wouldn’t be Calvin with the new image.

You’re right. There is a pod somewhere in Calvin’s Digs.

I wonder if this is how Nixon got his start?

Lewreader said, about 4 outcries ago

The guy who shouts out, “I remember, the butler did it” is usually found beat up behind the theater.

That reminds me of the time I predicted a “Murder She Wrote” episode. Before I had even seen the previews, I said, “It’s going to be a servant of some kind. It’s been a while, so I predict the gardener.” And then I had another thought–“But he’s going to be a lost relative of some kind.”

It turned out to be the gardener, who was a lost sister, adopted by another family at birth. I got the gender wrong.

That’s real Calvin, together with Hobbes.

I was expecting Hobbes to be out of sight until after Easter.

Whew! It’s the clone! HAD to be!

Poor mom! Nothing in that child psychology book she picked up last night could ever prepare her for something like this!

(BTW: I don’t remember this story arc but I’m sure the ending is going to be really good!!!!!)

His mother has an incredibly difficult choice to make here - the utterly diffident little boy who is nearly invisible in his self management, or the wild child she will remember with deepest love, irrespective of how difficult his upbringing was to begin with. Calvin, the “real” one, will remain etched in her memory so long as she is able to remember, and that with a smile, of course….

“New” Calvin has such a cute eagerness to please. LOL.

Are all you people really to young to have read this stuff the first time around? Wow…

Well here’s what happens, eerrrrkk…. thud

Ray C Sorry about that, but you had it coming!!!!