Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 12, 2025

Next, Calvin is going to ask Hobbes to carry him home.

And they can always use a sled to get home.

Calvin’s remark in the last panel is absolutely perfect.

I’m sure glad that Rodin and Michelangelo never thought as Calvin does!

Walking is the only way? Did mom forbid skiing indoors?

He’s just brimming with energy and positivity!!!

I can’t believe how prescient Calvin was about how lazy we would become by 2025!

Wow, true child of the millennium.

Hahaha so lazy

Carry him in between your teeth Hobbes. That should remind him what his legs are for.

There really is no hope for humanity, let’s just enjoy the ride and try to be kind.

Virtual reality eh. Just imagines Calvin growing up in this kooky era.

i have never seen this one.. seeing it, i can see why some folks don’t like him much lol .. but usually he is pretty likeable

Calvin must be getting the flu.

for a kid who had built dozens of snowmen in the most bizarre postures, this is a very disapointing arc… Is Bill Watterson becoming woke? or it is just a blank day?

Watterson’s vocabulary is amazing. I had to look up vicarious.

Nihilism realizesd.

Now we have electric skateboards. Real hoverboards must be coming soon.

Calvin… An Early Millennial. Get that child and his iPhone to a Starbucks STAT!

There goes dads facade of making snowman builds character

To say Cal is in a snit is equivalent to saying the sun is a light.

Spent all that time talking about how tough things are without doing anything.

Well, even the most creative minds have slow days once in a while.

Yet, this is the progenitor of the Snow Ghouls…

Everyone is moody to some degree. Calvin’s just not into it today.

My patient, a preschool teacher, tells me 5 year olds are basically mute and unable to communicate their basic needs. Some 4 years old are in pull-up diapers. This is really bad.

Sounds like Calvin knew the influencers were coming…

I don’t believe “vicariously” is word I could have used in a sentence when I was Calvin’s age.

I wonder if Watterson later added Hobbes’ ‘bubble’ in the last panel. Or, he was WAY ahead of his time…

Yep, there are days I feel like this myself.

Negative Nellie!!!!!

And there it is, the amalgam of all that is negative at any age. My nature is to be a sloth. My commitment to family, true friends and country sent me down a fulfilling, sometimes sorrowful path. I am old now, less ambitious with a slower step, but I still do my best to balance what has to be done with that sloth mindset of my youth. To quote Joe Walsh, “Life’s been good to me so far”

Yeah, but if I want to experience virtual reality, then I have to go out into the living room, put on the headset, make sure it’s charged, put on the headphones, strap on the controllers and battery pack….

This reminds me of a joke in “The Jetsons”. In one episode, George comes home from a hard work-day of “pushing buttons”… ☺

What he’s experiencing is depression.

Today’s comic perfectly captures the off- days all of us have when we are grumpy, lazy and don’t want to do anything. I’m being serious because of the comments that take it far too seriously seeing it as showing Calvin as unlikeable or as a comment on whatever generation you don’t like. Lighten up and enjoy an amusing exaggeration of when you’re in a rotten mood.

A tiny prophet

Calvin, those are mittens, not gloves.

Actually he is plugged into a mainframe and running a simulation.

lazy people typically will still muster the energy to pursue actions they enjoy, what does it mean when you can’t even bring out the motivation to do THAT. aside from clinical depression…

Everybody wants results without the effort. I should probably do something about it, but it’s such a faff .

Instead of TV, now he can enjoy life with one of those VR headsets

Oy, some days are like this.

That is life & I understand how he feels.

Yup, a kid far beyond our future. I’m sure AI will be able to give him whatever he wants.

The dumbing down of Amerca.

Wow,….. this was drawn over thirty years ago?

Calvin is a metaphor for EVERY American Child in 2024-25.

Watterson was a prophet.

….. (is).

He was predicting the future.

There was a strip where the family was taking a winter walk, with Calvin complaining every step of the way about how cold it was. As soon as he realized that they were back home (and his parents had to tell him that!) he was off with Hobbes and his sled.

Calvin was years ahead of his time.

[bro] me

Calvin’s art ultimately devolved into just taping a banana to a canvas.

And it sold for $5M