Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 17, 2025

Where? In the snowball?

A perfect snowball and no one around to throw it at.

That “well” has been around since Adam and Eve, Calvin. Now, go create some more of your brilliant snow monsters.

In panel two, is he thinking of Susie?

Would have been worse if it had been the snowball chortling like that.

Fresh snow, fortified with muah ha ha

Why? Is there a grenade in there?

Racial memory dating from the ice age?

Ah, yes. The primeval well of the human psyche. So easy to get in to. So hard to get out.

Yes the milder weather Ice ball. It will make you question if life is worth living when you get one of those upside the head and in the earhole.

There have been times when I have hefted a nice spherical fruit in the supermarket produce section and thought, “I bet I could nail that guy over there.”

Maniacal laugh, check. Evil grin, check. Perfect snowball, check. Calvin is going to grow up to be a super villain.

Southern kids will never know how much fun a good snow ball fight can be.

I love how he just stops immediatly.

Panel Two!!

No………..Calvin you’ve awakened the evil ‘Dr. Frankenstein’ buried within us all—it is just that MOST of us never let in out ! ! ! !

Yep. It only takes a moment for the “stranger” to come out. We all have that in us.

I like Calvin’s sinister smile in the second panel.

Don’t think so.

Terrifying to realize how many get all warm and fuzzy fondling the “perfect weapon”.

Wait until he grows up and finds out about Gonne’s.

Inner aggressive child!!!!!

The Cain instinct

Note: Keep weapons far away from Calvin…

Santa is still watching, you know!

For next Christmas!

The human psyche is NOT well.

Scared you, huh?

Always interesting when you stumble upon one of those.

That face! Evil triumphant!

It’s the same primeval well you tap into when filling up water balloons

Calvin is recreating the first non-lethal projectile weapon.

The deep, primal instinct to be a a-hole.

Dear Bruno. This perfect slush ball is for you. Signed Calvin

Introspection from Calvin is a little unsettling.

Yeah, future Bond Villian at work right ??? ;-)

A snowball will do that to you.

Where’s Hobbes? A snowball fight is coming if he’s there.

I’d call it primevil will.

Yes. Yes you have, Calvin. The little stinker and the imp of hilarity.

a perfect sphere

Wouldn’t it be fun if Calvin could just once have nailed Moe, the school bully?

There is a similar summer strip, where Calvin is contemplating his water balloon and says, “Life is so, so sweet.”

Calvin is primeval.

And I’m never going back!

Same thing we do EVERY night, Calvin…………….

The very place where he was spawned.