Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 10, 2009

I’m with Hobbes, oh please!

Acme in the roadrunner sense.

Yes Calvin and we thank you for giving us laughs along the way.

Doesn’t speak much for the concept of evolution !!!

The staff of the local gradeschool would say he was the acne of evolutoin.

Have you seen some of the evolved winners in schools out there, Darwin would cry.

It always amazes me how much Calvin knows when he doesn’t really need to know it.

That means that Calvin is now 27 years old. Frightening, isn’t it?

Every organism on the planet (and a few off it!) is the acme of evolution. We are all the survivors of those billions of years of competition.

And the question of whether “human intelligence” is a survival trait is still open. We could still lose to the cockroaches.

Fer Lefer :

Evolution is not what it used to be…

: A good one !!!

ME! The acme!

Evolution is not what it used to be…

If ‘Evolution’ is what ‘Evolution’ used to be then it wouldn’t be ‘Evolution’.

Can ‘Evolution’ itself ‘Evolve’ ? If it doesn’t, then can it be called ‘Evolution’ ? If it does, then which is the real ‘Evolution’ ? The ‘Evolution’ that was before or the one that it has currently ‘Evolved’ into ?

I wonder.

OH Please!

Ah the glories of evolution! It created humans the pinnacle! Unfortunately this paragon of evolution(That’s you!… Yes you!) is capabable of stepping outside of the rules and either doesn’t evolve any more, or worse tries to do the process manually, either way it’s doomed to failure.

I have seen it happen so many many times now, maybe if I changed the software….

How old is this one??!!……Knew i’d seen it before (some new material, please!!)

Evolution is………is……….changing. ARGH

And where did eveolution take the wrong turn?

Boy, do I wish it WAS 1988. Happy bd Liza…

Wow that makes Calvin exactely my age. Figures he was a product from my generation ^_^

Let’s see….if that 4.5 billion years were crammed into one year, I believe humans arrived on Earth with about 2 seconds to midnight on Dec. 31st. Sure makes you think when life is in those terms.

windrunner - uhm, there is no new material for Calvin & Hobbes. I am not going into it so go read it on Wiki.

You can only find Classic Calvin & Hobbes - no evolution here or required!

Yukoner said, about 3 hours ago

That means that Calvin is now 27 years old. Frightening, isn’t it?

Calvin at 27? Able to vote, drive, hold public office (or have his picture hanging in the Post Office) is frightening.

Calvin at 27 with a Calvin JUNIOR is terrifying!

What about Hobbes?? Any idea anyone?

Calvin is the product of acme evolution, cool, really cool hahaha!

Wait a minute! For Calvin to know any of this means he paid attention in school!

Lol @ windrunner, there hasn’t been a new Calvin and Hobbes in about 14 years. A lot of people on here don’t seem to realise that.

ya think that mitght be because waterson is dead?

If Calvin is the crown of evolution, I think I’ll explore the alternative. Didn’t they write a book on it a long time ago?

Calvin is now 21 years old….where is everyone getting 27?

jbmetalmonster…Mr. Watterson is very much alive (But I’ll presume you know that and are trying to be funny)

A) No, Bill Watterson is not dead, he’s just more reclusive than J.D.Salinger

B) Evolution is not about progress, it’s just about change. Saying something is more evolved only implies more change not more progress.

C) Yes, evolution is changing, because humans know too much for their own good and keep messing with the environment and their own survival w/o a clue as to the long term effects.

Oh please… everyone knows that tigers are more evolved than humans… or anything else, except cockatoos, for that matter.

At 21, Calvin would probably have Hobbes packed away, to one day pass down to his own kid. Just can’t imagine Calvin without Hobbes. Sigh

Waterson is alive and well and sipping martinis in NYC.

flyers2185: if he’s 6 years old in the strip in 1988, then that would make him 27 years old today. 21 years between 2009 and 1988, add 6, equals 27.

Don’t worry, it’s early… and it’s almost Friday!

Calvin’s teacher would say that he’s the AAAK!-ME of evolution.

It can’t get much better than this, can it Calvin?

Love Hobbes’ expression in the last panel! :)

i guess some people may not realize there hasn’t been a new c & h because the strip is and always will be poignant and funny. if calvin hadn’t said 1988, no one would ever know it wasn’t done yesterday. i, like many of you here, read these when they first ran, own all the collections, and still check in here everyday to enjoy them again and again.

bill, if you read this, or some one has a pipeline to him… if you have any unseen strips squirreled away or ever feel like making more, many long time fans would love to see them.

according to the texas school system and the christo-right the Earth is 6,000 years old. No such thing as evolution in their minds.

How does Calvin get around that?

Just dropping a note:

Birthday party at Big Top for Dry today!

Now back to your regularly scheduled program!

I am with Hobbes, the tiger. Oh Puleeeeeeeeezzzeee!

Evolution hasn’t stopped you know. We are still ongoing and in a million years whoever digs one of us up will find we look to them like Australopithecus looks to us. Hopefully, by that time, we’ll have learned how to get along with each other and take care of our world.

jrbj: Amen to that! (and that’s about as “religious” as i’m ever going to get!

Evolution fundamentally denies the law of Entropy which cannot be denied. Therefore, it would be much more correct to say “Calvin is the Acme of Entropy”.

