Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 15, 2024

The only achievement Calvin has made is making others suffer.

I guess Ms. Wormwood and Mr. Spittle think $20 is too expensive to be Calvin’s pal.

Sadly, this has become all too familiar.

Limited time offer

Little did Calvin know that in another few decades Patreon and GoFundMe would be wildly successful.

A classic!

Quite the misfortune teller, Mr. Watterson.

You get an E for effort. No one appreciates the scientific mind.

For some reason, The Beatles ….

“Can’t buy me love, loveCan’t buy me loveI’ll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alrightI’ll get you anything my friend if it makes you feel alright…”

Springs to mind.

Some comments are echoes of those made a couple of months before the fall.

How prescient of Musk.

Apparently, his $50 bibles aren’t selling

Calvin… Do you ever stop to think for a second why people are “mean” to you?

The Count’s in for $20. The Count will write it off The Count’s taxes as a political contribution. God Bless America!

Claire looks like a gender confused Calvin. Ew.

“No reward is worth this!” ~ Han Solo

“Just you wait ’Enry “Iggins, just you wait!” ~ Eliza Dolittle

If nothing else, Calvin has a heck of a vocabulary.

20$? Who do you think are you? The Trumpet?

“The coloration here is somewhat conjectural”. But just the coloration.

Deeper and deeper …..

Calvin is so far ahead of his time, his comptemparies are unable to appreciate his genius.

I guess that the principal isn’t a taker.

Gotta love Calvin! He has so much brass for a first-grader.

……..would you take 10????

In 1994, this was just imaginary and harmless amusement. In 2024, it is an all-too-real, clear and present danger.

When Show-And-Tell turns into extortion.

If that’s what he wants, he needs to make movies about dinosaurs instead.

Made me think of a Monty Python routine where paleontologists find a huge big toe and when they reconstruct it back in the lab it’s a wooly mammoth with a big toe for a trunk.

reminds me of someone… hmm

Want to share this, a gift from a friend…

“Making trump president, is like making an arsonist, Fire Marshall.”

A comic from 1994. I wonder if Trump saw this and got merchandising ideas?

Soon he’ll be selling vodka, steaks, perfume, university degrees…

Paleontologists are mean.

Did we just elect Calvin President?

They need to rename this strip “The Early Life of Donald Trump”

A maga in training.

All the warning signs of junk science: pseudo-science verbiage, bonkers hypotheses, and mobster threats … RFK Jr. could learn from it …

sounds like little donnie trump

Wow… I always thought delusions of grandeur and self importance, as well as narcissism took years to develop. Apparently, Calvin is maturing early…

I bet Calvin has his own crypto scam these days

When Calvin grows up he will try to buy votes. In Canada, our Prime Minister is going to give Canadians a two month sales tax break – on certain items only. And a check of $250 to working individuals below a certain income.There will be an election in 2025. We will see if the people are ready to sell their votes :>)

This is where the principal says, “Young man, it is my solemn wish that someday you will have my job. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.”

When I wuz yer age, six-year-olds didn’t have $20, even if we wanted to buy the friendship of a classmate who has no friends.

Wait, Calvin is Donald???

Money can’t buy love, but it can rent you some for an hour or so

Future autocrat in the making

Discomfortingly prescient, is it not?

Calvin’s either a politician, salesman or lawyer these days.

I thought the principal would be the first to sign up.

Ah, I remember the good old days. The days when we had agreed to keep the comments here free of politics. Make The Comments Great Again.

For Calvin, he was doing pretty well through Panel 6. Then things went off the rails.

By Grabthar’s hammer, by the suns of Worvan, you shall be punished.

Never a dull moment! Thanks Calvin ♥♥

This has to be one of the strips that inspired Ruben Bolling’s (Tom the Dancing Bug) parody/homage Donald and John.

Thankfully Calvin didn’t get to Valentin Blatz’s bones.

When I meet a “born again christian MAGAt” I tell them “You know, Jesus was a Liberal.” and then I walk away.

I wonder if Mr. Watterson has ever had second thoughts about some of Calvin’s, um, expressions since he grew up, changed his name, invented a new family and became President. Twice.

Think back 70 years or so and imagine who that could represent; uncanny isn’t it.

Vintage Trump, down to the grifting!

Applications to be Calvin’s pal are now available at Sharper Image.

Gee…why does this sound so familiar…

Science skills. Vocabulary skills. Entrepreneurial skills. All far surpassing those of the average 2nd grader. And he gets punished for it.

I think Calvin has his own chair in the principal’s office.

That guy will have a lush and lavish funeral, he just wont be around to enjoy the pomp and ceremony.

Calvin’s threats to punish those who were mean to him sound like those of a certain orange politician.