Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 24, 2022

The purpose of the Universe existing is to make life miserable for a 6 year-old.

Enjoy the puddles and don’t complain.

Six year olds don’t get embarrassed by running around outside neked. Mom on the other hand is embarrassed by her kid running around for all to see.And today mom would be having a little talk with CPS

Gee, I wonder where the universe gets that attitude?

It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature, Calvin!

Calvin is out there in pouring rain and hail, and Mom doesn’t make him come in??

So much for mother love!!

And now she’s got his wet, dirty clothes to wash!!

He’ll be running around in the altogether into his middle age. Guaranteed.

Yes, when will You stop it, when will You come and help and intervene!!

I wonder…were Zemeckis and Roth inspired by this for the scene in Forest Gump where Lt Dan was doing the same thing on the shrimp boat during the hurricane scene? I never read the book so I don’t know if it was also in the book.

He’s right, of course.

The purpose of the universe is to prove that it doesn’t revolve around you.

Calvin, when will you learn that the universe does NOT revolve around you? ;D

Panel #4 is like fighting COVID-19 by invoking liberty and freedom of choice.

This installment is one of the funniest ever.

And mom will put him in a hot bath so he doesn’t catch a chill!

Would have been funnier if Susie walked by while Calvin was naked.

Stop raining; I mean it! Anybody want a peanut?

“The Universe is listening. It will answer, and It has a >>perverse<< sense of humor.” — Me

You can’t fault the boy for his spirit!

One thing I like about today’s reprint is that Calvin starts out assuming that he is a sentient being and the universe isn’t then starts assuming that the universe is a sentient being like himself and trying to outwit it.

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You are a fluke of the universe.

You have no right to be here.

And whether you can hear it or not,

The universe is laughing behind your back.

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“This is just a little bath”?? Who are you, and what have you done with Calvin?

Nature always reclaims her own. Our “triumphs” over nature are, ultimately, very short lived.

Calvin wouldn’t have survived the latest effects of global warming.

“…tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself! Tonight, we shall ascend into the heavens! We shall mock the earthquake! We shall command the thunders, and penetrate into the very womb of impervious nature herself!

Insentient nature wins. Again.

Chance of rain today. Maybe I’ll frolic in the backyard, Au naturel, of course.

I don’t know where Calvin’s knowledge is more deficient: science or religion.

Ow! Ow!

“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!

You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout

Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!

You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,

Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,

Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,

Smite flat the thick rotundity o’ the world!

Crack nature’s moulds, an germens spill at once,

That make ingrateful man!"

Lesson well learned. Nature doesn’t care. Adapt or die. …maybe just get hurt a little, but still. It’s all on you.

Watterson put more talent and effort into one Sunday strip than a lot of cartoonists put into a year of dailies. …just my opinion

well since Calvin is now around 45 yrs old…

No matter how many tantrums people throw they cannot change the climate.

Too funny….

Never a dull moment when Calvin is around.

Don’t mess with Mother Nature!!!

There were news stories about runners or bicyclists caught in hail storms. Their backs were covered with bruises.

Never try to fight billions of years of precipitation practice.

reminds me of captain dan and forest gump out on the shrimp boat during the hurricane… with dan up on the mast cursing the weather gods…..

Calvin would be surprised that both he and his universe are created (by the artist).

The kid’s got spunk. Lou Grant hated spunk.

You are a speck of dust on a planet which is less than a speck of dust to the universe. Plan accordingly.

If your opponent has the advantage of mass and momentum, FIND SHELTER, and taunt from a protected position.

Crane: A man said to the universe:“Sir, I exist!”“However,” replied the universe,“The fact has not created in meA sense of obligation.”

Oh, I can sort of relate to this. My dad was stationed in Bitburg Germany. We went to a riverside beach park and mom sent me to the food stand for ice cream. Turn out the park was clothing optional. I saw other kids naked and took my swimming shorts off. I came with the Ice cream, and let’s say Mom had a fit. Dad thought it was funny.

This just in: Calvin fights the universe. Film at 11

Hail yeah!

This is a funny one! Here’s my audio track for it… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5zsvrKEhLA

Reminds me of a scene in Forest Gump with Lt. Dan.

Sums it up for me, especially for 4 months of Nature.

And to think he spent most of last week defying his mother’s efforts to get him to take a bath!

The universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic it can be

An abrupt change of mood from Calvin once the hail started. Oops. Guess that’s what can happen when one undresses in public like that …

You’re right, Mom…you don’t want to hear it!

Hmmm… well, I see some parallels here between Calvin jousting with insentient nature and people who believe mankind can actually affect the atmosphere/weather/climate.

SOOOO FUNNY HAHAHA

I am just howling — Oh dear, Oh dear; so funny

I love the strategically placed foot in the nude running panels! There will be consequences!