Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 08, 2021

An ax won’t do anything. Hose them down with hot water.

Try asking your parents if you can bring a weapon to school in this day and age. I’ll wait.

Another excuse why Calvin won’t go to school.

Or maybe bring some running shoes so you can actually get past them

Go out the back door tomorrow. And run like hell .

Zombie snow goon apocalypse!

This must have been in the days before there were metal detectors in schools.

Calvin is hoping and praying for a sudden heat wave!

So Calvin’s psychosis is finally threatening to cross over into homicidal violence. Precocious little tyke.

Sorry, one of the snowmen in the yard has the axe.

I think he means snow and tell…..

I thought he would be happy to have an excuse not to go to school!

Poll: Who do you think you would get along with better in real life based on their personalities? Calvin or Hobbes? I think I would be like Calvin and get along with hobbes

A hair dryer with an extension cord%.

I would say Kartis’s idea is great, but thats until the cord unplugs

Once your enemies start multiplying it’s to late to start making friends. Best to begin early.

When I was about 6 and my brother was 5 we went to visit Santa and a recording was made. He asked for a hatchet, an ax, bow and arrows, a slingshot and shoes! This was the fifties – imagine such a thing today!

How about a hair dryer with an extra long extension cord?

A pocket was carried by boys to school when I was in school but if they caught you carving your name on your desk it would be taken away. Forty years later a friend of my son left an air pistol (not a real gun) in the back seat of his car and was suspended from school for the rest of the year.

That question should concern any parent.

Wow! Those shameless snow goons are actually reproducing in front of God and everybody! ;o}

Walking hand in hand with Suzie will get you by them.

Just maybe the snow goons will listen to reason and wait until you get back from school before they do combat.

Calvin the Barbarian!

At the time when I first read today’s strip, I still believed that Hobbes was only active in Calvin’s imagination! I finally learned the truth in the Spring of 1992 when I read Bill Watterson’s reply to someone who asked him whether or not Hobbes is real. Bill replied, “More real than any kid can make up, I think.”

As I have mentioned before, it wasn’t until some time after I stopped thinking of Hobbes as imaginary that I realised that his looking out of the window and telling Calvin what is happening outside is one of the pieces of evidence that he is independent of Calvin. Hobbes telling Calvin about the snow goons is probably the least convincing example of this evidence. Perhaps the most convincing example was when he told Calvin that Rosalyn was coming up the drive and it turned out that she really was.

By sunrise they will be a Platoon, commanded by a snow liutenant, this is getting out of hand…

Just use your trusty Red Ryder carbine.

Oooh, oooh, i know what he needs ! https://youtu.be/FcEpB39HqJw

Get up in the middle of the night and drink a whole lot of water. You’ll be ready for the morning.

For a good thyme machine, go to Bad Axe, Michigan.

Ah yes kids bring axes for show and tell not killing snowmen :)