Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 10, 2023

Yet everywhere man goes, animals are there first.

What, Rin-Tin-Tin doesn’t count as an animal explorer?

People do things because they’re hard. Calvin does it because he’s Calvin.

A vertical free fall as opposed to what? A horizontal free fall??

Didn’t Snoopy do that with Charlie Brown too?

Have heard that dopamine is a hit among us humans.

Really like Cal’s expression in last panel, even though his words read as if he’s calmly weighing his statement.

Grim Reaper gorge? I wonder if Hobbes saw a certain wolf down there…

Personally, I would’ve called the ridge “Grim Reaper” and the gorge “Rigor Mortis”. One follows the other, after all.

Scaring yourself is one thing, suicide is another.

Except for the moon.

Did Calvin name those himself?

This is where Hobbes is the brains of the outfit.

This is another strip which shows that Watterson saw Hobbes as being less human than Calvin. He explained in his second paragraph on Hobbes in “The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book” that he saw Hobbes as more animal than human but had to give him some human traits and that he based Hobbes’s animal side on his pet cats.

It can’t be that bad if the route doesn’t have a “Dead Man’s Curve”.

Because God created them first

Rigor Mortis Ridge. Nice. We had a sledding hill called Pretzel Hill, named after the shape your body resembled after a descent.

too much info, Calvin, better keep some things for yourself….

Rigor Mortis Ridge, Grim Reaper Gorge: those are great names, Bill. Thanks!

And this kid is afraid of a little bicycle….lol

I have two sons.

One of them said, “I wonder what would happen if we did X?”

The other said, “Let’s do X and see what happens.”

Ready – Fire – Aim.

We usta yell Geronimo! …. but you can’t do that anymore.

We went down some killer hills. Funny, when you go back as an adult, they seem so tame.

When my kids were young, we went sledding on snow covered sand dunes near Lake Michigan…it’s a miracle that there were no serious injuries.

Whaaaaaad ya say? ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM‼️☺️☺️

Not sure what, but somethings afoot. I’ve been back to some of the sites of youthful daring-do, only to find them shrunken to mere bumps and ditches.

That kick is not nice, Hobbes!

Because it makes you appreciate sitting by the fire even more. If you survive.

As far as I know the astronauts who walked on the moon never saw any animals. (All the moon landing deniers can skip this comment).

“Rigor Mortis Ridge” ?

“Grim Reaper Gorge”?

Reminds me of the island of Cascara… “Calamity Cove”, “Point Peril”, “Desolation Bay”, Mount Pestilence"…

Because animals face death every day, and are smart enough to try to avoid it.

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Humanity, having murdered almost everything capable of killing it (aside from itself, but they’re working on that), has forgotten that fear of death, and stupidly seeks to experience it.

He’ll pass Cadaver Hill on the way down, that sealed it for Hobbes

Good one, Hobbes!

Man’s indomitable nature, not tiger’s.

Ther were several: Vasco de Llama, Heran Cat-tes, Ponce de Lion….

Love Hobbes.. you know the cat will always seek out the fireplace in Winter.

I am reading this in my home near a fire with two very contented cats on the desk or on my lap.

May be man’s indomitable nature…apparently not tiger’s…