Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 09, 2021

Calvin, give Hobbes the other 15¢ or you’ll end up cat food.

Geez Calvin. Don’t you knock? No wonder you lost the bet.

Inflation, Hobbes. That quarter in 1991 is worth a dime now.

“If” we didn’t have guns. It’s the tigers that are too stupid to invent them.

Tigers, or any cat for that matter, will never be superior to humans until they can figure out how to use a can opener.

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Well, homo sapiens does have the Gatling gun, and tiger’s don’t!

Of course tigers are mighty creatures, but only “homo supper-time” could create the absolute horrors of politics and dentistry! HA! Take this, Hobbes!

we also have thums,computers, and atomic boms

What does dad know. He is evolving the legs and feet of a leopard.

Yeah, I wouldn’t call Dad “mighty man.”

Watterson is a pretty good artist to be able to make dad look ‘unevolved’

The acknowledged sense of weakness and vulnerability is probably why ancient man and woman picked up the sticks and rocks to defend themselves. Tell fuzz face “We win claw paw.” Not sorry.

More large carnivorous animals would help reduce the stupid level.

Reality sinks in, Calvin. You may look like that someday too.

This has nothing to do with todays strip: Calvin’s PI fantasy should have waited until today. Why? (You might ask.)Well today,March 9th, is Mickey Spillane’s birthday.On top of writing detective novel, he started out writing for(ta da )COMIC BOOKS !

I rest my case…

Calvin picked the wrong day to make that bet. (But is there a GOOD day for that kind of a bet?)

It’s the polka dot pj’s that did it…

Wait. Dad’s got hair?

Did he actually agree or just give you a blank stare which means: Get out of here and don’t bother me this time of the day?

Does Hobbes have pockets? Calvin will just take the money back if he leaves it lying around. Humans can’t be trusted.

It all goes into the Tigers Gun Fund. :)

Hobbes’ argument is ridiculous. He claims that tigers are more “perfectly evolved”, but he arbitrarily wants to exclude the evolution of the human brain (which we use to create weapons), which gives us the decisive advantage.

that’s the point though isn’t it? We didn’t NEED to evolve specialized predator traits like fangs and claws because our massive intellect allowed us to turn rocks and sticks into weapons capable of killing animals FAR larger than tigers. Meanwhile what happens to a tiger if it sprains it’s ankle, or a sudden weather change causes the prey it normally hunts to move someplace out of reach, it dies painfully and horribly of infection, starvation, or from another tiger (since they aren’t a social species either) who lived nearby.

Creativity and opposable thumbs.

Today’s comic made me LOL. But then most of Calvin and Hobbes usually do. I love Bill Watterson’s sense of humor.

Speaking as a certifiable ailurophile, I nonetheless attest that if I were the size of my tiny tiger and petite panther and they were my size, they would have eaten me by now.

Chiseler?

Hobbes is just jealous because people get to drive jaguars and cougars.