Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 10, 2023

There’s nothing like a mother’s love.

Must’ve been a last minute homework question.

Since when does Calvin care about love?

Deep. Very deep, especially for ANY 6-year-old.

This seems a lot like Bloom County’s Brinkley and all his midnight anxieties.

That, and the law…

yup that age in a kids life when mom goes from being reassuring to reassuringly threatening. Wait a few years and slippers might fly…

Sleep with one eye open from now until you go to college.

Ah, puberty.

I wonder why…….

No, but lust is. ;)

Wait until you have a kid and find out why your mom answered the way she did!

That’s lust. Love is a gift.

There are better times for questions like that than midnight.

I should have do that to my mean grandmother. She wouldn’t have know what I was saying.

Sooo shut up !!!!

Biochemical reaction and genes… from a 6 year old at midnight? At 2 am is his head going to spin?

Talk about skating on thin ice . . . he’s lucky he’s getting thin air.

Calvin’s mind never stops thinking…oy

So where is Hobbes he should be calming your fears.

Actually, you SHOULD find that reassuring…

That is what I tell my two dogs, both Schorkies: “Good thing you are cute…”

Sometimes Calvin is so cynical he gets an adrenaline rush.

Mom, Dad, Susie, Moe, Hobbes, Rosalyn, Mrs. Wormwood, Space Aliens… Everyone wants to kill Calvin… ☺

He must have read Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene

Yes, but good luck getting anyone to buy a Valentine’s Day card that admits it.

If life’s BIG questions wake you up in the night, write them down .

hmm… Calvin must entering early puberty.

When I was 6 or younger, I became obsessed with why I existed and how I came to be. I didn’t have the vocabulary Calvin has, so I stumbled to ask my mother about it several times. She thought I was asking about how she came to have me (biology/sex) and struggled to find words to explain that to a 5-6 year old. I bet a lot of young kids had deep questions they just couldn’t express.

At least the Mom didn’t yell at Calvin, despite being annoyed from being woken up in the middle of the night for nothing as usual. Though I’m sure after the third panel, she just said “Now go back to sleep. It’s after midnight.”

Panel 3 is her long round way of saying yes.

Now she thinks he should have been strangled at birth.

We know why Calvin never gets older than 6.

I think Calvin is right-on.

Rest assured, Calvin, it’s all in the genes!

That’s funny!

Panel 3 always makes me LOL

It’s a wonder why Calvin isn’t sleeping on part of the roof!

Wow a budding Rick Sanchez. [The Adventures of Rick & Morty.]

When our youngest daughter had a teenaged daughter of her own, she asked, “Mom, how come I’m still alive?” My wife answered, “Dear, you were very fortunate. Your father and I never both wanted to kill you at the same time.”

It’s my midnight reassurance!