Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 09, 2025

One DNA test coming right up!

Ask for her drivers license…..

Not the only lab losing funding these days.

This comic is a reference to how people who rescue baby birds feed them using a hand puppet designed to resemble a bird of the same species to prevent them from imprinting on the scientists.

I realized the reference as a child because I remember seeing a photo of some scientists feeding a condor chick with a puppet in a different book.

Momma Mia

Neil Gaiman’s Coraline wasn’t published until 2002. Did he read Calvin and Hobbes?

Too bad for Wayne

Not unlike most government-funded “research”—eh, Cavin??

He’s fallen off his meds schedule, again!!!

The big question is… How much did Mom sell him for?

She proved her motherhood by slapping his face!

That reminds me of the “Other Mother” in the book/movie “Coraline”.

The first panels about his mother reminds me of an old episode in Sponge Bob I think from 2006 or something, Squidward was as big as the mother of Calvin and Sponge Bob was scared.

Today’s “Curtis” (not on gocomics) had Curtis talking about how he wants to be a horror fiction writer when he grows up, so he’s going to bed because he wants to have a nightmare in order to get ideas. This C&H strip should do the trick.

Some times the daily news sounds like a fantasy dream as the loser loonies set their hair on fire. screaaching like paper a$$holes in a forest fire.

She looks like a Muppet.

Look on the bright side, Calvin. No more Mo.

Who else besides a mad scientist or his real mother would make breakfast for him?

Don’t let him imprint on me!

This boy honestly is mentally ill. Cool.

Mom: Okay, I’ll prove it by shoving it down your throat cause it’s way too early for this kind of nonsense, young man!!

It’s a weird nightmare… what does make an imprint mean?

♫ ♪And you may tell yourself

“This is not my beautiful house!”

And you may tell yourself

“This is not my beautiful wife!”

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was…

♪ ♫

That was seen in The Twilight zone.

Nightmare, Calvin.

If Calvin “imprints on his species”, I think we’re doomed.

New one for me. In ‘95 I didn’t have much time for newspaper comics. Too much of it going on in my classroom. This would have been better.

Ha ha! What in the world…

I have had some dreams before that were so vivid and real that when I woke up, I wasn’t sure if I was truly awake; still believing the contents from the dream were real. It is unsettling until all the dream weaving is untangled and you’re fully conscious.

Absolutely pure genius!!!!

Watterson sure had some wild imaginations, wonderful talent!

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. Of all the things you choose in life, you don’t get to choose what your nightmares are. You don’t pick them; they pick you.

Peanuts. Probably a small bag of peanuts.

I had not remembered this one. It’s funny and the artwork is great!

No more nature documentaries before bed.

reminds me of “coraline!”

“there goes our funding” could get political really fast

Whatta Koinkydink !!! The day after Trump cuts off NIH funding – this runs.

“Party on, Wayne!”

“Party on, Garth!”

Difficulties arise.

And inside look a the CDC.

Yep, that’s happened to me.

Calvin’s Mom became a Jim Henson Muppet! I even picture “her” voice sounding like Miss Piggy. Also, great drawing of Calvin waking up in the seventh panel.

Your funding is gone anyway, guys. Science is dead, at least in the USA.

Mix one part Twilight Zone with one part Talking Heads . . .

Calvin is never free from nightmares. He has waking dreams of the food on his plate attacking and devouring him with his parents cleaning up the the skeletal remains, afterwards. Calvin does have a bent for Stephen King!

It’s weird enough this paranoid fantasy is a revisit to one I had as a kid; on top of that, check out the creature’s name! AARGH!

Today’s NON SEQUITUR strip has a very similar theme.

It’s great to know that even alien scientists wear protective lab coats

Why does Coraline spring unbidden to mind?

Wayne is a great name for an alien scientist. Even better would be if the other scientist was named Melvyn.

What an elaborate dream.

Never mind — You’re being defunded to pay for gilding the presidential mansion.

Next panels are a contraction-by-contraction description of his delivery.