Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 16, 2023

Don’t forget a cooling tower for any possible meltdown

If this plan doesn’t work, don’t be so “Shocked”!

Be careful with all that energy, you don’t short circuit.

Calvin is actually intelligent. Why don’t he just use that knowledge for his future career, etc. ?

Calvin is a Pastafarian! May the Flying Spaghetti Monster’s noodly appendages embrace you. Ramen.

An atomic cerebral enhance-a-tron … I could use one of those.

At least he found his debate topic, Do colanders make good thinking caps? Or do they just make you look stupid?

Is that in the old time-machine box?

Is that similar to Charles Xavier’s device?

I’ll betcha those aren’t input, output and grounding wires. If they were wires, that thing should work!

Reminds me of an Oldsmobile commercial from 1958: “Our new Rocket V8 with its Hydro-Ratic Turbine Transmission!”

This is where Elan got his idea for his brain-chip company, Neuralink.

Now just to plug it into a socket somewhere…

Mom hid the tinfoil…but she never uses the colander.

Way too late.

And when Mom needs to strain spaghetti??

Calvin may be short, but with all 3 wires going to a metal surface, I see a bigger short

Mom needs to ditch this colander and buy a plastic one.

Is this part of the so-called “Noodle Incident”?

Now, that I have seen the Thinking Cap, I am starting to remember this story arc and how it develops. It goes badly for Calvin but turns out better than he expected so he ends up counting it as a happy ending.

Don’t forget the flux capacitor

His colander has been straining for a higher purpose. ت

Don’t forget about your flux capacitator.

Even after all this time, Calvin STILL doesn’t get there are no shortcuts to learning!

“Its surface can conduct electrical brain impulses and reflect brain waves.”

The difference being…?

A colander? Aren’t you afraid to strain your brain…ah, forgot who I’m talking about…

Go for it, Calvin. Now days you’ll attract network cameras and microphones. Run for office. You will be elected, I’m sure.

I’m going to bet that when Calvin grew up he got a job as the gaffer for Woody Allen movies. I’ll bet he built the orgasmatron.

“Atomic cerebral enhance-o-tron.” Calvin went on to be a writer for Star Trek.

Geordi saves the day by reversing the polarity on the Flux Capacitor.

Cal is rarely ‘grounded’ in reality. Short circuited maybe, but never grounded.

And so AI is created

Calvin was born too late. He would have fit right in with the Our Gang/Little Rascals.

CALVIN’S BECOME A PASTAFARIAN.

Chin strap, don’t forget the chin strap.

By God, I think he’s on to something!

Oh yeah. You don’t want to be running an Enhance-O-Tron on AC power, lemme tell ya.

What might you need to enhance, Calvin?

The first pastafarian!

Too late for a lot…

What an imagination

Ah, now the hard part.

(Music notes here and Johnny Cash’s “Fulsome Prison” voice). The EPA’s a comin, there a comin up the street.

Hobbes is probably unsure whether Calvin wants to augment his brain or electrocute himself!

“I think you’re too late.” The best line in any comic strip today.

5th frame: • Calvin: “And if we reverse the polarity, it could even turn homework into comic books!”• Hobbes (thought bubble): “That would truly be a scientific breakthrough.”

The transformer will convert the AC atomic cerebral waves into DC, fyi

So that’s where Marvel Comics got the idea for Professor X’s Cerebro.

LOLOL — I love the way Watterson always had Hobbes as the sane one — LOLOL

That is so so so much better than an aluminum foil hat!

Hey! That’s my Mom’s colander, stars and all.

And how is this going to help him write this paper? Other than giving him a way to procrastinate.

They better wired it carefully, if they do a botched job and there is a meltdown there could be mental Chernobyl.

I hope he won’t scream into the colander. It will strain his voice.

Wonder if Calvin ended up in neuroscience.

I mean, that sounds like a standard Calvin invention

Calvin, you don’t need all that, a 9 v battery and your tongue will work just fine

A lot of work to not do his homework.

Calvin and Superego.