This is one of my all time favorites, in part, because I am an evolutionary biologist. I’m fond of including this strip on my exams to give my students a chuckle as they struggle to answer the questions.

I wonder how much longer I’ll be able to use it before C&H will be such ancient history they don’t get the full humor. Many of them became conscious after the Cold War was over and no longer understand the analogy of an arms race to describe antagonistic coevolution.

Did he say he’s the anvil of evolution?

Acme makes anvils, right?

Hi yyyguy! Hi gang!

got to love Calvin’s self-esteem at such a young age.

got to love Hobbes’ (a stuffed animal that’s Calvin’s imaginary friend) dose of reality, which (in reality) comes from Calvin himself.

imo C&H is one of the deepest, most significant and timeless strips of all time – it makes you think and laugh.

no such thing as evolution. earth is only 5,000 to 10,000 yrs old.

bigCandHfan: Hobbes is probably the same place my 32-year old son’s “kitty” is. Lovingly preserved and stored away in a memory box. BTW, “kitty” is a stuffed lamb. I never did know why he was named kitty.

hi Shika

It saddens me that a fictional comic strip child has a better understanding of basic evolutionary principles than millions of real American children who have been brainwashed to believe that the Earth and all of its life forms were created 6000 years ago over a six-day period.

oh c’mon hobbes…let calvin stay in his dreams!! :D

be wary of being the acme of evolution calvin

after all look at what happens to wile e coyote when he uses acme products

bald 716 I think that’s a problem with the user…like those who couldn’t program a VCR.

VONNEGUT You forgot the talking serpent But I still have to agree with you

Calvin’s vocabulary amazes me.

i understand why u think this chronoclast, but waterson is dead, i’m not trying 2 b funny now does that explain the re-runs?

spbatwork said, about 5 hours ago

‘Evolution fundamentally denies the law of Entropy which cannot be denied. Therefore, it would be much more correct to say “Calvin is the Acme of Entropy”.’

Actually not: that would be true only if evolving organisms were closed systems. They are local exceptions to a rule that applies across the whole universe.

Furthermore, every creature can claim to be the (current) acme of evolution. And Hobbes seems to have a better claim to the ideal than Calvin…

Wow, 1988 - that makes Calvin around 30 years old in today’s age. I wonder what he would be doing!

Heh, I see someone else caught that too :)

Hobbes, this time I’m with you…

Bill Watterson isn’t dead, just retired (of course there are some that would say it’s the same thing…). Check out http://billwatterson.net/index.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson

Wow. Watterson’s biography is cool. By googling “Watterson political cartoons” I found the original late-1980s interview which appears to be the source of most of what’s now on Wikipedia, as well as considerable other stuff such as his comments on Garfield, B.C., and Watterson’s most admired cartoonists (6 pages). I guess he wasn’t quite as shy when he first hit big. Or, possibly it’s a fraud (reverse-engineered into an “interview”)? http://bob.bigw.org/ch/interview.html Quite a lively guy, at any rate.

That’s what I say when I look in a mirror:

Ack! Me!!

Mitstan: Your very right! It was early in the morning and I forgot to factor in that he was 6 at the time.

ACME as in maker of fine products that backfire on you.

Where did he get all that wisdom? He never pays any attention in school.

If Calvin is the acme of evolution – uh oh!!

thepeoplesmushroom then Calvin would be the paragon of creation.” Does that sound any better?

Calvin certainly isn’t a paragon of virtue, or modesty either. It’s amazing how people who think they are the most right are often the most wrong. Give it up, die-hard evolutionists! There is no ‘hopeful monster’, only hopeless monsters. Read the book of Revelation. Believe it or not, God wins. At least that’s my (confident, I hope) hope. It’s the only worthwhile hope there is, from all I’ve seen, heard, read or experienced. PTL

Yes! Yes! Keep American children away from those pesky “science” books! Have them read Revelation! Ahh, yes. Just imagine an America populated entirely by fat, dumb and happy god-worshipping zealots all praying, hugging, citing scripture, repeating song lyrics and forcing bad puns.

And after all those “well-educated” children from Japan, China and India grow up, buy America, and turn it into their summer vacation estates, they can just herd our happily ignorant population into veal fattening pens where they will harvest our excess fat cells as an alternative fuel source.

What a wonderful future that will be!

Oh, golly gee whizzo … let’s instead dumb down their social accountability and give kids the long run “not your fault” no personal responsibility theory of evolutionary change so they don’t have any sense of urgency to fix current global, social, political, environment events since it takes billiyuns and billiyuns of gears … I mean years … to affect mass change on a semi-positive basis … with no effect from the intelligent created beings (uh, that’s usually “us”, folks) … granted all that global warming junk science is going through the public relations studios so they can learn to better wag the dog, but other than THAT bit of “truth” … yeah, all of those credited PHD scientists who believe nature better mimics the creation by God rather than test tube sludge have no idea either … what? evolution is still a THEORY? hmmmm … quick - we need a deflective tangent … what’s happening in the entertainment world?

“Global warming is just God hugging us closer”

– Tina Fey in character as Sarah Palin on SNL

For a kid that hates school he certainly sounds well educated!