Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 04, 2023

In addition to being efficient, Calvin also wants other people to give him his space

Why should Calvin face reality? He’s just going to go straight back to his own world.

Why eat, you’ll just get hungry again.

He won’t make it past the front door!!!

Why go outside and play? You’ll just have to come back in to go to sleep.

Well Hobbes might not like to snuggle next to you if you smell. Though that might be a good thing if Hobbes is hungry.

And it solves the previous night’s blanket problem

Why should I do dishes? Because I can’t see my kitchen counter.

I think you’ll need to run that efficiency plan by your mother, Calvin.

When Mamma dumps your butt in the tub, and starts scrubbing with a wire brush, you will wish you had been more Hygienic.

Calvin’s high sugar diet is one reason why he needs to brush his teeth. On the other hand, no amount of tooth brushing will make much difference to the damage that sugar does to his teeth.

I feel the same way about making my bed.

Nasty logic

I haven’t had a bath in almost two years…

Calvin on his way to becoming PigPen

Wait till the smell and the itchy skin get to you……

Calvin is channeling Pigpen…

Interesting logic, Calvin; but I don’t think the others in your household are going to agree!

Cue Calvin’s mom barricading the bathroom door, warning him that the only way he’s leaving is when he’s squeaky clean!

It’s called maintenance

Even his tiger won’t attack him when he is this smelly and gross. No one will get near him.

This is me on a Saturday. I know I have chores to do, so I get up, put on my “grubbies” and don’t take my shower until the evening so I am not turned away at the dinner table.

Gave a med tech the snickers. She said, ’It’s raining today.’ I said, ’It’s my fault.’ She said, ‘Why?’ Reply, ‘It isn’t Saturday but I took a bath anyway.’

That logic never worked with my parents either.

why should you eat? You’ll only get hungry again, or drink? You’ll only get thirsty again.

Why should he pee? His bladder will just fill up again.

Calvin, you’ll start brushing your teeth when the dentist has to extract a tooth…

Somewhere there’s a cardboard box in an alley with Calvin’s name on it.

LOL… I can see living off the grid in Calvin’s future…

The struggle is real.

Much like wiping your butt when you have diarrhea

Why should I eat? I’m just going to get hungry again.

Channeling Pigpen? He’s channeling me!

I tried this reasoning with my mother regarding making my bed.

Didn’t work…

Future engineer?

If I didn’t scratch myself when trying to sleep at night, I wouldn’t bathe either

Pig Pen at least brushed his teeth.

Might as well not eat either. Just gonna get hungry again.

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle had a story about that: “The Radish Cure.”

Incidentally, this could also be the backstory for Pig-Pen from Peanuts.

Why should Calvin worry about smelling? Everybody avoids him already.

I hope he’d also rather be alone.

Good. Then you can sleep in the garage.

There goes that “Character Building” stuff, again!!

You would learn the nuisances of hygiene when you start longing for the company of others, rather than parents and that feline. Few more years down the line before the teenage hormones kick in, Calvin. You don’t chase girls with that attitude, I guess.

Where’s the new comic?

No new comic for Saturday 5/11?

Looks like Guy Fawkes has blown up the page updater…….

Where’s Sunday’s strip?

He looks like Pig-Pen from the Peanuts strip. :D

repeating saturday ..wtf

This is the second “classics” strip I follow this has happened to and I’ve seen reports of a third.

On “Peanuts Begins,” GC hasn’t run a Sunday strip since the beginning of 2023. But they are not repeating a strip to stay in sync with the calendar. Instead, they are moving out-of-date by one day every 6. As a result, today’s Peanuts Begins is from December 30, 1955.

I’d rather see a Sunday comic when I click C&H on a Sunday morning.

The Count thinks the cartoonist forgot to set his clock back an hour and the same comic from yesterday appeared.

Stone Soup has been stuck on Oct. 31 all week. Someone said it will be that way until January. They are already reruns, but it would be nice to see different reruns. Maybe it is just the comics that have reruns.

I don’t like most of the Sunday comics anyway. Too many oafish dinosaurs and aliens, and they are in color……eww!

No new strip today, eh?

I seek the new strip today!!

Something tells me that Calvin is neither efficient nor hygienic.

Where’s Sunday’s strip???

Calvin does have a point. But you don’t want to get TOO dirty, and if you don’t brush your teeth it could eventually destroy them.

It’s Sunday! It’s Sunday! Where’s the Sunday…

Well, we can’t really blame Bill Watterson for today’s strip being late, considering they’re all reruns from decades ago.

Calvin ponders the complexities of life.

Speaking of efficiency, it’s now November 6, 2023. Why is the latest strip for the 4th?

My husband asks me why I make the bed when we are just going to mess it up again. I looked at him like he was nuts. “Who is going to know the bed isn’t made? Not like we have people in it. Just close the door to it sweetie.”