Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 26, 2023

I have a feeling we’re not in Ohio anymore.

Kazam is short for abracadabra…..

His hallucinations are becoming more vivid!!! Time to adjust his meds!!!

In an imagination far, far away

This was back before virtual reality goggles and zoom filters were invented.

Wish I had a Kazam! like that when I was his age.

As 1 might see from my avatar, I LOVED when Bill Watterson did the spacey landscapes for Calvin’s mental adventures ( ‘cause it’s all in his head, right? ;)

When you can’t change the people, change the setting. Even imaginary ones are sometimes better.

Some things don’t work anymore, Calvin.

Monsters of the I’d….

o em gee look at today’s Bloom County! https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/2023/02/25?ct=v&cti=2526775

And Calvin grew up to be Elon Musk on Mars.

I’m going to have to try that!

Give it up kid!!!

A little bit of imagination goes a long way.

I love Watterson’s Sunday strips..

If I could do that, I wouldn’t look so morose. :D

The sunrise was abolutely gorgeous yesterday. The sky was lit up pink and orange and yellow and red.

Nope, still bored.

Calvin’s imagination is so vivid, maybe one day he’ll follow in his fathers footsteps! ☺️

Waterson does amazing monsters! Luv ‘em…

Beautiful artwork!

If only that worked at the office…

Sigh… The pain of living with tight-fisted technophobic parents who are too cheap to even buy a Game Boy…

A second look tells me Calvin is truly bored. Not a single living creature or plant in the entire view. Usually he has at least one monster and sometimes one chasing another.

Calvin keeps it up Phil may ka-zam the kid’s backside.

Dad should make more of an effort to spend time with his son. Then Calvin wouldn’t be so bored and lonely.

A recurring theme of this strip is that Calvin’s parents are inattentive, mostly unaffectionate, never playful, and give no effort in understanding Calvin’s flight of fantasy.Of course, if they did, the strip wouldn’t be nearly as funny.

HOA is gonna be unhappy.

“If you’re bored, I can find something for you to do.” Calvin’s Mom and my father thought the same way.

Must have been listening to Deathtöngue.

“Doorman, call me a cab”. "Kazam! your a cab sir.

You have to love the landscape in the last panel.

Bryce Canyon?

It starts pretty funny, and then concludes with a beautiful landscape. Bill Watterson often based his alien landscapes off of southern Utah, with its’ similar strange rock formations.

“Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.” – Ozymandias. My interpretation.

You gotta admire how the drawings upgrade on Sunday. I know I saw this comic somewhere else, but didn’t remember the slug was the dad.

KAZAM!!

Oh, man, wonder if he’ll ever know

He’s in the best selling show

Is there life on Mars?

I dunno…it always used to work for me.

It’s the ZAM what does it>

Everything about this is perfection….the tone, the simple but hugely effective illustration, the masterful colors, etc.

“KAZAM”…!

Children get bored a lot.

I always liked that wall hanger.

Love it

((“KAZAM!”))

Did he grow up to be Stephen King? If he didn’t, he should have…

BRING BACK DILBERT!

I’m not so sure.

anything to relieve your boredom, eh, Calvin?

Nice going, Calvin. You just made the rest of the planet uninhabitable!

This comic strip pretty much summarizes my middle school years.