Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 19, 2022

Looks like someone is trying to drive a wedge between Calvin and his parents.

What happens when you listen to your imaginary friend.

Hobbes is just…..messin’ with your head.

Who else would’ve put those ridiculous ideas into Calvin’s head if it wasn’t Dad?

Those are ridiculous ideas. Mom will sell you to the wandering nomads.

I might have said “maybe” to the one about working in a cannery.

When this episode originally came out, some adoptive families took offence…

Nice ceiling perspective in panel 3!

No Calvin, they are fattening you to live off you in their retirement.

This is how conspiracy theorists are made. “She’s denying it, it’s a cover up, it must be true! She’s admitting it, I was right the whole time!”

Calvin’s been reading “Oliver Twist” and “Hansel and Gretel”.

Not nice…..

“Isn’t that how it works?!? You adopt a baby, raise it to about the age of seven, and then put it on a rotisserie for a family barbecue? That’s what Hobbes told me!”

Would Calvin go well with a nice Chianti and some fava beans?

Love the perspective change in the third box.

Maybe Dad wants a kidney donor alive and kicking, just in case.

Thought maybe Dad had been chatting with Calvin. Sounds like something he’d say.

I thought this strip was banned from the public eye.

When I was a kid, I knew I was okay, but I sort of wondered if my Mom was adopted.

Well, his dad did say he was a K-Mart special.

“Are you fattening me up just to eat me” is so riduclious

8/10

“Changeling” not so ridiculous.

“Mom, am I adopted?”

“Not yet.”

I love it!

That’s what ‘they’ want you to think. ‘They’ seem to be behind most of the world’s woes. I wonder where ‘they’ have coffee to plan their nefarious deeds.

I think someone’s been telling Calvin fairytales.

The first line was changed in later publications to “Mom, was I genetically engineered or cloned?”

The the Complete “Calvin and Hobbes” book collection, the first panel had Calvin’s line changed to “Mom, was I genetically engineered or cloned?” It’s obvious because the lettering looks more like it does in the 90s “Calvin and Hobbes” strips (while this one was originally drawn and printed in 1987.)

“Oh, heavens no. Seven is when we put you to work in the fields. You won’t be tall enough to work in the cannery until you’re twelve.”

Messing with Calvin’s head is Hobbes latest caper.

Haha, I thought I recognized Qanon philosophy!!!

They are going to send him off to a Peking Opera School when he turns seven. No, wait, that was Jackie Chan.

You’re dead meat, Cal…you just don’t know it! :D

“Why, it’s medical research for you sweetie”

Too much TV.

I just KNEW it!

Calvin must have been reading Charles Dickens.

Nothing like a best friend

The best comeback to Calvin’s first question is, “Not yet”.

“You are too skinny for us to eat you. Want some pasta?”

One of the downsides of having a split personality.

Mom is a Kanamit in disguise

Hilarious!

He DOES have blonde hair, but neither of his parents do…

In another strip, Calvin wanted to know if his mother was going to lock her jaws around his throat, drag him off into the the tall grass, and rip open his belly with her sharp claws.

Reading this as a kid and thinking it said canary and not understanding it but laughing anyway :)

We’ve established he was bought at K-Mart.