Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 30, 1989
Transcript:
Hobbes: A new decade is coming up. Calvin: Yeah, big deal! Hmph. Where are all the flying colors? Where are the moon colonies? Where are the personal robots and the zero gravity boots, huh? You call this a new decade?! You call this the future?? Ha! Where are the rocket packs? Where are the disintegration rays? Where are the floating cities? Hobbes: Frankly, I'm not sure people have the brains to manage the technology they've got. Clavn; I mean look at this! We still have weather?! Give me a break!
DerkinsVanPelt218 almost 14 years ago
We’re in the second month of the second year of the 2010s. I hope that by 2015, we actually have the power-lace Nikes and hoverboards like in Back to the Future Part II.
LadyBlanc over 11 years ago
I’m with Calvin! 21st century? Lame!
z4netti over 11 years ago
Proof of the future? The internet.
Bill.Buch over 10 years ago
As a kid in the 60s, I couldn’t wait for The Future of the 21st Century that we were told to expect: moon colonies, orbital hotels, space tourism, personal robots, and of course, flying cars.
Now that I’m middle aged and its the second decade of the 21st century, out of all that, we have…space tourism, IF you have a quarter million dollars to spare.
Hmmph. I want my youth back.
yow4zip Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Sorry, Calvin.
bmonk about 9 years ago
Maybe Calvin will be one to make the creative breakthrough on one or more of these developments!
glowing-steak32 about 8 years ago
Sadly, it’s 2016, and so far it’s more violence than science.
MegaCass over 6 years ago
It’s 2018, and at least we have personal robots.
This is so sad. Alexa, play “Despacito”.
ergsrge almost 5 years ago
It’s been over 30 years, yet we still don’t have anything the comic mentions.
Me2times. about 4 years ago
It’s almost 2021, and people are still driving cars from the 1970’s
AntonL.Graf over 3 years ago
I was wondering what Calvin would have said about a new millennium, although I’m glad this comic never saw the early 2000s
alexzinuro 11 months ago
Look on the bright side, Calvin. With the new decade will come a new environmental cartoon that you and Hobbes will no doubt particularly enjoy: Captain Planet and the Planeteers! Your parents would benefit from watching it, too. As Captain Planet will say, “The POWER is YOURS!”.