Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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cleokaya said, 4 months ago

Two minds… different directions.
Margueritem said, 4 months ago

Calvin, I’d stop while I was ahead…
vibjyor said, 4 months ago

Calvin, try the power drill. That is most fun !
somebodyshort said, 4 months ago

With Hobbes as my wingman I might have a chance, even if I have to pick second. LOL
pouncingtiger said, 4 months ago

That’s one way that Dad will have to file for personal bankruptcy in the near future.
Ladywolf17 said, 4 months ago

Is there anything that Calvin wont do?
Carmy said, 4 months ago

Oh Hobbes, I don’t think Calvin is ready to go check the babes at the beach. You should go though, just don’t break the binoculars.
Ivy0730 said, 4 months ago

too much to ask, Calvin!

Hobbes’s sooooo funny and Dad, soooo lovely!

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Meli said, 4 months ago

No good deed goes unpunished, I’ve heard. Calvin seems intent to prove it…
wolfbyte36 said, 4 months ago

Hey Hobbes can you borrow the binoculars from Calvin, so that you and I can check out the lovely babes down at the beach. To all you ladies here please don’t be angry, I was just making up a pun that was all.
Johanan Rakkav said, 4 months ago

Fair enough, wolfbyte36, but if there’s a pun in there it flew right past my binoculars. :)

Another lesson not learned…and another brick in the wall of Calvin’s eventual ENFP-hood.
Jor-El said, 4 months ago

I had a pair of binoculars like that when I was a kid.

You couldn’t even see the bedpost at the end of the bed.
grazer said, 4 months ago

The story ending seems a little anticlimactic to me.
Oh well.
cryptomaniac said, 4 months ago

Dad won’t be saying “gimme a break!” for a while, i guess…
carpetinwater9 said, 4 months ago

I’m going to think like Calvin.
RHoney said, 4 months ago

LOLL!!!

Cute eye gesture by Hobbes in 3rd panel.. and lovely concept of watchin’ babes on da beach ;)

No, Calvin; thts NOT a good idea of breaking things in hoping to get them as your very own!

RHoney
PTui2 said, 4 months ago

I tried binoculars at the beach once… They got all fogged up and I couldn’t see ANYTHING! Must’ve been the weather..
Calvinator said, 4 months ago

Is’nt that how kids learn? — break something - get a new one.. whine about wanting the latest toy and get it. No consequences, and so little effort to get new stuff. No surprise our society is full of Calvins. Calvin should have been put to work to pay for the binoculars he broke and put to work again to pay for a cheap pair for himself. Dad will be paying for this lesson for a loooooong time.
Joe Allen Doty said, 4 months ago

Actually, the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip stopped being created quite a few years ago. Hobbes is merely a stuffed toy tiger.

Dennis “the Menace” Mitchell was only a menace to George Wilson; but, the real cartoon menace has always been Calvin since he first appeared. Dennis NEVER does any mean things on purpose like Calvin does.
r2d2antics said, 4 months ago

For Calvin at least,every cloud has a silver lining!
Macushlalondra said, 4 months ago

Do you expect to find lady tigers down at the beach Hobbes?
Coffee-Turtle said, 4 months ago

I think the wrong lesson was learned here. :-D haha! But Hobbes is definitely a one track mind and major babe magnet!

LOL!
BC13 said, 4 months ago

Calvinator,

I’m with you. Instead of learning (the right thing) from the experience, he’s going the other direction. No lesson learned (or the wrong one) if you get rewarded for your actions.
LX013 said, 4 months ago

Donnerwetter noch einmal!
Stede_Bonnet said, 4 months ago

Nice juxtaposition of value systems here… Calvin views his unexpected windfall as a way to obtain even more possessions. Hobbes looks at it to obtain less tangible pleasures. Once again, Hobbes appears to have choosen the wiser path to true happiness.
JonD17 said, 4 months ago

Aahhh lessons learned….. and (so quickly) lessons misapplied.
Hobbes, my man, those babes are gonna lead to trouble!
bleepingdeadalien said, 4 months ago

Imagine C and a “sawzall?” A sawzall would be perfect…we’re talkin’ insane fun…only those things are tough to break.
N7326 Foxtrot said, 4 months ago

When Calvin grew up, did he become a lawyer or a politician?
yyyguy said, 4 months ago

yes.
shdepaula said, 4 months ago

When Calvin grew up, did he become a lawyer or a politician?² LOL^__^
bald 716 said, 4 months ago

calvin. tell dad you broke his Dremel tool. then give it to me
Johanan Rakkav said, 4 months ago

Bill Watterson remarked in at least one of his books that he liked giving Calvin contrarian qualities which he’d never agree to himself. (Given human nature’s capacity to miss the point of such humorous irony, I have to wonder how many kids HAVE missed the irony over the years and imitated rather than eschewed Calvin’s example.)

