Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 13, 2020

It isn’t perjury if you cross your fingers.

How much more desperate does Calvin have to be, that he actually does behave?

you’re quite something, Calvin, when it comes to your behavior before and after Christmas year after year

Santa seeing them when they’re sleeping etc hasn’t been much of a motivator for my kids. Losing a phone or a treat works sometimes. The most important things in my kids lives, YouTube and sugar.

I gave up wondering what my kids have on their phones!!

I’m fairly sure Calvin didn’t vote Republican, either, which is good enough for me.

He hasn’t killed anyone but if he keeps sledding like that, he might. Maybe Hobbes.

But since a child can’t commit a felony or start a war, that’s not a very good selling point.

That’s the stock response where I live if someone talks about moral behaviour etc. “I haven’t killed anybody.”

Sorry furball, you’re known by the company you keep!

Looking for some sort of loophole Calvin?

Calvin, the key to the mystery is Santa goes by the parents’ interpretation of “good”.

Hobbes knows Calvin better than to write a glowing character reference.

Good throw-away humor in the first two frames. Watterson doesn’t fill space with just anything.

Calvin is going to have the same concerns later in life about getting into Heaven.

Hobbes might do it for a month of tummy rubs.

Sounds like my dogs, except it’s walks and biscuits.

The test of a man’s character is what he would do if he wasn’t found out…..

Maybe he could clean the slate by confessing and saying some Hail Santas.

Congratulations to the commenters today. We were handed a golden opportunity to get political and no one took the bait (so far).

All I want for Christmas is a brand new pardon, a brand new pardon, a brand new pardon, And if I can’t if I can’t have a brand new pardon, I guess I’ll just wear an orange jump suit.

No one can ever prove I’ve committed murder or any other serious felony. Now, cannibalism might be a harder issue to address …

Hobbes would like the geese a-laying and might also like the ladies dancing.

Oddly enough, sometimes you need a bad character to give you a good character reference. …ironic.

Heh, that letter in the first panel sounds funny! Wish we could’ve seen more of it…

Calvin is a great example of moral relativism. At least he is only partially self-aware.

I feel the reason Watterson loved to do Christmas strips is that the concept of Santa Claus let him philosophize in a way other holidays don’t.

Judging from the number of times Hobbs has lain in wait to attack Calvin, his record is definitely not clean.

I’ve read that Sunday’s newspapers often cut off the top horizontal panels to save space, and cartoonists made the top panels irrelevant to that day’s strip. Seems to be true.

In the modern remake of Citizen Cane his last words are “Calvin…”

To be good enough for Santa’s free Christmas gift, “You have to be good, even as Santa at the north pole is good.” (Some of y’all will get it.)

I like the philosophy idiom, “Good is the absence of bad.” Confucius couldn’t have said it better.

Calvin, First of all, that’s just a song. Second of all, it wasn’t even Santa that gave those to him/her. It was his/her True Love.

What a lawyer that kid will be some day…

Insight into the Noodle Incident! Today we learned that no one was killed, no one eaten..not even a felony was committed in the Noodle Incident. Calvin can relax!

Hobbes, every time you ambush Calvin you get on the “naughty” list. Surprised Calvin hasn’t used that line on Hobbes too.

Flo, from Non Sequiter would say, “Good is a sliding scale, deah.”

Easy there, Hobbes. You still need Calvin to work the can openers.

. . . Those dots were because I couldn’t think of anything to say.