Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 11, 2025

Calvin wants to be a mad scientist.

I have Calvin and Hobbes and Non Sequitur side by side in my comics list. It worked out wonderfully today.

Calvin’s father is a patent lawyer, so Calvin knows what is and isn’t patented.

And He’s regretted it ever since!

Maybe God did patent his stuff, but patents expire.

He has Patent all this works you just don’t know where the patent office is

This is coming from the 6th year old who hates school…

God doesn’t need patents. Just well placed trees for reckless potential rivals to run into (the creation that naturally followed were Darwin Awards).

Maybe you could change the climate or make it rain on wildfires on demand

Quite the conundrum. While I do agree with Calvin that Man’s full potential is manipulating Nature itself, I don’t think the people who do want to do this, should be allowed to do it.

Then again, mankind has always been giving away power to people who want it, so…

…." Like trees that move out of the way of distracted sled drivers. What could go wrong?"

God doesn’t need patents. If He doesn’t like how things are going, He can turn the universe upside down, give it a good shake, and erase it completely. Just like humans do when they’re playing with an Etch A Sketch and decide they want to start over.

Don’t play God. God will beat you at any game.

God wasn’t it it for the money. He was in it for the glory.

Based on the 3rd and 4th panels, maybe Calvin should change his occupation to “crash test dummy”.

Man? Who knows eh. Maybe robots can someday eh.

God created human beings.

Proof that nobody’s perfect.

Watterson ahead of his time again.

God didn’t have to file patents.

Calvin… Calvin… Creating new life in a new lab never ends well. You’d think you’d known that from all the comics you read!

We can create life just like God did. Except He’ll say, “Uh, uh, uh! Get your OWN dirt like I did!”

Calvin invents AI.

So he is going to follow in Fauci’s steps.

Tremble, Earth. Cal is on the loose

Oh no! Calvin wants to clone himself !!

Maybe the patent office is in the afterlife…

You’ll have to do better in school, Calvin! But continue dreaming big.

Mite want to learn how to drive a sled……first!!!!!!

Um… but it’s still HIS stuff! Ya sure he wants ya touchin’ His Stuff?!

God prefers the public domain

Calvin wants to be the Vergil Ulam of genetic engineering.

Maybe he can invent a pomegranate that’s one big ball of juice with no seeds

Cue Hobbzilla.

Is this where he got the idea for the transmogrifier?

I think the only thing that Man created from scratch is the computer virus…

What did Calvin said reminds me of the introduction of Leviathan a book written by Thomas Hobbes, Calvin should create artificial life forms because God made only natural life forms.

Watch out the scientist needs to survive the fall!

Victor Frankenstein’s creation eventally killed him.

God let AI be developed. Let that sink in.