On the other hand, some things B.W. said he drew directly from his own experience – such as the basic traits of Moe and some aspects of Calvin’s Dad (like Dad’s love of camping, biking and “character development”, all through adversity however ridiculous).
Ray C said, 4 months ago

Get out the Transmogrifier, Calvin. You can change them into X-Ray binoculars!
pomy2191 said, 4 months ago

lol all that hobbes ever thinks about is babes…even with the calvinosaur story hobbes wanted babes :)
greekhoplite said, 4 months ago

What would Calvin use powertools for?
vawser said, 4 months ago

When Calvin grows up, he becomes…

Frazz!
GretchensMom said, 4 months ago

I think the BETTER question, greekhoplite, is … what WON’T Calvin use powertools for?!?!?!?!?
mottih said, 4 months ago

a 6yr old using power tools…
Larry said, 4 months ago

Macushlalondra said, about 6 hours ago

Do you expect to find lady tigers down at the beach Hobbes?

ya cougars
kattbailey said, 4 months ago

Hmm… Hobbes exists in Calvin’s mind. So Hobbes is a part of Calvin.

So I think as Calvin grows Hobbes will become more a functional part of Calvin. It will all balance out.

And how does a 6 year old earn $600? There is an age where the parents are supposed to keep the kids out of trouble. I think the church used to say kids under 7 didn’t understand enough to really sin!
marvee said, 4 months ago

Let’s hope Dad learned a lesson. Don’t expect mature behavior until the child is ready for it, and the parents need to help that along. Calvin is learning the wrong lesson.
Madruga said, 4 months ago

@ Rakkav: What do you mean by ENFP-hood?
Johanan Rakkav said, 4 months ago

http://www.personalitypage.com/ENFP.html

http://typelogic.com/enfp.html

These pages (among others) have to do with personality analysis based on Jung’s psychological types (and these days, also combined with temperament and interactive style theory).

Already Calvin’s precocious enough to exhibit the definitive cognitive processes for an ENFP. First, he’s got this incredibly wide range of interests, is always fantasizing about “what if?”, has a world-class imaginary friend and other imaginary characters involved in endless psychodrama, and can go from zero to total screwball in 0.6 seconds. Second, everything he does is based on his set of personal values and no one else’s, unless he’s forced to concede otherwise.

Besides, get past his volatile temper and love of the bizarre and you’ll find one of the softest hearts around.

No wonder he reminds me so much of myself as a kid. I only found out recently that I’m an ENFP myself. (Long story.)
BC13 said, 4 months ago

Rakkav

I am an ISTJ. We couldn’t be more totally opposite.
MarkTulk said, 4 months ago

It pays to keep an open mind, and pay attention.
mattgill said, 4 months ago

I like the way Calvin thinks
4deerinmyyard said, 4 months ago

INFP.
JonD17 said, 4 months ago

sorry, but some of you “grown- ups” need to get a life
Johanan Rakkav said, 4 months ago

What grown-ups, JonD17? Do you see any grown-ups here? Didn’t think so. :)

4deer: INFP, huh? (Keirsey: Pal relationship!)

BC13, while it’s true that we’re opposite in the basic Myers-Briggs dichotomies, the real Jungian opposite of ISTJ is INFJ , not ENFP. What matters most is the order of the eight cognitive processes, not the order of the letters in the Myers-Briggs type code. ISTJ and ENFP (Keirsey: Anima relationship) actually have considerable common ground (the inversion is only on the four-process level). ISTJ and INFJ (Keirsey: Enigma relationship) have potential friction at every possible point (the inversion is complete on the eight-process level). Cf. Leona Haas, BUILDING BLOCKS OF PERSONALITY TYPE, pp. 128-130, 191.

(Whew! And now you all know better than to trigger me on whatever subject has caught my special interest at any given time…)
Ronscooter said, 4 months ago

Good God…y’all can really read a lot into a comic strip…jeez…I just see a boy being a boy…and enjoying being a boy…with his best freind…no psychological agenda, just a good time…