Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 21, 2022

But what if Future Calvin doesn’t hand it over?

Calvin’s parents should remove any box bigger than a shoebox from the house.

Back to the future…..

Gee, I wonder how this plan will fail…

Hugh Anthony Cregg III much?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur57IunS9To

Yeah, that’ll work

The ol’ Bill & Ted strategy…Excellent!

I always did my best homework after midnight

With his imagination, all Calvin needed to do was write down what he was trying to do to avoid writing.

The teacher will receive a paper that already has her comments on it.

Pinhead always forgets the obvious in all his plans!!!

Just use the time machine to skip school entirely — through grade 12.

I hesitate to mention that this would make a great story.

Still more plausible than 2002’s The Time Machine.

“The Story of How I Didn’t Want to Write a Story”

There once was a woman named Bright,

Who could travel much faster than light.

She took off one day

In an Einsteinian way

And returned the preceding night.

A cat sitting in a box? When does that ever happen?

Calvin expends enough energy dodging an issue to light a building.

Just write the damned thing and get it over with, Calvin!!

Sad to think that Calvin is up there with Andy Capp, Dagwood Bumstead, et al: working hard at hardly working!!

I suspected this was coming, and I am excited the craziness can begin!

At least the adventure will give him a story to write…….

The story is written! It’s ready!

yep…so why are you going, Hobbes?

Calvin will accidentally go back in time to 1941 and give Robert Heinlein the idea for “By His Bootstraps.”

Ok, guys. Tell me your secrets about “someone on the internet”

I recommend you eat mushrooms before reading

If you traveled to the future to meet your future self today……You will find that you mysteriously disappeared on this date.

Despite your generous offer, cats prefer to be an empty box alone.

Thanks to Calvin, Hobbes must be the only cat in existence who hates boxes.

He puts in so much Time, energy and thought into getting out of a ten minute task.

You have to admire Cal just a bit. He got a lot of fun from a cardboard box. Time machine and Transmogrifier. Now it seems that kids aren’t fascinated by anything that doesn’t connect to WiFi and has a controller.

the temporal paradox is that since he leaves the past he isn’t there to write it so it will be done in the future. because it’s his own immediate future the Blinovitch limitation factor will kick in and all that will occur is later mom will want to know why he still hasn’t done the work.

Why doesn’t he just write this down?

Will Calvin see the bad grade he gets on his paper and go back in time to fix it?

Nah

Great plan! What could go wrong?

Bootstrap time!

heh heh…..

Damn, I wish I’d had one of those when I had P-Chem homework due.

With how things are going, I don’t wish to see the future.

No, actually, a cat sitting in a box is the only part that does seem right. :)

Best. Story. Arc. Ever.

They will get caught in a time warp and end up in Thursday with no story!

If he plays it right, he can get back before he left.

Ohh! A time machine arc! This should be a blast, can’t wait!

Classic circular logic on the part of Calvin: “I don’t have to do it because I will have already done it”.

Love the logic.

Not the box! Calvin time-traveled, transnmogrified, duplicated himself, and…we’ll figure out what disaster will happen.

XD

Calvin has a better imagination than all of us!

XD

Calvin has a better imagination than all of us!

Hey GUYS! I’m Back!

The third and and last “time machine” story arc!

good question, one I cant answer