Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 07, 2024

Pleading insanity is the most honest decision.

Meanwhile Santa is watching all of this and hiring lawyers of his own.

Good thing Perry Mason never had a client like Calvin!

I like Hobbes sticking out his tongue in the 2nd panel.

All this time, Santa is watching you argue with a toy tiger, Santa will agree with the insane plea.

Calvin, you’ve never won a fight against Hobbes.

Slide Calvin over to Santa Barbara’s list where almost anything goes.

As English libel law has it: “The greater the truth, the greater the libel”. Hobbes Esq. should warn the parents, and Santa, that the Noodle Incident better not be mentioned, ever.

So he’s carrying on this conversation with a stuffed tiger??!! The first two panels confirm what the problem is!!!

Hostile witness your honor!

Go on Calvin. Represent yourself. You know it makes sense.

OMG. How prescient!

A can of tuna will be enough to handle this attorney in settling your case, Calvin.

Um, Calvin… I’m pretty sure that would count as perjury.

Last panel: I’ve seen that same grimace on his mom’s face.

Come to think of it, I’ve seen that same grimace on my mom’s face…

Better call Saul. He’ll get for you items from Cinnabon.

Hobbes is right.

Calvin is not guilty of being innocent.

LOL… for a Tiger that knew nothing about the law, Hobbes is doing a good job of trying to keep Calvin from being on Santa’s Bad List.

Never get in a fistfight with your lawyer. Trump Rule #1.

I don’t think the conference is going too well.

Actually, the burden of proof is on Santa to show that Calvin belongs on the naughty list.

Calvin, that would be yet another bad decision!

Lots of fine print needed for Calvin’s “facts”.

Hobbes, Esq? ;-p

Maybe The Big Guy could pardon him. Nahhhh… that only works for family criminals. God Bless America.

Why is it always so hard to talk a tiger into doing things your way?

You should take Hobbes’ advice, Calvin.

And they DO go out of doors after this, to try and make their way to the North Pole to present their case to Santa. But they don’t make it far due to Calvin’s impulse to throw a slushball at Susie. They skipped the second half of that arc during the 1994 rerun cycle.

But he might still get lots of presents in the insane asylum

LMAO

First thing Hobbes should do is get a guarantee of payment.

Objection! Argumentative!!!(I’ve always wanted to say that.)

Forget about Santa. The parents are hearing this argument downstairs and busy ordering a lump of coal on Amazon.

Oh good idea, Calvin. Like THAT always goes so well. sheesh!

This is only time I’ve ever heard insulting an attorney is a criminal offense. Imagine all the comedians, not to mention Shakespeare, who may have spent behind bars.

Over the past several years, I have been following the live streams from a District court in a rural county in Michigan. As it’s so small, you get to know a lot of the participants, so it’s like a TV show. The judge has lived there all his life, was a prosecutor for 20 years and a judge for a similar period. It seems like he knows everyone, I think his middle name should be “I went to school with your Grandpa.”

……these boys are good!!!!!!