Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 27, 2023

Hobbes always gives credit where credit is due.

A classic Wil E Coyote fail!

Okay, Pee-wee.

Comic leverage is constrained by the size of a panel, right?

If I had tried this, the board would have torn through the snowball, only tossing about half up in the air, where the wind would have torn the rest of it apart.

Hobbes knows that Calvin really aimed that giant snowball at Susie.

And I’m glad Hobbes believes in “poetic justice”.

Gravity is a harsh mistress….

Catch!

KARMA!

Oh, don’t give up, Calvin. If at first you don’t succeed…..

But is the experiment repeatable?

Calvin experiements in physics…

We’ve all had these moments…

What did he jump off of? Seems he has a lot of height and even more distance.

I did the same thing as a small child. Only instead of a snowball I used a rather sizeable rock. It did not end well. On the upside, I trace my passion for physics, from this one ill fated experience.

Somewhere, a coyote in a desert is laughing his head off.

That experiment surely snowballed!

The Count ❤️s it when Calvin quotes the late and be❤️ed Pee Wee Herman. RIP Pee Wee

Calvin did that accidentally on purpose.

Back to the drawing board Calvin.

I appreciate the look of realization and terror on Cal’s face in panel 2.

that panel 2 state of mind, tho…

And that is why we go to school to study things like physics.

Always loved this one.

Looks like Calvin and Wallace The Brave are having similar days.

Road Runner Physics.

WE understand, Calvin.

Calvin probably needs about a hundred more pounds to make that sort of effective.

LOL

It does look like a potential way to build those big honking’ snow goons, after the bugs are worked out

Gotta love Hobbes….

Future Boeing engineer?

Pee Wee Herman approves of this ( and would not have resorted to litigation out of respect )

Hoist by his own re-tard…

Later, Calvin designed the Starship Booster.

Was that a ACME catapult?

Even Wile E. Coyote doesn’t try to get us to believe that. Calvin must be part cat. Cats don’t make mistakes, just failed experiments. :)

But it still counts for the Guinness record for the World’s largest snowball.

He’s been watching too many Laurel and Hardy movies, or Three Stooges.

Calvin’s been watching too many Road Runner cartoons…

That snowball probably weighs more than the kid.

Where are everyone’s icons?

Pee Wee Herman and Steve Urkel are just shaking their heads at Calvin right now.

Absolutely priceless! Thanks for the laugh.

Both Calvin and that board are incredibly strong for that to happen.

Brilliant Calvin

Panel 4, an approaching Susie, laughing her butt off.

Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.

Like Wile E. Coyote and Ralph Wolf mean to fail.