Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 15, 2023

Time to call a truce or form new alliances

Well this conversation snowballed real fast!

Calvin thought up a way to relieve his boredom.

Cal the cynic.

okay, since no one else is saying it…. With friends like this, who needs enemas?

Yup – Progressives (Calvin – self appointed intellectuals) vs Liberals (Hobbes – self appointed chivalrous saviours) – a Lefty circular firing squad indeed!

Yeah, but Red Hot Chili Peppers can still have a Flea, Calvin.

With friends like Hobbes, who needs enemies?

This was a great one !

Today’s wonderful reprint reminds me of a strip reprinted last summer in which Calvin filled a water balloon and waited for someone to come but nobody came.

Calvin: I wish I had more enemies.

Mom: I’m sure you will one day, honey.

Bill Watterson: genius.

This one is cute!

It felt like an epic!

The expression of their faces in the last square panel is priceless.

piff paff peff poof puff!

I guess Moe doesn’t live in that neighborhood.

“Who Day!” Hobbs :)

Oy‼️☺️

It always comes back to the fleas, doesn’t it Calvin?

Nobody knows you built the fort, Calvin. Need more publicity.

Friends can be both that and your enemies. One thing is certain. You won’t get bored.

I’m surprised his fiery intellect doesn’t melt the snow fort.

With friends like Calvin who needs enemies.

“War and Peace”: the Calvin and Hobbes edition.

By Golly. Funny.

I’m curious as to what this snowball fight actually looked like if Suzie had seen it.

“Savoir Faire is Everywhere!”

If you want more enemies, Calvin, throw the snowballs at passers-by.

Si vis pacem, placare tigris.

I love it when their intelligent conversations quickly devolve into childish bantering.

Befriend yourself…

Looks like the story of America…

Knew how it would go—-even the ending.

Cracks me up.

The fleas died in the coldness, in snow!

LOL… Hobbes is so much Calvin’s alter ego! “Tigers add panache and savoir faire to any social occasion”… What a great line.

Yeah… Best friends are about all I can take… too funny.

When I was a kid we lived across the street from a hillside that was undeveloped. It was covered with pine trees. One of the favorite games was Pine Cone War. We’d make forts out of branches that had fallen off and collect cones from the ground.

Those practice runs are brutal.

must be quite a rural town to not see very many kids with whom Calvin interacts aside from Susie Derkins (at school and in the neighborhood) and Moe (just school alone)

With enemies like this, who needs friends?!

My dad said eating garlic will keep fleas away, because they don’t like the taste.

You guys are best at keeping us rivetted without adversaries.

Calvin’s his own worst enemy.