Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 10, 2023

We are merely here to entertain God.

Calvin likes sick anything.

I’m sure the aliens would appreciate Calvin driving wagons off cliffs.

He has a death wish!!

Like the amusement park sign says on the attraction: This is a dark ride.

Funny strange, not funny haha.

Or people who FEEL like they don’t live here…

The Monsters are due on Maple Street……

Was it the wagon making that last comment??

From the position of the speech balloon, it sure looks like it!!

I like sick humor. For me, I look for it to be at least cerebral. George Carlin and Emo Philips spring to mind for me. Hell, even Louis C.K. (despite his self imposed fall from grace) had a spark of it.

“Life is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.”

“The world’s a funny place you know. Most of what goes in is rarely funny.” – from the song ‘Poem for the People’ by Chicago

I love the whole world.

There’s no place I’d rather be.

Today’s strip fits in well with yesterday’s Sunday strip. At the end of yesterday’s strip, Hobbes said of Calvin, “Landed in the prickly bushes just like yesterday.” Calvin called back to him, “Maybe my luck will change tomorrow.” Today, Hobbes was unable to jump to safety unlike in yesterday’s strip. Both Calvin and Hobbes hit a hard surface today.

For all of us not living in “comic strip world” as Calvin does, this is funny.

Move to the moon!!

Love Calvin’s last line!

The Bactine will sting when it hits those cuts and scrapes…

Perhaps this is Watterson’s nod to the multi-verse. Yesterday, Hobbs made a different choice resulting in a different outcome.

Lots of that going around

I would say this world is terrifying to people who don’t live here. That is why the Alpha Centaurians lock the doors of their spacecraft when they have to travel through our solar system.

It’s funny how Calvin always seems to choose the same hill.

We have always been morbidly fascinated with the morbidly fascinating.

LOL…Great line from Calvin in last panel…

Martians and Venusians and Lunatics spend Saturday nights laughing their heads (or what passes for heads) off at Earth videos.

When it happens to you it’s funny, when it happens to me it’s tragic.

Ever since Hitchcock’s The Trouble With Harry, I’ve been turned off by black comedies

Earth; Third planet from a minor star in a backwater solar system of the Milky Way galaxy, frequently called “The World” by inhabitants. Nice enough place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.

Agreed, Calvin.

Fortunately (as this is the only world we get), I love sick humor!

I often imagine that I am a boy or girl or whatever scout from the planet Zarg who wants to earn a merit badge in primitive cultures so I came to this piece of debris orbiting a middle aged, yellow d-w-a-r-f star.

My first impression was that there are no highly intelligent species on the planet, so I looked at l-o-w-e-r lifeforms. Certain creatures that you call insects have highly involved societies that work very well together. Then there are f-u-n-n-y creatures in your seas with 8 (to use your number system) legs. They are also very intelligent and f-l-e-x-i-b-l-e too.

You have air breathing creatures in your seas that also have organized societies and even speech which is quite interesting even though nobody else on your planet seems to understand it.

I decided that I would settle on the technological beings: a bipedal species that your documents call h-o-m-o s-a-p-i-e-n-s. The main reason for this is that this species actually documents what it does. I don’t know why. If I acted the way you do, I’d be ashamed to admit it.

When I look at your culture from the outside, I see that it is both tragic and comic at the same time. Most of the things you take as sacred are arbitrary.

One of the things that confuse this scout is all the infighting. You all look the same to me. There are some minor, trivial differences, but you are more than 99% the same. Even though I am only 12 Zargian years old, I can see that you have much more to gain by cooperating with each other than fighting each other.

S-i-l-l-y Oblivions (our name for your planet is Oblivious).

P. S. I hope Google Translate did a good job with this.

Note the word s-p-i-c-e-s is apparently a banned word. Tough luck to anyone who wants to talk about cooking.

People who live where the laws of physics are different.

Looks like Calvin landed on Hobbes…soft landing!

Randy Stonehill failed to mention Calvin in his son Great Big Stupid World. I guess it was just a matter of continuity.

Oh hey, more strips that aged very well!

Did he hit the pricker bush again? I guess his luck didn’t change.

E T xenologists have trouble choosing among funny, nauseating, and scary.

The Earth is clearly the insane asylum for the Galaxy

When the infamous War of the Worlds broadcast of 1938 occurred, a cartoonist depicted Martians watching Earth with all the fads and foibles of the day and commenting, “Ah, we wouldn’t go down there on a bet!”

Hilarious!

The art of having fun and giving sarcastic comments from the twins is the highlight of this strip. Love Bill.