Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 23, 2021

Don’t worry, Calvin, you’ll be out of there by mid-April.

like a Scotch egg

Teach us how to do that, Hobbes!

Hopefully Hobbes doesn’t build any snow goons while Calvin’s stuck in there.

Now, see, this is one of the strips that I contend Watterson uses to intentionally blur the line about whether Hobbs is real or not. If Hobbs is a doll, how could Calvin have done this to himself? Another example is the arc where Calvin decides he wants to be an escape artist and has Hobbs tie him to a chair.

I hope Hobbes doesn’t decide to roll him down a hill.

Yes, a very steep one!!

I love the comics without dialogue.

And that wraps up todays edition of boogerbrain. Thank you, Hobbes.

You never shall provoke someone stronger than you!!

Well, that snowballed.

Now that was funny!

Don’t mess with tigers. Or something may happen, you never know what.

Goodness gracious, great balls of snow….

Actions have consequences. This concept just will NOT penetrate that solid nuclear material that makes up his skull.

Calvin now resembles one of those rolled-up hay bales!

Considering he’s a tiger, I think Hobbes was being relatively charitable.

This is how one learns there are consequences to our actions. This is the beginning of what is called executive planning in psychology.

I think Hobbes wins. :-)

This is why I don’t wear cotton or fleece outdoors – only shiny nylon material.

There was a similar strip to this one involving Susie. Susie first rolled a big snowball and Calvin remarked “Hah! Stupid girl! You’ll never throw something that size.” Susie took Mohammed to the mountain or rather pushed Calvin into the huge snowball.

Ok, ‘Calvin’ what was in the snowball and what else have you done to aggravate ‘Hobbes’ this morning ???

Another Calvin conundrum: Was it worth it or not worth it?

For better or worse, sometimes, your best friend is the “instant Karma” you deserve.

The term ’Piggy in a blanket" comes to mind.

he has been 6 years old for 35 years!! these comics are priceless

reminds me of the adage about not meddling in the affairs of dragons… in this case Calvin got off easy

Hobbes is Calvin’s worst enemy; he always does payback X 3.

I wonder if someone came along who sees Hobbes as a stuffed animal would see Calvin lying face down on the snow…

I can’t think of any way you could get a child Inside a large snowball. You can’t roll the snow around him. And you couldn’t hollow out a snowball to put him inside.

A nice metaphor for his psychosis.

Coulda been worse…he might have hit Suzie.

Siberian snow tiger.

Now, slowly back…. and THROW!

So exactly does he explain this to his parents, assuming the bother to look for him before the spring thaw?

ayy yo

If the parents see this, they’ll realize that he wasn’t imagining things after all.

Mmm,…pig in a blanket

Life is short, for some it is destined to be very short.

YES!!

Calvin always loses, lol.

When I was moving into a new place, my cat was hiding from the movers in a closet on top of a loosely rolled carpet. After the movers left, hours later, I could not immediately find him. Of course, I checked the closet but didn’t see him. Twenty minutes later I heard him meowing. I went back to the closet. He was inside the roll of carpet!

Just looks like the previous comic from Garfield

Careful, Calvin, or you might get thrown!

You dont mess with a huge feline. You are lucky to escape getting devoured.

Wow, thats a lot for a stuffed animal

Ah, yes. The Calvin Special!

I can see Calvin smiling in the third panel, is he happy he’s a snow burrito? I think not, strange.