Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 12, 2010

Dad’s such a procrastinator….

Clavin shouldn’t have called that he was home, he perhaps could have stealed upon Hobbes

…I’m surprised Calvin has survived to age 6.

Yes, Mom a land mine named Hobbes, Duh

Hobbes must not be closed, it would be less funny!

He’s busy forgetting everything he learned in school, and forgets too much.

Great pouncing skills, Hobbes!

Poor Calvin, will he ever learn?

Of course he’ll never learn, otherwise we’d have no more fun about watching him get clobbered….

One some days it’s Moe, on some days it’s Hobbes, and on some days it’s both. What a life.

Yes where’s the tiger pit dad???

Calvin must have a very lively imagination if a stuffed tiger can leave those kind of marks on him… :-)

Calvin vs Hobbes . The score’s level now… 1-1.

does anyone besides me notice that this happens to calvin evry day? sometimes calvin will play a trick on hobbes like mabey go through the back door but hobbes always ends up beating him up. that is except for one time when calvin gos up the stairs after yelling that he’s home and hobbes sits there and goes “ya? so your home”

Wow, Hobbes’ pouncing is powerfully affective.

Perhaps that stuffed feline would be fooled if Calvin yelled,”Lucy, I’m home!”

Did it occur to you who comment that Dad is procrastinating on purpose and has no intention of building the tiger pit. Not only that, but Dad has been mixing steroids into Hobbs’ food.

Has Calvin ever tried using the back door?

not sure if he has or not, BC13, but I have a feeling it wouldn’t work either. :-D

Hey Calvin, when are you going to learn, not to announce that you’re home. That way, maybe, Hobbes won’t jump you when open the door.

Forget sneaking up on Hobbes. He’s a CAT. I try this with my cat all the time. She’ll be sleeping soundly and I creep up on her to give her a kiss. She always wakes up before I make contact!

jrbj, boy you’re out there where the buses don’t run if you think dad is feeding a doll.

@BC13, I don’t think so, but he has sent Susie in the front door first in the hope that Hobbes would pounce on her. That didn’t work either.

Revenge from a few days ago, when Calvin called his mommy. “take that ya sissy!”

…nice flip, Calvin, but Hobbes landed on his feet. Apparently you didn’t.

I doubt if that pit will prevent Hobbes from taking on you…

ushindi, pay no attention to that man behind the curtain….

got ‘em comin’ out of the woodwork , didn’t we?

Anyone see fight club? Is Hobbes Calvin’s Tyler Durden? Has Calvin split his personality? Fight Club 2… man vs his inner animal.

maybe, just maybe calvin should stop announcing that he’s ho-ome

Unfortunately, because Hobbes lives on Calvin’s imagination, the only way to subdue Hobbes is to tranquilize Calvin.

I say we leave it alone.

“Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” Psalm 119:105 The lamp is in panel 2, so the verse is in full context with the comic, since the lamp probably landed near Calvin’s feet. :o)

@BC13-He snuck through the back and surprised him, but that got him injured just as much.

once a tiger lands in a tiger pit, he will need more than his sand wedge to get out of it

ya know?

Its amazing that a kid can have such an active imagination that he builds a catapult inside the door, yells he’s home, and pulls the string. Anything to protect his delusion.

Hobbes might get out of a tiger pit with a tuna sand wedge.

Calvin does fine when he sneaks in the house. I think he is just looking for attention from Hobbes!

deeeeep down, Calvin wanted Hobbes to pounce.

I agree. When Hobbes doesn’t pounce on him, he misses it. The one time Hobbes didn’t pounce, it was because he was sick. The second time was because he booby trapped the house and ambushed Calvin.

Heh… Macushlalondra, I once reached over to pet one of my cats (who was asleep at the time) and she was so startled that she actually mauled my hand.

@Ravoria, but the fun is in the fact that there are two equal worlds in Calvin’s cosmos–the world of everyone else, in which Hobbes is a stuffed tiger, and the world of Hobbes, in which he is alive. The explanations for one world don’t transfer to the other. He’s not got delusions–but we, from outside, can’t tell which is the “real” world.

Getting attacked by tigers builds character.

It’s a landslide. Dogs are better than cats.

http://www.poststar.com/lifestyles/article_e79a0494-fcd5-11de-907e-001cc4c002e0.html

With Calvin’s luck he’ll fall into it himself and still blame Hobbes!

Oh this is just great… Now because of bmonk I’m never going to get off prozac!

@Paul M, glad to be of service. I like to make someone’s day more surreal…

Why does Hobbes always beat up Calvin? And why doesn’t Calvin not say “I’M HOME!”

Hobbes can attack worse than a land mine